Gentry at Ross on Wye (General)

by m p griffiths , Saturday, August 15, 2009, 18:59 (5653 days ago) @ janfran

Jan

1901 Census

2 Berryfields Terrace, Ross on Wye

Owen BADHAM - 36 - Miller Rollerman Flour Mill, born Walford Hfdshire
Emily BADHAM - 39 born Walford
Gertrude -16 born Walford
Elsie - 13 born Walford
Elizabeth - 11 - born Walford
Mary - 6 - born Ross
Ethel - 4 - born Ross

On the 1901 census, they are listed on the same page, next door but one on the census (not sure which way the Enumerator walked) to this family your Mother could have talked about....

SPRINGFIELDS HOUSE (checking back - the VERSCHOYLE's are there on the 1881 & (1891 census - Robert - late Captain in the H.M. 11th Hussars)

Robert H VERSCHOYLE age 65, a Retired Army Officer born Ireland
Gertrude - wife age 48 born India (nee Gertrude Mary WALKER)
Lucy - Daughter - age 19 born Ross
Henry - Son - age 13 born Ross

Henry BULL - age 23, School Tutor - born Barnstable, Devon

4 Servants

Kate BROWN - 26, Parlourmaid, born Bewdley
Catherine REEVES - age 20 Cook, born Upton Bishop
Bertha LANE - age 20 - Housemaid -
and
Caroline LORD - age 16, Kitchen Maid

Verschoyle Gardens (on the net) appears to be an residential area now on Ross on Wye
Ross-on-Wye - Brampton Street web site shows a photograph of the Gateway to what was Springfield House.

If you look on the web site WIKIPEDIA The Free Enclylopedia. This gives a potted history of this (Irish Gentry) family

http://wikipedia.org/wiki/verschoyle

1911 Census - Ross

Owen BADHAM age 46
Emily BADHAM age 49
Ethel BADHAM age 14
Ada BADHAM age 9
Amy BADHAM - age 7

1911 Census - Ross

VERSCHOYLE

Robert - 75
Gertrude - 61
Lucy - 29