Trustee and Overseer An application to the Charity Comissioners of 1873 by the Trustees of the Great Ellingham Fuel Allotment Charity refers to Charles Rivett as being one of the Trustees of the Charity. Charles Rivett was also one of two Overseers of the Poor for the Parish. James Beatson being the other. Local Man…
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The Approval of the Fuel Charity Scheme
Fuel Allotments White’s Directory of 1845 mentions that the Fuel Allotments comprising 54 acres 1 rood and 34 perches were awarded at the time of the inclosures of Great Ellingham in c.1799. The land produced an annual income from lettings of £90. The Particulars and Valuation for Great Ellingham undertaken by the Commissioners at the…
Mill House Partly Destroyed by Fire
Mill House with the Mill behind. Postcard postmarked 1905. Newspaper Report The Norfolk News of Saturday, 6th August 1904, reported on the fire which occurred at the Mill House at Great Ellingham the previous Thursday. The Mill House, built of clay with a thatched roof with a combined bake-office, was partly destroyed before the arrival…
A Marriage Uniting Two Long-Established Families of the Village
The marriage of Francis Houchen and Matilda Dey at the Church of St James Great Ellingham on 5th January 1843, joined together two long- established families of the village of Great Ellingham. Houchen The name Houchen (also found as Howchin, Houchin) appears in the Great Ellingham parish registers from at least 1698, although no entries…
Death of Walter Edward Rivett aged 21 years
The Deaths reported in the Norfolk Chronicle & Norwich Gazette of 21st April, 1894, include the death at Great Ellingham of Walter Edward Rivett son of Frederick and the late Mary Ann Rivett “surviving his mother only a few days“. He was 21 years old. Memorial to Walter Edward Rivett and his brother Ernest William…
Jonathan Rivett – Charge of Furious Driving
Illustration by Christine Fuller 1866 Court Appearance Jonathan Rivett of Great Ellingham appeared before the East Dereham Magistrates in the June of 1866. He pleaded guilty to a charge of driving a horse and cart furiously along Swan Lane in East Dereham on the 1st June. Rivett was fined £1 with costs of 8s. The…