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Category: Selth

Francis Parke’s 59 acre Farm in Long Street

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

Discovering House Histories Deeds Title Deeds are one of the best resources when researching the history of a property. Historical deeds will usually include conveyances, mortgages, agreements etc. They may also recite extracts from wills and earlier deeds. Accordingly, title deeds may provide an unbroken chain of ownership through many decades – or even centuries!…

A Series of Indentures conveying Cemetery Farm to John Wiggett

Posted on June 1, 2022May 24, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

It is always satisfying to come across documentation which either backs up or disproves my earlier research. In this case, deeds from 1801 confirm my belief that John Morphew sold his farmhouse in Long Street (later known as the Cemetery Farm) to John Wiggett. But do the legal documents tell us anything else? Conveyancing Documents…

A ‘very desirable small farm’ – The Cemetery Farm

Posted on December 1, 2020October 8, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Appearing in the edition of the Eastern Daily Press of the 7th September, 1948, was the notice of a forthcoming Auction of a ‘very desirable small farm’ in Great Ellingham. ‘The Cemetery Farm’ was said to comprise of a comfortable farmhouse which had two sitting rooms and five bedrooms. It also had a substantial range…

Messuage built of the Tenement Howells at Town Green

Posted on November 1, 2020November 19, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

Elizabeth Barnard, Copyhold Tenant At the Manor Court of Buckenham Close Outsoken on the 13th November, 1793, and following the death of her husband, Elizabeth Barnard was admitted as a copyhold tenant of the same Court for her life under the Will of her husband, James Barnard. The Manor Court Books set out the copyhold…

Smallpox and a Vaccination Court Case

Posted on September 1, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Smallpox in Great Ellingham Amongst the outgoings listed in the Great Ellingham Parish Accounts for the year 1742, are entries for payments of relief by the Overseers of the Parish for three inhabitants of the village: “For the nursing and keeping William Winter in the time he had the small pox”; “For the nursing and…

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