XIII Church View

Page 49	Disney	Susan	69
	Osborne	(F)	68

 Susan Disney (née Albon) was born in Acton in about 1802. She was the widow of Edward, a shoemaker from Wiston, and she had worked as governess and schoolmistress (teaching in the "Dame's School" at the near end of Goslings). They married in 1822, and had two children. He died in 1858 aged 58.

The pencilled entry mentions a widow called Osborne (no forename) aged 68. This was probably Thirza Osborne, who appears in the 1851 census as an annuitant, born in "Gidden" in 1798.

Page 51	Herbert	Peter	46
		Emma	46
		Charles	29.11.49
		Annie
		Henrietta	2.8.56
		Emma	24.8.58
		Sophia	16.12.60
		Catherine	8.1.63
		Arthur

Peter and Emma Herbert were another couple with few connections to Chelsworth. He was from Stratford St Mary, and Emma was born in Langham in 1823. He was a groom or coachman, and he died in 1899 aged 66.

In the 1870 survey, they appear with a family of seven, with ages ranging from 20 down to 7. Their two youngest children were christened here, but earlier children were born in Stratford St Mary and Polstead.

Annie was born in 1854 and soon after this survey went into service with Miss Pocklington at The Grange. In 1886 Arthur Brown married Alice Rush in Thorpe Morieux and he later became landlord of The Bull there.

Gravestones in the churchyard record, with familiar loving quotations, the lives of both Emma and Peter Herbert, as well as of Ann Herbert (1808-1901) - probably Peter’s mother - and Emma Alice Herbert who died in 1939 aged 80.

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