John & Sarah Jane Nichols

Life History

1867	Born in Wicklewood, Norfolk
between 1871 and 1881	Resident in Near White House Wood, Wicklewood, Norfolk
1881	Occupation Agricultural Labourer
1891	Occupation Miller
1891	Resident in Rattle Row, Wicklewood, Norfolk (John Nichols Wicklewood Norfolk, Norfolk)
29th Sep 1895	Publication of banns of marriage to Sarah Jane RATLEY in St. Andrew and All Saints, Wicklewood, Norfolk
6th Oct 1895	Publication of banns of marriage to Sarah Jane RATLEY in St. Andrew and All Saints, Wicklewood, Norfolk
13th Oct 1895	Publication of banns of marriage to Sarah Jane RATLEY in St. Andrew and All Saints, Wicklewood, Norfolk
4th Nov 1895	Fact 1 in Married
4th Nov 1895	Married Sarah Jane RATLEY in Stratford St. Mary, Suffolk England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 Name: John Nichols to Sarah Jane Ratley Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1895 Registration district: Samford Inferred County: Suffolk Volume Number: 4a Page Number: 1612 _____________________________________ Wedding witnesses Mrs C Nichols, Ivy & John NICHOLS, Headstone & kerbs, 289, 1940, 1948 In / loving memory of / a dear husband and father / JOHN NICHOLS / who died 31st July 1940 / aged 73 years / At rest / also his beloved wife / SARAH JANE NICHOLS / who died 28th April 1948 / aged 80 years / Greatly loved sadly missed
between 1896 and 1897	Occupation Labourer
between 1896 and 1897	Resident in Wicklewood, Norfolk
10th Aug 1896	Birth of son Bertie Philip NICHOLS in Wicklewood, Norfolk.7
17th Dec 1897	Birth of son John William NICHOLS in Wicklewood, Norfolk.7
between 1899 and 1940	Occupation Gamekeeper
between 1899 and 1901	Resident in Keepers Cottage, Carleton Forehoe, Norfolk
27th Mar 1899	Birth of son George Reginald NICHOLS in Carleton Forehoe, Norfolk
16th Sep 1900	Birth of daughter Florence May NICHOLS in Carleton Forehoe, Norfolk
10th Sep 1901	Birth of daughter Margaret Annie NICHOLS in Carleton Forehoe, Norfolk
between 1903 and 1906	Resident in Boat House, Redgrave Park, Redgrave, Norfolk
14th Mar 1903	Birth of son Ernest Victor NICHOLS in Hartismere Registration District.8
20th Jul 1905	Birth of daughter Hilda Doris NICHOLS in Hartismere Registration District.8
12th Aug 1906	Birth of daughter Lilian Violet NICHOLS in Hartismere Registration District.8
between 1907 and 1909	Resident in Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk
7th Nov 1907	Birth of son Leonard NICHOLS in Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk
between 1909 and 1911	Resident in Park Cottage, Kirtling Road, Woodditton, Cambridgeshire
23rd Feb 1909	Birth of son Edwin Frank NICHOLS in Old Newton, Stowmarket, Suffolk
between 1912 and 1936	Resident in The Roundhouse, Stetchworth Ley, Cambridgeshire
3rd May 1917	Death of son John William NICHOLS in Pas de Calais, France.6
19th May 1917	Death of son Bertie Philip NICHOLS in Pas de Calais, France.6
between 1936 and 1940	Resident in West End Cottages, Woodditton, Cambridgeshire
1940	Buried in Woodditton, Cambridgeshire
31st Jul 1940	Died in Woodditton, Cambridgeshire

