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Category: Whittred

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…

Part III – A History of the Cottage adjoining The Crown Public House

Posted on December 24, 2023May 8, 2024 by Heather Etteridge

The Cottage with adjoining shop to the right of the Crown Public House. Postcard courtesy Carol Ewin Parts I and II of a series of blogs, take the history of the cottage (with an adjoining shop), from around 1749 to 1868. Here, we go forward from 1868 when Joseph Warren purchased the premises at auction….

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…

Robert Brooke’s Farmhouse in Long Street

Posted on April 1, 2021May 24, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

Robert Brooke (c.1757-1829) Robert Brooke of Great Ellingham died in March 1829. He was 73 years old, a bachelor, and a yeoman i.e. a farmer owning a reasonable amount of property and land, but not sufficient to be classed as ‘gentry’. Variations of Name During my research, I have found that this family’s surname ‘Brooke‘…

The Whittred Family of Long Street

Posted on December 1, 2020June 1, 2025 by Heather Etteridge

A Particular Survey of the Parish of Great Ellingham 1817-1819, reveal that John Whittred was the owner and occupier of a House, Barn, Stable, Yard and Garden, as well as numerous parcels of land in Great Ellingham. I know from an earlier Particulars & Valuation undertaken by the Commissioners for the Great Ellingham Inclosures c.1800,…

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…

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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