32 King Henry's Road, Lewes






"Roseneath" aka "Fulta" first occupied: 1901

Owners & Occupiers:
1901 Census: "Roseneath"
George L[eigh] Blake (56) Church of England Clergyman; his wife Florence A[melia] Blake (41) and their children Florence M[ary] (10), George G L (8), Dorothea F (6) and Thomas P[atrick] H (4 months); three servants: Ellen Ayling (25) a housemaid from Burton, Ruth Lower (39) a cook, from Iford, and Edith Batchelor (29) a nurse, from Lewes. By 1911 Rev'd Blake & family had moved to Steyning.

Will: Florence Amelia Blake of 28 Priory Road, West Hampstead, Middx. d.13.04.1937. Probate to Dorothea Frances Maclagan (wife of Philip Douglas Maclagan) & Christopher Gorham Sturt stockjobber. Effects £6,515 9s 6d
Will: Rev'd George Leigh Blake of 20 Redcliffe Square. Middx. Clerk [in Holy Orders] d.21.05.1919.....Probate to Florence Amelia Blake widow & Headley Faithfull Norris solicitor. Effects £6,669 6s 1d

1911 Census: "Fulta" named for a village 'Phulta' in India
Frederick William Keighley (62) private means (British Subject b. Nagpore, India); his wife Frances Lucy Keighley (34: maiden surname Baster) "married for less than a year" [1910]; his children: Silvie de Grasse Keighley (27), Frederick Walter Keighley (18); two servants: Caroline Hobbs (20) a cook, from Piltdown, and her sister Cissiline Hobbs (14) a housemaid.

Will: Frederick William Keighley of Wymondley Lodge, 8 Adelaide Road, Leamington Spa, died 04.01.1937 [aged 88 b.1849]. Probate to Sylvie de Grasse Keighley spinster and William Arthur Coleman solicitor. Effects £15,537 16s 8d.
FWK presumably retired, when he lived in King Henry's Road, but formerly a photographer, who had a studio in Putney, London. in the 1890s. Source:
New York Public Library, Photographers' Identities C.atalog.

Will: Frances Lucy Keighley of 58 Tierney Road, Streatham, London, widow, d.13.07.1957 [aged 80 b.1877] at 28 Sedgecombe Avenue, Wembley. Probate to Frank Leslie Buckland Jones insurance manager. Effects £1,597 4s 7d.

Frederick William Keighley m. Jane Mary de Pau 1882/1 Fulham; his age 33, her age 34; Jane Mary Keighley d.1886/3 in Steyning aged 38. FKW m.
possibly Fanny Alice Arnold 1889/1 Islington.

Electoral Roll & Kelly's Directory:
1915: H S Staines
1927-38: Brigadier Wynter
Family ??: Henry Douglas Wynter; his wife Ethel May (nee White); his sons: Philip John Maunsell Wynter (15) Dudley A Wynter (6)

Will: Dudley Arthur Wynter of 2A Hartfield Road, Seaford d. 13.01.1989. Effects: £72,290

1921 Census: Francis A Wynter (50) HM Army retired [Brigadier General]; his wife Millicent Wynter (28); their children: Annette (18 months) and Dudley (1 month);
three servants: Huldah Page (36) a nurse from Southborough, Kent; Edith Wilson (21) a cook from Falmer; Winifred Godley (16) a housemaid from Guernsey.

NB Wynter family names here do not tie up......
Wynter Francis A[rthur] b. 1870 [RGO 1870/3 Hartley Wintney (Hampshire) 2c 173] and d.1942 aged 71 [RGO 1942/1 Fulham 1a 445]. m. firstly either Adele Brenda Colls or Elizabeth Catharine Ramsay [RGO 1906/3 Marylebone 1a 1348]; secondly in 1919 Millicent J Smith [RGO 1919/3 St Martin 1a 1640].

1923: Lewes Borough Council: building control plans DL/A/25/534 record an application for additions to "Fulta" for Brigadier General Wynter.
For a detailed biography of the life & times of Lieutenant General Henry Douglas Wynter see: Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.16 2002
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wynter-henry-douglas-12083
One of his two sons can be found lodging at No.30 in 1939.

1939 Register: Charles F[rederick] Russell (79) Farmer & Director: [a relative of Albion Russell?]; his wife Elizabeth J Russell (65), Eunice E Russell (46) an invalid; one record officially closed (possibly a servant)
CFR was Chairman of Ringmer Parish Council from 1925-1934. He was then living at Lower lodge Farm.
Will: Charles Frederick Russell, of Fulta, King Henry's Road, Lewes, d. 07.11.1947 [aged 87] in Lewes Victoria Hospital. [b.1860 Eastbourne] Probate to [his sons?] Frederick Percy Russell & Reginald Russell, farmers, & Harold Montagu Blaker, Solicitor. Effects £51,729 6s.
Will: Elizabeth Jane Russell, of Southerham Farm, Lewes, [b. 1874] d.21.12.1953 in Lewes [aged 79]. Probate to Olive May Norris (wife of Francis Philip Norris) Effects £3,759 15s 9d.