Other facts

CauseOfDeath in Duodenal Ulcer

Notes

• Name: John Nichols
  Year of Registration: 1867
  Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
  District: Forehoe
  County: Norfolk
  Volume: 4b
  Page: 179
• Redgrave Hall passed down through generations of the Holt and Wilson families until Mr Holt-Wilson's great grandmother died in 1902 and it was rented out, first to the Horsfall family and then from 1910 until 1938 to Lord Playfair.
  John & Sarah Jane moved into Regrave in 1903 and left in 1906, being gamekeeper he was most probably employed by Redgrave Park and from the above information by the Horsfall family.
  These were quite tumultuous financial times for the park and probably the reason why the Nichols family only stayed for a few years.
• The following is probably the house they lived in:-
  REDGRAVE, REDGRAVE PARK
  TM 061766
  2/84 Boat House known as Water House
  GV II
  Boat house, latterly a gamekeeper's cottage for Redgrave Park Estate.
  Designed as part of landscaping of the park to be an eyecatcher from Redgrave Hall (demolished).
  c.1766-70, by Capability Brown for R Holt; extended and slightly raised early and late C19.
  White brick and flint with stone dressings and later red brick.
  Black glazed pantiled roof.
  A rectangle on plan with a lean-to added on one side. 2 storeys.
  Gable end facing former Hall has an entrance with a half glazed door, gauged brick flat arched head; above a string course and a blocked lunette all in a relieving arch.
  Outside the arch this facade has banded rustication, flint rubble with rendered bands, above a moulded pediment.
  Early C19 lean-to to left also has rusticated flint.
  Symmetrical 3 bay right return is all white brick and faces lake, ground floor gauged brick flat arched heads, first floor stone sills, dentilled timber eaves.
  Left return on lean-to is flint with a ground floor 2-light casement, first floor 2- light glazing bar horizontal sliding sash.
  To rear red and white brick with a door into lean-to, ground floor gauged brick heads, original wallplates exposed.
  Roof raised in late C19 with red brick above original roof line.
  (D. Stroud, Capability Brown, 1975, pp.112-13).
  Listing NGR: TM0612476611
• Stetchworth Estate:
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  Patmers manor in Stetchworth included land in Woodditton by 1324 and continued to do so after the Stetchworth Estate was formed in the 16th century, adding Ditton Park wood between 1559 and 1571.
  Stetchworth Estate was acquired by Richard Eaton in 1786 and shortly after the house was built, by 1820 the estate extended to over 2,655 a.
  Richard died in 1843 and the estate passed to his son Richard Jefferson Eaton (d. 1847) and then his grandson Herbert Fitzroy Eaton (d. 1875).
  The estate was bought by Sir Roger William Henry Palmer, Bt., who in 1883 sold it to Francis Charles Granville Egerton, 3rd Earl of Ellesmere.
  Francis married Lady Katherine Louisa Phipps, they had eleven children, six daughters and five sons.
  He died in 1914 and was succeeded by his oldest son John Francis Granville Scrope Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere.
  John bought Crockford's, Camois Hall, and Court Barns farms (1,284 a.) from the Cheveley Park Estate c. 1920, and the Stetchworth Estate retained 1,650 a., about a third of Woodditton parish, in 1990.
  Following his death in 1944 the title passed to his only son John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, the 5th Earl of Ellesmere from 1944 until 1963.
  Lady Violet Egerton Countess of Ellesmere continued to live in Stetchworth Park Estate house until she died in 1976 aged 95.
  The house was purchased by Bill Gredley in 1977 and the estate passed to John's first cousin once removed; Francis Ronald Egerton, 7th Duke of Sutherland, who gained the title of 6th Earl of Ellesmere in 2000.
• Stetchworth Park July 4th 1936.jpg
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  Newmarket Journal
  Published on Tue Aug 18 13:18:56 BST 2009
  Birthday gathering for bored-looking Viscount
  From the tragic tale of the Palethorpe sisters to a far happier event recorded in the Journal in 1936 – the coming-of-age party for Viscount Brackley who was to become the Duke of Sutherland.
  The Viscount's birthday was actually on May 10 of that year, but the celebrations, depicted in this photograph taken by Newmarket photographer Frank Griggs, were postponed until July because the Court was still officially in mourning for the late King George V.
  In the centre of this rather austere official photograph is the rather bored- looking young Viscount flanked by his father, the Earl of Ellesmere and his mother Lady Ellesmere. On the extreme left of the shot is the Stetchworth estate manager Mr C J Rush.
  The birthday celebrations were spread over a day and involved not only the estate employees but also the villagers of Stetchworth.
  All the employees, their families, and widows of former employees, around 250 people in all, were treated to lunch and tea was later served to some 500 villagers.
  The estate employees presented the Viscount with a cartridge magazine made by London society gunsmiths Purdey and Sons, which held 500 cartridges.
  The gift from the estate's tenants was a 14-foot salmon and trout rod and reel.
  On the front row of the photograph are members of the family and also pictured are 34 of the oldest employees on the estate all of whom had put in more than 26 years' continuous service. It is likely that all the employees pictured were given a copy of the photograph so they could remember the special day.
  They were: J Lancaster, W Jolly, F Starvis, A Osbourn, J Briggs, H Cook, B Turner, R Jaggard, E Pettitt, H Claydon, S Watson, F Linwood, S Briggs, S Daniels, S Shipp, W Webb, J Cooper, W Watson, G Symonds, C Claydon, J Aves, S Aves, E Claydon, C Rush, P Standley, G Barker, E Granger, J Webb, B Benstead, D Claydon, G Swann, J Wells, J Bushnell, J Nichols, R Daniels and J Cutter.
• Egerton House and stables were built in 1891 by the 3rd Earl of Ellesmere with profits made from the Stetchworth Park Stud.
  It was planned as the most up-to-date training establishment in the country;
  the stables, which took 2½ years to build, could accommodate up to 80 horses, and 120 a. of arable was converted to grassland, with extensive belts of trees.
  It was leased until 1925 to Richard Marsh who was trainer to the prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and to George V.
  The ownership apparently passed to the earl of Ellesmere's third son, Thomas Henry Frederick Egerton, who in 1925 sold it to Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles, later Earl of Harewood (d. 1947).
  Marsh was followed by William Jarvis, also a royal trainer.
  In 1943 the stables were sold to Lady Catherine Macdonald-Buchanan, then in 1985 to Malcolm Parrish and sold again to Count Frederico Zichy- Thyssen in 1996.
  Subsequently Lismonde Investments owned the property, but in April 2001 the stables was placed in voluntary administration by a High Court ruling.
  The present owner since 2008 is racehorse trainer Gerard Butler.

Sources

• 1. 1871 England Census
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 2. 1881 England Census
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 3. 1891 England Census
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 4. 1901 England Census
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 5. 1911 England Census
  • 18/06/2009
  • (secondary evidence)
• 6. Commonwealth War Dead Casualty Details
  • (secondary evidence)
• 7. Copy of an Entry of Baptism
• 8. Copy of an Entry of Baptism
  • (secondary evidence)