BERTUNA'S CHILDREN

Most of the information has been derived from http:// ancestry.co.uk, which was last accessed in 2017. I have not so far purchased any birth, marriage or death certificates, which could verify and add a great deal of detail to this basic information. 

I have made every effort to check the content for accuracy and to interpret data correctly and, to the best of my knowledge all details are accurate at the time of publication. However, new information is regularly coming to light, some of which could add to, or even contradict, previous knowledge, and I apologise if anything I have written, based on the best evidence available at the time, proves to be inaccurate in the future.

A number in square brackets after the name of an individual e.g. Rachel Long [541] indicates the registration number of their record in the burial register of Holy Innocents’ Church, Great Barton.

Mary Bishop (1841-1907) worked as a housemaid at Stetchworth Vicarage before she married Frederick Howes, a shepherd from Bardwell, in 1866. They lived at West Stow and then The Green at Lackford, Suffolk. During the 1890s, they moved to Whepstead, Suffolk, to run The Stag Inn and after Mary died, Frederick’s niece helped him to run the inn.

Two girls named Jane Bishop, who were born in Great Barton in 1839, were recorded in the 1851 census. One worked as a parlour maid at Dedham Grammar School, Essex, and the other as a nursemaid at Melford, Suffolk, but I do not know which one worked where.

Jane Bishop (1839-1899), the daughter of Robert Bishop, married James Bishop (1833-1881), the son of James Bishop, on 19 October 1866. James signed his name with a cross. Phoebe Pawsey (see below) and Robert Bishop were witnesses. After their marriage, they moved to St Mary’s Place, Bury St Edmunds, where James worked as a labourer in 1871 and as a lamplighter in 1881. Jane was recorded as a dressmaker in 1881 and as a cook in 1891, by which time she was widowed and living alone.

Jane Bishop (1839-?), the daughter of George and Elizabeth Bishop, lived in Turnpike Road, Great Barton. In 1869, she married Charles Osborne, a shepherd from Garboldisham, and they moved to Langham, where a daughter was born, and then to Stowlangtoft in 1891.

Sarah Bishop (1836-1885) was recorded as a ‘scholar’ at the age of 15. She married Jeremiah Durrant, a farm labourer from Rougham, where they lived and brought up seven children.

Anna Brand (1840-1916) [588] was one of three daughters of John Brand, a farm labourer. In 1871, Anna worked as a lady’s maid for the wife of the Rector of Wicken and, in 1881, for Katherine Beauchamp (1815-1888), who was lodging at 67 Church Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings. After Katherine Beauclark died in 1888 leaving £14,442. 14s. 9d., Anna moved away and was visiting Margaret and Mary Vyse at 3, Out Northgate in Bury St Edmunds in 189. Margaret was the mother of George Vyse (1864-1931), a stockkeeper, and wife of John Vyse (1823-1877) who was a former carpenter for the Barton Estate. In 1891, Margaret was a laundress and Mary (1861-1920) was a dressmaker,.  By 1901, Anna had moved to a six-roomed house at 20, Out Northgate, Bury St Edmunds and was described in the census as living ‘on her own means’, and as a retired dressmaker in 1911. When she died, she left £718. 10s. 9d., which she bequeathed to her sister Sarah.

Sarah Brand (1843-1921) [624] was one of three daughters of John Brand, a farm labourer. She worked in Chester as a housekeeper and lady’s maid for Lucy Anson, the sister-in-law of Revd Adam Charles Gordon, the Rector of Doddeston. When Lucy Anson died in 1897, leaving effects worth £21,189. 12s., she left an annuity of £45 a year to ‘her faithful friend and servant, Sarah Brand’ (Cheshire Observer, 22 May1897).  Sarah moved to Bury St Edmunds to live with her sister Anna and in the 1901 and 1911 census was described as a retired dressmaker. When Sarah died in 1921, she bequeathed her wealth of £3,077. 10s. 4d. to Elizabeth (1868-1947) and George John Vyse (see above), who lived at 55, Churchgate Street. George was described in the will as an upholsterer. George John Vyse died in 1931, leaving £1,736. 15s. 7d. to his wife Elizabeth and daughter, Florence.

