Great Ellingham Methodist ChapelPhotograph taken February 2017 From the Downham Market Gazette Saturday 8th January 1916: GREAT ELLINGHAMWEDDING – The marriage of Mr Henry Frank Downes, son of Mr and Mrs R Downes, Decoy Farm, Besthorpe, and Miss Edith Ducker, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Ducker, daughter of Mr and Mrs J. Ducker, Great…
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Great Ellingham Primitive Methodist Chapel
Postcard Ewin Family Collection A Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in Great Ellingham in 1843. Although the Great Ellingham Tithe Map of 16th December 1843, lists the Baptist Chapel in Long Street, it does not list the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Church Street. However it may be that the associated survey to the Tithe Map…
Brick Facing for the Methodist Church
Postcard of the Primitive Methodist Church. Most likely post 1898. Courtesy of Carol Ewin A report of a Bazaar to raise funds for improvements and modernisation to the Primitive Methodist Church in Great Ellingham, appeared in the Eastern Daily Press of 15th April, 1898. It was reported that ‘the congregation and friends connected with the…
Edward Howchen, Primitive Methodist Preacher
Church Street. Methodist Church. Postcard courtesy of Carol Ewin At the age of 75, Edward Howchen was laid to rest in the cemetery in Wymondham in the August of 1892. The 1891 census captures Edward Howchen with his wife Maria living in Middleton Street, Wymondham. The census tells us that Edward was a Primitive Methodist…
First Marriage at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1900
Methodist Church in Church Street. Postcard Carol Ewin Charles H Jude, the eldest son of local farmer George Jude of Rookery Farm, Great Ellingham, married Elizabeth Brant at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Great Ellingham on October 24th, 1900. Reported in the Norfolk News Details of the wedding appeared in the Norfolk News just over…
Primitive Methodist Sunday School Anniversary in 1877
Primitive Methodist Chapel, Great Ellingham. Postcard courtesy of Carol Ewin The edition of the Norfolk News dated 11th August 1877, reported on the anniversary celebrations at Great Ellingham of the Primitive Methodist Sunday School. The celebrations took place over two days – Sunday and Monday. On the Sunday morning, Mr Wade of Norwich preached a…
“Pretty Wedding” at the Primitive Methodist Chapel
The Primitive Methodist Chapel at Great Ellingham Marriage Edwin Alfred Clarke of Deopham and Annie Elizabeth Downes of Great Ellingham married at the Primitive Methodist Chapel at Great Ellingham on Wednesday 18th September 1901. The Eastern Evening News of the following Saturday, reported that it was a “pretty wedding”. The bride was “tastefully dressed in…