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| | John Mattock of Headington, Oxford |
 | | The first John Mattock to settle in Headington was born at Steeple Ashton in Wiltshire in 1838, and he and his wife originally settled nearby in Bath, where their three sons were born (John Robert Mattock in 1864, William in 1867, and George in 1869). |
 | | Mattock's wife Harriett came from Swimbridge in Devon, but her sister had married Joseph Lovatt, a grocer in the Croft in Old Headington, and this may well have encouraged them in 1871 to move from Bath to Headington. |
 | | Mattock started off as a servant gardener to the Davenport family of Davenport House, but by 1873 had set up his own business, and an 1876 directory for Headington lists him as a "tea dealer, gardener and florist" at Bath Buildings in Silman's Row. |
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