Belton-in-Rutland, near Uppingham

Belton, near Uppingham in the county of Rutland was a second home to Fleming R.D.A. Gough and his wife Cecil Clare Gough.

Thank you to Audrey Walker of the Belton-in-Rutland History Society for the photographs from her great uncle's scrapbook, and for further information about the Goughs in Belton House.

Belton House, looking North.

Belton House, Belton-in-Rutland

When Cecil Clare Gough died at Belton House in 1936 the local newspaper referred to her as a local resident for 53 years, which would put Colonel and Mrs Gough's earliest stays in the area around 1883.

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Belton House, near Uppingham, Rutland

Colonel and Mrs Gough were known as the chief employers in the village of Belton (now Belton-in-Rutland) and employed a variety of cooks, grooms, gardeners etc. As census data shows, they also brought with them in-house servants from their properties in Wales.

A photograph of the gardeners of Belton House

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Online Resources for Historians & Genealogists

Belton-in-Rutland History Society
www.beltoninrutlandhistory.org

Ynyscedwyn Estate Papers (held at West Glamorgan Archive Service)
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/95dd982a-7943-30b7-83bc-e615e82f6ba5

Dictionary of Welsh Biography
https://biography.wales/