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From Mrs. Dierdre Grant:
My family has long assoication with the town.
My mother was a Miss BUCKWORTH and lived in one of the tall houses at the top of the Market Place in Laurie Square, called Laurie House. She met my father during the First World War. He was from Cheshire and was at an officers Training Corps in one of the big houses in Main Road.
One of her sisters married a WEBSTER. They owned the Norfolk bakery on the corner of London Road and Norfolk Road. The bakery was at the back of the shop. There were other of these small family bakeries in those days. The bakery was in the tall building at the back of the shop.
Another sister married into the DAVIS family who were a sizeable family building firm, owning some property throughout Romford. Their yard was in Mawney Lane, off Mawney Road and London Road. They were also, together with a firm called DOWSING founders of the local Fire Brigade. In the thirties the signal for a fire was two loud bangs (the maroons, I believe) to warn the firemen who would have been going about their regular work.
I am however most interested in gathering some more information about an older branch of the family. I have an elderly uncle, who told me an extraordinary story, which I would like to verify. My maternal grandparents William and Charlotte FULLER are buried in an unmarked grave in Havering-atte-Bower. She died in October 1928. My uncle says that their surname was not FULLER, as I had always beleived but DRINKWATER. A previous generation had farmed land at Collier Row. One day they were caught by the King' s verderer, having killed and were skinning one of the King's deer. This was a hanging offence in those days, so they ran off and disappeared to another part of London to return much later with a different surname. Tales about this branch of the family abound within the family, too numerous to mention here, sufficient to say they were enterprising rogues. This story I would love to know the truth of.
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