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Note from Roger Coley, 2021
Regarding the photo entitled "Bill Desborough's Cottage", I'd offer a date around 1913 with the people (l to r) as Harry Moore Horne, his wife Hannah Rebecca (nee Perkins), Thomas Edward Perkins and Thomas Green.
The property was at the bottom of the hill on the left hand side (heading towards Rushden) just after the entrance to Green Lane and below the Rectory.
The property was at the bottom of the hill on the left hand side (heading towards Rushden) just after the entrance to Green Lane and below the Rectory.
Thomas Perkins and family lived there according to the 1881/1891/1901 census' until his death in 1904. His granddaughter Hannah Rebecca (18) was there in 1901, as was Thomas Green (cousin). Hannah married Harry Moore Horne in 1910. Thomas Edward was her son prior to marrying Harry.
In 1911 the census names the property as 'Hillside Cottage'. According to my dad's cousin, the Horne's were given notice to leave as the property had been bought by Polly Dilley, but no date is known.
Post 1911 it's difficult to determine occupancy of the property through the Bedfordshire Electoral Registers and the 1939 Register has Herbert Harris in residence. At that date William Forskett (Bill) Desborough is at the New Inn with his father Tom. It's thought Bill moved in to the cottage post WW2 and according to the Electoral Register he's resident at 31 Rushden Road from 1945 onwards.
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