Ivy Cottages

This lovely old Grade II Listed building was probably built around 1570 but we have no evidence yet. It takes a lot of time and effort searching through the archives to find any concrete evidence that can be attached to a particular house. You normally need to know names or people living there, and even then there ay not be any significant events attached to it at all. It is surprising where related information does come from – someone else’s Will for example. You have to keep searching!

The 1843 Tithe map and Schedule for Deal Parish is the first ‘address’ we can be certain of as the numbered property has named owner and occupier. Houses do not move, so we know exactly where it is! The census record can be misleading as this house was not numbered until after 1911, and even then streets can be re numbered, even renamed. There is quite a bit of detective work involved. Having a long occupation is good as the 1911 census generally locates the property quite well. This can be tied in to street indexes and then worked back to earlier times.

There are rumours that Oliver Cromwell stayed there and at one time it was a pub called ‘The Crown’.

Number 1 and 2 (combined)

The early records indicate these were one property. Tithe 1834 owner occupier was Mary Hills. The schedule reference is 130a which means the property numbering allocation was made years before, and carried through from schedule to schedule. It was split into two properties some time before 1898. Further research needed!

1 Ivy Cottages (238 Church Path)

DATE OWNER OCCUPIER DOC REF MISC FACT
1843 Mary Hills Mary Hills Tithe /130a One property with No 2
1898 Mrs Wilson Pain Street Directory Separate property from No 2
1910 Mrs Wilson Pain Street Directory
1910 Harry Parker W Bouner IR58/30798/350 Property in bad repair. Outside W.C. Garden in front about 6 perches in extent. Gross value £90
1911 Hadley Frank Pain Street Directory
1911 William Edward Bouner Census Jobbing Gardener
1913 Bouner W E Pain Street Directory
1915 Parker Edward Pike’s Directory
1916 Parker Edward Pain Street Directory Grocer & Fruiterer
1921 Hutchins R H Pain Street Directory
1939/40 Hutchins R H Pain Street Directory
1957 J R Douglas Pain Street Directory
1966/8 Jenner R J Pain Street Directory

2 Ivy Cottages (236 Church Path)

DATE OWNER OCCUPIER DOC REF MISC FACT
1843 Mary Hills Mary Hills Tithe /130a One property with No 1
1898 Trollope J Pain Street Directory Separate property from No 1
1903 Battrum Wm Pain Street Directory
1910 Battrum Wm Pain Street Directory
1910 Harry Parker Charles Hudson IR58/30798/349 Property in bad repair. Very dark and low pitched. Outside W.C. Tenancy weekly. Gross value £65
1911 Battrum William Pain Street Directory
1913 Prior William Pain Street Directory
1915 Bingham J G Pike’s Directory
1916 Parker Richard Pain Street Directory
1921 Sims James Pain Street Directory
1939/40 Sims James Pain Street Directory
1957 Mrs M Sims Pain Street Directory
1966/8 French R Pain Street Directory

3 Ivy Cottages (234 Church Path)

DATE OWNER OCCUPIER DOC REF MISC FACT
1843 William Chadwick William Chadwick Tithe /130
1898 Love Henry Pain Street Directory
1903 Lawrence G Pain Street Directory
1911 George Lawrence Census George Lawrence was a Farm Waggoner in 1911 aged 58. Alice Garlinge was his step daughter aged 37 and James Sims aged 10 was his Grandson.
1913 Lawrence G Pain Street Directory
1915 Lawrence Richard Pike’s Directory
1916 Lawrence G Pain Street Directory
1935 Lawrence G Pain Street Directory
1939/40 Miss Lawrence & Miss Garlinge Pain Street Directory
1957 Miss Garlinge Pain Street Directory
1966/8 Pain Street Directory

Research by Alan Buckman

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