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"Here lyeth buryed the Bodys of Syre John Spelman Knyght and Secondary Justice of the Kyngs Bench, and Dame Elizabeth his wyfe, which had riii Sonnes and vii Danghters of there Bodyes between them begitten, the which Syr John decessyd the 26th day of February, in the yere of our Lord God 1545 , and the said Dame Elizabeth decessyd the 5th day of November, in the yere of our Lord 1536 , on whose Sowls Jesu have Mercy, Amen"
John's scroll reads - Jesu Fili Dei, misecere mei. (Jesus son of God, have mercy on me)
Elizabeth's scroll reads - Salbator M...., memento mei. (Saviour, remember me)
Elizabeth's cloak has the arms of Frowyk and Sturgeon quarterly.
Above them is Christ rising from the tomb
Sir John Spelman dressed in his judge's robes. He was a successful barrister, & a Justice of the King's Bench being present at the trial of Sir Thomas More. He rebuilt Narborough Hall
He was the 3rd son of Henry Spelman 1496 & Ela www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/t4X4td heiress daughter of William Narborough. He was heir to his 2 elder brothers William & Henry who died without issue
He m Elizabeth Frowyke 1479-1557 co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
She was the grand daughter of Thomas Frowyke & heiress Joanna Sturgeon
Children - 13 sons & 7 daughters
1. Henry died an infant
2. John 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/CqWT01 Margaret 1558 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQ
3. Francis ,clerk ,1578
4. Erasmus 1512- after 1567 of Beeston m Ursula daughter of Edward Baynton of Devizes Wilts & Elizabeth Sulliard / Sulyard: Ursula was the widow of Edmund Thoresby of Lyn
5. Henry 1581 of Congham m1 Anne Knyvett dsp c1560 daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvet 1512 of Buckenham, Norfolk, by Muriel Howard 1512 widow of John Grey, Viscount Lisle 1504, and daughter of Thomas Howard 1524' 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by 1st wife, Elizabeth Tilney flic.kr/p/PsVFj m2 Frances 1622 daughter of William Saunders 1571 of Ewell & 1st wife Joan 1539 co-heir of William Marston 1512 of Horton near Epsom, Surrey, by Beatrice / Beatrix Barlee, (Joan was the widow of Nicholas Mynne 1528)
6. Michael b1521 of Whinburgh m Margaret daughter of George Duke of Brampton Suffolk
7. Jerome 1576
8. William m Catherine daughter of Cornelius von Stonhove, a judge in Holland.
1. Elizabeth m 1531 Edmund son of Thomas de Grey by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard fitz Lewes flic.kr/p/zrXg1r of Ingrave & Thorndon Essex & 1st wife Alice daughter of John Harleston of Shimpling by Margery Bardwell
2. Dorothy 1508-1552 m1 1524 William Cobb m2 Thomas son of Sir John Heydon and Catherine Willoughby flic.kr/p/kbg35T of Baconsthorpe
3. Ella 1515-1564 m George Jerningham / Jernegan; 1515-1559 eldest son of Sir John Jermingham of Somerleyton by Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead; Grandson of Sir Robert Drury and Ann Calthorpe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4258436115/
4. Bridget 1599 m (2nd wife) Osbert of Feltwell flic.kr/p/VDAF1M son of Francis Mundeford / Moundeford / Monford and Margaret Thoresby flic.kr/p/Vs7DsK
5. Martha m Alexander Brockdish of Brockdish
6. Alice m Francis Soame of Wantisden Suffolk
7 Anne died unmarried
www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-63-400.pdf
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6... - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Sacred to the memory
……….of…………..
the men of this parish
who fell in the Great War
……1914-1918…….
FREDERICK T. ALDRED
GEORGE W.BARNES
ALBERT V.BEDWELL
GEORGE BEDWELL
SAMUEL F.BRIGGS
GEORGE CHAPMAN
JOHN M. CHAPMAN
ARTHUR HAYWARD
ALBERT E.KEEBLE
WALTER W.KEEBLE
BERTIE MILES
FREDERICK R. ROOKYARD
ALBERT G. SMITH
SPENCER H. SMITH
Wm GORDON SMITH
ARTHUR STANNARD
FREDERICK STANNARD
STANLEY A.G.STANNARD
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR
RICHARD WOODS
________________________
“They were a wall unto us both
by night and day.” 1.Samuel 25.16
________________________
1939 – 1946
CLAUDE A. CHAPMAN
HAROLD A.P.COLE
LESLIE A.LING
JOHN H.NUNN
PETER A.P. SHELDRICK
Also ERNEST H. BARKER, Civil Defence.
