Tidmarsh
The Tidmarsh family are described in the censuses as farmers and maltsters and they & their descendants held this property until 1896. From the Tidmarsh tomb in St James’s Churchyard and from the deeds, many family tree facts were gained.
Charles Tidmarsh (I) and his widowed sister Sally Williams were the occupants at the time of his death in 1823. Sally was entitled to live there until her death or remarriage. Beneficiaries were another Charles Tidmarsh (II) “yeoman of Northamptonshire”, James Tidmarsh “yeoman of Campden”, Thomas Nathaniel Tidmarsh of Kenilworth, William Williams of Fairford and Judith Edge wife of Joseph Edge of Coln St Aldwyn – all nephews and niece of Charles.
Charles (II) seems to have lived here running his malting business, but after he got into financial difficulties, James Tidmarsh bought the house in 1835. In 1841 it was occupied by James Tidmarsh, with his daughters Mary age 11 and Ann age 10. His wife Mary was dead. In 1851 James is still at Dover’s House, but with only one daughter at home Ann, aged 20. His elder daughter Mary had just married Charles Izod, a “Chymist of Evesham” at St James’s Church on 4th February 1851, so is now living elsewhere.
In 1861 Mary age 31 with her husband Charles Izod, age 33, now a maltster and farmer of 65 acres, employing 2 labourers are occupying Dover’s House, having bought it from James’s estate in 1859. Interestingly in the Grammar School deeds of which he was a trustee in 1862 he was also described as a coal merchant and maltster. From researches we find no children born to Mary and Charles and they are alone in the house with Fanny Ladbrook, a general servant, in 1871 and 1881.
By 1891 Charles Izod age 63 is a widower, still a maltster & farmer. Mary had died in 1888, Charles died in 1896 and so the Tidmarsh/Izod family connection with Dover’s House ended after 75 years.