Kislingbury's Around Windlesham and Bagshot Area

Windlesham Surrey

Photo on left signed on back Miss Kislingbury, Olive's mother

Family Tree 1 My mother Ada Kislingbury was born in Send near Woking Surrey. My grandfather Harry born in Windlesham, came back to Windlesham before the Second World War and lived at Woodbine Cottage. where he worked as a cow man at Windlesham Moor.
Harry served an apprenticeship as watch and clock repairer in Bagshot and lived near the Three Mariner's Pub for while before he married Alice. We had a Grandfather Clock and many other ornate and marble clocks around the house Woodbine Cottage. The Grandfather Clock I was told was kept for non-payment of a bill for repair.

The Kislingbury's of Windlesham go back seven generations to Elizabeth born 1746 in Cholsey Berks north of Reading. Some time after coming to Windlesham her children Moses born 1773, John born 1774 and Elizabeth born 1776 all the children born out of wed lock this kept the Kislingbury name going. In 1779 Elizabeth became married to William Attfield.

Family Tree 2 William married Harriet Rolls in 1818 at Chobham. Their children were all born in Windlesham.

I have found no connections between family tree 1 and and family tree 2

Most of the Kislingbury in Windlesham were poor. In Windlesham cemetery there are no head stones on the graves for any of the Kislingbury's buried there. The main jobs in the area were farms and gardening and for women, domestic work. It seems from the overseers reports for the 1800's the Parish helped some of the less well off people in the village

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Bagshot Surrey

The Kislingbury's of Bagshot came to Bagshot from Berkshire about the same time as Elizabeth arrived in Windlesham from Berkshire. At present I have found no connection beween the two familys.

The Bagshot Kislingbury's were well off compared to the Windlesham one's. William and Thomas traded in Bagshot for many years up to the end of the Nineteenth century, then seem to disapeer. William was Windlesham Overseer for the Poor Rates from 1827-1828.

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Below is Windlesham Parish Overseer's Report for 1804-1835 Poor Rates Records, Relating to Kislingbury

Name Notes Amount Date
Elizabeth Attfield None £14-0 May 1804
Moses Kislingbury None 5-0 3rd March 1810
William Kislingbury Bill £1-4-0 8th October 1814
William Kislingbury Bacon £1-0-4 11th December 1814
William Kislingbury Bacon £1-1-6 11th February 1815
William Kislingbury Bacon £1-2-5 July 1815
Moses Kislingbury Relief 3-0 November 1815
Moses Kislingbury Relief 2-0 January 1816
Moses Kislingbury Shirt ? January 1816
William Kislingbury Grocerie's £4-19-3 ?
William Kislingbury Grocerie's £8-3-1 19th April 1816
Mary Kislingbury None 10-0 July 1817
James Kislingbury General Digging 4-6 November 1817
James Kislingbury General Digging 10-0 November 1817
James Kislingbury General Digging 3-6 December 1817
William Kislingbury Groceries £4-11-5 December 1817
James Kislingbury None 2-6 February 1819
William Kislingbury None 6-6 February 1819
Moses Kislingbury None £1-0-0 3rd May 1819
William Kislingbury For Groceries £2-3-0 1st September 1820
W Kislingbury and 10 other men Peter Woods, Jim Bee of Med Lane for lake Over run 5-0 each 5th May 1821
William Kislingbury For Groceries £3-14-4 1822
William Kislingbury For Groceries £2-15-2 1822
William Kislingbury For Groceries £2-14-8 1822
Moses Kislingbury Relief 1-0 11th December1822
Moses Kislingbury Relief 1-0 20th December1822
Mr Kislingbury Bill for W Collins 13-6 24th April 1822
Mr Kislingbury Bill for W Collins £1-4-0 20th February 1822
Kislingbury Daughter Relief Ill 2-0 25th November 1822
William Kislingbury Ill 2-10 13th January 1823
Mr Kislingbury Bill for Clothing £1-14-11 4th August 1823
Mr Kislingbury Bill for Clothing £2-0-6 25th March 1824

Extracts from Bagshot Traders in the Nineteenth Century Bagshot Traders No 10

Bagshot has always had a good collection of grocer's often sold items not normally associated with the trade, for example John Hart was a corn dealer in 1840's. Whilst the Kislingbury family were cheesemongers during the same era. John Attfield was a general dealer and Emma and George Draper were also retailing beer in the 1840's, Frederick Mumford, Bagshot's fourth postmaster combined his grocery trade with the post office and cheesemongery this was in 1845. William and Thomas Kislingbury were also village drapers in 1890, and in the same year Thomas Morris became a grocer and coal merchant. Perhaps one of the strangest combinations of that of James Russell he was a builder and grocer.

Extracts from Pigots Directory Bagshot

1826 W.Kislingbury grocer.
1845 Mrs.M. Kislingbury grocer and cheesemonger.
1862 William Kislingbury grocers.
1867 William and Thomas Kislingbury grocer.
1874 William and Thomas Kislingbury grocer and draper.

Cholsey Berkshire

This tree is is pre Windlesham back to the year 1600 Thomas Kislingbury and Alice Reeley

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