Ursula Joan Gregoryb: 29 JUL 1896
d: 17 JUL 1959
Alan Ray-Jones wrote:
I remember Cousin Ursula at Bassetts near Little Baddow, Essex as someone who looked very old fashioned though she was only 51 in 1947 when I was 17. She had her hair in a bun and wore steel rimmed spectacles on the tip of her nose. Bassetts seemed a grand house, of brick with numerous tall brick chimneys. As a student architect I had to do a measured drawings project and I chose to measure the house - not an easy subject, but interesting. As I remember it Cousin Ursula was the only person living there, with perhaps a housekeeper. Everything was in its proper place, clean and well done. On the pear tree each pear hung in its own individual bag to keep it from the wasps, and delicious china tea with lemon was served in exquisitely thin porcelain cups. Miss Hathaway has something of Cousin Ursula, though unlike the former the latter was always very kind and friendly, though formal. It seemed that she was too well off to need any kind of paid occupation.
She sold Bassetts in about 1952.
It was in the road outside Bassetts that I first found a hornets nest.
Phil says that there was a big collection of Jack Gregory books at Bassets.
I remember Cousin Ursula at Bassetts near Little Baddow, Essex as someone who looked very old fashioned though she was only 51 in 1947 when I was 17. She had her hair in a bun and wore steel rimmed spectacles on the tip of her nose. Bassetts seemed a grand house, of brick with numerous tall brick chimneys. As a student architect I had to do a measured drawings project and I chose to measure the house - not an easy subject, but interesting. As I remember it Cousin Ursula was the only person living there, with perhaps a housekeeper. Everything was in its proper place, clean and well done. On the pear tree each pear hung in its own individual bag to keep it from the wasps, and delicious china tea with lemon was served in exquisitely thin porcelain cups. Miss Hathaway has something of Cousin Ursula, though unlike the former the latter was always very kind and friendly, though formal. It seemed that she was too well off to need any kind of paid occupation.
She sold Bassetts in about 1952.
It was in the road outside Bassetts that I first found a hornets nest.
Phil says that there was a big collection of Jack Gregory books at Bassets.
- 29 JUL 1896 - Birth -
- 17 JUL 1959 - Death -
- 1914 - Fact -
| PARENT (M) John Walter (Jack) Gregory , F.R.S., D.Sc. Lond | |||
| Birth | 27 JAN 1864 | Bow, London, UK | |
| Death | 1932 | Drowned in rapids of Urubamba River, near Megantomi Falls, Northern Peru. Memorial in Woodham Walter Church, Essex | |
| Marriage | JUN 1895 | to Adriana (Audrey) Chaplin | |
| Father | John James Gregory | ||
| Mother | Jane Lewis | ||
| PARENT (F) Adriana (Audrey) Chaplin | |||
| Birth | 26 APR 1872 | ||
| Death | 15 DEC 1945 | Woodham Walter, Essex (at Bassetts, part of which is in Woodham Walter and part in Little Baddow) | |
| Marriage | JUN 1895 | to John Walter (Jack) Gregory , F.R.S., D.Sc. Lond | |
| Father | Ayrton Chaplin , Rev | ||
| Mother | Edith Elizabeth Pyne | ||
| CHILDREN | |||
| F | Ursula Joan Gregory | ||
| Birth | 29 JUL 1896 | ||
| Death | 17 JUL 1959 | ||
| M | Christopher John (Kit) Gregory | ||
| Birth | 11 JUL 1900 | ||
| Death | 1977 | Little Baddow, Essex | |
| Marriage | 30 APR 1932 | to Marion Eastty Black at Woodham Walter Church | |