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Category: Church Street

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…

Addition to the Churchyard of St James

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

Church of St James Great Ellingham Property deeds are an extremely useful source of information for local and family historians. Not least for providing details of the owners and occupiers of properties over the years. However, deeds can also provide other snippets of information, particularly with regard to adjoining or nearby land. In this particular…

Ye Olde Thatche Shoppe from the 1950s

Posted on August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

Until just after the turn of the 21st century, the fine Grade II listed house (near to the Crown Public House) in Church Street included one of the village stores. Photograph taken January 2019 Earlier History It is thought that the former copyhold building was once a medieval manor hall house. I have traced the…

Former Copyhold Medieval Manor Hall House becomes Freehold

Posted on August 1, 2022August 1, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

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 V

Posted on April 1, 2022March 29, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

On the left is a fine thatched house (formerly a copyhold messuage) with a pair of cottages built onto the eastern wall (to the right) on the corner of Church Street (the Street) Chequers Lane & Long Street. Postcard courtesy Carol Ewin The Story of the Owners and Occupiers In Parts I, II, III and…

Messuage built upon the tenement Greenhouse – Part IV

Posted on April 1, 2022April 7, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

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…

Emma Le Grice widowed after the tragic death of husband Robert Le Grice

Posted on February 1, 2022January 22, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

Father – Local Publican Robert Lebbell Emma Le Grice was born Emma Lebbell in the village of Great Ellingham. The day of her birth was either at the very end of 1842 or just into 1843, as she was baptised in the Church of St James on the 8th January. Her parents were local publican…

A Church with ‘No History’?

Posted on September 29, 2021September 29, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Great Ellingham Parish Church of St James 1935 Archaelogists’ Tour A report of an archaelogists’ tour published in the Yarmouth Independent on the 18th May, 1935, caught my eye. Amongst the three churches visited in the Wymondham District was St James’s at Great Ellingham. A comment made by Mr E J Tench FIBA particularly grabbed…

Sale of Reversion or Remainder in fee expectant on the decease of Widow

Posted on September 1, 2021September 1, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

1818 Auction of Freehold Property On the 28th February, 1818, the Norfolk Chronicle published the notice of a forthcoming auction of premises in Great Ellingham. The auction would take place at four o’clock on the 12th March, 1818, at the Crown Public House in Great Ellingham. The premises appeared in two lots: Lot 1 –…

Messuage built upon the tenement Greenhouse – Part I

Posted on June 1, 2021March 11, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

Copyhold Tenure Until the abolishment of copyhold tenure in 1922, Great Ellingham (like many other towns and villages throughout the country), was a mixture of freehold and copyhold land. Copyhold land was subject to the customs of the manorial court. Any change of ownership had to go through the Lord (or Lady) of the Manor,…

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