Woodley of Bentfield End, Stansted Mountfitchet (Oct 04 Red)
Matthew Woodley, a farmer and maltster, inherited the cottages at Bentfield End, Stansted Mountfitchet, including Bentfield Bower, from his father Matthew. He owned them up until his death in 1858. His brother, John Woodley, and brother-in-law, Henry Burrows, then disposed of lands by sale to John's son Matthew Fuller Woodley who is living there in the 1861 census. The surrounding lands were owned in 1847 by Robert Gosling, a future relative by marriage, as Matthew Fuller Woodleys daughter Winifred Mary marries Francis William Gosling about 1890. Matthew Woodley senior had many children: William, Mary, Matthew, John, Catherine, Sarah, Thomas, Eliza and Letitia. They married into the associated names.