XXXIII Princhetts - The Rectory

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		Maryanne	53
		Thomas
		Augusta	26
		Catherine	25
		John	24

The Rector of Chelsworth, Thomas Platten (also a JP) lived here with his wife Maryanne and four children, born variously in Saffron Walden and Earls Colne. Thomas the younger became the vicar of Hindringham in Norfolk, near North Barsham where his father’s brother John was the rector.

In addition to their four children, they had three female and one male servants - none of them identified in the survey, but the 1871 census names one as Jane Johnson, daughter of Martin of Swift's Garden who by 1881 was a housemaid in Letheringham.

Thomas was born in "Lynn Regis" in 1813 and his wife in Grimstone in 1817. He died here in 1880, and Maryanne in 1902, in Ealing. In his will, Thomas left property in Norfolk for the benefit of his son John Henry - probably unable to manage his own affairs - then to his three other children.

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