Savory’s eldest daughter, Cynthia, gets a brief mention in connection with a coal club:
When we introduced a coal club for the villagers, with the idea of buying several trucks at lowest cash price, collecting their contributions week by week during the previous summer, when good wages were being earned, and delivering the coal gratis in my carts shortly before winter, they seemed very doubtful as to the advantage of joining. Some saw the advantage at once, knowing the high prices of single half-tons or hundredweights delivered in coal-merchants’ carts; others would “let us know in a day or two”, wanted time to consider the matter, being taken “unawares”; others, assured that nobody would undertake such a troublesome business without an eye to personal profit, but anxious not to offend my daughter, who was visiting each cottage, replied: “Oh yes, miss, if ‘tis to do you any good”! Eventually, however, they were all satisfied and very grateful, appreciating the fact that the cartage was not charged for, and hat they were getting much better coal than before at a lower price.
Cynthia Mildred Savory was born at Aldington Manor on 16th October 1874, the only child of Arthur Herbert Savory, tenant farmer, and his first wife, Frances Matilda (née Cowper). She was baptized at St James’ Church, Badsey, on 15th November 1874.
Cynthia was aged almost nine when her mother died in October 1883. Two years later, her father married again and Georgina Ford Poulton became her step-mother. Half-siblings, Christopher Arthur Francis and Dorothy Joyce were born in 1886 and 1891. Cynthia was educated at West Heath School, Ham, Surrey, which was where she was at the time of the 1891 census.
Cynthia married Charles Selwyn Martin, a fruit farm manager, on 29th January 1902 at Badsey; a detailed wedding report appeared in The Evesham Journal. Her parents had recently left Aldington for Hampshire. They had two children.
Cynthia died at Axminster, Devon, on 31st July 1962, aged 87.