Major CP Ackers OBE (General)

by m p griffiths , Friday, November 04, 2011, 15:44 (4557 days ago) @ unknown

Portrait of Gloucestershire by T.A. Ryder - 1966

'In Huntley, the road from Newent joins that from Gloucester to Ross, part of the old turnpike road to Hereford. This ran along the line of a much older, perhaps Roman, road. The rather straggling village lies in a charming setting with well-wooded hills to the north and west. The Huntley woods are some of the best managed in the country as well they might be since their owner for many years was the late C P ACKERS, who had a national reputation as a silviculturalist and who was the author of a standard book on forestry. His father was also a tree-lover and he planted specimens of many varieties in the park of his home at Huntley Manor. There is, probably, a greater variety of trees in that park than anywhere else in Gloucestershire, with the one exception of the arboretum at Westonbirt, near Tetbury'.

(I just visited Westonbirt on Wednesday to see the autumn leaves, especially the maples and acer trees, which were beautiful colours).

Huntley Manor

http://www.forestprints.co.uk/huntley_manor_v02.htm

1901 Census - Huntley

Benjamin St John ACKERS - Head - 61 - Magistrate Barrister of Law, Late Member of Parliament, Late Member of Royal Commissioners of Blind and Deaf, Farms own Land. Living on own means.

born: Leintwardine, in that portion which is in the County of Salop

Louisa M J ACKERS - wife 58, born - Middlesex, London
Susan E ACKERS - daughter 22 - born Glos. Painswick
Florence ACKERS - daughter - 20 - born Glos. Huntley
Catherine V J ACKERS - 14 - Glos. Huntley

Rosalie H SMITH - Secretary - single, 39, born Sussex, New Shoreham
Julia H KINGSTON, Governess, single 34, born London
Mary A POWIS - Servant, single, cook, 31 - born Herefordshire, Letton
Elizabeth TIPPERSON, single, 40 - Lady's Maid, born Norfolk, Scunthorpe
Sarah MAGNUS - single, 30, Young Ladies Maid, born Hdshire, Dinedor
Helen S.S. WELLING - single, 33, Upper Parlour, born Hdshire, Walford
Emily CLIFTON, single, 30 - Upper Housemaid, born Oxon - Gt. Tew
Sarah A POWLES - Servant, single 24, Upper Laundrey Maid (domestic) born Herefordshire, Woofferton
Louisa TOMKINS - single, 20 - School room - born Bucks
Winifred PARFITT - single, 20, Under Parlour, born Somerset
Eliabeth TARRANT - 18 - Under House, born Glos. Cirencester
Florence MATTHEWS, 18, Kitchen, born Glos. Huntley
Ada S POYNER - single 16, Scullery, born Glos. Newham on Severn
Henry J LAWRENCE - single, 33, Coachman, born Dorset, Weymouth
Thomas A HAREWOOD - single, 22, Groom, born Herts Hatfield

and so and so on ..... with General Manager/Under Gardener etc.

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On the 1891 census the family are at Manor House

with

Charles P ATKINS, age 8

His Sister Edith age 22 on the 1891 census, had been deaf from fever at 3 months old.