58.4 Little Summary Tree

William Little (1777-1863) m Charlotte Crocker (1770-1844)
See Chapter 10 for their biographies, and Chapter 37 for those of their children

• Benjamin Little (1800-1869)
• William Burgess Little (1804-1881) m Elizabeth Foster (1817-1876) 
• Edward Thomas Little (1834-1906) m Maria Brown (1839-1877)
• Edward William Little (1862-1891) m Roberta in North Aylesford in 1883. He was a publican, and they lived over the White House, pier road, Gillingham. The pub was demolished in 1993 to facilitate the Medway Tunnel dual carriageway.

The White House, Gillingham (Will Dowsing via Dover-Kent)

• Arthur Edward Little (1884-1892)
• Sidney John Little (1886-1969)
• Henry Little (1864-1948) m Annie Maria Peacock (1870). He was a ship engine stoker. 1901: boarding at 7 Crosshouse Road, Southampton. 1911: 13 Boyson Road, Camberwell. Engineer with London County Council.
• Elizabeth Kezia Little (1866-1919) m Robinson Simpson (1866-1936) at St Mark, New Brompton in 1890. In 1891, she was at home in Gillingham, husband not present. In 1884, he enlisted with the Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division. By the time they were married he was a sergeant, and they lived at Milton Road, Gillingham. He was pensioned off in 1906, and by 1911, he was a compositor printer, and they lived in Rainham Road, Chatham.
• Beatrice Eliza Simpson (1894-1903)
• William Burgess (Edward) Simpson (1896)
• Edward Thomas Simpson (1898-1921)
• Herbert Charles Simpson (1900-1974)
• Ernest Victor Simpson (1903-1965)
• Doris Enid Simpson (1905-1961)
• Irene May Simpson (1906)
• He served in WWI

• Charles Little (1868-1931). No record found between 1881 and death.
• Percy Albert Little (1870-1918) m Esther Elizabeth Little (1885). Percy had been at home in Gillingham, first a greengrocer, later a bookmaker's agent. In 1911, they were married: he was a commission agent, and they lived at 91 Britton Street, Gillingham.
• (Joseph) Percy (13 Apr 1919)
• Ernest Victor Little (1872-1951) m Rose Eleanor Ashton (1875-1952) in Medway in 1903. Having previously been a greengrocer with his brother, he was by now a dockyard labourer, and they lived in 32 Stafford Street, Gillingham. He served in the Royal Navy in WWI.
• Chatham Dockyard was established as the Royal Navy Dockyard in 1567 to build warships to defend against Catholic Europe. It closed in 1984, after over 500 ships had been built. No 7 Slip is one of the earliest examples of a modern metal trussed roof. It was designed in 1852. It was used for shipbuilding until 1966. The dockyard also has dry docks, barracks, storehouses and other historic buildings. My photos of Chatham Historic Dockyard are here. One later, uncovered, slip was built in 1901, for warship construction, but has not survived.

Chatham Historic Dockyard No 7 Slip (my photo)

• Lilian Rose Ashton (1898-1987)
• Doris Marjorie Ashton (1904-1976)
• Ernest Edward Ashton (1905-1963)
• Edna May Ashton (1907-1993)
• Reginald Arthur Ashton (1908-2004)
• Emma Isabella Little (1874-1930). 1901: at home in Gillingham, a housekeeper elsewhere. In 1911, with her stepmother at 91 Britton Street.
• Bertha Grace Little (1875-1958) m William George Paige (1872-1943) in Medway in 1898. He was a marine engine fitter (born in Constantinople! my photos are here!), and they lived at 53 Hudson Road, Southsea. He served as an officer in the Royal Navy in WWI.
• Winifred Kate Paige (1899-1964)
• Hilda May Paige (1902-1987
• William Edward Burgess Paige (1905-1991)
• Walter Burgess Little (1876-1951) m Edith Emily Jane Smith (1882-1952) in Medway in 1904. He was a dockyard labourer, like brother Ernest, and they lived at 111 Britton Street, a few doors down from his brother Percy.

