 By the rights of marriage that applied at that time, the property formally passed to her husband for the duration of his life.The couple decided to live at both addresses, and split their lives between the villages of Cheshunt and their second home in Stoke Newington.Upon the title passing to Lady Mary and Sir Thomas Abney, she began to complete her late brother's new manor house at Abney Park; it was later known as 'Abney House.'