Shuttleworth House, Old Warden, Bedfordshire

[ukghostinvestigators]

Dear all, great site its has been most useful thus far!

We have a paranormal investigation booked at the house in the near future and as the groups researcher im trying to find as many names of people who lived, worked and deaths at the house as possible to verify our findings.

Any help would be much appreciated so thank you in advance.

Regards

Alan 

[CaroleW]

FindMyPast has an address search facility on census records

There are many electoral register websites with records from 2002.  Records prior to then can be obtained from the manual electoral registers available at the main library in the area

Deaths can be searched for on many of the subscription sites - FindMyPast, Ancestry etc etc

[stanmapstone]

FindMyPast has an address search facility on census records

If you are going to search the censuses by address then it was not called Shuttleworth House. In 1881, 1891, and 1911 it is just called "Mansion" in 1901 "Warden Mansion"

Stan

[LizzieL]

The present mansion house was only completed about 1880. The Swiss garden pre-dates it and is said to be haunted.

[stanmapstone]

The Swiss Garden at Shuttleworth was created between 1824 and 1832. The House was built in 1875. http://www.shuttleworth.org/the-house/

Stan

[LizzieL]

In 1841 the House (predecessor of the Shuttleworth Mansion) is just listed as "Park". It is in Warden District 20 in the enumeration schedule. Ancestry transcribes Ongley as Dingley.
Lord Ongley, his mother and what are probably his siblings (no relationships given) and 14 house servants.

[LizzieL]

In 1851, it looks as if Warden Park was let, the family living there are called Russell from the East Indies. Most of their servants aren't locals. Warden enumeration district 9b.
Can't find Lord Ongley (Robert 3rd Baron Ongley), But Hon George (Henley-) Ongley (one of his brothers) is at Mount Pleasant - a property on the  Estate

[LizzieL]

The 1859 poll book has Lord Robert Henley Ongley listed as an unpolled voter (whatever that means). Warden Park is listed as address, not sure if he actually resided there or it was because he owned the property. His listing is below but separate from that of other Warden voters. The Hon George H O is listed with the other Warden residents - he is still at Mount Pleasant in 1861.

[ukghostinvestigators]

This is all great information so far thanks guys. This is what I have found so far.

Sir Samuel Ongley died 1726
Samuel Ongley died 1747
Robert Henley-Ongley died 1785
Robert Henley Ongley 2nd Baron died 1814 of gout
Robert Henley Ongley 3rd Baron died 1877
1872 Old Warden Park was sold by Robert, 3rd Baron Ongley to Joseph Shuttleworth but let to  Henry Browning when tenancy was over in 1875 Joseph Shuttleworth demolished it and built the present mansion on the site. It was designed by the Duke of Bedford's favourite architect, Henry Clutton
Joseph Shuttleworth died 1883
Colonel Frank Shuttleworth died 1913
Brigadier-General William McClaren Campbell died 1924 in Brussels
Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth died 1940 - killed in a night flying exercise whilst serving with the RAF
Dorothy Clotilda died 1968, aged 89
During the Second World War, the house was a Red Cross convalescent home and auxiliary hospital for airmen
July 1st 2012 Trevor Roche, 52, from Wiltshire, was killed when the 1923 De Havilland DH53 Humming Bird crashed at Old Warden Aerodrome
1815 Charles Dines gamekeeper, brutally murdered by a gang of around seven poachers near Southill Lake
1836
John Stonebridge gamekeeper
Samuel Butcher his assistant
1837+
Richard Long Aireton age 25 servent
1851
george.e.russell age 64 head. occ. late of east india co. civil service.
caroline russell age 55 wife.
jane.l.russell age 31 daughter.
caroline.m.a.russell age 28 daughter.
edward.g.russell age 22 nephew.
leonard russell age 70
george gare age 36 coachman.
george jennings age 21. b. warwickshire. occ. footman.
mary luter age 35. b. herefordshire. occ. housemaid.
giles parker age 30. b. wiltshire. occ. butler.
martha parker age 18. b. london. occ. under housemaid.
ann rennie age 31. b. cumberland. occ. ladies maid.
emma thompson age 41. b. exeter. occ. housekeeper.
susan wilson age 23. b. bedfordshire. occ. kitchenmaid.

1861
Joseph Stokes age 8 Scarecrow
George Scott age 8 Scarecrow
John Wiltshire, age 9 Scarecrow
George Spring, age 10 twitch gatherer
Charles Tanqueray?
1871
sarah hopkins age 67 laundress. head.
maria george age 47 domestic servant.
elizabeth davidson age 37 laundress.
jane monk age 25 laundress.
richard ellis age 22 groom.
Ann Payne  age 30  Housekeeper  Dom Serv
Mary Ann Payne  age 27  Dom Serv
John Nottingham  age 21  Groom
George Burrage, age 9 field keeper
Charles Nottingham age 9 farm boy
James Scott age thirteen kitchen boy.
1881
phylis white age 61 housekeeper
thomas bell age 27 1st footman.
lilli mither age 24 housemaid.
eliza thomas age 21 kitchenmaid.