Fred CRISP 1849-1905
He owned Scotland Farm (where 100 men were employed in 1897) and View Farm at Dry Drayton, Cambs., where he had the Advowson of the church. He bought Histon Manor, Cambs. and the park in 1897 .He sold land in Girton in 1903 ( including Catch Hall,and Howe House Farm), and Moor Barns in Madingley to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1902-1903. View Farm was sold in 1905 and Scotland Farm in 1902. In 1896 he gave the money for the construction of Willingham Town Hall.
In 1901 he was Deputy Lieutenant and JP, Cambridgeshire and high sheriff of Cambs. and Hunts. (1898).
Fred Crisp was "of the White House New Southgate....and of Brooklands Longstanton in the county of Cambridge" in his Will (dated 23.9.1902, proved 9.2.1906). His brother-in-law Thomas Nicholls Castle was an Executor. He left nearly �96,000
Frederick Crisp was a person named in Banns at Swavesey on 6.10.1867 (OTP, bac). This is presumably another F Crisp.
Mr. Bolton was present at the funeral at Friern Barnet parish church ( near to The White House) where he is buried.
He was a member of the London Society of East Anglians and of the Royal Agricultural Society.
He was a farmer and stock breeder and at one time had 4000 acres under cultivation, and was famous for his shire horses ( some of which he sold to Queen Victoria and the future Edward VII) and cattle. His Grant of Arms (1898) was about to be destroyed in 1999 (it was thought to be the remains of a roll of wallpaper) during a house clearance and is now in the possession of his great grandson , Andrew Forman. Elizabeth Crisp (nee Coxford) was eldest daughter of Richard Coxford & Caroline Firth . See Birth Cert. (Registration District of St. Mary Magdalen, sub-district of Bermondsey)
An Emily L Coxford b 1858 at Borough, Surrey was a Schoolmistress at Little Wilbraham, Cambs in 1881. The name Emily - especially if the "L" was Lilian - could mean she was a sister . Lilian Emily Crisp was Elizabeth's daughter.
Elizabeth Crisp lived at Kingsbury, Harlesden, Willesden at some time between 1906 and 1912. She was at 36, Compton Rd., Winchmore Hill at 25.10.1912. [Note that the numbering of Compton Rd. is believed to have changed since then].
Elizabeth was "of 24 Compton Road, Winchmore Hill, Middx. at the time of Probate" (9.2.1906).
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