Bartholomew Chaundy (1786-1856)

1811 The Environs of London (2nd edition) Daniel Lysons (1762-1834) - LLSC
	'Mr Wilmot (sic) of Lewisham'.....occupies above 100 acres and pay for labour alone upwards of £3000 per annum 'being the largest concern of the kind in the neighbourhood of London, and one of the largest in the kingdom (I am told that there are some more extensive nursery grounds in Yorkshire, chiefly for forest trees.)'

1822 Encyclopedia of Gardening J.C. Louden (1783-1843) - LLSC

Within his account of the Gardens of Kent he wrote 'Nurseries are not unfrequent, though the county is already fully planted, and most of the orchardists raise their own trees. The principal is that of John Willmott and Co. of Lewisham. It was founded by Mr John Russel (sic) about the middle of the 18th century, who raised himself by skill and industry to a state of affluence rare among nurserymen; and, after keeping his carriage, and living many years like a gentleman, died in 1794, aged 63, leaving property to the amount of £20,000. The nursery is now carried on by his son-in-law with increased spirit; the grounds contain 15 acres; 70 hands are employed, and about £3000 a year paid for labour.'

1828 Gentleman's Magazine October 1828 - LLSC
	Oct 11. At Lewisham, aged 30, Mr Benjamin Hoghton, of Waltham Abbey.

1828 The Times Tuesday 14th October 1828 pg 4 col C:
	On Saturday, the 11th last, in his 30th year, at the house of Bar- tholomew Chaundy, Esq., of Lewisham, (his brother-in-law), Mr. Benjamin Hoghton, of Waltham Abbey, leaving a widow and five children: a most amicable and highly respected man, and his loss is deeply deplored by his family and friends.

1831 Gardener's Magazine J.C. Loudon, F.L.S. H.S. - GBS

Lewisham Nursery, Wilmot and Co. - A great many garden seeds are grown in this nursery, and the present has been rather a successful year, with the exception of peas, and, to a certain extent, of onions and lettuce. We saw a curious and striking instance of the importance of keeping the Brassica family a good distance apart while in bloom. The imperial winter broccoli was in flower, not far from early York cabbage. There being only one plant of the former, and the seed being much wanted, the plant was covered with gauze to keep off the bees. The seed was kept apart and sown last spring, and the progeny consisted of the imperial winter broccoli very distinct; a cabbage strongly resembling the sugar-loaf, and bearing no marks of its other parent; with hybrids partaking in various degrees both of cabbage and broccoli. Mr Chaundy informed us that some years ago he planted, in one group, red and white cabbage, savoys, borecules, cauliflowers and broccoli; that he saved the seeds and sowed them, and that the pro- duce consisted of many curious hybrids; some entirely like one of the parents, others blending the qualities of different parents, and a number displaying the qualities of their parents in distinct parts; such as a cabbage one half red, and the other green, &c. But the most remarkable circum- stance was, that, while all other cabbages and borecoles in the nursery were destroyed by a severe winter, these hybrids were little injured, and supplied the kitchens of the two families when there was no other cabbage vegetable to be had in the nursery. Most of the popular trees and shrubs are to be had in this nursery, in large quantities, and well grown; all the finer sorts of apples, pears, cherries, plums, &c., by the hundred; quanti- ties of such fine shrubs as A'rbutus Andrachne serratifolia, now covered with flowers, Wistaria Consequana, and Chimonanthus fragrans (fig. 126.), a shrub which we cannot too often bring before our readers, on account of the abundance and powerfully refreshing fragrance of its blossoms, and that, too, in the open air during three of the dullest months in the year, viz. December, January and February. We believe it will grow quire well in London, and we would therefore recom- mend it to be planted against every house that has a garden, however small. How it happens not to be cultivated in pots and tubs, for setting in halls and staircases, so as to perfume the whole house, we cannot tell: perhaps because its flowers, though so fragrant, are not showy, and, while they are expanded, the plant is gene- rally without leaves. Rosa indica fragrans and R. indica ailba, nowblooming freely, are very desirable varieties, especially for keeping in pots, and turning out in spring, to be treated as herbceous plants. Ipomoe'a coccinea, the plants being sticked like peas, has ripened seeds in the open garden; a circumstance which has not occurred before, in this nursery, for the last twelve or four- teen years. At Tooting we found it carefully trained against a wall (p. 684.), for the same purpose. Among the handsome specimens in this nursery are A'rbutus Andrachne serratifolia and Schubertia disticha pendula.