This memorial is erected
in appreciation by parishioners
who mourn their loss.
There is also a memorial in the church which includes several additional names.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Wetheringsett.html
For more on each name see comments below.
Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Died in the Great War
Hartismere was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage.
Sacred to the memory
……….of…………..
the men of this parish
who fell in the Great War
……1914-1918…….
FREDERICK T. ALDRED
GEORGE W.BARNES
ALBERT V.BEDWELL
GEORGE BEDWELL
SAMUEL F.BRIGGS
GEORGE CHAPMAN
JOHN M. CHAPMAN
ARTHUR HAYWARD
ALBERT E.KEEBLE
WALTER W.KEEBLE
BERTIE MILES
FREDERICK R. ROOKYARD
ALBERT G. SMITH
SPENCER H. SMITH
Wm GORDON SMITH
ARTHUR STANNARD
FREDERICK STANNARD
STANLEY A.G.STANNARD
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR
RICHARD WOODS
________________________
“They were a wall unto us both
by night and day.” 1.Samuel 25.16
________________________
1939 – 1946
CLAUDE A. CHAPMAN
HAROLD A.P.COLE
LESLIE A.LING
JOHN H.NUNN
PETER A.P. SHELDRICK
Also ERNEST H. BARKER, Civil Defence.
This memorial is erected
in appreciation by parishioners
who mourn their loss.
There is also a memorial in the church which includes several additional names.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Wetheringsett.html
For more on each name see comments below.
Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Died in the Great War
Hartismere was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage.
A soldier from the Home Guard. Taken at the Mid Suffolk Railway's "Middy at War" event on 3rd May 2010.
Shields detail - Over John - 1st Quarterly in 1st and 4th arg. on a chevron in a bordure ingrailed sab. bezant three quaterfoils arg. (Eyre), in the 2d and 3d Townsend.
Middle quarterly Eyre and Spelman, escutcheon,
Over Margaret - quarterly Eyre and Townsend; impaling 1st, Blennerhasset, and his quarterings in the second place Lowdham. In the fourth Orton. In the fifth Skelton, and in the 6th and last quarter, Bleverhasset.
"Here do lye John Eyer, late Receyvor Generale to Elizabethe the Quenes Majestie in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cantabridge, and Huntynton, and one of the Maisters of her hyghe Court of Chancerye, and Margaret his Wyfe, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Bleverhaiset of Frens Knight, late Wyfe of John Spelman Esquire, Sone and Heyre apparent of Syr John Spelman Knyght, which John Eyre dy'd the xxth Daye of May, the Yere of our Lord MV LXI. and in the thirde Yere of the Raing of Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faithe, and the said Margaret dy'd the xvth Day of December in the Yere of our Lord MDLVIII".
Margaret 1558 was the daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQ
She m1 John Spelman 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/76C330 only son of Judge Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
Children - 2 sons & 2 daughters
1. Thomas dsp
2. John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H69W16 m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures m2 Catherine, daughter of William Saunders of Ewell in Surrey
She m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 <of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
John Eyre was a great purchaser of religious houses that were dissolved by King Henry VIII. and bought of that King, the Friars Carmelites, the Gray Friers, the Friars Preachers or Black Friars, and the Augustin Friars at Lynn, &c. He also possessed Bury abbey. - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Standing between the symbols of faith hope and charity, John Simson 1697, monument erected to his beloved friend "amici sui peramantissimi” by Rev John Sheppard of Wetheringsett. At his death Simson left a perpetual charge on land and farms in Debenham and Framlingham to provide 42 wheaten loaves every Sunday for the poor, , also coats of light grey cloth for 8 poor men and gowns for 6 poor women on Christmas Day each year.
