X Riverside

Page 39	Raynham	Thomas	67
		Elizabeth	66
		Thomas	37
		Emma	34
		William	26.2.60
		Elizabeth	24.8.68

Thomas Raynham, a thatcher, married Elizabeth Playford of Bildeston in about 1823. They had seven children, including Margaret who married Robert Pallant.

William and Elizabeth were their grandchildren, who were not christened here; it is not clear who their mother was (perhaps Emma ?).

Emma and her mother Elizabeth both appear in the 1871 census as "laundress" and Thomas was a carpenter. The eldest surviving son, John Playford Raynham, was a gardener away in Stradishall in 1881.

Page 41 "vacant"

According to the index to the ledger, this used to be the home of the widow Gosling - Jane, formerly Howell, the widow of gardener Thomas. However, the next sheet suggests that she had lived next door at Oak Tree Cottage with her sons Charles and George, together with the latter’s wife Charlotte.

Thomas had died in 1867, and Jane herself died in 1870.

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