1841 - Greenaway Place, Lewisham - LLSC

• Bartholomew Chaundy M 50 Nurseryman Born outside county
• Mary Chaundy F 50 Born outside county
• Robert Hoghton M 17 Ap Born outside county
• Francis Groombidle (?) F 30 F.S. Born in county
• Alice Webb F 20 F.S. Born outside county

1842 The Times Saturday 16th April 1842 pg 7 col D:
	AS GARDENER in a nobleman's or gentleman's fa- mily, a man, age 30, who has had many years' practical expe- rience in his profession, and can have an unexceptionable character from the gentleman he has just left, where he lived nearly three years, Direct to M.Y.. Messrs. Willmott and Chaundy's nursery, Lewisham, Kent.

1851 - Greenaway Place, Lewisham

• Bartholomew Chaundy Head Mar M 64 Nurseryman Ascott-under-Wychwood, Oxon
• Mary Chaundy Wife Mar F 64 Nurseryman's wife Granada
• Mary Ann Bustin Serv Unm F 32 Cook Gitrome, Devonshire
• Esther Edwards Serv Unm F 21 Housemaid Clerkenwell, Middlesex

1854 Daily News 11th July 1854

FREEHOLD LAND at LEWISHAM, close to the village, and within a short walk of the Railway station; particularly eligible for building. MESSRS. DANIEL SMITH and SON will SELL by AUCTION, on TUESDAY, August 8, about 12 acres of very valuable and improvable FREEHOLD LAND, close to Lewisham, now in the occupation of Messrs. Wilmot and Chaundy. It offers a good site for a cemetery or any public building, and is bounded by a winding brook. Further particulars will be shortly published, and may then be had at the inns at Lewisham, Greenwich, Blackheath, and Deptford; at the Auction Mart; of Messrs. Druce and Son, solicitors, Billiter-square; and in Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

1855 Gentleman's Magazine 29th May 1855 Death Notices:
	Mary, wife of Bart. Chaundy esq. dau of late William Hoghton esq. of Chingford Hall, Essex.

1855 Jackson's Oxford Journal Saturday, June 2, 1855 Death Notices:
	May 30, at Lewisham, Mary, wife of B. Chaundy Esq., and daughter of the late Wm. Hoghton, Esq., of Ching ford Hall, Essex.

1855 Daily News Monday, June 4, 1855 Death Notices:
	CHAUNDY - May 30, at Lewisham, Mary, wife of Mr. B. Chaundy.

1855 Manchester Times Wednesday, June 6, 1855 Death Notices:
	CHAUNDY - On the 30th ult. at Lewisham, Mary, wife of Mr. B. Chaundy, daughter of the late William Hoghton, Esq. of Ching- ford Hall.

1855 Gentleman's Magazine Vol XLIV:
	May 29th... At Lewisham, Mary, wife of B. Chaundy esq. dau. of the late William Hoghton, esq. of Ching- ford Hall, Essex.

1855 Gentleman's Magazine December 1855 - LLSC
	Dec 20. In Blomfield-st. Westbourne-terr. North, aged 90, Mrs. Hoghton, relict of William Hoghton, esq. of Chingford Hall, Essex.

1856 Gentleman's Magazine 5th March 1856 Death Notices:
	Bartholomew Chaundy at Lewisham, aged 69.

1856 The Times Friday 7th March 1856 pg 1 col A:
	On the 5th inst., at his house, at Lewisham, Kent, Bartholomew Chaundy, Esq., in the 70th year of his age.

