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Category: Attleborough to Rocklands Road

Warren’s Cottage with Yard & Garden occupied by Wretham & Halls

Posted on January 1, 2023December 29, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

At the turn of the 19th Century, Jeffery Warren owned several dwellings in Great Ellingham. Save for the cottage he lived in, the remainder were let out to tenants. Although Warren died in the March of 1800, his properties continued to be let by his executors. One such property was the cottage, yard and garden…

Local Farriers, William Reynolds & Son

Posted on November 1, 2022November 4, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

William Buchan Reynolds 1822-1886. Courtesy Ollie West Harrod’s Directory of 1878 lists William Reynolds & Son as farriers in Great Ellingham. Whilst a farrier is a skilled person with sound knowledge of shoeing all types of equine feet, William Reynolds was also a ‘cow leach’ (cow doctor) as well as veterinary surgeon. From Suffolk to…

1865 Auction Sale of Barnaby Barnard’s Properties in Bow Street

Posted on June 1, 2022May 30, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

During the early to mid-nineteenth century, Wymondham born Barnaby Ezekiel Barnard (also known as Barnabas Ezekiel Barnard), a yeoman, of Rockland St Peter, owned several properties in Great Ellingham. In his last will and testament, he appointed the Reverend William Bird (also of Rockland St Peter), and Ellis Turner, a farmer of Caston, as his…

Thomas Margetson’s Cottage in Watton Road

Posted on May 1, 2022April 24, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

We are fortunate that the Norfolk Record Office holds an abundance of documentation relating to Great Ellingham. This includes paperwork from the ‘Great Ellingham Inclosures’ c.1799 and a map dated 1802. According to the Great Ellingham Inclosure Statement of Claims, Thomas Beales claimed: – One Cottage and Garden occupied by Thomas Margetson – One Barn…

The Rivetts at Pond Farm

Posted on May 1, 2022April 24, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

Extract from 1906 Ordnance Survey Map. Second Edition. Surveyed in 1881. Author’s Collection The black dot on the above extract from a 1906 Ordnance Survey Map, shows the home of Leonard and Gertrude Rivett at Pond Farm in Watton Road, Great Ellingham. Pond Farm still exists. Further, there has been a dwelling on the site…

Six of One and Half a Dozen of the Other

Posted on October 1, 2021April 6, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

Guilty of Assault The Diss Express of Friday, 4th August, 1905, reported on proceedings at the East Harling Magistrates Court. This included the case concerning a fracas between two women in Great Ellingham. Widow Elvina M Rushbrooke of Great Ellingham was charged with assaulting her neighbour Maud Halls on the 23rd July. Halls was charged…

Ted & Alice Lincoln of The Cock Inn, Stanton

Posted on October 1, 2021November 23, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

It can be difficult to ‘fill in the gaps’ between the birth or baptism of our ancestor, their marriage (if indeed one took place), and their ultimate death. All these ‘rights of passage’ are almost certainly recorded in the parish registers, which can date from as early as the sixteenth century. However in relatively recent…

Young Widow, Lois Cook née Drake

Posted on July 1, 2021July 26, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

By the time Lois Cook (née Drake) had reached the age of 35, she had married, given birth to five children, suffered the heartache of the deaths of three of those children, and experienced the despair of widowhood, when her husband, Alfred Cook, died of tuberculosis in 1894. However, Lois was not the only woman…

Home of Lilian Clarke in Watton Road

Posted on December 21, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Cottage at Currier’s Farm, Watton Road, Great Ellingham, at one time the home of Lilian Clarke. Photograph courtesy of Gerry Speck Gerry Speck recalls his grandmother, Lilian Clarke, living in the above cottage at Currier’s Farm situate along the Watton Road, towards Rocklands. The 1939 Register captures charwoman, Lilian E Clarke (with a birthdate of…

Timberhill also known as King’s Corner

Posted on August 23, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Postcards: (left) courtesy of Joan Barnard; (middle) courtesy of Carol Ewin; (right) author’s own collection Despite some changes to the appearance, most of the buildings in the above postcards are recognisable today. Over the years, this area around the junction of the Atteborough Road with Church Street has been known as ‘Timberhill’ and ‘King’s Corner’….

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