Walter Little

• Alinda Winifred B Little (1905-1958)
• Edward Walter C Little (1907-1992)
• Ruby Florence J Little (1910-1940)
• Iris Edith Annette Little (1911-1935)

Iris Little

• Betty Mabel Little (1914-1997)
• Arthur William Sidney Little (1919-2013)
• Cicely Honorine Little (1923-2013)

• == m Matilda German (1840-1883)
• John James Little (1879-1882). Died in infancy.
• Horace Cecil Little (1880-1947) m Florence Ada Ridge (1879-1965) in Chatham in 1907. He was an electrical wireman, and they lived at 59 Hartington Street, Chatham. He had previously served with the Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from 1901-1902, and promoted to Corporal. This means he fought in the Second Boer War. I have found several Boer War Memorials in include - the Brighton example is one of the more prominent.

Boer War Memorial, Brighton (my photo)

• Horace Percival Little (1908-1985)

• Selina Frances Little (1883-1883). Died in infancy.
• William Burgess Little (1836-1887) m Julia Levy (1853)
• Elizabeth Little (1839-1903)
• Charles Little (1840)
• Isabella Little (1843) m Married William Harrison Smith (1840)
• Percy Montague Smith (1871-1920) m Eleanor Ann ? (1866-1953) in Samford, Suffolk in 1894. He was a physician and surgeon, and they lived at 196 Earls Court Road. 
• This was a short walk from the Earls Court Exhibition Centre, which had been built only four years earlier. Earls Court was widely known for serving as London's and the country's premier exhibition venue for many decades, hosting the Royal Smithfield Show, Royal Tournament, the British International Motor Show, London Boat Show, the Ideal Home Show, Billy Graham rallies, the Brit Awards (until 2010), Crufts and other events such as large scale opera productions and pop concerts in addition to hundreds of trade shows, such as the London Book Fair. It was also used as one of the venues for both the 1948 and 2012 Olympic Games. It was demolished in 2017.

Earls Court Exhibition Centre, doomed (my photo)

• They then lived at 31 Rosary Gardens, South Kensington.
• Harold Montague Smith (1908-1995)
• According to his BMJ obituary:

"Montague Smith took special interest in children's diseases, acted as clinical assistant to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, became physician to the Kensington Dispensary and Hospital for Children, and when the Princess Louise Hospital for Children was opened in 1928 he was elected one of the honorary physicians, a post which he retained until 1952, when he was elected emeritus consulting physician.

• Sidney Maynard Smith (1875-1970) m Isabel Mary Pitman (1891-1937) at St George Hanover Square in 1917. In 1891, he was at the District Royal Medical Benevolent College "public school for the sons of the medical profession", Epsom. In 1905, he graduated (as an external student) from the University of London with a surgical degree. In 1911, he was a surgeon, boarding at 9 Portman Street.
• Isabel Valentine [Val] Maynard Smith (1919-2016)
• John Maynard Smith (1920-2004)
• He served in the Boer War as a surgeon. In WWI, he was a Major with the RAMC, and a Colonel with the Army Medical Services.

"He was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, as was his older brother... For service during WWI, he was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France; he was thrice mentioned in dispatches. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the British Fifth Army in 1916, and later consulting surgeon to the British Second Army. For his service during the war, he was appointed Knight of Grace of the Order of St John, and Companion of The Order of the Bath (Military Division). He became Senior Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1922. As a freemason he was Grand Deacon of the Grand Lodge of England... He and his family lived at No. 49 Wimpole Street in Westminster [a street parallel to Harley Street, backing onto Wimpole Mews of Profumo Affair fame]. (Wikipedia)

Breast Star of a Knight of Grace (Evadb)

His wife was sister of Frederick Pitman, Olympic rower, and daughter of Frederick I. Pitman Frederick snr was educated at Eton, and was in the crew that won the Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1882. He stroked Cambridge University in the Boat Race over three years. He was umpire in the Boat Race, and chair of the Henley Royal Regatta management committee. He became a solicitor (Writer to the Signet) but later became a stockbroker, eventually co-founding one of the largest firm's Rowe & Pitman, eventually taken over by SG Warburg.

•  Mabel Smith (1881-1962) m Henry Wren (1881-1955) at St Matthias, Earls Court.