Eliza Brand (1841-1907) [498] worked as a laundress and then looked after her widowed father until his death in 1881. Two years later, she married William Crack (1835-1914) [565] whose first wife Susan (1835-1881) had died leaving three sons and two daughters. William, who was born in Great Barton, had worked as a carter and flour seller until he became a butcher during the 1870s. In 1891, Herbert, the oldest son, lived with his father and Eliza at their cottage at East Barton.

Mary Bray (1846-1929) [710] was the daughter and granddaughter of farm labourers. In 1861, she was living at Hawstead and working as a servant for Thomas Ashfield, a journeyman wheelwright and groom, and his wife Elizabeth (Feakes) who was born in Great Barton in 1805. On 20 February 1869, Mary married William George Foulger (1845-1925), [674] who was born in Great Barton and signed his name with a cross in the 1911 census. They lived all their lives in Great Barton where William worked as a farm labourer, and they had two daughters, Mary Jane and Florence Fanny, and then two sons, Horace William and Thomas George.

Harriet Calver (1841-1906) was brought up in East Barton and was the daughter of a farm labourer. She was a housemaid at Barton Hall in 1861 until her marriage in 1866 to William James Lemmon (1844-1924), a grocer’s assistant from Brighton, Sussex. They lived in Brighton and brought up five children.

Phoebe Calver (1843-1918), the daughter of a carpenter, married Robert Feakes, a gamekeeper, in her early 20s and they moved to Holy Houses, Great Barton. Following the death in 1872 of their only daughter, Elizabeth, at the age of seven, they moved out of the village and lived at Burwell in Lincolnshire, Pentney and Little Ellingham in Norfolk and finally at Tower Court, Swaffham, Norfolk, where Phoebe died leaving £5.15s. 9d. to Florence May Towler, wife of Arthur William Fowler (b.1876), who had married in Swaffham in July 1900.

Ester Channell (1845-1919) was one of seven children of John Channell (1818-1887) and Charlotte Crack (1822-1890). The lived at Clay Cottage, near Phillips farm, owned by John South Phillips, JP, where John worked as a horseman all his life. Ester married William Roper from Ipswich on 19 October 1866 and they moved to a six-roomed house in Eastgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, and brought up three sons and two daughters. William worked at a brass foundry in 1861 and as a labourer in the gas works in 1871 before returning to work at the foundry. Their daughters worked as dressmakers and their sons as errand boys when they were ten-years-old. The youngest son became a fitter. Ester’s father, John, died in a tragic accident at work when he was crushed between the tumbril of a wagon and a gate post (Bury Free Press, 9 April 1887).

Emma Cooper (1846-?) worked as a lady’s maid for Hooper John Wilkinson, who lived at Walsham Hall, Walsham le Willows, and was a wealthy magistrate. In 1880, Emma married Robert John Dale from Lawshall and they lived at Ousden, Hengrave, Newmarket and Ipswich and Robert worked as a coach man and a ‘job master’. After she was widowed during the 1890s, Emma worked as a housekeeper at Saxham, Suffolk.

Ann Crack (1842-1911) [544] was a kitchen maid at Barton Hall in 1861 when Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water Babies, visited the Hall. During the 1860s, Ann worked for John Drake, the Rector of Brockley, as a cook at first and later as a housemaid and kitchen maid. By 1891, she had moved to the Grange on the Green at Beyton, where she worked for twenty years as a cook and then as housekeeper. She died in 1911 at the age of 69 as a patient in Bury Union Workhouse and left effects to the value of £124. 6s. to her friend, Mary Ann Howlett.

