JAMES/MARSHALL (General)

by pojames , Saturday, July 27, 2013, 19:52 (4139 days ago) @ pojames

And in search of who else might have been living at Eastbach Court in 1861, turned up the 1871 return for the House; Mary Bathurst (very obviously mis-transcribed as Bathard). She turns out to be the widow of Rev William Bathurst of Lydney Park. The two of them (see http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/23163/pages/5081/page.pdf ) had in 1866 given no less than £3,000 to found a new Parish within the Forest, and endow a minister (Anglican ?) to serve it. Quite a sum, and obviously quite a landowner ! And, looking at the Lydney Park website now, apparently it's still owned by the Bathursts; and their garden are clearly something else again today. Perhaps the Bathursts had plans for Eastbach Court gardens as well in 1861 ?