St Matthias (credit)

• Ethel Smith (1883). Was at home in 1911 with no occupation (27): no later record found.
• Ann Little (1844-1927)
• Henry Little (1847-1902) m Louisa Brown (1840-1900)
• Thirza Isabella Little (1865) m James Atkinson in Strood in 1889.
• Emma Little (1848)
• Alfred Little (1851-1901)
• Sarah Little (1852-1939) m George Seymour Lovejoy (1848-1940)
• George was her first cousin - see below
• Walter Little (1853-1876)
• James Little (1856) m Agnes Maude Matthews (1860-1930)
• Harold Norman Little (1883-1969). Assistant medical officer, St Pancras Workhouse, now St Pancras Hospital. Inherited 'Normanhurst'.

St Pancras Hospital (Kim Traynor)

• Agnes C Little (1884). Civil servant, later living in Sittingbourne.
• Ella Ivy Little (1885-1965). 1911, at home in Strood, a hospital nurse.
• Constance Eva Little (1887-1960) m William Herbert Niall Nelson (1883-1953) at St Peter, Cranley Gardens, Kensington in 1914. In 1911, she was at home in Strood, an actress. According to IMDB, she starred as Dora Frazer in the 1915 film Vengeance of the Air, in which a framed lieutenant flies to save a colonel's daughter, Dora, from being kidnapped by his rival. She is also mentioned fleetingly, as a possible object of John Galsworthy's (Forsyte saga) affections in a biography. William was a solicitor, and there is a record of him travelling to Java in 1928 on a Dutch mail ship.
• == m James Nelson in Westminster in 1964
• Ivo Cecil Little (1895-1921) m Jean Margaret Watkins (1899). He enrolled in the Royal Navy in 1908. In 1911, he was a student in Dartmouth Naval College. By 1913, he was a Midshipman. 

Dartmouth Naval College from the Dart (my photo)

• He volunteered for WWI and served with the Royal Naval Air Service, and was a Flight Commander by the end of the War. During the War, the RNAS were supplied with Sopwith planes under exclusive contract, including the Triplane.

Sopwith Triplane (my photo)

Sopwith Triplane replica in flight (my photo)

•  At some point, he transferred to airships.

RNAS officer dropping a bomb from an airship
(Imperial War Museums)

• He stayed with the RNAS, and airships, after the War. A new class of airships was designed for the Navy, during the final months of the War, and the first was built at Cardington. Ivo was to be Flight Lieutenant. There is a short film of its launch.

Cardington No. 1 Shed (my photo)

R-38 (US Navy)

• The airship was sold to the USA, and a test plan was agreed. On the fifth flight on 23 June 1921, disaster struck. At 17:37, while close offshore near Hull and watched by thousands of spectators, the structure failed amidships. Eyewitnesses reported seeing creases down the envelope before both ends drooped. This was followed by a fire in the front section, and then by an explosion which broke windows over a large area. The remains fell into the shallow waters of the Humber Estuary. Ivo was killed, along with 43 of the other 48 on board. The second Pathé film is of the wreckage.

• There is also footage of the funeral in Hull:

• His Air Force Cross medals came up for sale in 2012.

Little's Medals (DNW)

By the time he was awarded his certificate as an Airship Pilot in October 1916, he had amassed 360 hours flying time. Recommended for being ‘a very good Rigid Airship Officer’ at Howden in June 1917, he was advanced to Flight Lieutenant and moved to the airship station at Barrow in Furness, where he commenced work on a pioneering programme to attach Sopwith Camels as defensive aircraft to airships. And it was no doubt as a result of his resultant design, the ‘Little-Crook anchoring gear’, conceived with a fellow officer, that he was invited to join the staff at the Airship Experimental Station at Pulham, Norfolk, in October 1917. Here, as C.O. of the R. 23, he carried out many trials, latterly as a Temporary Major in the newly established Royal Air Force, and, by late 1918, Camel aircraft were indeed being ‘slipped’ from the R. 23 - such was the success of the experiments that Little applied to patent his design in July 1919, a patent which was duly approved and also covered the use of aircraft as auxiliary power plants for airships. 

