Answer: 1007: Hendry, Madocks House, Wareside (Hertfordshire Genealogy)

Mardocks House, Wareside, 19th century

April, 2016

Clare writes: I'm hoping you can help me with identifying a building/location stated on a death cert I have for my gt gt gt grandfather.

Robert Hendry, servant, age 55, died 17th Sept 1848, Mardocks House, Wareside.

The Manor of Martocks or Mardocks goes back to medieval times. The manor house was near Mardocks Mill and was rebuilt in 1814 by George Proctor. From 1818 to 1824 it was occupied by Sir James Macintosh who was a professor at Haileybury College. In 1826 the manor was sold to Dr Abraham Wilkinson who lived there for a short time before letting it to William Tugwell Robins, solicitor who left in 1835 to be followed by Edward Downs and subsequently by Captain Moorson. Then the house was then unoccupied for some time and was demolished in 1863.

The 1846 Trade Directory for Herts lists Edwards Downs at Mardocks House and the 1841 census gave the following occupants, including Robert Hendry.

Edward	Downs	Male	46	Solicitor
Philippa	Downs	Female	40
Philippa	Downs	Female	15
Ann	Downs	Female	13
Harietta	Downs	Female	12
Frances	Foster	Female	35	Independent
James	Baikie	Male	75	Independent
William	Pargiter	Male	40	Male Servant
Letitia	Pargiter	Female	50	Female Servant
Robert	Hendrey	Male	46	Male Servant
John	More	Male	43	Male Servant
Thomas	Copcoat	Male	24	Male Servant
Eliza	Hart	Female	27	Female Servant
Eliza	Hart	Female	26	Female Servant
Mary	Parnell	Female	34	Female Servant

Isabella	Moorson	Wife	Married	42	Civil Engineers Wife	-
Isabella	Moorson	Daughter	Unmarried	18	Daur	Cosgrove, Northamptonshire
Charles	Moorson	Son	-	13	Scholar	Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Henry	Moorson	Son	-	11	Scholar	Worcestershire
Constantine	Moorson	Son	-	9	Scholar	Worcestershire
Rosalie	Moorson	Daughter	-	6	Scholar At Home	London
Maitland	Moorson	Son	-	4	Scholar At Home	London
Letitia	Pargiter	Servant	Married	65	House Serv	Wiltshire
Ann	Pellew	Servant	Unmarried	30	House Serv	Cosgrove, Northamptonshire
Mary Ann	Thatcher	Servant	Unmarried	23	House Serv	Surrey
Emma	Hitcock	Servant	Unmarried	18	House Serv	London, Middlesex
Eliza	Chapman	Servant	Unmarried	24	House Serv	Ware, Hertfordshire
William	Pargiter	Servant	Married	52	Bailiff & C	Thornton, Buckinghamshire
William	Rough	Servant	Unmarried	53	Groom	Cornwall
George	Green	Servant	-	16	House Serv	Norfolk
John	Hunt	Servant	Unmarried	21	Serv	Ware, Hertfordshire

As I have found a reference to Edward Downes being at Mardox House in 1849 and the youngest Moorson children were born in London it is very likely that Robert Hendry died while working for Edward Downs. There is no reference to Robert's death in the Herts Mercury of 23 September 1848, but as a servant his death would not normally have merited a mention.