XVI The Cottages we call "Days"
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Abbott |
George |
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Eliza |
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George Abbott was born in Hitcham
in 1828, the son of George and Jemima (Wright) Abbott of The Cottage in
Parsonage Lane and grandson of George and Sarah (Roper) Abbott. He was a
labourer and latterly a gamekeeper.
Eliza Abbott was from Swilland, born in 1827. She died in 1878 aged 53, and
George’s second wife was Sarah Ann from Shipdham, born in 1852.
We do not know if George had any children by his first wife, but he
seems to have fathered two by his second, by which time he was 52 years old.
George Abbott's sister Sarah - he had no other siblings, it appears -
married Abraham Harvey, the elder brother of Robert and Jacob. They had ten children born between 1850 and
1869 in Hadleigh.
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Death |
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Vacant |
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The middle part of "Days" was vacant at
this time, as John Barton (1805-1870), an
agricultural labourer, had just died. He was the brother of Letitia at the Bungalow on The Common, Edward (1807-1863) and James
(1803-1864). With his wife Eliza, born in Nedging in 1811, by
whom he had five children, he does not appear in the records after 1851, but
presumably they returned to Chelsworth in his last years, as they are both
buried in the churchyard of All Saints.
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Brown |
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53 |
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John |
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Peter |
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Thomas |
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Phoebe Brown, born Phoebe Nice in Nedging in 1817,
lived for many years after the death of her husband Thomas, who died in
the 1850s, we cannot trace exactly where or when.
Thomas was a labourer (although the end of the
cottages where Phoebe lived also contained a butcher’s shop - it was possibly
neighbour Smith Gage's, as this was the earliest home of the Gages in
Chelsworth). Also born in 1817, Thomas Brown was the son of Thomas (1789-1827)
and Mary née Frost (1787-1847), and grandson of Thomas and Hannah Brown. John
Brown at Tudor Cottage was probably his uncle.
Their son George, a groom, born in Nedging in 1840,
is not present in this survey. In 1877 he married Fanny London of Chestnut Cottage and went with her to
Bildeston, where she died soon after bearing their child Annie.
Peter and Thomas were both cocoa mat shearers, and
John was a gardener’s labourer, moving in due course to Heath Cottage in Great
Waldingfield.
Phoebe had nine children with Thomas, and died in 1896 at the age of
79.
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