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Category: Bow Street

Nathaniel Hawkes & Elizabeth Pitts and their Cottage on the Rocklands Road

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

Inclosure Statement of Claims Listed at No.7 of the Statement of Claims for the Great Ellingham Inclosure of c.1800, is Nathaniel Hawkes. Nathaniel claimed one cottage and one acre of land which he occupied. He also claimed various rights on the Commons and Waste Lands in Great Ellingham which included rights of Common and Pasture….

Robert & Sarah Simmons of Pen Hill

Posted on August 15, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Notice to Creditors or Debtors of the late Robert Simmons Benjamin Barnard of Great Ellingham, the Executor of the late Robert Simmons, also of Great Ellingham, placed a Notice in the Norfolk Chronicle of 2nd April, 1859. The Notice requested that all persons owing money to, or are owed money by, the late Robert Simmons…

Sale by Auction of Cottages in Bow Street in 1874

Posted on August 12, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Illustration by Christine Fuller The Norwich Mercury dated 29th August 1874, contained a notice of a sale of property by Public Auction. The auction lots would include cottages in Bow Street, Great Ellingham. The Auction would be held at the New Inn (now the Royal Hotel) in Attleborough, at four o’clock sharp, on the 3rd…

Robert Pease and his Fatal Accident on Return from Market

Posted on August 6, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Bow Street, Great Ellingham Tragic Accident The Norwich Mercury of December 30th, 1899 reported on the tragic death the previous Thursday evening of a well-known farmer of Great Ellingham, 62 year old Mr Robert Pease. Robert Pease in the company of his niece, Mrs Elizabeth Jane Lister, was on his return journey with his horse…

Death of Walter Edward Rivett aged 21 years

Posted on August 6, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

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…

Robert Beales, son of Philip and Sarah

Posted on August 3, 2019October 9, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Great Ellingham Parish Church Baptism Philip Beales and his wife Sarah brought their infant son Robert for baptism at Great Ellingham Parish Church on December 4th, 1831. 1841 at Bow Street Around 9 years later, the census of 1841 finds 9 year old Robert Bales (Beales) with his parents, elder siblings James aged 15, George…

Reuben & Jane Heasell and their Farmhouse with Barn and Cow House

Posted on July 21, 2019October 7, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

This memorial to Reuben and Jane Heasell particularly caught my eye as it has stood in the churchyard of St James for nearly two hundred years. Marriage Reuben Heasell married Jane Beckaton in the parish church of Great Ellingham on the 5th April 1764 following the reading of the Banns. Both Reuben and Jane were…

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