Child on the left “Esurivi enim,” witha sheaf of corn; “Nudus eram,”- boy on the right holds the edges of a cloak alludes to the reward for those who fed the hungry and clothed the naked
John Simson an apothecary had no claim to bear arms unlike John Sheppard who placed his Sheppard arms of 3 hounds holding arrows in their mouths underneath the effigy www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849295634/ . The carving on the black basalt lid of the tomb-chest includes a helmet above a shield that shows a cross, a crown of thorns and two reeds. Below them is written, “Haec Cuique Christiano Insignia” (the badges for any Christian). Simson’s arms are the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation (Ephesians 6, 16-17). An accompanying poem composed, presumably, by Sheppard himself, explains that the emblems evident on the shield lay no claim to a noble genealogy for Simson, instead, they symbolise Christ’s Passion: www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849294544/
"We boast not here (kind reader) a descent from Brittish, Saxon or the Norman race;
Nor have we sought an Herauld to invent Some Hierogliphick draughts this stone to grace:
The figure of Christ's Cross we choose to wear the Crown which did his sacred temples tear
Badges that his disciples all may bear. No mantlings of rich metals, furs or dye
Th' Escocheon owns, (but plaine) to please the eye;
Such let this unclaim'd bearings mantle be, As best may shew our vests of Charitie.
No force, or wreath, the Helmet to adorn We claime, we give the Chaplet made of thorn;
The Sceptre reed presented him in scorn.
Thus here those instruments of shame and paine Which our Dear Lord for man did not disdaine
Of honourable arms we in the room Display, true ensigns for a Christians tomb.
Such Heraldry as this let none dispise Free from the Censure of the good and wise"
John Sheppard seems to have also laid a slab in the chancel to another "amicus sunis"
HC1208 climbs the 1 in 40 grade towards Brockford station on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway, in a scene somewhat reminiscent of the early days of the railway, before the First World War.
The MSLR hosted a visit by Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST 1208 / 1916 for three weeks in June 2018. HC 1208 was built for the Ministry of Munitions and worked at the ordnance depot at Gretna until it was sold to the Nidd Valley Light Railway in 1922. The NVLR opened in 1904 and was built to enable construction of the Bradford Corporation reservoirs in the upper part of the Nidd Valley. On arrival, the loco was named MITCHELL in honour of Bradford's chief waterworks engineer. Mitchell resigned in 1930 and the railway was quick to honour his successor, William Illingworth. It was perhaps something of a discourtesy to Mitchell to deprive him of his engine, so it now carries both names, MITCHELL on the left side an ILLINGWORTH on the right side.
After closure of the Nidd Valley Lt Rly in 1934, the engine was returned to the makers (HC) and resold to Sir Robert McAlpine, and later Mowlems. It was used on various major construction contracts including Ebbw Vale Steelworks and was in use until at least the mid 1950s, eventually passing into private preservation in the 1970s. It remained out of public view until quite recently, when Stephen Middleton (restorer of several vintage 4-wheel carriages on the Yorkshire Dales Railway, under the name "Stately Trains") purchased it, in a dismantled state. Following an extensive rebuild costing over £100,000 it returned to service in the spring of 2017.
(Historical notes from Harold Bowtell’s book ‘Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Dales’).
There is a personal headstone in the Cemetery extension at Wetheringsett, Suffolk.
In
loving memory
of
WILLIAM HENRY ATKINS
Signal Section 2/6th Suffolk Regiment.
The dearly beloved son of
William and Susanna Atkins.
Died April 2nd 1917 Aged 31 years.
“Thy will be done.”
William is not on the Village War Memorial but he is on the one in the church.
Private ATKINS, WILLIAM HENRY
Service Number:……………. 265455
Died:…………………………….. 02/04/1917
Aged:……………………………. 31
Unit:……………………………..2nd/6th Bn.
……………………………………..Suffolk Regiment
Son of William and Susanna Atkins, of The Red House, Wetheringsett.
Buried at WETHERINGSETT (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD EXTENSION
Location: Suffolk, United Kingdom
Source: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/397253/atkins,-willia...
Soldiers Died in the Great War records that Private 265455 William Henry Atkins “Died” on the 2nd April 1917 whilst serving on the Home Front with the 6th Battalion, Suffolk Regiment. He was formerly 2474 Suffolk Cyclists. William enlisted Ipswich. No place of residence is shown.
“Died” in SDGW terms means anything other than Killed in Action or Died of Wounds (received in action).
There is no obvious Medal Index Card. This is usually a strong indicator that the individual concerned did not serve outside the UK.
His Service Records do not appear to have survived the incendiary attack during the Blitz on the Warehouse where all the Other Ranks Army Service Records were stored.
