Stowmarket, Ipswich Street c1965
Stowmarket, Ipswich Street c1965 Ref: s583032
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Old Newton, The Shoulder of Mutton c1965
Ref: O97016
family connection to the Shoulder of Mutton
My great great grandfather was Richard Thurston and I believe that his family lived at the pub about 1845.
They had several children Deborah,John Palmer,Mary Jane,Richard and William Mumford (thurston) His wife was Susannah.
John Palmer Thurston was my great grandfather.
My grandfather William John Thurston emigrated to Australia in 1910 with his wife Agnes Alice Thurston(nee Stillwell) from Sussex.
Shared on 11 January 2008
this is only one of many wonderful memories i went to school in needham market the junior school and lived at darmsden we were picked up and taken to school by a mini bus we lived in three places in darmsden the 2nd place was right next door to a strawberry field one of many owned by tarston farms further up our road .When it was time for picking strawberrys a lot of my friends were bought up in a lorry and i was put in charge to make sure they picked properly and didnt mess about i was the first one picking and the last one to finish i was as brown as a berry and loved it . one day my mum came over and and said shhs she then laid this very real looking grass snake amongst the strawberrys well you should have seen my mates run they screamed with laughter when they saw what it was. mum used to litTereally drag me of i loved it and i earnt quite a bit pocket money i was allowed to pick the special strawberrys that were sent to the tiptree jam factory my friend susan used to stay with us she suffered with hayfever funny though after staying with us for a week she never had it any more.she would beg my dad to do the gorilla he would come up the stairs on all fours and making sounds like a gorilla and then jump from one bed to another thankgoodness they were strong iron beds.my brother and myself were christened in darmsden church we moved from darmsden in 1973 happy days,
Shared on 21 January 2008
We visited Gipping in 2003 to try to get a sense of the place our ancestors left in 1859 to start a new life in New Zealand. The flatness of the area was a significant contrast to the rugged coastal lands they farmed on their arrival in Little Akaloa, Canterbury. William Henry Elliss and his wife Sophia Rebecca Davey were resident in Gipping in 1858 when they married at the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Stowmarket. Their parents were Frederick and Caroline Elliss (nee Bass) and William and Eliza Davey (nee Fox), husbandmen, whose families had been in Gipping and Mendlesham for some generations. When William and Sophia left for NZ on the Mary Ann, bound for Canterbury, April 1859 they had been living in Haughley, William was a dealer, and they had a 7 month old son who died on the voyage out. Their parents stayed and died in Gipping, and Old Newton, and indeed Frederick and Caroline have a headstone erected in their memory in St Mary's Old Newton by William Elliss. This still stands and was easily readable when we visited. We would very much like to learn more about what life was like for their families and neighbours in the 1850-70s, and what happened to any other family. There no longer appear to be Elliss or Davey family in the village, and indeed there do not appear to be cottages left where the census of the times suggests there would have been. Any descriptions, drawings, or other information that would fill in those memories for us would be greatly appreciated. Sophia Rebecca is rumoured to have died on board ship on a trip back to Britain in 1873, but no record of this has yet been found. They had two daughters and three sons in New Zealand most of whose descendants we have tracked down, and a reunion is to be held Easter 2010 at Little Akaloa to re-trace their early years in NZ. More information about when and why they came from Gipping, and what contact they may have sustained, and what life was like for the village at that time would be appreciated if such records exist with anyone reading this. Also the names of other families who may have left with or at the same time, as we do know for instance that a cousin of William's went to Canada from Gipping about 20years later and we have contact with that branch also - please email me, Barbara, at agbaallan@hotmail.com
Shared on 21 June 2009
Woolpit, the Old Mill c1960
Ref: W442030
I'm sure I remember a Harry Elmer......did he have a shop in Elmswell or did he rent out motor cars or even caravans from Woolpit?
I was born in Elmswell in 1947 and the name certainly rings a very loud bell and was constantly mentioned in our household at the time.
Shared on 11 November 2007
Woolpit, the Old Mill c1960
Ref: W442030
Hi there. Harry Elmer (who I understand was my GGrandad's brother) owned and ran this Mill into the 1940s. The Muggeridge Collection has some wonderful images of him replendent in the very gentlemanly working clothes of a miller of his ilk, and still working in his 80's. Anecdotally Elmers Mill in Woolpit and Drinkstone Mill close by were dead ringers for each other, except they ran (i.e. their sails rotated) in the opposite direction to each other. This has recently been questioned on the Suffolk Mills site which has some memories posted about the structure of Elmers Woolpit Mill after it was tail-winded in 1963 and collapsed, saying it was built of "inferior materials" and therefore of much more recent (perhaps 19th century) construction than the recognised ancient (and still-standing) Drinkstone Mill. It's recognisably old design however would seem to counter this argument, and it's more likely I believe that the "inferior materials" found after it collpased may have been due to the need for successive and ongoing repairs, required due to the hard life a constantly used mill was subject to. I would greatly welcome any further information on both these Mills and/or on the Elmers of Woolpit, or my particular branch of the family who are recorded as living in Elmswell; Great Ashfield; and Walsham-le-Willows at various times throughout the 17th to 19th centuries. Please email me to elmers@xtra.co.nz Many thanks. Les Elmer, Auckland, New Zealand.
Shared on 06 July 2006
