XXVI Rush Cottage

Page 97	Harvey	James	54
		Sarah	59
		Rebecca	16

Up in the new poorhouse on the Lindsey road (built in the 1840s to replace the almshouse near the centre of the village) lived James and Sarah Harvey with their youngest daughter Rebecca.

Sarah was from Little Clacton, Essex, but her maiden name was Herbert and she may have been related to Peter Herbert of Church View who was from Stratford St Mary on the Suffolk/Essex border. James and Sarah were married in 1838, and had three children christened in Chelsworth in the early 1840s, plus four more christened elsewhere, though apparently born in the village.

James (1815-1880) was born in Nedging, the brother of Jacob the elder, and so the uncle of Jacob at Mouses and Robert at "Listers". His parents were James (1781-1859) and Ann Maria (née Gosling), who came from Hitcham and Naughton respectively. He worked as a farm labourer.

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