1856 Jackson's Oxford Journal Saturday, March 8, 1856 Death Notices:
	March 5, at Lewisham, Kent, after a severe affliction, aged 69, Mr B. Chaundy, brother of Messrs. John and Richard Chaundy, of this city, deservedly respected by all who knew him.

1856 Daily News Saturday 8th March 1856 page 7 Death Notices:
	CHAUNDY - March 5, at Lewisham, Kent, B. Chaundy, Esq., aged 70.

1856 The Morning Chronicle Saturday, March 8, 1856 Death Notices:
	On the 5th inst., at his house, at Lewisham, Kent, Bar- tholomew Chaundy, Esq., in the 70th year of his age.

1856 The Times Wednesday 26th November 1856 pg 3 col A:
	TO GENTLEMEN, Nurserymen, Fruit-growers, Builders, &c - The whole of the valuable NURSERY STOCK to be DISPOSED OF at reduced prices, by order of the Executors of the late Messrs. Wilmott and Chaundy, Lewisham, Kent, consisting of evergreens, ornamental and forest trees, deciduous shrubs, fruit trees, &c., in consequence of the ground being required for building.

1994 Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists Ray Desmond - Google Book Search

RUSSELL, John (c. 1731-1794) Nurseryman, Lewisham, Kent. His nursery was "the largest concern of the kind in the neighbourhood of London and one of the largest in the kingdom." Business continued by his sons John (1766-1808) and Thomas (c. 1773-1810) and son-in-law, John Willmott (1775-1834). Closed as Willmott and Chaundy in 1860. Trans. London Middlesex Archaeol. Soc. v.24. 1973,189. J. Harvey Early Nurserymen 1974. 89. B Henrey Br. Bot. Hort. Literature v.2. 1975, 386.

1997 Hither Green 'The Forgotten Hamlet' Godfrey Smith - LLSC

'The nursery of Willmott and Chaundy, the largest in the south of England, was founded in Lewisham by Henry Corbett in 1736 and greatly expanded by John Russell in about 1760. After Russell's death in 1794 the business was continued by his two sons John Russell junior (1766-1808) and Thomas Russell (c1773-1810) together with their brother-in-law John Willmott (1775-1834). The business then became known as 'John Willmott & Co' and finally 'Willmott and Chaundy'. In 1822, the nursery employed 70 men and its grounds occupied some 150 acres.'

1997 Hither Green 'The Forgotten Hamlet' Godfrey Smith - LLSC
	'At an auction held at the 'Lion and the Lamb' in Lewisham in April 1802, about 950 oak trees were offered for sale. The land was then leased to Thomas Bunnett of Songley Lodge, under agreement that he would clear the site for farmland in two stages during 1803 and 1804. It was later leased to Willmott and Chaundy as nursery and eventually became part of North Park farm.'

Lewisham Nursery Timeline - LLSC

John Russell (1730-1794) married Elizabeth and had four children:

1810 Gentleman's Magazine 3rd September 1810 Death Notices: - LLSC
	At the Nursery, Lewisham, aged 74, Mrs Russell

• John (1766-1808)

  1808 Gentleman's Magazine 23rd August 1808 Death Notices: - LLSC
  	In his 42nd year Mr. John Russell, of Lewisham, Kent.

  
  Monumental Inscription in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Lewisham - Number 201
  
  

• Martha (1768-1785)

• Catherine (1769-1802)

  Catherine married John Willmott in 1802, she died later the same year. John Willmott then married Ann Nunn (1779-1854).
  
  

  1802 Gentleman's Magazine 16th September 1802 Death Notices: - LLSC
  	At Lewisham, Kent, the wife of Mr. John Willmott.

  
  

• Thomas (1777-1810)

  1810 Gentleman's Magazine 22nd November 1810 Death Notices: - LLSC
  	At the Nursery, Lewisham, after ten years dreadful affliction of the gout, in his 38th year, Thos. Russell, esq.