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Mr Bailey Mortimer (born 1842) came to Rushden in the mid 1870s, and is first listed in the 1877 directory. He came from Hutton-le-Hole, YKS, with his wife Elizabeth (nee Ward, born Marwood, DUR).
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Rectory Farm
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Bailey took on the tenancy of Rectory Farm, Newton Road, where he was farming 285 acres and employing four men to help.
At Rectory Farm they had two children, William R B in 1878 and Margaret H in 1880. Bailey then employed Mary Sutton Rowlatt as his housekeeper. She served him for 33 years.
Elizabeth died in 1883 and was buried at St Mary’s Church.
Bailey also served Rushden Urban Council and the Board of Guardians.
At Newton Bromswold Mr. Mortimer was a long-serving churchwarden, and on the local Education Committee, and a member of the Rushden Conservative Club.
Later he also farmed Eastfields Farm, Court Estate. His brother Robert lived at Ravenstone BKM, but moved into Eastfields Farm about 1908.
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Old Eastfields Farm in Newton Road
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Bailey Mortimer moved to The Cottage, Newton Bromswold, in about 1895 where he died in 1924 and was buried in the Churchyard.
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