The 1917 Probate Calendar records that William Henry Atkins of Wetheringsett, Suffolk, a private in the Suffolk Regiment, died on the 2nd April 1917 at the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln. Administration was granted at the Bury St Edmunds Court on the 24th May 1917 to William Atkins, farmer. His effects were valued at £711 7s 1d.
Source: probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar?surname=Atkins&...
He is also remembered on the Ipswich War Memorial.
Source: www.ipswichwarmemorial.co.uk/william-henry-atkins/
1885 – Birth………………………….
The birth of a William Henry Atkins was registered with the Civil Authorities in the Hartismere District of Suffolk in the July to September quarter, (Q3), of 1885.
Hartismere Civil Registration District included the Civil Parish of Wetheringsett.
1891 Census of England and Wales
The 5 year old William H. Atkins, born Wetheringsett, was recorded living in a dwelling at Blacksmith Corner, Wetheringsett cum Brockford. This was the household of his parents, William, (aged 36, a Wheelwright & Blacksmith, born Westhorpe, Suffolk), and Susanna, (aged 35, born Wetheringsett). As well as William they have another son, Francis J, (aged 8 and born Wetheringsett).
1901 Census of England and Wales
The two brothers, William H, (15) and Francis J., (18) were both working as an Engineers Clerk and boarding in a boarding house at 5 Priory Place, Friars Street, Ipswich.
Their parents were still living, and in father Williams’ case, still working at Blacksmith “Green”, Wetheringsett cum Brockford. William, (46) still works as a Wheelwright & Blacksmith. Wife Susanna (45), is now shown as born Brockford, Suffolk. Living with them is their 5 year old niece, Frances M. Gooding, born Debenham, Suffolk.
1911 Census of England and Wales
Both William Henry, (25) and Francis John, (28), were working as Clerks to an Agricultural Engineers and they were still boarding at 5 Priory Place.
Their parents William, (56), and Susanna, (55), were now living at The Red House, Wetheringsett. William is a Farmer and employer of others. The couple have been married 30 years and have had two children, both then still alive.
His unit………………………………………
Pre-war for most County Regiments like the Suffolks, the 6th Battalion was the Cyclist Battalion of the Territorial Force, drawing recruits from all over the county, (other T.F. Battalion tended to draw on specific areas of the county, west and east for example)
From his original number it seems likely that William volunteered pre-conscription for that unit after the outbreak of war. With minimal need for soldiers to ride into battle on bicycles, many of these battalions were broken up or used as training units, with drafts being prepared for the front. A few were still used to patrol long stretches of the coastline or ended up seeing service in Ireland.
All the infantry battalions of the Territorial Force adopted a six digit numbering system, starting with a 2, at the end of 1916. While it wasn’t quite a unique number for every soldier, it did do away with a wide variety of numbering systems, simplifying administration. It’s likely therefore William stayed in the same unit throughout his Army Career.
2/6th (Cyclist) Battalion
Formed at Ipswich in September 1914. Remained in England throughout the war.
Source: www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-brit...
On the day…………………………………
The death of the 31 year old William H. Atkins was recorded in the Lincoln District in the April to June quarter, (Q2), of 1886.
As we have seen from the Probate Calendar he died in the 4th Northern General Hospital, Lincoln.
Without a personal source such as his service record for now the cause of death remains unknown.
Standing between the symbols of faith hope and charity, John Simson 1697, monument erected to his beloved friend ""amici sui peramantissimi” by Rev John Sheppard of Wetheringsett. At his death Simson left a perpetual charge on land and farms in Debenham and Framlingham to provide 42 wheaten loaves every Sunday for the poor, also coats of light grey cloth for 8 poor men and gowns for 6 poor women on Christmas Day each year.
Child on the left “Esurivi enim,” with a sheaf of corn; “Nudus eram,”- boy on the right holds the edges of a cloak alludes to the reward for those who fed the hungry and clothed the naked
John Simson an apothecary had no claim to bear arms unlike John Sheppard who placed his Sheppard arms of 3 hounds holding arrows in their mouths underneath the effigy www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849295634/ . However the carving on the black basalt lid of the tomb-chest includes a helmet above a shield that shows a cross, a crown of thorns and two reeds. Below them is written, “Haec Cuique Christiano Insignia” (the badges for any Christian). Simson’s arms are the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation (Ephesians 6, 16-17). An accompanying poem composed, presumably, by Sheppard himself, explains that the emblems evident on the shield lay no claim to a noble genealogy for Simson, instead, they symbolise Christ’s Passion: www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849294544/
"We boast not here (kind reader) a descent from Brittish, Saxon or the Norman race;
Nor have we sought an Herauld to invent Some Hierogliphick draughts this stone to grace:
The figure of Christ's Cross we choose to wear the Crown which did his sacred temples tear
Badges that his disciples all may bear. No mantlings of rich metals, furs or dye
Th' Escocheon owns, (but plaine) to please the eye;
Such let this unclaim'd bearings mantle be, As best may shew our vests of Charitie.
