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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Hertfordshire => Topic started by: Cinirel on Tuesday 07 January 20 13:08 GMT (UK)
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Hi
I am researching my grand parent house in Kings Langley ( 7 Home Park Cottages, Kings Langley) - I know they were built in 1825 by John Dickinson for his workers.
I have been unable to find any other information on them until my grandparents were born ther in the 1930's.
Can any help in filling the gap in??
Thanks you
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I don't have any information but I found a nice map (which you may already have):
https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18&lat=51.7099&lon=-0.4410&layers=168&right=BingHyb
Maps can help follow the development of an area.
They are lovely little cottages. I can see Homepark Mill nearby - was John Dickenson the Mill Owner?
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From the front page of 1911 census - Hemel Hempstead 141, subdistrict Hemel Hempstead 1, enumeration district 17, RG14/7756, the first household is Mill House Home Park, then Lock House. Goes then to Watford Road. Then High Street. Church Lane, Alexander Road, Waterside .... No?
Worth working your way through that census to see if anything useful pops up that I have missed?
Might be on wrong side of the water?
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Have you been in contact with the local family history society?
http://www.kingslangley.org.uk/index.html
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Sorry, just seen they say only answering bona fide academic research enquiries.
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I have found King William Giffen age 58 living in Numbers Farm in 1911 - but cannot access the image to see who is in the vicinity. It is Registration district 140, Watford, sub-district Abbots Langley.
Ignore this for Home Park Cottages - but curious as to why images are not available.
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Ancestry for 1911 has this man as an occupant of Home Park Cottages, no number specified
Edward Dock Age 54
Birth Place: Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Civil Parish: Abbots Langley
Address Home Park Cottages, Kings Langley, Watford, Herts
District 140 sub-district 4 enumeration 2
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There looks to be Charles Chambers at Zoffany House, then the cottages before him, so count along to see if correct number of dwellings etc etc.
There is damage on some of the pages but if you examine the images you should be able to sort them out.
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Good idea Pat.
Cinirel could do the same for each census to see who was living in the cottages. Although they are unlikely to be numbered in the censuses, there are not many cottages, so it might be possible to work out who lived in which one. :)
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Edward Dock is in Home Park Cottages in 1901..... (about a dozen of them, then Zoffany House.)
And 1891. Dozen dwellings, then Zoffany House.
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1881 on Ancestry - just tick for Home Park Cottages - or F M P probably it is the street address.
Sorry, I thought there was difficulty in finding any information about them, they are there. They are also given as some peoples' birth places in some censuses.
Will of an occupant.
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The Docks are still there in 1930:
Henry Edward Dock
Residence Date: 1930
Street address: Home Park cottages, Station road
Ancestry implies it is London, but it is Kings Langley.
Watford, Bushey, Rickmansworth 1930 (London, England City Directories)
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Also mentions of Home Park Cottages in the British Newspaper Archives.
e.g.
November 1896 Harrow Observer
Kings Langley
An accident which might have been of a very serious character, happened last Thursday evening. A trap, heavily laden and containing two persons, was being driven from the King's Langley railway station by Mr J. Jackson (coachman to Mr. R. Blackwell, of the Manor House, Chipperfield", when getting past the Home Park Cottage, the pony (it is supposed from the noise of a passing train) took fright and became totally unmanageable. Through the restiveness of the animal which followed, the offside shaft of the cart broke, the occupants with the luggage being thrown out. The pony at once dashed off in the direction of Primrose Hill with one shaft still hanging to him. Mrs Hill, of the Home Park Cottages, who was coming in the direction of the station with her baby in a mail cart, noticing the animal coming, ran into a recess in the road where was a gate opening into a meadow. Strangely enough the animal made in this direction, clearing the gate with a bound, not however before the mail cart was made a complete wreck, the little occupant being thrown into the hedge. Mrs. Hill was also knocked down by the shaft, and received injuries as also did the baby. Assistance was soon rendered and the injured persons attended to. The other occupants of the trap were the son and danghter of the coachman, Mr. Jackson, who together with Mrs. Hill and child, are recovering satisfactorily from their injuries and fright.
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Hi
The first damaged part has an address of The Grove Gardens, Abbots Langley
with H Kneller living.
Abbots Langley is next village ( south of ) Kings Langley.
That is almost certainly part of what is now "The Grove" golf course and Hotel
[ https://www.thegrove.co.uk/ (https://www.thegrove.co.uk/) ]
Just " inside " the M25, on the canal.
So, to my mind the cottages are listed in reverse order.
Ray