The truth is out there. Some people look for it on the
Society's website.
Nowadays such enquiries tend to be passed to me in the hope
that my research into Taplow's history might have dug up a relevant
relic. All will be revealed in my book but here are a couple of queries
to chew on.
If you have more or better information, please let me know on 01628
661636 or
cazanig@aol.com
Nigel Smales
Christina Rawlings has been in New Zealand since 1966. She is trying to
find her husband Trevor's twin cousins who were born to his uncle
Ronald Prince in Taplow on 14th November 1948 within half an hour of
Prince Charles.
I wondered if these 'Taplow Twins' made their début at Cliveden
Hospital but my researches failed to find anything about them. As it
turns out, that's no surprise because the family name was wrong.
Maidenhead Library discovered that Christopher and Lynne were born in
Windsor to Joan & Thomas Calcott who lived at 'Fairlawn' in Marsh Lane.
Does anyone recall them?
James Hatch now lives on Vancouver Island in Canada's far west. He
keeps in touch with his childhood roots in Cookham's Widbrook Cottage
by running a blog called Historical Cookham at
widbrook2.blogspot.com
His query concerned an 1852 map which indicates that the Earl of Orkney
lived at Cliveden View in the middle of Widbrook Common.
This would have been Thomas FitzMaurice, 5th Earl of Orkney, who
inherited not only his grandmother's title in 1831 but also her parlous
financial plight. Consequently in 1852 he became the man who sold
Taplow. The auction of 40 lots (plus three more nearby) raised
£102,415. The Orkneys had for many years also owned bits of Berkshire,
one of which it seems was this Widbrook house from which perhaps he
gazed forlornly at his erstwhile estates in Taplow.
