“On Saturday Thomas Wiltshire was committed to the new jail in Southwark by William Hammond, Esquire; charged on oath, and his own confession, with feloniously taking and carrying away a large quantity of Dowlas from the grounds of this Messrs Wood and Deacon, of the parish of Mitcham, Witsters.”
Source: The Penny London Post, 10th April 1749
Eric Montague says that “Mr Wood’s Silk Mill” is shown on a map of 1831 near to Wandle Villa. Page 41 of Mitcham Histories : 8 Phipps Bridge, 2006 edition.
Alderman Mr. William Carlton was District Chairman of the Mitcham Urban District Council in 1932.
From a public member family tree on Ancestry:
When William Carlton was born on October 29, 1860, in Mitcham, Surrey, his father, William, was 49 and his mother, Elizabeth, was 34. He married Frances Mary Harvey in May 1886. They had five children during their marriage:
Clement William Herbert (Bert)
Frances Marie
Ethel
Elsie
Ada Grace
He died on December 2, 1938, in Sussex, at the age of 78.
In his will he left £10,770 6s. 10d. to his son Clement William Herbert Carlton, nurseryman.
Note also that the road Lower Green East is now called Cricket Green.
He sold his house and the market garden, which totalled 8 1/4 acres, to a property developer, which developed it as Bramcote Avenue and Denham Crescent.
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