Hello again,
Thanks you for the kind offer to ask around, I live about an hour away from Lane End but sadly am a few years younger than the legal driving age!
The Cutler Family, as far back as I can trace it, came from Lewknor, Oxfordshire, about 6.5 miles from Lane End, about 5 miles from Fingest. The earliest ancestor i have is Richard Cutler, a labourer. His son Richard had a son called William, my great x6 grandfather. William mentions Deerhams Farm in his will from 1788, which he wrote two days before his death on 8 Dec 1788. He was buried at Fingest.
His son William was the early 19th century farmer on Park Lane. He was baptized in 1775 and died in Janueary 1853, leaving "tenemant and garden orchard and outbuildings... situated at Lane End" and meadow ground : "all those my four meadows situated at Lane End, containing by estimation seven acres and a half" and also his "cottage, garden and premesis with the arable land thereunto adjoining containing by estimation about nine acres, situated at Park Lane".
William had a son, also called William, b. 1810. William's brother John married Elizabeth Haines, a single woman from Princes Risboro', as his second wife, in 1873. She was the proprieter of "The Old Sun" public house on Church Road. Also, William and John's brother Richard married Elizabeth Carr, who upon his death in 1870, moved in with her brother (also called Richard) in "the Old Arm Chair" public house, on The High Street, opposite the duck pond.
William married Ann Harris in 1834 in Dorney, BKM and had 9 children, my great-great-great grandfather was their third child. His name was Reuben Cutler. He married in 1859 to Sarah Ann Atkins, at Great Marlow. They had 8 children, their eldest being my great-great-grandfather.
Reuben was a trustee of the Wesleyan Chapel in Lane End, and "seldom missed a service", the Bucks Free Press reported. He died in 1912. I think that he lived in Church Path, just across the road from Daisy Cottages, where his eldest daughter Jane lived. He battled illness for the last few years of his life, becoming bed-bound in Summer 1911. I have the obituary from the Bucks Free Press if you would like to see it.
The eldest son of Reuben, Walter William, moved to Manchester in about 1883. He had 8 children with his wife Mary Ann Bennell, who died in 1918 from Influenza. Their daughter Emily was borin on 22 August 1899, and she is my great-grandmother. She married in 1922 to Robert Gadd. They had 7 children, my grandmother being the sixth. Her name is Joyce. Robert and Emily's eldest son was killed in the Battle of Monte-Cassino, 22 July 1944. Robert died on 31 Dec 1968, and Emily on 22 July 1977.
Alot to take in, I know, but that is my heritage through the years with the Cutler Family.
Have you started to chase your heritage too?
Regards,
Matt.
