V Meadow Cottage

Page 17	Boggis	John	55
		Emily	53

John Boggis was a shopkeeper and grocer from Thorpe Morieux, born in 1815, and his wife Emily, two years his junior, was from Mickfield. It is not clear whether they actually ran one of the shops in the village.

John died in Chelsworth in 1889, and Emily spent her last days on parish relief, dying in Semer Workhouse in 1895.

Page 19	Raynham	William	60
		Maryanne	56
		John	23
		Arthur	14

William Raynham (1809-1872) was the son of Thomas and Susan Raynham, and like his father and his elder brother at Riverside (also called Thomas), he was a thatcher by trade. He also served as parish clerk.

William’s wife Maryann appears to have been the daughter of unmarried Mary Raynham, and grand-daughter of Robert, his father’s half-brother. Three of their first four children died in childhood. In 1865, their daughter Ann Maria had married butcher William Cutter, who worked (as surviving photographs show) at Bryants shop - later Drages - in Monks Eleigh.

William himself died soon after this survey was carried out.

Scott

Zachariah

Death

Zachariah Scott lived here with William and Maryanne Raynham and their family, to whom he was related - as were Robert Pallant, the carpenter living at The Owls, and Sarah Partridge at Marshes.

He was born in Kettlebaston in 1828, the child of Maryanne’s aunt Susan Scott and her husband John. She was born here in 1800, the daughter of Robert Raynham. Zachariah worked as a thatcher’s labourer, and never married. It appears that he had just died, but he was not buried in Chelsworth.

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