Monks Eleigh, Suffolk
Monks Eleigh photos
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Monks Eleigh maps
Historic maps of Monks Eleigh and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Monks Eleigh maps
Monks Eleigh books
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My maiden name is GAME and I've just started researching that side of my family tree, unfortunately due to the fact my dad didn't know too much about his dad's side of the family I had to send away for my Grandad's birth certificate. On receiving the certificate it placed his birth in Brent Eleigh and I was then away. I... [more]
Shared on 05 June 2008
Hi, I guess it's one of those things you do as you get older, to take a walk down memory lane and to do a little bit of reminiscing. I was doing such a thing when I came across this photo of the village in Bildeston and saw the old house in the High Street that as a child and also... [more]
Shared on 26 June 2008
Joseph Culling was my Great Great Grandfather, he was born in Offton in 1819. He married an Eliza who was born in 1802 in Semer, they had 4 children, Charles, Emma, Patience and Dinah (my great grandmother). Does anyone know of this family, they are very elusive and I cannot find many references to them.
Christine Harris
Shared on 10 March 2009
Hi I am from New Zealand and from information I have my ancestors came from Semer the male name is johnson and the Female maiden name was Cuthbert, the only info I have indicates that they lived there in the mid 1700's i would be plesed to know any information about the town etc or if any Johnsons or Cuthberts still... [more]
Shared on 13 December 2006
Dad was the village policeman, PC 39. Our family name was Moss. We lived outside the village near the T junction to Little Waldingfield (two farm houses, we lived in one of them). Dad, mum and my 4 sisiters. We all attended Gt. Waldingfield school (next to the church then). Miss Bowers was the teacher. She lived with her mum and... [more]
Shared on 26 February 2009
I, Bill Rodgers was in the United States Air Force stationed at RAF Wethersfield. My wife Phyllis, son Michael and I lived on the Heath Estates, Great Waldingfield from 1962 to 1965. Michael, age 5 attended the Folly Road Primary School in Great Waldingfield. Our daughter Michelle was born in the Sudbury hospital in 1964. We had... [more]
Shared on 12 November 2007
We have just discover some of our relatives may have come from the Boxford area. Does anyone remember or recall anyone of the name of Churchyard or maybe Greenwood living in Boxford or nearby, maybe even Ipswich. Our father maybe went to a boys home in the area in the 20's and 30's
Can anyone help with our... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2009
William Balaam born in Stone Street, Boxford in 1870 or thereabouts. He was my Grandfather's stepfather. Grandad often talked of Boxford. It is believed that later in William Balaam's life he became a Mayor or Lord Mayor - however, we are not certain which town in the UK he became Mayor of - because he moved to London... [more]
Shared on 08 June 2008
Extracts From Monks Eleigh & Suffolk books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Monks Eleigh, inspired by Frith photos.
Sudbury, Lavenham and Long Melford Photographic Memories
The monks referred to in the village's name are the monks of Canterbury, who were lords of the manor and patrons of the living. The pump in the foreground was made by Ransomes & Sims of Ipswich; it was presented to the village in 1854 by William Makin of Hall Farm, which can be seen to the right of the church. The white Gothic archway on the left was the entrance to the school, built in the grounds of the former parish... [more]
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Suffolk Villages Photographic Memories
The imposing early 19th-century building to the right is timber-framed, with the ground floor of the house imitating stone blocks; the shop front has fluted Ionic pilasters. The Post Office and Stores closed in March 2003. The lean-to is all that remains of the carpenter's and undertaker's shops. On the corner of the green is the 18th-century Swan Inn (centre right), while nearer is a... [more]
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Thatched roofs abound. While wheat straw is often used as the roofing material, the chances are that these houses will be thatched with longer-lasting reed from the Broads. The church and green were once the subject of railway posters promoting Suffolk.
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