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Little Maplestead| Bulmer| Middleton| Little Cornard| Great Cornard| Bures| Sudbury| Borley| White Colne| Castle Hedingham| Halstead| Newton Green| Earls Colne| Assington| Sible Hedingham| Foxearth| Great Waldingfield| Long Melford| Acton| Pentlow| Plaistow Green| Great Yeldham| Gosfield| Little Waldingfield| Clare
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William Bernard & Frances Honer (Witts) Taylor
William was born in 1798 in England and, at the time od his marriage, was a parishioner of Great Conard, Suffolk. He married Frances Honer Witts on the 26th November 1834 in St Peter's in the Parish of Sudbury, Suffolk, with the curate, H.W. Wilkinson, performing the ceremony. Frances was a parishioner of Sudbury, William was of the Parish of Great Conard. Witnessess for the ceremony were John Taylor and Thomas Goldsmith. William & Frances had at least seven children and those surviving in 1853 were Edwin (c1836) and his younger siblings, Fanny, Charles Everett, Ellen Elizabeth, Fredrick and Septimus. William & Frances brought their family to the colony of Port Phillip in 1852. William was afarmer and merchant at Little Brighton but suffered the death of his wife in early 1853. He became depressed and this exacerbated his tendency to drown his sorrows in alcohol. In late June he succumbed to the effects of alcohol and an inquest was made into his death.... Read more
William Bernard Taylor Family Farm Before They Emigrated to Australia in 1853
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591/0/10020 GREAT WALDINGFIELD
21-NOV-05 HOLE FARM
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House. Formerly a mid-C15 service building remodelled as a house in c.1600; later C17 extension to west; c.1970 jettied cross-wing. Two storeys. The building is of timber-framed construction, rendered, with a plain tile roof, hipped at the east end and two lateral brick stacks. The plan essentially comprises a long east-west range divided by an entrance passage, with two rooms to the east, one to either side of the chimney stack. To the west of the cross-passage are two further rooms, a second stack, and west again, a c.1970s jettied cross-wing. There are further projections to the rear.
The main façade is the result of C20 restoration. The central door and all of the casement windows are C20 insertions. The jettied cross wing to the west was added in c.1970. Windows to the rear are also C20, including the long windows in the rear wall of the staircase tower (now the dining hall). The... Read more
Fishing as A Boy
I started working at Brundon Farm when I was ten years old. Mr Norman was very kind to me and I helped out on the the farm for the next five years. I had a great time when I was a kid fishing at Brundon Mill mainly for pike. There were concrete tank traps that were left over from the Second World War which were pushed into the river by the bridge. People's spinners and plugs always caught on the iron bars of the tank traps, so in the summer I used to walk out and get them. There is also a ford there.
History of The Deans
I think my father's birth family the Harts may have lived in this house. Does anybody know any history of the occupants of the house?
Society Farm
In 2001 my husband Derek and I visited Assington. We had been researching Derek's family history, and had discovered that his great-great-grandfather John Crisell was the bailiff, in the middle of the 19th century,at Society Farm, Assington.
We were unable to find the farm, but called at a farm shop in the middle of the village, and were told that this had been Society Farm, but had changed its name to Willow Tree Farm. The reason it had been called Society Farm was that Sir John Gurdon, of Assington Hall, had set up a co-operative agricultural experiment on the farm in the 1830s in an effort to help the villagers. Some years later, John Crisell was appointed bailiff, and had lived in the farmhouse with his family, including his daughter Sarah who would become Derek's great-grandmother.
Ancestors in Assington.
I am researching my wife's family history and on one side of her family is Charles Freeman Parson. She is his 2nd Great Garandaughter. We know that he lived and farmed at Assington House which I am told that he also built. The Parsons were also tenant farmers at Thorington Hall Nr Stoke by Nayland for a century. Its now National Trust and is open on heritage day in September. I also have an old photograph of the family with horse and carriage outside Assington House probably from the late 1800's.
Can anyone add and information or detail on the Parson families in Assington and around please?
Robin Carsberg. robin.carsberg@sky.com
Memories of Three Happy Years
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 a wonderful time in Great Waldingfield, with wonderful neighbors. We visit England at least once a year. My wife is from Leicester, England whom I married in 1959.
Two years ago we attended our friend's (old neighgbor) 50th wedding anniversary in Red Lodge, England. We frequently visit with our friends durning our trips to England. We still have other friends in Great Waldingfield with whom we stay in touch with.
