Robert Brooke (c.1757-1829) Robert Brooke of Great Ellingham died in March 1829. He was 73 years old, a bachelor, and a yeoman i.e. a farmer owning a reasonable amount of property and land, but not sufficient to be classed as ‘gentry’. Variations of Name During my research, I have found that this family’s surname ‘Brooke‘…
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Samuel Le Grice’s Ownership of the Mill
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,…
James & Alice Sadd of White House Farm
Bill Note dated June 18th, 1922. James Sadd of White House Farm, Great Ellingham. Author’s own collection James and Alice Sadd came to White House Farm in Long Street in 1902, probably not long after their marriage which took place earlier that year. The 1911 census captures 32 year old James Sadd with his 31…
Church Farmhouse and Nearby Cottages
Church Farmhouse was built in the early eighteenth century. A Grade II Listed Building, the property is of a similar age to nearby Glenfield Cottage (on the Attleborough Road), but it is later in age to Islay House (Orchard House) which stands along the same street in Great Ellingham. Farmhouse owned and occupied by Benjamin…
William Harley
Auction A notice of sales by auction at Great Ellingham appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle of 21st September, 1833. “All the very superior Cart Horses, Colts, Pony, Cows, Young Stock, Agricultural Carriages, Implements, Harness &c and a part of the useful Furniture, the Dairy and Brewing Utensils, &c on the Farming Premises, in the occupation…
House with Barn, Yard and Garden at Bush Green
Extract from an 18th century Map. Stalland and Bush Green Commons, Great Ellingham. Original held at Norfolk Record Office. Catalgoue Ref NRO, MC 2213/116. With kind permission of NRO The above extract from an eighteenth century map, shows the position of a house (or rather a cottage) with a barn, yard and garden at Bush…
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…
Chequers Public House
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Chequers Public House was owned by Mary Warren. Mary also occupied the Chequers her husband, William Warren. An Abstract of Title (extracts of deeds) refer to William Warren as a victualler (a person licensed to sell alcohol) of Great Ellingham. Accordingly, I think it is reasonable to…
Assault by Knocking off a Hat!
Great Ellingham farmer, William Robert Wick Green, appeared before the Magistrates at East Harling in the July of 1869. James Tennant, a miller’s clerk of East Harling, charged William Green with assaulting him by knocking off his hat at Attleborough on the 21st June. Green told the court that he “did it as a joke…
The Whittred Family of Long Street
A Particular Survey of the Parish of Great Ellingham 1817-1819, reveal that John Whittred was the owner and occupier of a House, Barn, Stable, Yard and Garden, as well as numerous parcels of land in Great Ellingham. I know from an earlier Particulars & Valuation undertaken by the Commissioners for the Great Ellingham Inclosures c.1800,…