No force, or wreath, the Helmet to adorn We claime, we give the Chaplet made of thorn;
The Sceptre reed presented him in scorn.
Thus here those instruments of shame and paine Which our Dear Lord for man did not disdaine
Of honourable arms we in the room Display, true ensigns for a Christians tomb.
Such Heraldry as this let none dispise Free from the Censure of the good and wise"
John Sheppard seems to have also laid a slab in the chancel to another "amicus sunis"
Sacred to the memory
……….of…………..
the men of this parish
who fell in the Great War
……1914-1918…….
FREDERICK T. ALDRED
GEORGE W.BARNES
ALBERT V.BEDWELL
GEORGE BEDWELL
SAMUEL F.BRIGGS
GEORGE CHAPMAN
JOHN M. CHAPMAN
ARTHUR HAYWARD
ALBERT E.KEEBLE
WALTER W.KEEBLE
BERTIE MILES
FREDERICK R. ROOKYARD
ALBERT G. SMITH
SPENCER H. SMITH
Wm GORDON SMITH
ARTHUR STANNARD
FREDERICK STANNARD
STANLEY A.G.STANNARD
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR
RICHARD WOODS
________________________
“They were a wall unto us both
by night and day.” 1.Samuel 25.16
________________________
There is also a memorial in the church which includes several additional names.
www.roll-of-honour.com/Suffolk/Wetheringsett.html
For more on each name see comments below.
Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW - Soldiers Died in the Great War
Hartismere was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage.
The MSLR hosted a visit by Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST 1208 / 1916 for three weeks in June 2018. HC 1208 was built for the Ministry of Munitions and worked at the ordnance depot at Gretna until it was sold to the Nidd Valley Light Railway in 1922. The NVLR opened in 1904 and was built to enable construction of the Bradford Corporation reservoirs in the upper part of the Nidd Valley. On arrival, the loco was named MITCHELL in honour of Bradford's chief waterworks engineer. Mitchell resigned in 1930 and the railway was quick to honour his successor, William Illingworth. It was perhaps something of a discourtesy to Mitchell to deprive him of his engine, so it now carries both names, MITCHELL on the left side an ILLINGWORTH on the right side.
After closure of the Nidd Valley Lt Rly in 1934, the engine was returned to the makers (HC) and resold to Sir Robert McAlpine, and later Mowlems. It was used on various major construction contracts including Ebbw Vale Steelworks and was in use until at least the mid 1950s, eventually passing into private preservation in the 1970s. It remained out of public view until quite recently, when Stephen Middleton (restorer of several vintage 4-wheel carriages on the Yorkshire Dales Railway, under the name "Stately Trains") purchased it, in a dismantled state. Following an extensive rebuild costing over £100,000 it returned to service in the spring of 2017.
(Historical notes from Harold Bowtell’s book ‘Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Dales’).
British Sugar Corporation 0-6-0 steam locomotive 1700 "Wissington" at (new) Brockford railway station on the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
This loco is on loan from the North Norfolk Railway (NNR), it was built in 1938 by Hudswell-Clarke and operated on the BSC railways at Downham Market and Wisssington. It was preserved by the NNR in 1977. At the present time the loco carries no fleet number / name or indeed any identification so working out which loco it was took some time.
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
LNER 985 (a member of the Y7 class built in 1923 at the railways Darlington works) steams into Brockford Station on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway during a 30742 charter. The railway were noteably hospitable and friendly it's a shame the weather didn't play ball!
Standing between the symbols of faith hope and charity, John Simson 1697, monument erected to his beloved friend ""amici sui peramantissimi” by Rev John Sheppard of Wetheringsett. At his death Simson left a perpetual charge on land and farms in Debenham and Framlingham to provide 42 wheaten loaves every Sunday for the poor, , also coats of light grey cloth for 8 poor men and gowns for 6 poor women on Christmas Day each year.
