XXI The Cottage in The Street

Page 79	Chinnery	(F)	63
		Walter	20
	Dent	Susan	52	relative

Elizabeth, widow of Alfred Chinery (1807-1865) lived here with her unmarried sister Susan Dent and her son Walter, a bricklayer. Susan had been a dairymaid, and Elizabeth still worked as a charwoman. Both Elizabeth and Alfred have tombstones in the churchyard, close to the well-cared for Green memorials.

Alfred, a stableman, married Elizabeth Dent in 1831. He was from Wetherden and she appears to have come from Monks Eleigh, although one record suggests that like Susan she was born in Little Waldingfield. She died in 1876 at the age of 69, and Susan in 1896 aged 78. The latter's will bequeathed money to her nephews and nieces, children of Alfred and Elizabeth and of her two late brothers.

Alfred and Elizabeth had ten children born between 1831 and 1853, including carpenter Walter (above) and Alfred junior, who lived in the other half of the cottage. Charles, born in 1847, was later to be found far away in Hartford, Cheshire, with his wife Sarah from Birkenhead and three children, and working as a coachman.

Page 81	Chinnery	Alfred	30
		Emma	34
		John	3.1.69

The name of the younger Alfred’s wife is wrongly given in the survey - it was not Emma but Emily (née Sterne). She was born in Boxford in 1836. Although they had but one surviving child at this time, following their marriage in 1866, Alfred and Emily went on to bring up a family of seven.

Emily died in 1888 but Alfred married again (in 1893, to Ann Sarah Lister, the widow of James of The White House) and lived till 1901 when he was 61 years old.

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