Eastwick House, Little Hampton, Evesham

[chasbaz]

Thanks Phil!

[Mike Prance Williams]

Hi
One of my ancestors Elinor Sedgwick Burlingham nee Prance was living at Eastwick, Hampton at the time of her death on 04.05.1899!
There is also a Catherine Margaret Bazalgette Gore who was born ant 1860 in Stirling, Scotland. She married a William Rooke Prance part of the wealthy Hampstead side of my family.
Not sure if any of the above is of interest to you.
Mike

[StintonLomas]

Hi
With whatr is surely an unusual name is there any connection with the renowned Victorian Joseph Bazalgette?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette

[chasbaz]

Stinton/Mike,

Thanks, I have added William Rooke Prance to my Bazalgette tree.  Catherine was one of the daughters of Major James Arthur Charles Gore and Catherine Louise Bazalgette, who was a daughter of John Bazalgette and Sarah Crawford Magdalen Van Norden.  John was the second son of my gggggfr Louis Bazalgette ("Prinny's Taylor" - google the book title if interested).  My gggfr Sir Joseph's father was Louis' elder son Joseph William Bazalgette.  So there is a connection but in the other branch.

Charles Bazalgette.

[staited]

Interesting to read about Eastwick house. Not much seems to be known about it. I went to school with one of the occupants sons in the sixties and have fond memories of visiting the house. It was rather a ramshackle house divided into two parts with Mr Lancaster and his wife and daughter living in one half and my friends family in the other. I remember the winter of 1963 after walking to the house drying my wet freezing socks on a oil stove,  unfortunately they melted. The grounds were very large with a circular drive and a lodge or stable house. I seem to remember an old rail carriage at the bottom of the garden, perhaps I'm wrong. The family would put on plays in one of the rooms and I remember the "Cavern" in the cellar. I have photos taken on the roof but I cannot remember how we got there. When I drive into the housing estate, which was built in the late sixties I imagine the old house standing there.