Susannah Edwards (1843-1900), the daughter of a wheelwright and granddaughter of a master shoemaker, was born in Fornham All Saints, Suffolk, but lived with her grandparents in Great Barton. In 1871, she was a servant in Eldo House, Bury St Edmunds, working for George Harvey Nunn, who was a farmer, alderman and Justice of the Peace and had nine children. In 1874, she married William Syer (1841-1894), from Bradfield St George, Suffolk, to where they moved and had their only son, Charles William, in 1877. William worked there as a farm bailiff in 1881, but by 1891, they had moved to Bury St Edmunds, where William was employed as a groom. Charles worked as an errand boy at the age of 14 and as a groom from at least 1901. He married Emma in 1897 and they remained living in Bury St Edmunds. By 1901, they had three children, lived at 54, Whiting Street and Emma worked as a laundress at their home. Ten years later, they were living in a six-roomed house at 32, Garland Street with four children and two lodgers.

Elizabeth Feakes (1840-?) worked as a servant for the Vicar of Exning when she left school. During the 1860s, she married William Alderton, a farm labourer from Great Whelnetham, and they moved to Rushbrooke and brought up five children.

Delilah Foulger (1840-1928) married James Wright, from Great Barton in 1861. Their first child, Sarah, was born in Great Barton in 1862. They moved to south west London and Hannah (1864) and Albert (1865) were born in Balham, and Jessie (1868), Ernest (1872) and Frederick (1875) in Clapham.  They lived at Streatham in 1901 and a four-roomed house at 47, Lysias Road, Balham, in 1911 with their daughter Hannah. James was unemployed in 1871 but eventually found work as a gardener. Delilah appears on the electoral register for London from 1913, but James does not. Delilah was registered as living alone at Lysias Road from 1913 to 1919, with Josephus Wright at 13, Davenant Road from 1920 to 1924, and with others at 86, Temperley Road in 1926.

Elizabeth Ann Foulger (1847-1920) [618] married James Sturgeon (1842-1912) [558], a horse-keeper, in 1870. They lived in a five-roomed cottage in School Road, Great Barton and had ten children.

Mary Ann Foulger (1846-1913) worked as a general servant for Maria Harvey, a widow, and her three grandchildren in Westgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, in 1861. Mary Ann married James’ youngest brother George Sturgeon in 1871, who was a police constable in Haverhill. They lived at Haverhill, Stansfield and Monks Eleigh, where George worked as a police constable and Mary Ann as a dressmaker. In 1891, they lived in a six-roomed house at 73 Raglan Street, Lowestoft, and George worked as a domestic gardener and letter carrier and later as a full time postman.

Sarah Ann Garwood (1845-1931) [735] worked as a general servant for Jacob Lofts in 1861. She married Charles William Foulger (1840-1893) [344] in 1868 and they had three daughters. In 1891, they lived at the Porter’s Lodge, Bury Road, Great Barton, and Sarah worked as a letter carrier with assistance from her eighteen-year-old daughter, Harriet. After she was widowed in the 1890s, Sarah worked as a charwoman and caretaker of Great Barton Church Institute and, in 1911, lived in one of the Widows’ Homes with her granddaughter, Daisy Kate.

Holden family

• Maria Holden (1837-1914)
• Harriet Holden (1839-1946)
• Mary Holden (1841-1927)
• Sarah Holden (1844-1890)
• Susan Holden (1847-1934) [765]
• Ellen Holden (1850-1940)

Sarah Hunt (1844-1921) worked in Whiting Street, Bury St Edmunds as a general servant for Rowland Nalton, a baronet and magistrate. She married Robert Coulton, who was a cork cutter, brought up 12 children and worked as a sub-postmistress when her children became teenagers. In 1911, they lived in a six-roomed house in Mill Road, Bury St Edmunds, by which time all but two of the children had left home.

Martha Langham (1838-1903) married Walter Pawsey in 1862 and they emigrated to the United States of America from Liverpool on May 28, 1892 (see Bertuna’s Children: The History of Education in a Suffolk Village by Sue Spiller p. 92-93).

Anna Last (1838-1930) worked as a netter and seamstress until her marriage in 1872 to James Pennell from Somersham. They moved to Hampstead where James worked as a carman. After his death during the 1890s Anna remained living in Hampstead and worked as a charwoman. She lived until the age of 92.

Jacob Lofts (1800-1875) [100] and Maria Lofts (1801-1876) [124] farmed over 350 acres of land at Conyers Green Farm, in Great Barton. They had three daughters: Anna Maria, Louisa and Mary Ann Elizabeth.

