Sarah (Winton) Howard (1792 - 1859)

Born 21 Oct 1792 in Therfield, Hertfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of George Howard — married 14 Jul 1816 in Therfield, Hertfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 8 Jan 1859 at age 66 in Royston, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Sarah (Winton) Howard was born in England.

Birth

Sarah Winton was born on 21 Oct 1792 at Therfield, Hertfordshire, England. ^[1][2]She was the daughter of Robert Winton and Jane Corby.

Marriage

Sarah Winton married George Howard on 14 Jul 1816 at the Parish Church, Therfield, Hertfordshire, England.^[3][4] They had eight children during their marriage.

Residences

• 1841 ^[5]- Chequers, High Street, Royston, Hertfordshire, England. Age: 50. Occupation: Washerwoman. Employed by the Thurley family.
• 1851 ^[6]- Buntingford, Royston, Hertfordshire, England. Age: 60; Relation to Head of House: Wife. Living with husband and 5 children; Josiah 28, William 22, Jacin 21, Jane 18, and Charles 17.

Death and Probate

Sarah Winton Howard died on 8 Jan 1959 at the Hamlet of Kneewsworth, Royston, Hertfordshire, England.^[7]

Probate was granted on 22 Aug 1859 at Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.^[8] Witnessed by George Howard (Machinist) - sole executor. Effects listed as under 20 Pounds.

Research Notes and Further Reading

Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth - This large parish of over 1500 ha lies mostly on chalk, and is thus well drained for Winter walking, and is popular with ramblers from both the Cambridge and Royston areas.

The Domesday Survey describes Kneesworth as part of Whaddon parish, but it was a separate hamlet by the C13th, and not united with Bassingbourn until 1966. Kneesworth’s open field system was enclosed in 1842, whereas the fields of Bassingbourn were enclosed by an Award of 1806.

The centre of Bassingbourn is nearly a mile from the cross-roads at Kneesworth, along The Causeway – a weary road to walk, although it has a footway, and a strategically placed seat near the burial ground. The village sign is neatly sited on the Green, not far from The Hoops public house, and the chimney of the small village gashouse (TL 336 440), dating from the C19th, and an adjacent former agricultural engineering works of 1873. Tactful redevelopment of the site has recently been completed, with plaques giving a brief history.

The Church stands away from the High Street, up Church End. The main body of the building is C14th, with a tower some 100 years older, and a Perpendicular oak porch. South from the church, the Village College, opened 1954, occupies a spread of buildings set in wide recreation grounds, and acting as a centre for village social and educational facilities, including the library.

There are 24 rights of way within the parish, and a number of permissive or customary paths, making a substantial network, mostly in excellent order. The only path with a persistent problem is Footpath 19, linking the two parts of the parish, and discussed in our leading article. The crossing of the A1198 (otherwise Ermine Street, or The Old North Road) needs care, and is safest in the 20 mph zone at the junction of The Causeway & Ermine Street, although elsewhere, at least there is good visibility.

The parish is crossed by Ashwell Street, the remnant of the various tracks of The Icknield Way prehistoric trade route. Sections of this path in the parish are grassy or hard, and (thanks to traffic restriction orders) largely traffic-free, save for agricultural vehicles, as the way runs pleasantly between intermittent hedges. To the east, the track runs to Melbourn: to the west it continues past Litlington and The Mordens to Ashwell.

From Ashwell Street, turn north up Spring Lane or South End, to return to Bassingbourn centre, with its network of well-signed inner-village paths, between housing and attractive young woodland (1). Field paths off Ashwell Street at TL 346 432 short of the junction with the A1198 lead across fields to the health centre and the village.

Leaving Ashwell Street to the west of the village, a kissing gate at TL 330 426 gives access to a permissive path, leading north through a narrow belt of new woodland (2) and along an older treeline towards the Springs, and thence back to the Village College.

A track starts south from Ashwell Street, at TL 341 430 (almost opposite the end of Spring Lane) going towards Royston, crossing the bypass, and continuing on a dingy path through the industrial estate to emerge over the railway onto Green Drift. This is a relatively fast bolt-hole to Royston station, but parts of the track may be muddy in Winter.

Further west along Ashwell Street, at TL 327 425, another route south on a field-edge bridleway leads across the railway line and the bypass to the Little Chef on the outskirts of Royston. This gives an excuse for a stop for tea, before ambling into the town along the heath…(An alternative “finish” may be made on a sticky cross-field path turning off by a waymark at TL 334 410, taking steps up and down the bypass, and stiles over the railway).

From either behind the village sign in Bassingbourn, TL 336 440 or, alternatively, beside the church wall, TL 330 441, fenced paths lead to a field edge route north to Guise Lane. Thence a circuit may be made via North End and Fen Road. The “John o’Gaunt” Inn is closed long since, but there is a seat at the road junction! (John o’ Gaunt’s Castle shown on old maps at North End, ca TL　325　452, see the 1937 1:25000 series, was in fact built by Warin de Bassingbourn in 1266. The site was damaged by coprolite digging in the C19th, and nothing is visible from the road). Return via one of two paths going south through Shadbury End, and Church End.

More energetic walkers may turn off west at TL 325 442 before reaching Church End, taking cross-field paths to Abington Pigotts. The route starts off well on a hard track, makes across a field to a bridge/hedge gap, and continues across 5 further fields, with occasional waymarking. This can be a fine tramp in Summer, but only recommended in Winter when the ground is frozen! A return may be made via Bibles Grove, Down Hall, and the paths of Litlington to Ashwell Street and Bassingbourn.

Long distance walkers doing the Harcamlow Way approach the parish along Ashwell Street, cross the A1198, and, beyond the nurseries, turn north up a field edge path, shirting a wood, and later, Kneesworth House Secure Hospital. The path emerges on Chestnut Lane past the farm shop, and turns towards the Kneesworth crossroad. Just before the junction with the A1198, the route goes north over a stile, and passes a new reservoir, before reaching the parish boundary with Whaddon, at Dyers Green. The Explorer 209 OS sheet shows the Icknield Way Path along Ashwell Street, but recent guides give the preferred option for the Icknield Way Walkers route peeling off at Baldock, for an upland route to Royston via Wallington.

• https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/cambs/vol8/pp49-54
• https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CAM/Bassingbourn

Sources

1. ↑ 1841 England Census. Piece: 446. Book: 11. Folio: 20. Page number: 8.
2. ↑ 1851 England Census. Household schedule number: 71. Piece: 1707. Folio: 399. Page number: 20.
3. ↑ England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973. FHL Film Number: 991334.
4. ↑ "England Marriages, 1538–1973," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N286-12F : accessed 20 December 2015), George Howard and Sarah Winton, 14 Jul 1816; citing Therfield, Hertford, England, reference ; FHL microfilm 991,334.
5. ↑ 1841 England Census. Piece: 446. Book: 11. Folio: 20. Page number: 8.
6. ↑ 1851 England Census. Household schedule number: 71. Piece: 1707. Folio: 399. Page number: 20.
7. ↑ England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index, 1837-1915. Volume: 3a. Page: 15353.
8. ↑ England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858-1966.

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