XXIV Bridge Farm

Page 93	Strutt	William	55
		Sophia	53
		William	25
		Martha	17

William and Sophia Strutt were incomers from Layham, where their three children were born. William, a farmer, was originally from Hadleigh, where he was born in 1810, the son of William and Alice. His wife, nine years younger, was from Hitcham.

William died in 1887, and his body lies in a vault on the South side of Lindsey parish church. The epitaph proudly states that he was "formerly of Overbury Hall".

William junior left East Anglia and by 1881 he was in Rivington, Lancashire, a "retired farmer" at the age of 40.

This entry originally showed, in pencil, the names of Frederick Gage and his family; whether this was just an error, or a record that the Gages did once live here, we do not know.

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