Child on the left “Esurivi enim,” witha sheaf of corn; “Nudus eram,”- boy on the right holds the edges of a cloak alludes to the reward for those who fed the hungry and clothed the naked
John Simson an apothecary had no claim to bear arms unlike John Sheppard who placed his Sheppard arms of 3 hounds holding arrows in their mouths underneath the effigy www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849295634/ . The carving on the black basalt lid of the tomb-chest includes a helmet above a shield that shows a cross, a crown of thorns and two reeds. Below them is written, “Haec Cuique Christiano Insignia” (the badges for any Christian). Simson’s arms are the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation (Ephesians 6, 16-17). An accompanying poem composed, presumably, by Sheppard himself, explains that the emblems evident on the shield lay no claim to a noble genealogy for Simson, instead, they symbolise Christ’s Passion: www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13849294544/
"We boast not here (kind reader) a descent from Brittish, Saxon or the Norman race;
Nor have we sought an Herauld to invent Some Hierogliphick draughts this stone to grace:
The figure of Christ's Cross we choose to wear the Crown which did his sacred temples tear
Badges that his disciples all may bear. No mantlings of rich metals, furs or dye
Th' Escocheon owns, (but plaine) to please the eye;
Such let this unclaim'd bearings mantle be, As best may shew our vests of Charitie.
No force, or wreath, the Helmet to adorn We claime, we give the Chaplet made of thorn;
The Sceptre reed presented him in scorn.
Thus here those instruments of shame and paine Which our Dear Lord for man did not disdaine
Of honourable arms we in the room Display, true ensigns for a Christians tomb.
Such Heraldry as this let none dispise Free from the Censure of the good and wise"
John Sheppard seems to have also laid a slab in the chancel to another "amicus sunis"
The inside of of a guard's van is a warm and welcoming place on a cold winter's night.
Last night (20th February) the Mid Suffolk Light Railway opened Brockford and Wetheringsett Station for a Middy by Lamplight event. The original station building was lit only by oil and parafin lamps. A diesel shunter provided brake van rides.
St Mary, Friston, Suffolk
Friston is a medium-sized village out in the rolling fields beyond Saxmundham and Leiston which seems to have an air of quiet self-sufficiency about it. In 2010 I had been here on the hottest day of the year so far, nearing the end of a meandering bicycle tour of the north and east of Suffolk. The train at Saxmundham was an hour off, but I headed south again, from the Saxmundham to Leiston road, under the vast chain of power lines that links the Sizewell nuclear power station with the rest of the country. I recalled vividly coming this way back at the start of the century, on that occasion a darkening afternoon in late November. I had cut a swathe along roads which ran like streams. All around was water, after the wettest autumn for 250 years. The power lines sizzled and cracked as I threaded through the pylons and beneath them, the sound of 10,000 quintillion volts of nuclear-generated electricity urgently seeking the shortest possible path to the ground. This concentrated my mind somewhat, as you may imagine.
And now it was 2019 I was here in spring, the trees coming into leaf like something almost being said, and it took me a moment to recognise the lane up to the church, in its huddle of houses with the curiously urban hall opposite.
It must be said that the tower of St Mary is rather striking. The tower seems to be a Victorian rebuild, and quite a late one. Mortlock generously considers that it is an exact copy of what was there before. In all honestly, I would find this doubtful, if it were not for the fact that the architect was Edward Bishopp, a man not best remembered for his creative imagination. The most striking features are the niches, one in each buttress, and a possible rood group above the west window. This is a bit like the same at Parham and Cotton, and the buttresses like those at Wetheringsett, so they may be original, or perhaps just based on those other churches. The body of the church must be Norman originally, judging by the blocked north door, but there are so many late Perpendicular windows, I wonder if it wasn't entirely rebuilt retaining the doorway sometime in the early 16th century.
As with all the churches around here St Mary is open daily, an evocative and intimate space which you step down into to be confronted by the Parish of Friston's most famous possession. This is the massive James I coat of arms. It is fully eight feet wide and six feet high, carved from boards six inches thick. The story goes that it was found in pieces in the belfry by Munro Cautley during his trawl of Suffolk churches in the 1930s. In his capacity as Diocesan architect, he insisted that the churchwardens repair it, and restore it to its rightful place. However, since the chancel tympanum where it had hung had been removed by the Victorians, this presented the churchwardens with an interesting problem. So, they solved it by attaching the arms to the north wall of the nave, level with the tops of the pews, where it remains. it is not in great condition, but it is rather extraordinary to be able to see it at such close quarters.
