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Brown

John


 

  

 

 

Maryanne

 

 

Martin

 

 

Julia

 

 

Ellen

 

 

Emma

 

 

Arthur

 

 

Eliza

John and Maryanne Brown had lived in this cottage, but moved to Oak Tree Cottage at the same time as George and Charlotte Gosling came to the east end of the cottage. (Altogether there were three families here - how, we might wonder, did the large Brown family cope in these cramped conditions ?)

Bruce

William

52

 

Ellen

41

 

Ellen

17.2.56

Maltster William Bruce the younger lived here with his wife Ellen (1829-1892). He was born in 1818 in Aldham, as was his father William (born 1796). As well as his work at the maltings next to the smithy of Daniel and John Claydon, he also worked in later years as a farmer.  Ellen was a Gage, the daughter of Henry Martin and sister of Frederick at Jackdaws Ford.

Their daughter Ellen was born in Monks Eleigh. Their son William, also a maltster, lived at Chestnut Cottage across from the old maltings, together with his widowed grandmother, Jane (née Farthing).

William died in 1900 aged 81. Together with his wife and daughter, his memory is kept alive in the gravestones near the entrance to the churchyard, on the left.          

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Goymer

William

51

 

 

Mary

53

William Goymer (1813-1884) was the eldest of the three farm labourer brothers still living in Chelsworth at this time, sons of John (died 1841) and Ann (Griggs), who lived from 1780 until 1861. William married Mary Ann Smith (1821-1878) in 1855 but it appears that they had no children. She was the daughter of James Smith of Boxford.

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Farthing

Joseph

 

 

 

Hannah

 

 

Gosling

George

32

 

 

Charlotte

15.4.39

This was formerly the home of Joseph Farthing (born in Chelsworth in 1827, the brother of James at the house we call "Listers" and his wife Hannah (née Jacobs, born in Bildeston in 1834). But at the time of the survey they had just moved away from the village, making way for George and Charlotte Gosling from Oak Tree Cottage.

George, a gardener, was the sixth of ten children of Thomas and Jane Gosling. Thomas (1800-1867) was also a gardener, and married Jane Howell of Felsham (1801-1870) in 1824. He was the younger brother of Isaac (1794-1869), and so George was the cousin of Isaac junior of Marshes. His mother Jane lived with them until her death in this survey year of 1870. 

Charlotte was born in 1841, three years after her husband, and appears to have come from Newbury. The couple generally lived away from Chelsworth - they had no children christened here, although in 1871 they were caring for their nephew Charles, who was born here, the son of George’s unmarried sister, Isabella - and they ended their lives in Leiston, where in 1881 they worked as gardener and cook.

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