Anna Maria Lofts (1831-1868) [329] the eldest daughter was educated at Maria Brown’s school at Barrow, Suffolk. She married Thomas Scott, the son of Sir Henry Bunbury’s secretary and land agent, lived at Dairy Farm Cottages had nine children in 14 years before her death at the age of 37.

Louisa Lofts (1834-1901) [428], the middle daughter, attended Maria Brown’s school at Barrow, Suffolk. She lived with her parents until their deaths in 1876, and then at 61, Churchgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, in 1881, where she boarded with Charlotte Flynn, a fancy stationer, who was a widow, and then to Tuddenham, her mother’s birthplace, where she boarded with Thomas Sparks, an agricultural labourer, and his wife. She died at Melford, but was buried in the churchyard at Holy Innocents’ Church, Great Barton.

Mary Ann Elizabeth Lofts (1841-1894) [366] the youngest daughter of Jacob and Maria Lofts attended Sabina Howe’s school at Stanton. At the age of 18, she was a governess to the seven-year-old son of Henry and Maryann Sugars, who owned Stenchells Farm at Hengrave. Mary Anne married Edward Limmer, a miller, in 1866 and had two daughters, but her husband died in 1868 leaving her his estate of under £200. Widowed at the age of 28, she returned home to live with her parents and was the sole beneficiary of her mother’s will, whose effects were ‘worth under £300’ in 1876. After the farm was sold, she moved to Bury St Edmunds and earned her living as a pianist. In 1891, she lived at 3 Orchard Street, Bury St Edmunds, with another widow as a lodger and employed a 16-year-old servant.

Lucy Lofts (1837-1902) [445] married William Pawsey (1836-1912) [554] in 1875. William was also from Great Barton, but they moved to Fornham St Martin, Suffolk, where William worked as a farm labourer. They had no children.

Eliza Long (1842-1932) [739], who was the oldest of six children, lived at Conyers Green with her grandmother, Mary Lofts. Her grandmother, mother and herself all worked as dairy maids at Barton Hall at different times. After the death of her grandmother in 1869, she worked for the Rector of Fornham All Saints, Suffolk, as a housemaid and then married Thomas Paul Edwards, a widowed from Pakenham, who was a wheelwright. They moved to London and lived in Stoke Newington, Bermondsey, Hackney and then West Ham, where Thomas became a journeyman wheelwright. After his death in 1901, Eliza returned to Great Barton and lived with her ageing mother, Mary Long (1819-1916) [592], who had spent much of her life working at Barton Hall and had been receiving a small annuity from the age of 70. When Mary died at the age of 97, she was the oldest person to be buried in Great Barton churchyard between 1868 and 1958. In 1911, Eliza’s oldest son, Albert, who had trained as a wheelwright, worked for a railway company as a checker and her second son, Frank, worked as a printer and then as a compositor.  Eliza earned her living as a dressmaker and lived to the age of 90.

Jane Long (1847-1871) worked as a nursemaid for Frederick Paine, the owner of a 600-acre farm in Great Barton. In January 1871, she married Daniel Pawsey (1848-1926) [682] a gardener and son of Robert and Mary Ann Pawsey. Jane died in October 1871 and Daniel married Susan Bailey in October 1873 and had seven children. In 1897, he witnessed the death of his neighbour, Robert Bishop (see Descendants of Robert Bishop and Sarah Knights – https://bertunaschildren.com)

Jane Long (1842-?) was born in Great Barton but moved to Bury St Edmunds soon afterwards. She spent most of her childhood in Thingoe Workhouse and her story illustrates the problems associated with the workhouse system (see Bertuna’s Children: The History of Education in a Suffolk Village by Sue Spiller, p.31-32).

Mary Ann Long (1844-?), the daughter of Mary and William Long, a miller’s labourer,   worked as a servant in Risbygate Street, Bury St Edmunds, for Elizabeth Steel, a landed proprietor, and then at the George Inn in Out Westgate Street. She married George Pollard in 1874 and they moved to Rede in Suffolk and then to Weeting All Saints in Norfolk, where George worked as a gamekeeper. Their only child, William James, also became a gamekeeper.

