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Category: Low Common

William Harley

Posted on February 1, 2021January 30, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Auction A notice of sales by auction at Great Ellingham appeared in the Norfolk Chronicle of 21st September, 1833. “All the very superior Cart Horses, Colts, Pony, Cows, Young Stock, Agricultural Carriages, Implements, Harness &c and a part of the useful Furniture, the Dairy and Brewing Utensils, &c on the Farming Premises, in the occupation…

A ‘Counting Room’ at Tanyard Farm

Posted on May 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Tanyard Farm. Date unknown. Photograph Lucinda Bell-Tye. I came across a notice in the Norfolk News of the 14th May 1864 announcing the forthcoming auction on the 16th June of a ‘Desirable Small Farm’ in Great Ellingham. The farm (including a dwellinghouse, agricultural buildings and cottages), were being sold by the Executors of the late…

Mary Ann Le Grice

Posted on March 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Headstone of Mary Ann Le Grice in the churchyard of St James Great Ellingham Amongst other headstones hidden by branches, twigs and ivy in the churchyard at St James, Great Ellingham stands the memorial for Mary Ann Le Grice. The headstone inscription tells us that Mary Ann was the daughter of Jeremiah and Bridget Le…

Mary Ann Catling charged with Housebreaking

Posted on March 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

The Offence The Norwich Mercury of 20th December, 1873, reported that on the 10th December, the dwellinghouse of James Chaplin, a farmer and dealer of Great Ellingham, had been broken into. The sum of £3 in gold had been stolen from a work box in a bedroom and about a quarter of a peck of…

Robert Love born in Carleton Rode dies in Great Ellingham

Posted on February 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Headstone for Robert Love in the churchyard at Great Ellingham Marriages, baptisms, misdemeanours and the like all tend to leave a paper trail which, in years to come, is extremely useful to a family historian. In the case of Robert Love of Great Ellingham, we know from two census returns that Robert was living in…

Samuel Warren – Convicted of Attempting to Defraud Railway Company

Posted on January 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Possibly Wretham or Great Hockham Railway Station. Postcard Addison/Divita Family Collection Court Case At a Petty Sessions at East Harling held in May 1847, Samuel Warren of Great Ellingham was convicted of attempting to defraud the Norfolk Railway Company on the 6th May in that he had travelled in a carriage of a higher class…

Landed Proprietor William Mann of Great Ellingham

Posted on January 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

William Mann was buried in the churchyard at Great Ellingham on 31st August, 1869 aged 73 years Will & Codicil On reaching his mid-fifties, William Mann may well have thought it time to put his affairs in order. Accordingly he drew up his last Will and Testament (amounting to four pages) and executed this in…

1869: Theft of Three Pistols

Posted on January 1, 2020January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Court Case A special sitting of the Wymondham Petty Sessions took place on 13th April, 1869 to hear a case of the theft of three pistols at Wymondham on 8th April. Robert James Matthews aged 17 of Great Ellingham was charged with stealing three pistols the property of Wymondham ironmonger, Arthur West. The Court was…

1924: December Wedding for John Penson and Ellen Downes

Posted on December 1, 2019January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

December 22nd, 1924 Wedding of John Penson and Ellen Downes at Rockland All Saints. Photograph courtesy of Lucinda Bell-Tye Jack Penson Although John Penson was born and raised in Willey, Shropshire, John’s maternal ancestors came from Norfolk. John, born in 1887, was one of four children of John Penson and his wife Lydia neé Matthews….

‘Theft Most Fowl’

Posted on December 1, 2019January 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Eastern Daily Press March 2nd, 1907 The edition of the Eastern Daily Press of Saturday March 2nd, 1907, reported on the appearance of two labourers from Great Ellingham before the Magistrates at Wymondham on the previous Friday. John Lee and George Anderson were charged with stealing four live fowls with a value of 10s from…

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