Post-war, Little remained employed on airship duties, carrying out numerous test flights in the R. 32 and the R. 80, Barnes Wallis being a passenger of his on at least one occasion. Then in July 1919, in the R. 34, he was among those to complete the first ever airship trans-Atlantic crossing - as no-one in the States had much experience of handling big airships, Little carried out a parachute descent on the R. 34’s arrival at Lakehurst, New Jersey, in order to give instructions to the U.S.N. handling party. Accordingly, he was an ideal candidate for the next big cross-Atlantic project - the R. 38.

 

Ivo Little (left) with four other officers of the R.38 (British Airship People)

When the R. 38 exploded, a trawler 16 miles away staggered under the concussion of the explosion and trains on railway lines in Lincolnshire shook on their tracks, while ceilings in houses in Hull and Grimsby collapsed. (London Gazette 1/1/1919) 

There is a memorial in Hull. The Science Museum have a thank you card and letter from Agnes in response to Barnes Wallis’s letter of sympathy.

R38 Memorial (credit)

• Patricia Jean Madeline Little (1919-1988)
• Alice Little (1857-1871)
• No record found since her 'lady' position at home in Frindsbury in 1871 (14)
• Florence Little (1862-1933)
• Married Arthur Lovejoy (1852-1934)
• Arthur was her first cousin - see below
• Harriett Cassandra Little (1806-1879) m James Larard (1810-1903)
• See Larard tree
• Dinah Loveday Little (1808-1884)
• Thomas Little (1810-1862)
• Burgess Little (1812)
• Sarah Hannah Little (1814-1875)
• George Seymour Lovejoy (1848-1940) m Edith Florence Lovejoy (1874)
• Ada Beatrice Lovejoy (1877-1931). At home with no occupation in Hampstead in 1901 and Hendon in 1911. Five adults, no work; kept a servant.
• Laura Agnes Lovejoy (1879-1919). At home with no occupation in Hampstead in 1901 and Hendon in 1911. 
• Mabel Louise Lovejoy (1886-1977). At home with no occupation in Hendon in 1911. 
• Frederick Lovejoy (1850-1851)
• Arthur Lovejoy (1852-1934) m first cousin Florence Little (1862-1933)
• Ruby May Lovejoy (1884-1968). At ladies' school at 26 Wilbury Road, Hove in 1901. At home in Hove with no occupation in 1911.
• Arthur Reginald Horace Lovejoy (1886-1886). Died in infancy.
• Sarah Ada Lovejoy (1854-1855)
• Florence Lovejoy (1858-1910) m Frederick William Quinton (1846-1901)
• Edward Little (1816-1884) m Alicia Scales (1830-1912)
• Edward William Little (1870) m Sophia Hogg (1870)
• Emily M Little (1894). No record found after 1901.
• Maude Bishop Little (1895-1979)
• Charles Bishop Little (1896). At home in Fulham in 1911, an export clerk for a condensed milk manufacturer. Van Den Bergh's margarine factory was in Fulham "of paramount importance in the British food industry in the first half of the C20" (Stratton & Tinder). In 1896, the company had started producing condensed milk in Rotterdam as a by-product of margarine manufacture.
• He may have visited New York in 1927.
• Seymour Edward Little (1899-1976)
• George Albert Little (1901-1980)
• Elsie Winifred Little (1910-1976) m Frank Arthur Noel Pratt (1907) in Fulham in 1934
• Two children
• Charlotte Little (1819-1895)
• Charlotte Burrows (1844-1931) m Abraham Hart Worboys (1844-1885)
• Gertrude Laura Worboys (1874-1960) m Lionel Arthur Clement Southam (1873-1959) at St Mary, Balham in 1897. b. Croydon. 1881: With her mother and grandparents Burrows in Kennington. 1891: With her mother, and her mother's sister in Streatham.
• Mildred Gertrude Southam (1898-1912)
• Paul Clement Southam (1902-1974)
• Hilda Leonora Southam (1904-1981)



Church of St Mary & St John, Balham (Julian Osley)

