Mill House, Mill and Cottage at Great Ellingham. Photograph courtesy of Attleborough Heritage Group Purchase On the 12th October, 1854, Samuel Le Grice purchased a tower windmill and other premises at Great Ellingham from Jeremiah Fielding. Le Grice paid the sum of £825 for the mill, a nearby messuage with baking office, barns, stables, outbuildings,…
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Jeremiah Fielding sells Windmill & Emigrates
Mill House which replaced an earlier dwelling with the Mill behind. Postcard postmarked 1905. Tower Windmill made from Local Bricks The brick tower windmill standing in what is now Church Street, Great Ellingham, was erected by Jeremiah Fielding c.1849. The bricks were made locally at the brick kiln in Hingham Road. It has also been…
Great Ellingham born James Buck dies in Fakenham
Aged 65, retired miller, James Buck, died at Fakenham in 1892, some 25 miles from his birthplace of Great Ellingham. Early Life A son of Benjamin Buck and his wife Frances (neé Flowers), James was born c.1817. He spent his early life in Great Ellingham. The 1841 census captures James (already working as a miller)…
Two Houses, Baking Office, Yard & Garden
Widow Mary Barnard’s Claim Amongst widow Mary Barnard’s claim to the Commissioners for the Inclosures of Great Ellingham in 1799, was: One cottage occupied by James Webster and William Barnard and One Messuage occupied by John Wilkins and Sarah Coe I believe that the messuage (i.e. a dwellinghouse, outbuildings and land), was at that time…
Last Miller to Occupy the Post Mill?
Where was the Post Mill? Extract from 1802 Map of Great Ellingham. Original held at Norfolk Record Office. Russell James Colman Plans. Cat. Ref. C/Ca 1/84. With kind permission of NRO The above extract from an 1802 map shows the position of the Post Mill in Mill Lane, Great Ellingham. The map also clearly shows…
Pursuit from London to Great Ellingham
Was Great Ellingham baker, Charles Thilthorpe, surprised to find his son John and his daughter in law on his door-step in Great Ellingham on a Saturday late in October, 1803? Perhaps John Thilthorpe told his father that the visit was long over-due and he thought it time he and his wife paid him a visit….
1685: Anthony Beales sells his Windmill to John Browne
The brick built Windmill, Great Ellingham built in the 1840s. Photograph courtesy of Attleborough Heritage Group Since the 1600s, Great Ellingham has had at least three windmills at various times. The tower of the brick built Windmill, which was erected in the late 1840s, is still visible in the village today. The Statement of Claims…
Charles & Frances Thilthorpe survived only by their daughter Thomasin
Marriage and Children Charles Thilthorpe arrived in Great Ellingham with his wife Frances (neé Bunkall) sometime after their marriage in Watton on 11th October, 1772. Baptisms for at least eight children of Charles and Frances Thilthorpe appear in the Great Ellingham Parish Registers between 1774 and 1785. One entry confirms that Frances was formerly spinster…