The nave is long and narrow, under an arch-braced roof. The 19th century font stands on an upturned medieval one as its pedestal, with a rather good early 20th century font cover. At the other end of the church is something rather remarkable, an unspoiled late Victorian chancel. So many of these have been whitewashed in the last fifty years or so, but this is utterly charming, the walls painted and stencilled in pastel shades, and an ornate text running around the top of the walls. The finishing touch is Powell & Son's lush Risen Christ flanked by Mary and John in the east window. Another nice detail is the Mothers Union banner. Thousands of these were embroidered from kit form in the early 20th Century, but as at neighbouring Knodishall the one here has been customised with a hand-painted central image of the Blessed Virgin and child.
A memorial board reminds the parishioners of Friston that In the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the Reverend John Lambert bequeathed to the parish the sum of two hundred pounds, to be placed in the 3£ per cent consols, and the interest thereof to be distributed by the churchwardens every Christmas ___ for ever: to poor Housekeepers who should not for twelve months preceding have received Pay of the Parish. The word Day or Eve has been eradicated at some point, perhaps for legal reasons, possibly because of the difficulty of getting to the bank in Saxmundham on a public holiday.
Two hundred pounds was a fairly large amount of money in 1811, roughly equivalent to forty thousand pounds today, and for ever must have seemed an enticing prospect. However, consols were effectively bonds, their value remaining the same but offering a guaranteed return (in this case three per cent) based on the perceived annual growth in the economy. Like endowment mortgages, they would turn out to be a fairly short-sighted enthusiasm. The safe return from consols came to an end as a result of the great depression of the 1870s and 1880s, and inflation thereafter reduced such holdings to almost nothing. The Reverend Lambert would have been better off investing in land or gold, but such is the gift of hindsight, of course.
............... 2nd August anno aerae cristianae 1700 aged 65 amicus sunis John Sheppard boni curavit - John Sheppard , clerk to the neighbouring parish of Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford also erected the monument to his friend John Simson - John Sheppard’s family was of some consequence in this part of rural Suffolk. They were entitled to bear arms: three hounds holding arrows in their mouths, with the inscription, “Dat tela fidelitas” (Faithfulness provides weapons). John also erected the monument to his "amici sui peramantissimi” John Simons 1697 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/13822753573/
One of the enginemen pauses from his work on 985 to watch ILLINGWORTH chug past on its train of two 4-wheel coaches and a 20 ton brake van. The MSLR is one of very few places in Britain which operate entirely with vintage 4-wheelers.
A couple of distracting signs have been edited out of this picture.
On the south wall of the chancel is the brass figures of John Eyre 1561 & wife Margaret Blennerhassett Spelman 1558
"Here do lye John Eyer, late Receyvor Generale to Elizabethe the Quenes Majestie in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cantabridge, and Huntynton, and one of the Maisters of her hyghe Court of Chancerye, and Margaret his Wyfe, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Bleverhaiset of Frens Knight, late Wyfe of John Spelman Esquire, Sone and Heyre apparent of Syr John Spelman Knyght, which John Eyre dy'd the xxth Daye of May, the Yere of our Lord MV LXI. and in the thirde Yere of the Raing of Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faithe, and the said Margaret dy'd the xvth Day of December in the Yere of our Lord MDLVIII".
John's scroll reads "with the Lord there is Mercy
and on Margaret's "and with hym is plenteous redemption"
Above are 3 shields :
Over John - 1st Quarterly in 1st and 4th arg. on a chevron in a bordure ingrailed sab. bezant three quaterfoils arg. (Eyre), in the 2d and 3d Townsend.
Middle quarterly Eyre and Spelman, escutcheon,
Over Margaret - quarterly Eyre and Townsend; impaling 1st, Blennerhasset, and his quarterings in the second place Lowdham. In the fourth Orton. In the fifth Skelton, and in the 6th and last quarter, Bleverhasset.
