IX The Cottage we call "Goslings"
This cottage was burned down in 1935 and replaced by Les Leeder’s
"Bueno Vista".
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Hammond |
John |
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Sarah |
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Nathaniel |
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Walter |
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James |
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Henry |
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Mahalia |
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The western end of the cottage was the home of John and Sarah
Hammond and their five children, all of whom had been christened in
Lindsey. John was a farmworker, born here in 1815, and the son of John Hammond
and Mary (née Driver), who married in 1810. Sarah herself was from Semer,
where the family is found in 1881.
Three years after this survey, their daughter Harriet was to marry
Harry Goymer, son of James of Deysfield. Nathaniel
married Charlotte Hollox of Monks Eleigh in 1875 and moved to Lower Canada,
Lindsey. Walter later appears as a farm labourer at Howell’s Farm, on the
Boxford Road at Newton.
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Browne |
William |
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Susan |
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William |
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George |
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John |
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Maryanne |
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Frederick |
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Sarah |
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Eliza |
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Between the Hammonds and the schoolroom lived the
large family of William and Susan Brown. William was a
farm labourer. His wife was Susan Goodall (1828-1896) from Milden;
they were married in 1852.
William Brown was born in 1827, the eldest son of
Susan (née Finch, from Waldingfield: 1806-1861) and labourer John Brown,
1800-1874, who lived at Tudor Cottage. They
were married in 1826. William Brown was the brother of John (Oak Tree Cottage) and Hannah Poulson (Deysfield), and the cousin of Thomas, whose widow
Phoebe lived at "Days". William died in 1901
at the age of 74.
An older daughter Susanna is found in 1881 in
Streatham working as a housemaid, and William and Susan’s youngest child Eliza
(born in 1868, and one of twins), was a general servant at Nedging Mill House.
In later life she was to be the grandmother of Greta Maroni, of Perth,
Australia, who has been a keen researcher into her family’s roots in this
country.
Page 37 School
At the eastern end of the cottage was the schoolroom, built by Smith Gage, where Susan Disney of Church View used to teach. The room was about to be made redundant at the time of the survey following the construction of the new schoolhouse.
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