Mary Ann Long (1844-1895) (aka Maryann), the granddaughter of Fanny Long, worked as a nurse in Great Barton, and then as a parlour maid for the Vicar of Tostock. In 1874, she married John Clarke (1849-1915) from Bardwell, who was working as a general indoor servant for the Vicar of Cavenham in 1871. Ten years later, John Clarke was working as a butler at Glen William, Maentwrog, Merioneth, but Mary Ann was living in Great Barton with her mother and her son, John, who was born in 1879.  Their daughter, Mary Ann, was born in Bardwell in 1883, and they moved to Winkfield Row, Easthampstead, in Berkshire where Edward was born in 1885 and John worked as a butler. Mary Ann died in 1895 and John returned to Wales to work as a butler at Gloddaeth Hall in Penrhyn, Caernarvonshire. On 6 September 1906, he married Kate Wareham (1848-?) at Hampstead and they moved to 2, Ormond Villas, London Road Wokingham, a five-roomed house, not far from John’s daughter Mary Ann, who was the cook for Mary and Isabella Burns in an 11-roomed house at The Woodlands, Wokingham.

Rachel Long (1839-1911) [541] worked as a housemaid at Barton Hall. In 1868, she married Edgar Calthorpe, Charles Bunbury’s valet, but in the 1871 census lived at Laundry Houses with their daughter, Margaret, whilst Edgar lived at Barton Hall. When Edgar died in 1877 at the age of 34, he left effects ‘worth under £450’. In 1891, Rachel lived at New Cottages, Turnpike Road, and worked as a laundress.

Mary Marriott (1842-1924), the daughter of the village blacksmith, married James Cawston (1843-1919) from Great Whelnetham in 1869. James worked as a police constable in Freckenham and then Haughley and, after his retirement during the 1890s, as an auxiliary postman.  They had five children, one of whom worked as a postman. James died in 1919 and Mary five years later.

Anne Middleditch (1833-1918) never married and worked as a cook all her life. In 1871, she worked for Benjamin Danson, a brewer, who lived at Acton, Middlesex. From 1881, she worked for Richard W. Thomas, a pharmaceutical chemist, who lived at Lawn House, Atkins Road, Clapham, and after his death during the 1880s, moved with his widow to an 11-roomed house at 72, Christchurch Road, Streatham, where she was still working as a cook in 1911 at the age of 78.

Sarah Middleditch (1839-1911) married Robert Fricker in 1875 at Clapham Park. Robert, a widower with four children, came from Tedworth, Wiltshire. Sarah and Robert lived at various addresses in Streatham, where Robert worked as a coach maker and then as a cab proprietor. Their son, Henry, became a groom and then a coachman, whilst their daughter, Annie, lived at home and worked as a dressmaker and later as an assistant in a dairy shop.

Eliza Morley (1839-?) married William Long from Thurston in 1867 and they moved to Bury St Edmunds. They lived at 6, Eastgate in 1871 where William worked as a bricklayer’s labourer and Eliza as a tailoress. In 1881, they lived at 71, Eastgate and William was a porter at a printing office. They had at least three children.

Ann Morris (1841-1906) [487] was the oldest of nine children. She lived at home and helped her mother until her marriage in 1862 to Charles Hailstone, a farm labourer from Pakenham. At first, they lived in Great Barton where their first child Morris was born and then they moved to Bridge Street in Pakenham at the end of the 1860s. They moved back to Great Barton during the 1870s and lived in Red House in Livermere Road, a two-up two-down cottage, where they brought up five children.

