XVIII The White House

Page 69	Lister	Jas	42
		Sarah Anne	38
		George	12
		Maria

A fine house, but the entry (in pencil only, indicating perhaps that it was an odd case) shows only farm labourer James Lister and his wife Sarah Ann living here.

The house, along with others, was bought in 1844 by the Lord of the Manor, Marton Robert Pocklington, and it may have been intended for use by his senior farm workers - in 1861 it was occupied by his farm steward George Ambrose.

Sarah Ann Lister was born in Bildeston in 1833, the daughter of John Haste, and she married James in 1857. Over a period of 16 years, they had just three children, including Maria (1863) and Frederick (1873).

James was the son of George, a labourer living in Whistlecraft's, and Elizabeth (who was born in Bildeston in 1792 and had died in 1859), and grandson of Thomas and Hannah Lister. He died in 1888 aged 59, and his widow married again in 1893 - her new husband being Alfred Chinery living at The Cottage in the Street.

Maria Lister, born in 1863, later went to Barrards as a housemaid, and George was a groom in Bures St Mary in 1881.

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