Andrews Family (Vicars of Hough on the Hill)

Robert Gordon Andrews was the vicar of Hough on the Hill from 1822 to 1842. He also seems to have been the curate 1817-1821, whilst Richard Cust, vicar of Belton, was responsible for Hough.

Robert Gordon Andrews was born in Oxted, Surrey in 1786, the son of Nicholas Andrews and Sarah (nee Castleman).  He  studied at St Johns' College, Oxford, where he received a BA then an MA.  In 1815 he became headmaster of Kings School, Grantham; a post he held until 1837.  

In 1817 he married Jane Elizabeth Wilson (from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire).  In 1841 they were living in Watergate, Grantham.  Robert Gordon died in Grantham in Nov 1842 and was buried in Oxted.  His widow continued to live in Grantham and live off her properties and other funds.  In 1851 she was in Castlegate; in 1861 and 1871 she was back in Watergate (at number 16, next to the Swan and Salmon Inn).  She died in May 1873 and was buried at Manthorpe, leaving over £11,000 in her estate.  Robert Gordon and Jane Elizabeth had the following children in Grantham:

Sarah Mary Andrews, born 1819

John Nicholas Andrews, born 1820

Christopher Robert Andrews, born 1821

Jane Elizabeth Andrews, born 1824

Next Generation (children of Robert Gordon Andrews & Jane Elizabeth Wilson)

Sarah Mary Andrews (b. Grantham 1819) lived with her mother until her (Sarah's) death in 1869, at the age of 50.

John Nicholas Andrews (b. Grantham 1820) was educated at Cambridge University and became (by 1851) the curate of Baston (near Market Deeping), Lincolnshire.  By 1871 he was the rector of Pickworth, Lincs (near Folkingham).  He was still at Pickworth Rectory in 1901.   He died in 1905.

Christopher Robert Andrews (b. Grantham 1821) studied at Emmanuel College, Oxford.  He was awarded his BA in 1840 and was ordained as a deacon in 1844.  He became the curate of Bourne (1844-45), then curate at Manea, Cambridgeshire (1845-55) before being appointed vicar of Hough on the Hill in 1855, a post he held for 45 years.  

He married Mary Anne Mawby (from Bourne) in 1846.  She followed him from Bourne to Manea, then to Hough Vicarage, where she lived until her death in 1891.  The vicar died in Nov 1900.  Two inscribed stained glass windows were installed in Hough Church in his memory (one of which is pictured below).

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christopher and Mary had 9 children:

Mary Elizabeth Charlotte Andrews, born Manea 1847

Sarah Jane Andrews, born Manea 1848   

Isabella Frances Andrews, born Manea 1849

Charlotte Edith Andrews, born Manea 1851

Harriet Clementine Andrews, born Manea 1853

Christopher Gordon Andrews, born Manea1854

Christopher Robert Andrews, born Hough 1858

Ethel Frances Andrews, born Hough 1862

Florence Eleanor Andrews, born Hough 1866

Jane Elizabeth Andrews (b.1824) lived her mother until the latter died in 1873.  In 1881 Jane was living at 1 Church St, Grantham (next to the curate).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3rd Generation (children of Christopher Robert Andrews and Mary Anne Mawby)

Mary Elizabeth Charlotte Andrews (b. Manea 1847) never married, but stayed with the family in Hough. After her father died in 1900 she lived with her married sister Charlotte  at Dunston Vicarage (in 1901).  By 1911 she'd moved to 90 Monks Road in Lincoln where she continued to live on private means.  

Sarah Jane Andrews (b. Manea 1848), like her older sister, never married,but stayed with the family in Hough.  The year after their father died she too was staying with her married sister Charlotte at Dunston Vicarage.   Sarah died in May 1909 at Bengeo, Hertfordshire.

Isabella Frances Andrews (b. Manea 1849) died in Hough, aged 11, in 1861.

Charlotte Edith Andrews (b. Manea 1851) married Stephen Eugene Bourne in 1885.  He was born in Jamaica and had latterly been the curate at Beckingham, Lincs.  They lived at The Vicarage, Dunston, Lincs.    Stephen died 1907.

Harriet Clementine Andrews (b. Manea 1853).  In 1901, after her father's death, Harriet was living (on her own means) with her uncle John Andrews at Pickworth Rectory.   In 1911 she was living with her sister Mary at 90 Monks Road, Lincoln.  

Christopher Gordon Andrews (b. Manea 1854) was christened the day he was born (17 Nov 1854) and died soon afterwards; he may even have been still-born.  It was soon after this that his parents moved to Hough.

Christopher Robert Andrews (b. Hough 1858).  At the age of 12 Christopher was boarding at a school in Appletongate in Newark.  He later attended Keeble College, Oxford, receiving his BA in 1880.   A year later, on 1 May 1881 he died at Blair Lodge, Stirlingshire.  At the time it was a private boarding academy for boys, so perhaps Christopher had started work as a teacher.  His body was brought back for burial at Hough and the early death of the only son clearly had a major impact on the family.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ethel Frances Andrews (b. Hough 1862) married an architect, Arthur Colpoys Wood in 1896.  He'd been born in Ruddington, Notts but had studied in Surrey.  In 1901 they were living in Rotherfield, Sussex. They emigrated to Canada and settled in Toronto in 1922.

Arthur also came from a church family.  His great grandfather, John Bird Sumner, had been Archbishop of Canterbury (1848-1862).  His father, Andrew Wood was the Rector of Great Ponton, having previously been the vicar of Skilington, Lincs. The father became (1910) the Canon of Lincoln Cathedral

Florence Eleanor Andrews (b. Hough 1866).  After their father died, Florence was staying with her married sister Ethel in Rotherfield in 1901, but by 1911 she'd joined Mary and Harriet in the house in Monks Road, Lincoln.