Ann Pawsey (1843-?) worked as a housemaid at the Rectory at Stratford St Mary in 1871, for Revd Henry Golding Palmer, whose family owned Holme Park, a large estate at Sonning in Berkshire, which has been the home of the Reading Blue Coat School since 1947. In 1879, Revd Henry inherited Holme Park, where Ann worked as a lady’s maid in 1891. Revd Henry died in 1897, leaving effects worth nearly £160,000, His widow, Mary Golding Palmer, did not inherit Holme Park, so she moved to a 30-roomed house at Queen’s Gate in Kensington, where her 12 servants included a new lady’s maid. Ann moved to Great Stambridge and lived with her sister, Frances (see below)

Elizabeth Pawsey (1839-?) was the only person in this group to marry her employer.  She left Great Barton during the 1860s and went to work in Paddington as the housekeeper for Charles Golding, an accountant from Bury St Edmunds, who was her senior by 16 years. They married, continued to live in Paddington, employed a servant and had two daughters – Florence who became a music teacher and Bertha a teacher of music and drawing. During the late 1870s, they moved to Colchester, where Charles worked as a bookseller. He ran a bookshop at 1 Museum Street, Colchester, in 1891 and at 47 Sepulchre Street in Sudbury in 1901.

Emily Pawsey (1841-1917) married Henry Snelling, a tailor, in 1861, and she worked as a tailoress. They moved to Braintree, Essex, where she had 11 children, at least three of whom worked as tailors and tailoresses.

Fanny Pawsey (1845-1934) married Henry Thomas Foulger (1842-1909) in London on 4 September 1873 at St Bride’s Church in Fleet Street and her sister, Elizabeth, (see above) was one of her witnesses. Fanny already had two young sons one of whom, Albert, was brought up by Fanny’s parents. Henry Foulger, who came from Great Barton, worked as a servant at Hedley Lodge, North Hornchurch, in 1871 but after their marriage, Fanny and Henry moved to 16, Barton Street in Horton in Bradford with her youngest son William, where Henry worked as a general labourer and William in a mill. During the 1880s, Fanny and Henry moved to Brighton and Henry worked as a coachman until his death in 1909 after which Fanny worked as a housekeeper in Brighton.

Frances Pawsey (1848-1910), worked as a general servant at Felstead, Essex, where she met and married Joseph Marriage, a coachman who became a farmer. Ann came to live with them in 1897 at Brick House Farm, Great Stambridge, Essex. After Frances’s death, Ann continued to live with Joseph, who by then had moved to Downham Hall Farm at Billericay, Essex.

Jane Pawsey (1842-1928) [701] married Nathan Sexton (1843-1924) [668] who lived at Cattishall and had been working as a farm labourer since the age of seven. They moved in with his recently widowed 78-year-old father, who was a pauper. Nathan worked as a shepherd until the 1900s and then as a farm labourer in 1911, at which time they were living in a six-roomed house at Cherry Tree Cottages in Mount Road, Great Barton.

Lucy Pawsey (1844-1871) [47] was the daughter of Sarah and John Pawsey, a farm labourer. Lucy lived with her parents at Shinham Cottages, Great Barton, and appeared on the admission register for UK lunacy patients as having been admitted to Suffolk Asylum on 22 July 1871, where she died on 29 August 1871.

Mary Ann Pawsey (1840-1923) [662] married Henry Hunt (1841-1916) [584] in 1865. They moved into a three-roomed cottage in Conyer’s Green, three doors from Henry’s parents, where they brought up six children. Henry worked as a farm labourer until 1901 and then as a gardener and general labourer.

Phoebe Pawsey (1847-1897) [391] married Robert Bishop (1846-1898) [404] in January 1867 (see Descendants of Robert Bishop and Sarah Knights – https://bertunaschildren.com)

Eleanor Pearson (1837-1920) [620] married Robert Sturgeon (1833-1920) [618] in 1858. They had two sons and a daughter and Robert was a church clerk and sexton with the help of his wife for 52 years and one of the bell ringers at Holy Innocents Church for more than 50 years. Robert was buried in the churchyard at Great Barton on 20 February 1920 and Eleanor 14 weeks later on 4 May 1920.

Jane Pentney (1840-1864) married Frederick Foulger (1838-1903) [458] a farm worker in 1859 and moved to Conyers Green, next door to Frederick’s family. They had a son and two daughters before her death in 1864 at the age of 24.

