Items in Oxfordshire taken from Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.

Room in which Lawrence Washington was born, Sulgrave Manor

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“It was in this rrom that Lawrence Washington, sone of Robert, and great-great-great grandfather of George Washington, was born.” (p. 106) “Lawrence Washington, of Gray’s Inn, lived in or near Northa [...]

Keywords: interiors, beds

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2006-06-27

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Sulgrave Manor

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

The English home of the WashingtonsNow little more than a farm house, the manor was a priory of St Andrew’s before the Reformation in the 16th Century. It’s located in Sulgrave, near Banbury in Oxford [...]

Keywords: manors, horses, trees, farms

Places shown: Sulgrave; Oxfordshire; England

Added: 2003-12-02

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