Fonds
THE GARDENS : HESTON : CO. MIDDLESEX
Catalogue reference: MID 3
What’s it about?
This record is about the THE GARDENS : HESTON : CO. MIDDLESEX dating from 1874-1897.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MID 3
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Title (The name of the record)
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THE GARDENS : HESTON : CO. MIDDLESEX
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Date (When the record was created)
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1874-1897
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Description (What the record is about)
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Farm records relating to the Gardens, Heston, Middlesex
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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1 BOOKS OF ACCOUNT
2 CATALOGUES
3 LEASES
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Museum of English Rural Life
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- <famname>Gray family of Heston, Middlesex</famname>
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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3 series
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Presented on temporary loan 1967 February 28 by E.F. Gray (Acc. no. 317)
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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Frederick Gray, the donor's grandfather bought the Gardens in 1874. He leased it for the last three years of his tenure until his son, Ebenezer Gray, was able to take it over. Ebenezer Gray was born at Longford, co. Middlesex about 1860 and lived at The Gardens for almost the whole of his working life. Shortly before his marriage, he tended 11 acres of fruit trees and subsequently expanded this holding to about 100 acres of fruit and vegetables, of which he owned 40 acres. His eldest son, E.F. Gray (the donor) was born at the Gardens in 1889. He was a market gardener there with his brothers until 1926, when he moved to Runnymede Farm, Hayes, co. Middlesex. In 1939 he returned to the Gardens, where his holding gradually contracted until in 1967 it amounted to no more than 11 acres
Farm size etc.
Probably 20 - 40 acres; brick earth; owner occupier
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/e9616bf4-c6cc-472a-92c4-cc815868b5c2/
Catalogue hierarchy
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THE GARDENS : HESTON : CO. MIDDLESEX