The Orchard, 20 Oxford Road, Marston

Life History

Notes

• Name: Mary Sims Cannon
  Year of Registration: 1840
  Quarter of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep
  District: Headington
  County: Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire
  Volume: 16
  Page: 55
• The Orchard, 20 Oxford Road, Old Marston:-
  The Orchard is Grade II listed (ref. 1485/152).
  It dates from the early eighteenth century, and is built of limestone rubble.
  The farmyard was where Orchard Cottage at 18 Oxford Road now stands.
  The house was inherited from John Sayer, a butler of Balliol College, by James Langford.
  It then passed to Ann Langford, who sold it to William Loder in 1813.
  On Loder's death in 1818 it passed to his widow, Mary, who sold it to the Marston farmer, Richard Rippington.
  His widow inherited it in 1841, and she left it to her daughter, Mrs Mary Cannon, wife of the farmer William Cannon.
  In 1876 Mary Cannon left it to her daughter, another Mary, who had married John Honour, and the couple were living in the house at the time of the 1881 census.
  John was then described as a 39-year-old builder who employed six men and one boy, and the couple had seven children:
  Mary (13), Helen (11), John (9), Alice (6), Charles (4), Margarete (2), and Henry (1).
  Also living with them was Mary's sister, Ann Cannon, an unmarried landowner of 34.
  The Orchard ceased to be a farm in the late nineteenth century.
  John Honour was still living at the Orchard in 1913, and a Mrs Honour lived here in 1935 and 1947.
• England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915
  Name: Mary Sims Honour
  Estimated Birth Year: abt 1840
  Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1906
  Age at Death: 66
  Registration district: Headington
  Inferred County: Oxfordshire
  Volume: 3a
  Page: 542
• England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1861-1941
  Name: Mary Sims Honour
  Probate Date: 5 Apr 1907
  Death Date: 31 Oct 1906
  Death Place: Oxfordshire, England
  Registry: Oxford

Sources

• 1. England & Wales, National Probate Calendar
  • Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010.
  • (secondary evidence)
• 2. Tithe Map of Marston ~ 1834
  • (primary evidence)