Jane Phillips (1844-?) had at least ten brothers and sisters and, at the age of 17, lived at home, and worked as a net maker. In 1861, she married Henry Goldspink from Rougham, who was a groom and gardener, and they moved to a house in the High Street in Ixworth. They moved frequently and lived in Oulton in Yorkshire in 1867, Ixworth in 1871, Southsea, Hampshire in 1878 and Pakenham in 1891. After Henry’s death in 1900, Jane moved back to Great Barton and shared a four-roomed cottage at Conyers Green with her deaf brother, Frederick, and her granddaughter, Babba Foreman. The 1901 census recorded her as a housekeeper.

Sarah Phillips (1842-1924) worked as a kitchen maid at Rushbrooke Manor for Robert Rushbrooke, a soldier and a landed proprietor, who employed at least nine servants. In 1862, she married Samuel Revens from Drinkstone, a farm labourer, who worked as a bird boy when he was ten years old and then as a farm labourer, although for some years around 1891, he was the assistant gamekeeper to Captain Thomas Powell at Drinkstone Park. Sarah and Samuel moved into a four-roomed cottage in Cross Street, Drinkstone, and had 16 children during the next 28 years. After Samuel died in 1906, Sarah lived in the same house at Drinkstone with her 32-year-old son, Joseph, a farm labourer.

Susannah Pollintine (1839-1909) married William Hardingham (1843-1921) from Woolpit on 26 April 1863 and worked as a dressmaker for most of her life. They lived in Woolpit where William worked as a brickmaker and tile maker and then as a foreman at a Woolpit brickyard. Woolpit was an important centre for the production of bricks during the nineteenth century and there were four recorded brick yards in Woolpit, Suffolk, including Woolpit Brick & Tile Co. at Kiln Farm Brick Kilns yard which operated from 1883 to 1937. Susannah already had a daughter, Fanny (1860-1881), when they married and Susannah and William  had three more children. Harriet (b.1866) worked as a dressmaker. Their son, Clement (b.1871), worked as a brickmaker in 1891, as a harness maker in 1901 and as a brickmaker in 1911. He married Eleanor Kate Plummer in 1902. After the death of her mother, Lily (b. 1874), the youngest child, was widowed in 1911 and lived with her father in Kiln Lane, Woolpit. Susannah and William were buried in St Mary’s Churchyard, Woolpit.

Elizabeth Ann Plummer (1847-1920) [618] was the daughter of William George Plummer, the village schoolmaster. She stayed at school until she was at least 14 and then worked as a housemaid for the Jackson family at Fornham All Saints, Suffolk. After she married Frederick Sturgeon, a farm labourer, in 1874, they moved to Ingham. Twenty years later, they moved into a three-roomed cottage at East Barton in 1911. They had eight children the eldest of whom was blind from childhood and worked as a basket maker at the age of 20 and as a tea agent at the age of 30.

Amelia Rolfe (1839-1923) was one of the daughters of John Rolfe, a village carpenter and a granddaughter of a wheelwright. She immigrated to Queensland, Australia, in 1872 (see Bertuna’s Children: The History of Education in a Suffolk Village by Sue Spiller p. 98).

Susannah Rolfe (1840-1933) [755] was one of the daughters of John Rolfe, a village carpenter and a granddaughter of a wheelwright. She lived with her parents until their deaths during the 1880s and then lived on her ‘own means’. In 1894, she witnessed the death certificate of her neighbour Susan Kerry, the village schoolmistress. She never married and died in July 1933 at the age of 95. She had two brothers and six sisters, one of whom, Elizabeth, worked as a kitchen maid at the Rectory at Glemsford in 1861.

Sarah Sargeant (1841-1915) [582] married James Hunt (1842-1908) [507], a farm labourer, in 1870. They lived in Great Barton all their lives at Poplar Grove (1871), Barracks Cottages (1881 and 1891) and a four-roomed cottage at Shinham Bridge (1901 and 1911). They brought up two daughters, Harriett and Kate, and a son, Arthur Frederick (1877-1948), who lived at home until October 1911, when he married Frances Agnes Byford (1892-1989) who came from Ixworth.

