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Thomas Warren buys the Browne Family’s Long Street Farm

Posted on June 1, 2025May 31, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from the Indenture of Bargain & Sale 5 November 1819 William Ripper Coe & Others to Thomas Warren & his TrusteeCourtesy David & Julia Matthews From 1724 to at least 1819, the Browne family owned and occupied a farm at the northern end of Long Street. Much later, the farm became known as ‘Broadmarsh…

Jeremiah Warren inherits Broadmarsh Farm

Posted on June 1, 2025May 31, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

1960s Long Street. The old thatched farmhouse of Broadmarsh Farm is visible to the top of the photograph. Fir Tree Farm is the white cottage to the right (as facing the photograph) Courtesy Michelle Baron Jeremiah Warren was born in Great Ellingham. He was the eldest of three children of William Kiddle Warren and his…

William Day, formerly of Great Ellingham

Posted on September 1, 2024September 1, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

The edition of the Bury & Norwich Post of Tuesday 15th June, 1869, included the following death notice: On the 8th instant, aged one year, the infant son of the late Mr William Day of Eye, Suffolk, formerly of Great Ellingham I endeavoured to find more information about this infant and his father, William Day….

Henry Norton’s Messuages along the main road to Rocklands

Posted on July 1, 2023October 7, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Rookery Farm is a substantial property approached by a short drive from the Watton Road, near to the border with Rocklands. Indeed a very small portion of the land belonging to the farm once crossed the parish boundary into Rocklands. Perhaps this is still the case today.  Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition….

William J Norton brings his Great Grandfather’s Trust to an End

Posted on July 1, 2023October 7, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

At the turn of the 19th century, Henry Norton was one of three significant landowners in Great Ellingham. Like the other notable proprietors, Norton did not live in the village. Henry Norton completes his Purchase from Turner On the 6th November, 1790, Henry Norton completed his purchase of two farms with a considerable amount of…

Transportation for ‘Respectable-looking Farmer’

Posted on August 1, 2020December 7, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

The edition of The Northern Star of March 31st, 1849 reported on the cases heard at the Norwich Assizes on March 27th. One such case was that of William Kiddle Warren, described as a ‘respectable-looking farmer‘, who pleaded guilty to two charges of forgery. Warren had forged two bills of exchange (otherwise known as promissory…

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