Thank you to Janet Yuill (Bowsher) for sharing the history of Froude Bakers in Newbury Street
Frederick Froude was born April 1st 1868 in Eddington, near Hungerford.
He trained as a Baker up in Islington, London and that is where he met and married his wife Alice Maude Mary Sellwood born 1874 Holloway Middlesex. They married in Wood Green in 1893.
While living in Hornsby, London, Frederick became his own master Baker and hired Agnes Sellwood, Alice’s younger sister.
Alice’s sister Agnes met and married Reginald Ernest Bowsher known as Ernest Bowsher, long time organist for Lambourn church and Methodist chapel.
By 1911 Frederick and Alice had moved to Hungerford where Frederick briefly switched trades as a water Bailiff in Hungerford.
The following year Frederick and Alice have moved to Lambourn with their 4 children. Living in Newbury street where Frederick has his own bakery, his Eldest daughter Maud Alice Froude married Harry James Busby who’s own father was a baker and confectioner.
The fact that grandfather Froude tried to outdo the other grandfather Busby by appearing at my mothers house which was South View, 30 Newbury street, just around the corner from the bakery. It caused some considerable friction.
Whatever the season was they would end up with double trays of Hot cross Buns, or some other wonderful creation that either one could conjure up.
Frederick must have been in ill health by 1931 as he had retired with Alice to Limes Farm Upper Lambourn and passed away in 1932. Alice moved into South view where she passed away in 1937.
Frederick and Alice had 3 girls and 1 boy. The son Frederick Vincent moved away and was employed by the Great Western Railway. He married twice but had no children. So that was the end of the line of Froude from that particular limb of our tree.
This is their well known plot in the older Upper Lambourn Cemetery
Liz Beard 2021
