Julia
Oryndia Nicholson née Griffits born 1839
Aveling
Lodge, believed to have stood in Aveling Road
I
moved across from Lambeth way,
I’d
cousins here you see,
And
when my husband passed away
They
meant a lot to me.
My
Henry died quite young poor dear,
From
a mushroom which he ate,
A
man from Kent , and not from here,
And only thirty eight!
And
yet he’d fathered thirteen babes,
Eleven
that survived,
For
us he worked and also saved
Which
helped us with our lives,
So
Aveling Lodge became my home,
My
daughters by my side,
And
though, myself, am not well known
My
girls are Wycombe’s pride.
Julia
Oryndia Nicholson was a Griffits by birth.
She was the granddaughter of John Griffits the saddler in
Queen
Square and niece of James Olliff Griffits. She married Henry
Nicholson from Kent who was a tax inspector. They had 13
children. Lena Nicholson married Albert Taplin, Mabel
Nicholson married Richard Treacher and Elsie
Nicholson married Charles Arthur Skull.
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