Phoebe Ann Simmonds (1846-1912) [555] worked as a kitchen maid for Jonathan Cooper at Manor Farm, Great Barton. She married Sarah’s brother, Jeremiah Garwood (1848-1929) [714], and they moved to the cottages near Holy Innocents’ Church, Great Barton, and brought up seven children.

Elizabeth Steward (1843-1911) [542] worked at Cattishall Farm as a housemaid for Henry Denton until her marriage in 1868 to David Wells, from Whepstead. They moved to Bury St Edmunds, where David worked as a journeyman maltster, a carter and a general labourer for a corn merchant. During the 1900s, they moved back to a three-roomed cottage in East Barton, where David worked as a farm labourer.

Martha Steward (1839-1913) lived with her mother, until her marriage in 1859 to Theophilas Cutting (1837-1905) from Timworth. She moved to Pollintine’s Court, next door to her mother, and then to Wordwell, Suffolk. Theophilus worked as a farm worker and then a shepherd.  They had seven children of whom their eldest son, Walter, worked as a bird boy at the age of ten and then a farm worker, while his brother Herbert worked as a shepherd’s page at the age of 18 before becoming a shepherd. After Theophilus died, Martha moved to a house in North Stow, Wordwell, with her youngest son, Herbert.

Louisa Strutton (1842-1917) [600] was recorded as a ‘scholar’ in the 1861 census at the age of 18, so she may have been a pupil monitor, helping Susan Kerry, the schoolmistress. In 1879, she married Samuel Curry, a labourer from Hengrave and they lived in Holy Houses in the Park, Great Barton. Their only child, William (1881-1908) [509] worked as a farm labourer. Samuel worked as a general labourer (1881) and as a farm labourer (1891 and 1901). He died during the 1900s and Louisa moved to one of the Widows’ Homes in Great Barton and worked as a seamstress.

Sarah Ann Sturgeon (1839-1916) [587] married James Calver (1834-1908) [514 in 1859. James, who was from Great Barton, worked as a farm labourer and they lived in a three-roomed cottage at Conyers Green and brought up four children. In 1911, Sarah was a widow, in receipt of an old age pension and living at Conyers Green with her daughter Damaris (1876-1933) who never married.

Emma Trudgett (1845-1874) was the youngest of five children of William and Elizabeth Trudgett. Emma’s mother died in 1859 and a year later, her father married Amelia Last, a widow from Great Barton, who already had two children. Emma’s oldest sister Harriet worked in Bury St Edmunds as a general servant for Edward Garrod, a newspaper reporter, and moved with the family to Heigham in Norfolk when Edward was promoted to a newspaper editor.  Emma joined them as a second general servant but the job was short-lived because, after Edward Garrod died in 1861 leaving effects ‘worth under £450’, the family no longer employed any living-in servants. Harriet found work as a housekeeper in St Mary’s Square, Bury St Edmunds and then as a servant to James Dunnett a medical dispenser in Orchard Street before moving to London to live with her brother, Stephen, who worked as a cab proprietor. In 1869, Emma married Samuel Roper, a horticultural engineer, and moved to Bury St Edmunds. In 1871, their two children were looked after by a 14-year-old nursemaid and Emma died three years later at the age of 29.

Miriam Wenlock (1839-1882) married John Bantock, the son of a butcher from Ixworth, and they lived at various addresses in Bury St Edmunds, where Miriam worked as an upholsterer and John as a groom.

Ann Wright (1845-1926) lived at home and worked as a needlewoman until she went to work for the Rector of Ringshall as a cook. In 1873, she married Robert Williams, from Buxhall, who was a farm bailiff at Slough Farm, Little Waldingfield, near Sudbury. During the 1880s, they moved into an eleven-roomed farmhouse at Valley Farm at Buxhall with Robert’s parents, and Robert worked on the farm with his blind father. After his father died, Robert and Ann ran the farm with help from their two nieces, Agnes and Hilda.  Robert died in 1922 leaving effects valued at £4,266. 3s. 4d., which enabled Ann to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle until her death four years later at the age of 82, when she left £4,113. 13s. in her will.