• George William Burrows (1846) m Alice Comley (1842-1894)
• Alice Maud B Burrows (1868-1935) m Edward Henry Wellby (1862-1940) in Orpington in 1891
• 1881: At school at Broomfield House, Kew. The headmistress is Sara Eliza Mead, and there is an English teacher, a French teacher, a general teacher, two governesses, twelve scholars (10-16), and a cook. Her aunt Eleanor Burrows (her father's sister) was at the school at the same time, with an age gap of only three years.
• In 2020, this is still an independent school "Kew's oldest private school" (but they let boys in now). There is a photo of a visit from Prince Charles on their website, and fees area c. £5000 per term. "Broomfield’s facilities are a mix of excellent modern buildings surrounding our original, traditional Victorian home."
• There is a 'history' section which identifies Miss Sara Elizabeth Mead (1830-1918) as the founder:

"Miss Mead founded Broomfield House School in 1876 and served as Headmistress until 1896. The first printed reference to the school was in the Richmond & Twickenham Times on 29th January 1876. The school offered tuition in English and mathematics as well as in languages, music, art and PE (especially gymnastics). Miss Mead gave us the school motto Lo Here is Fellowship. Her contribution to the Kew community is recorded in a memorial tablet in St. Anne’s Church on Kew Green where the school still goes for our Carol Service. The tablet reads that it is a tribute to over fifty years of charitable and intellectual activities in Kew. According to a former pupil, Miss Mead prided herself on being descended from Charles II, did her hair in the style of the period and wore long purple cloaks."

• 1891: At home at Ladywood. Married in September that year. Edward was a diamond merchant, and they lived at Rose Hill [Rosehill], Appleshaw, Andover, Hampshire. There is a photo and description on the listing. It can't be seen from the road, else I would have a photo! Here is the village pub, which is a stone's throw away. 



The Walnut Tree, Appleshaw (my photo)

• I walked past where he and his father did business in St James's, and a street or two past where he and his family traded from c 1897-1965 (18-20 Garrick Street, Covent Garden) on my last trip out before lockdown. This is a 3-minute walk from Seven Dials where some of the poorest of the family had lived in the mid-C19. This part of the family was amongst the richest - see the 1939 Larard Directory for the culmination. Edward was a director of D & J Wellby Ltd from 1896, and chairman until his death.
• Hubert Sinclair Wellby (1892-1976)



Wellby mark, 1896 (silvercollection.it)



Wellby sauce boats, 1910 (for sale)

• George Comley Burrows (1872-1948) m Theresa (1875-1947). 1891/1911: At home in Orpington; Clerk, the provision agent with brother Frederick.
• Frederick Elliott Burrows (1874-1925). 1891/1911: At home in Orpington; Clerk, the provision agent with brother George.
• Ruby May Burrows (1885-1945). 1911: At home in Orpington with widowed mother, her brothers and three servants. No occupation. Unmarried mother?
• Audrey Stewart Burrows (1919)
• Sidney Charles Burrows (1887-1937?) m Bertha E Kendrick (1882) in Islington in 1903. He was an employer in the motor business, and they lived at 146 Wymering Mansions, Elgin Avenue, Maida Vale (btw, can you believe they knocked down the pub - in about 2000 - after which the district was named?)
• Possibly the most famous resident of Wymering Mansions, at no 111, was Vera Brittain. She is known today mainly for her book, Testament of Youth - her memoir covering the period 1900 – 1925. It is particularly known for its coverage of the impact of World War I on the lives of women and the middle-class civilian population of Britain. Her daughter is Baroness Shirley Williams, Liberal Democrat Peer, and former Labour Cabinet Minister.
• It is also just around the corner from the legendary (and doomed) BBC Maida Vale Studios, home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra since 1934, and of the John Peel Sessions which unearthed hundreds of the most exciting talents in independent music from 1967-2004.



