I'm Hoping To Trace Family Information

A Memory of High Wycombe.

I'm sorry that I have no personal memories to share about High Wycombe, but I've been building up my family history for years and have found that a family member lived either at Frogmoor Gardens and/or at Loakes House around 1897. She was Caroline Scott, married to Jonathon Gortley Scott, she being born on the island of Mauritius, the daughter of James Duncan (my great-great-grandfather, who was responsible for restoring the Royal Botanical Gardens at Pamplemousse between 1849 and 1874 after Britain took over Mauritius from France. James was responsible for greatly expanding the botanical specimens at Kew Gardens from his plant collecting in the Seychelles.

Both Jonathon and Caroline had been previously married: Jonathon to Ann Roe with whom he had 3 children and Caroline to Hubert James Coombs with whom she had a daughter, Laura Sarah Coombs, born in 1860. Jonathon and Caroline has a daughter together called Lorna ETHEL Scott who later married Arthur Plummer and had two daughters, Lilian and May, so the Scott family in High Wycombe probably had up to 5 children ranging in ages from 40 down to about 12 and maybe a few toddlers later on.

I have no idea how long the Scott family lived in High Wycombe, and it's possible that my great-grandmother, Frances-Maria Duncan, lived there during her final days up to 1913, having moved there from Calne in Wilts.

If anyone from High Wycombe knows anything of the history of Frogmoor Gardens and Loakes House from the period 1870 until WW1 (and beyond) and of the Jonathon Scott family, I would be so grateful to hear from them - or even if someone can point me in the direction of where I could find such information. My email address is temble5@yahoo.com.sg. Thank you.

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