Harry Rix’s Business CardCourtesy Elizabeth Neil Henry Charles Rix was born on the 21st December, 1892, in Barton Turf, Norfolk. He was the eldest of three children of Henry Robert Rix and his wife Mary Elizabeth nèe London. Henry Charles was known to the family as ‘Harry’. Harry’s mother died on the 5th January, 1897….
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Harry & Hester Rix’s Guest during WWII
Harry & Hester Rix. c.1940sCourtesy Elizabeth Neil The Great Ellingham Invasion Committee Records of 1942 lists Henry Charles (aka Harry) Rix and his wife Hester living in Attleborough Road. At the time, Harry Rix is not far off his 50th birthday and Hester is a couple of years older. Harry Rix’s Identity Card stamped 26…
Thomas Rix buried in the Grave of his first Wife
White House Farm, Long Street, Great EllinghamCourtesy Justin Wilkins From Great Dunham to Great Ellingham It may well have been around 1839 that Thomas and Elizabeth Rix moved from Great Dunham to Great Ellingham. Thomas Rix purchased White House Farm, which included several acres of arable land. Marriage Prior to moving to the village, Thomas…
Widow Eliza Rix marries her Lodger William Kerrison
Eliza Rix was 33 years old when her husband Thomas Rix died at the age of 76 in February, 1870. The couple had been married nearly 17 years during which time Eliza had given birth to 7 known children. Sadly, Thomas and Eliza’s youngest child (and only son), Benjamin Robert, died at just one year…
George & Louisa Edwards both die from Phthisis
According to Simon Willis in his book ‘How our Ancestors Died‘, at least one in six people died of tuberculosis during the Victorian period. Tuberculosis was also known as phthisis as well as consumption. My own family (as well as those families living in Great Ellingham), were no exception in being affected by this disease….
The Tragic Life and Death of Anna Eliza Rix
There is no doubt that life can be arduous and hard. At the turn of the 20th century, every day life for some of the people in Great Ellingham was no exception. A fair few families found themselves living in squalid conditions. Others suffered the loss of loved ones – the ‘breadwinner‘, the ‘house-keeper’ or…
Former Copyhold Medieval Manor Hall House becomes Freehold
We left Part II of the story of the former Medieval Manor Hall House in Church Street at the death of Daniel William Cocking Warren on the 17th July, 1908. F W Neeve’s Shop in Church Street. Courtesy Carol Ewin 63 years earlier, Daniel Warren (then a child) inherited the former manor hall house (and…
Messuage built upon the tenement Greenhouse – Part IV
Semi-detached cottages (once referred to as the ‘Messuage built upon the tenement Greenhouse’) with adjoining cottages on the right. Corner of Chequers Lane/Long Street & Church Street. Postcard courtesy Carol Ewin The Story of the Owners and Occupiers of the House In Parts I, II and III, I have taken the history of this delightful…
Increase & Decline in the Population of Great Ellingham in the 19th Century
Increase At the beginning of the 19th century, and over a period of 30 years, the population of Great Ellingham gradually increased from 655 in 1801 to 882 in 1831. Decrease However, save for a small increase in the populace in 1871, there began a steady decline in the population over the next 70 years….
Farmhouse later known as White House Farm
Church Path Before it was ‘put by and discontinued‘ by the Great Ellingham Inclosure Act of 1799, a footway known as Church Path, which began in the centre of the village, concluded at an inclosure called ‘Green Way’, near to what was then (or later to become) Shrugg’s Lane which itself crossed Long Street. Extract…