BBC Maida Vale Studios (David Dixon)

• Alfred Burrows (1848-1935) m Ruth Marchant (1851-1937)
• Lillah Ruth Burrows (1874-1954) m John William Ward (1874-1949) in Oxford, North Canterbury, New Zealand
• William Ernest John Ward (1912-2002)



Mt Oxford from Oxford town (credit)

• Godfrey Daniel Burrows (1876-1955) m Ennie Gale (1876-1910) in New Zealand in 1899
• Owen Gale Burrows (1900-1975)
• Lyall [Bay] Burrows (1903-1977)
• Ruth Mimona Burrows (1907-1996)
• Alfred George Douglas Gale Burrows (1909-1956)
• Alfred John Burrows (1877-1957) m Eliza Ann Harvey (1878-1955) in New Zealand in 1897
• Godfrey David Burrows (1897-1977)
• Eleanor Ruth Burrows (1899-1980)
• Winifred Louisa Burrows (1902-1945)
• Elia Ann [Annie] Burrows (1904-1917)
• Alfred George Burrows (1906-1956)
• Francis Clifford Burrows (1911-2009)
• Emily Elizabeth Burrows (1879-1964) m George Savage (1872-1919) in New Zealand in 1903
• Ralph Gordon Savage (1908)
• Ruth Merle Savage (1913)
• Rebekah Charlotte Burrows (1880-1964) m George Kemp Ivory (1885-1976) in New Zealand in 1911
• Winifred Ruth Hobbs Ivory (1912)
• == m Aaron Griffith Harry (1889-1945)
• Annie Emma Burrows (1882-1969). b. and d. Oxford, NZ. There Travelled from New York to Southampton in 1921 on the RMS Aquitania. She was sister to RMS Mauretania and RMS Lusitania, and was the last surviving four-funnelled ocean liner. She served in WWI in the Dardanelles Campaign. The sinking of her sister Lusitania in 1915 is widely credited with turning American public opinion in favour of intervention in the War. Aquitania served as a troop ship in WWII, finally repatriating Canadian troops at the end of the War.
• There is another record suggesting that she may have travelled to Portugal from Liverpool on the Darro in 1932.



RMS Aquitania (credit)

• Joseph Frank Burrows (1883-1918). Served with the 1st Battalion of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in WWI. The Regiment was at the Gallipoli, and on the Western Front. He was killed 10 October 1918, a month and a day before Armistice, in what was termed the "Advance to Victory". 
• The New Zealanders fought their way through the main Hindenburg Line, and the ‘Masnières–Beaurevoir line’. After pausing to regroup, the British Third and Fourth armies renewed their attack on 8 October. Breaking through weak German defences, the New Zealand Division advanced more than 5 km to take the village of Esnes, capturing more than 1000 prisoners and a dozen field guns along the way. The 800 New Zealand casualties included 150 dead. That night German forces withdrew to the Selle River, allowing Canadian troops to take Cambrai unopposed. Further south, the New Zealanders continued the pursuit for 18 km to the river, seizing an important bridgehead at Briastre before being relieved on 14 October.
• "The men of the Regiment returned to Dunedin to a heroes welcome, greater social standing and numerous types of financial assistance."


• Edward Benjamin Burrows (1885-1947) m Margaret Florence Robb (1884-1969) in New Zealand in 1911.
• Sylvia Florence Burrows (1912-2000)
• George Edward Burrows (1913-2005)
• Eleanor May Burrows (1886-1983) m Hugh George McTavish Mackintosh (1885) in New Zealand in 1919.
• Muriel May Mackintosh (1926)
• Charles Henry Burrows (1888-1970) m Anna Maria Annie Graaf (1883-1967).



Charles and Anna Burrows

• They were married at the Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, Christchurch in 1939. This church was demolished after being severely damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.



Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, 2011 (credit)

• Mary Alice Burrows (1890-1970) m Richard Thomas Pratt in New Zealand in 1920
• Alfred John Pratt (1921-1944)
• William Marchant Burrows (1892-1980) m Clarice Hitchings (1892-1979) at St Paul, Christchurch in 1916. This church was also demolished after being severely damaged in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.



St Paul's Trinity Church, Christchurch (credit)

• Albert Leon [Buzz] Burrows (1918-2012)
• Richard Marchant Burrows (1923-2014)
• Alice Nancy Burrows (1925-2015)
• Emily Burrows (1850-1937)
• Walter Morton Burrows (1852-1890) m Mary Ann Belcher (1851)
• Robert Edwin Burrows (1877-1953) m Louisa Elizabeth Veness (1880-1905) in Kilndown nr Cranbrook Kent in 1902. Domestic gardener visiting Kennington in 1901, and staying with his father-in-law (also a gardener) after he was widowed. This was at Finchcocks, an early Georgian manor house in Goudhurst nr Cranbrook, Kent, which is surrounded by 13 acres of gardens and parkland. They seem to have lived in one of many workers' cottages on the access road. Paine's Farm was occupied by the Rt Hon Sir James Stirling, retired Lord Justice of Appeal. The private access road is shared with the National Trust's Scotney Castle.



