When George Cady’s brother William died in the February of 1790, George inherited his brother’s real estate in Great Ellingham. This land and property had once belonged to the brothers’ father, Thomas Cady. The black dot on the above extract from the 1802 Great Ellingham Inclosure Map shows the position of Cady’s property in Bow…
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William Cady inherits Property in Bow Street
On the death of his father, Thomas Cady, in 1764, William Cady inherited all his father’s real estate in Great Ellingham. This included: one acre of land lying in Great Ellingham between the lands late of Issac Harvey before that James Harvey in part towards the west and the lands now or late of George…
Thomas Cady’s Purchase of Premises in Bow Street
Extract Mortgage Deed 8th August 1751 Thomas Cady to John Oddin. Courtesy Roger Banks Holly Croft Farm is one of the delightful older properties in Bow Street. The origins of this charming farmhouse may be as early as the seventeenth century – if not earlier. In this blog, we look at Thomas Cady and his…
1731 Warren & Thurlow Mortgage Property in the street called Engate
History of a Small Farm in Bow Street This is one of a series of blogs which tells the history of a small farm in Bow Street, Great Ellingham. We begin at 1731. Mortgage Extract from the 1731 Indenture of Mortgage between Ann Warren, Thomas Thurlow & John Amyas. Courtesy Roger Banks On the 13th…
John Whellum inherits his Uncle’s Bow Street Farm
At the time of his death in 1870, Great Ellingham born William Wretham owned several freehold and leasehold properties in Norwich, including his home in Paragon Street, Norwich. Extract from Second Edition, 1906. Norfolk, sheet LXXXV S.W. Courtesy Ray & Maureen Beales Wretham also owned a modest farm (or smallholding) in Bow Street, which he…