The list of owners and occupiers(renters) of Ridware Hall.
November 2012 to date
Emma Thomas (Caroline Emma Roberts Thomas) & Roy Edwards
15th October 1981 – November 2012
Mr Neil Adams & Mrs Vivien Adams (Purchased for £95,000)
15th April 1976 -15th October 1981
Brian Victor Harberfield & family (& Janice Morgan)(Purchased for £32,000)
24th October 1975 – 15th April 1976
Charles William Shale & Vera (Purchased for £20,000)
The Shales further divided the land selling land to Mr Bernard Gough in 1975. Bernard built 23 Wade Lane and lived there until his death in June 2020
1st January 1935 – 24th October 1975
Mr Henry Broadway Griffiths & Florence Amelia Griffiths (DOB 17.02.1914 died 1990)
Mrs Griffiths sold land now occupied by Mavesyn Close and later the five further executive houses. We have some records to suggest that Henry Griffiths made numerous loans against the property include mortgaging the property with Mr Henry Claude Kelley & Mr William Patrick Barkfield and other parties. The hall was later transferred to Mrs Griffiths.
1939 – 1945
We understand that the hall was taken over by the army and initially housed contentious objectors and then Italian POWs. The Italians worked on local farms. The planted two walnut trees. These remain in the walled garden.
27th February 1932 (when Ooryala Mary Churchward died at the hall)
30th March 1920 – Brigadier General Paul Stanbury Rycaut Churchward (b. 13th June 1858 d. 6th June 1935) & Ooryala Mary Churchward (Donisthorpe) purchased the Hall for £2300 They sold the property on 31st December 1934.
30th March 1920 – Harrold Edward Cherry, Alan Spencer Gaskell Kennard, Frederic Walter Hall, sold the Hall to Brigadier General Paul Stanward Churchward as trustees of an indenture of settlement. (General Paul Stanward Churchwards grandson visited the Hall in 2024) During the Brigadiers ownership, and during the First World War General Kitchener visited Ridware Hall
1909 – 1912 – Captain Douglas and Albinia Muriel Powell and family
1901 – 1905 – Frederick and Elizabeth Rayner
1898 – 1901 – James Frederick and Bertha Elizabeth Rich Humby and family
1894 – 1896/7 – George Bridgeman-Simpson – Upper House’s name changed to the current name – Ridware Hall
1879 – 1893 – William Robert Parket-Jarvis and Family
1970 – 1878 – William Orgill and Family
1869 – 1870 – Josiah Spode Esq
1856 – 1868 – Mrs Eliza Catherine Chadwick (widow of Hugo Mavesyn Chadwick and Elizabeth Catherine Chadwick (daughter)
March 1853 – February 1856 – Newton John Lane
1844 – 1853 – Colonel of Captain Charles Pearson and Family
1838 – 1844 – Skynner George and Emily Woodroffe
1790 – 1838 – Hugo Mavesyn, son of Charles Mavesyn
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