Finchcocks (credit)

• Robert Edwin Burrows (1903-2004)
• Louisa Elizabeth Burrows (1905-2000)
• Charles Morton Burrows (1879-1935) m Winifred Mary Day (1885-1940) at St Mary the Virgin, Send nr Guildford, Surrey. Send featured in the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, apparently. He was a commercial traveller for a briar pipe manufacturer, and they lived at Raleigh, Goldsworth, Woking. 
• It was about 1859 that the use of the root of the White Heath (Ericaarborea), a native of the South of France and Corsica, as introduced into Britain for making tobacco pipes.
• Morton Arthur Burrows (1908-1974)
• Hilda Mary Burrows (1910-1998)



Church of St Mary the Virgin (Basher Eyre)

• Montague Vivian Burrows (1882-1967) m Ethel May Paul (1884-1953) in Forehoe, Norfolk. 1901: At home with widowed mother in Send; painter. 1911: Percy Villa, Cartbridge, Send; house painter.
• Phyllis Mary Burrows (1906-1930)
• Frances Winifred Burrows (1908-1989)
• Volunteered for the Royal Army Medical Corps in WWII. France September to November 1915, then in the Balkans. Intended, but too late, to relieve Serbia, the Salonika Campaign was a long push against Bulgaria. British Pathé have a very short film clip of an RAMC dispensary there (with tent and mule). Suffered from post-malaria debility. Discharged in March 1919.
• Samuel James Burrows (1884-1968). 1901: At home in Send; blacksmith's apprentice. 1911: At home with widowed mother at 1 York Cottages, Cartbridge. Volunteered for WWI in November 1914. Served as a Lieutenant-Corporal with the Royal West Surrey Regiment (the oldest infantry regiment in the Army). Probably served at Gallipoli, from where the unit was evacuated due to severe casualties (c. 85%) from combat, disease and harsh weather. Was probably wounded in Gaza. Discharged as no longer physically fit for War Service in August 1917.



Ottoman Machine Gunners at the Battle of Gaza, 1917 (credit)

• Frederick Burrows (1855-1873)
• (Maria) Jane Burrows (1857-1937)
• Edwin Burrows (1860-1928) m Maud (1862)
• Henry Ernest Burrows (1862-1921) m Jane Young (1866)
• Eleanor Burrows (1866-1960) m Lewis Garibaldi Lake (1867-1942)
• Lawrence Hazel Lake (1891-1969) m Florence Mary Hurley (1889-1978) in Droitwich in 1924. My photos of Droitwich are here.



Droitwich Church (my photo)

• Reginald Maurice Lake (1894-1955) m Florence May Gardener (1896-1973) at Plaxtol nr Malling, Kent. In 1911, he had been visiting a cooper at 93 Dora Road, Small Heath; he was a solicitor's clerk. He volunteered for WWI, and served as a driver with the Royal Army Service Corps. He was discharged due to sickness, and given the Silver War Medal in consequence.



Plaxtol Church (John Salmon)

• Clifford Lionel James Lake (1918-1984)
• Hubert Maurice Lake (1919-1967)
• Deirdre Nancy Lake (1924-1982)
• James Reginald Lake (1927-1996)
• Joyce Isabella Lake (1928-2008)
• Clifford Montague Lake (1896-1984) m Amy Elizabeth Fildes (104-1991) in Worcester in 1941. He had served in the Royal Navy in WWI on HMS Maidstone, which was commissioned in Portsmouth in 1912 and served with submarines at Harwich throughout the War. There is a photo and description of duties at 'Harwich and Dovercourt'
• Lewis Gordon Lake (1901-1974)


More on these families in Chapter 61.




Next (Ernest's maternal cousins)