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Partridge

Susan

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Sarah Partridge was a widow of 76 in 1870, but she had been a shopkeeper - a grocer and baker - on these premises; much later, Amos Grainger recalled buying sweets there.

She was christened Sarah in Chelsworth church in 1793, another daughter of Robert and Sarah Raynham. The survey was in error - not for the only time - in naming her as Susan. In fact, Susan, born in 1800, was her younger sister, who later became Susan Scott, the mother of Zachariah at Meadow Cottage.

Sarah married Robert Partridge, a gardener and labourer, in 1839 when she was already 45 and he was 40. He was the son of William Partridge, and he died in 1850, leaving her in his will certain cottages and other property in Monks Eleigh which he had recently purchased from a John Harris. Sarah lived to the age of 87.

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		Elizabeth

Isaac (1821-1892) and Elizabeth Gosling were the parents of John of Weavers and James of Deysfield. Elizabeth was born in Langham in 1822, and the couple were married in about 1843. Isaac, described elsewhere as a "higgler", worked as a labourer and general dealer. He was the son of Elizabeth Street (who died in 1828) and Isaac (1793-1869), a labourer.

Isaac and Elizabeth (the younger) had a family of five children, of whom the one still living with them (yet another Elizabeth) was born in 1849. Elizabeth senior died in 1891 aged 68.

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