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Category: Town Green

‘Houses for the Poor’ Sold at Auction

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

1769 Dwelling House for the Poor In 1769 a house to accommodate the poor was built upon land at the lower part of the common of Town Green. The land was given to the parish by the Lady of the Manor of Ellingham Hall, Margaretta Colman, the wife of the late Fysher Colman. The common…

Lincoln Family’s Migration from Great Ellingham to Yorkshire

Posted on October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Movement of People Like many rural communities during the Victorian period, Great Ellingham saw movement in the population. In 1836, several families left the village for a new life ‘on the other side of the world’. A few were ‘forced’ to embark on a journey to Van Diemen’s Land (later Tasmania) following a criminal conviction….

Guilty of Theft of Sack of Oats from John Dixon

Posted on August 1, 2021July 28, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Odd Hands In January 1916, farmer John Dixon employed two local labourers, Walter Lister and Charles Hall, to help with the threshing of a stack of oats. Lister and Hall worked at Dixon’s farm at Town Green, Great Ellingham, as ‘odd hands’. Magistrates’ Court Lister and Hall subsequently found themselves before the Magistrates at East…

Harriet Stubbings née Barnard

Posted on July 1, 2021December 3, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

Harriet Stubbings née Barnard. Image extracted from a Wilkins family photograph. Courtesy of James Margetts Emigration at 52 Widow Harriet Stubbings was 52 years old when, in December 1913, she left Great Ellingham for a new life ‘on the other side of the world’. Harriet accompanied her daughter Florence, and Florence’s extended family, on the…

Private G/7208 George Wilkins

Posted on May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

The name of George Wilkins is inscribed on the Great War memorial tablet on the west wall of the Church of St James, Great Ellingham. George was a Private in the 1st Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Aged just 29, he was killed in action in France, on the 15th September, 1916. Early Life…

William Robert Lebbell – Blacksmith, Wheelwright & Dairyman Farmer

Posted on April 17, 2021January 22, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

What follows is a short biography of William Robert Lebbell (1884-1965), written by William’s granddaughter, Susan Fay, from her memories of her grandfather: William Robert Lebbell aged about 17 years. Photograph courtesy of Susan Fay, granddaughter of W R Lebbell Born & Bred in Great Ellingham “William was born in the village of Great Ellingham…

Susannah Storey buys Cottage with Garden

Posted on April 2, 2021January 7, 2023 by Heather Etteridge

1928 Purchase On the 4th April, 1928, widow Sarah Ann Elizabeth Carter sold a cottage with a garden, together with the end of a wash-house, to Susannah Goss Storey. The conveyance deed also included a right for Susannah Storey to use a well and a roadway. Josiah Carter’s Purchase in 1906 Sarah Carter’s late husband,…

Lance Corporal John Lincoln

Posted on March 16, 2021May 22, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

John Lincoln (1876-1917) taken whilst serving as a British Soldier during the Boer War. Photograph courtesy of Bryan Dye ‘John Lincoln’ is amongst sixteen names inscribed on the memorial tablet set into the wall near to the west door of St James’s Church. The tablet remembers the Great Ellingham men who gave their lives for…

Ellis Carter buys a Homestead at Town Green

Posted on March 1, 2021October 31, 2021 by Heather Etteridge

In this blog, I follow a paper trail to uncover a succession of owners of a small farmhouse in Town Green, Great Ellingham. I begin with the auction of the property in 1884, and take the ownership back to at least 1800, and, perhaps, even further to the 1700s. 1884 Auction The Crown Public House…

Mary Dennis Inherits Property in Town Green

Posted on March 1, 2021November 19, 2022 by Heather Etteridge

Legacy of Property and Land in Great Ellingham Anthony Porter of Great Ellingham died c.1786, and left all his freehold and copyhold lands in Great Ellingham to his niece, Mary Dennis (née Willomatt). At this time, Mary was living in the town of Watton, some 8 miles from Great Ellingham. Mary’s use and benefit of…

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