Margaret 1558 was the daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQ
She m1 John Spelman 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/76C330 only son of Judge Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
Children - 2 sons & 2 daughters
1. Thomas dsp
2. John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H69W16 m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures m2 Catherine, daughter of William Saunders of Ewell in Surrey
She m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 <of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
John Eyre was a great purchaser of religious houses that were dissolved by King Henry VIII. and bought of that King, the Friars Carmelites, the Gray Friers, the Friars Preachers or Black Friars, and the Augustin Friars at Lynn, &c. He also possessed Bury abbey. - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
The MSLR hosted a visit by Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST 1208 / 1916 for three weeks in June 2018. HC 1208 was built for the Ministry of Munitions and worked at the ordnance depot at Gretna until it was sold to the Nidd Valley Light Railway in 1922. The NVLR opened in 1904 and was built to enable construction of the Bradford Corporation reservoirs in the upper part of the Nidd Valley. On arrival, the loco was named MITCHELL in honour of Bradford's chief waterworks engineer. Mitchell resigned in 1930 and the railway was quick to honour his successor, William Illingworth. It was perhaps something of a discourtesy to Mitchell to deprive him of his engine, so it now carries both names, MITCHELL on the left side an ILLINGWORTH on the right side.
After closure of the Nidd Valley Lt Rly in 1934, the engine was returned to the makers (HC) and resold to Sir Robert McAlpine, and later Mowlems. It was used on various major construction contracts including Ebbw Vale Steelworks and was in use until at least the mid 1950s, eventually passing into private preservation in the 1970s. It remained out of public view until quite recently, when Stephen Middleton (restorer of several vintage 4-wheel carriages on the Yorkshire Dales Railway, under the name "Stately Trains") purchased it, in a dismantled state. Following an extensive rebuild costing over £100,000 it returned to service in the spring of 2017.
(Historical notes from Harold Bowtell’s book ‘Reservoir Railways of the Yorkshire Dales’).
St Mary, Friston, Suffolk
Friston is a medium-sized village out in the rolling fields beyond Saxmundham and Leiston which seems to have an air of quiet self-sufficiency about it. In 2010 I had been here on the hottest day of the year so far, nearing the end of a meandering bicycle tour of the north and east of Suffolk. The train at Saxmundham was an hour off, but I headed south again, from the Saxmundham to Leiston road, under the vast chain of power lines that links the Sizewell nuclear power station with the rest of the country. I recalled vividly coming this way back at the start of the century, on that occasion a darkening afternoon in late November. I had cut a swathe along roads which ran like streams. All around was water, after the wettest autumn for 250 years. The power lines sizzled and cracked as I threaded through the pylons and beneath them, the sound of 10,000 quintillion volts of nuclear-generated electricity urgently seeking the shortest possible path to the ground. This concentrated my mind somewhat, as you may imagine.
And now it was 2019 I was here in spring, the trees coming into leaf like something almost being said, and it took me a moment to recognise the lane up to the church, in its huddle of houses with the curiously urban hall opposite.
It must be said that the tower of St Mary is rather striking. The tower seems to be a Victorian rebuild, and quite a late one. Mortlock generously considers that it is an exact copy of what was there before. In all honestly, I would find this doubtful, if it were not for the fact that the architect was Edward Bishopp, a man not best remembered for his creative imagination. The most striking features are the niches, one in each buttress, and a possible rood group above the west window. This is a bit like the same at Parham and Cotton, and the buttresses like those at Wetheringsett, so they may be original, or perhaps just based on those other churches. The body of the church must be Norman originally, judging by the blocked north door, but there are so many late Perpendicular windows, I wonder if it wasn't entirely rebuilt retaining the doorway sometime in the early 16th century.
As with all the churches around here St Mary is open daily, an evocative and intimate space which you step down into to be confronted by the Parish of Friston's most famous possession. This is the massive James I coat of arms. It is fully eight feet wide and six feet high, carved from boards six inches thick. The story goes that it was found in pieces in the belfry by Munro Cautley during his trawl of Suffolk churches in the 1930s. In his capacity as Diocesan architect, he insisted that the churchwardens repair it, and restore it to its rightful place. However, since the chancel tympanum where it had hung had been removed by the Victorians, this presented the churchwardens with an interesting problem. So, they solved it by attaching the arms to the north wall of the nave, level with the tops of the pews, where it remains. it is not in great condition, but it is rather extraordinary to be able to see it at such close quarters.
The nave is long and narrow, under an arch-braced roof. The 19th century font stands on an upturned medieval one as its pedestal, with a rather good early 20th century font cover. At the other end of the church is something rather remarkable, an unspoiled late Victorian chancel. So many of these have been whitewashed in the last fifty years or so, but this is utterly charming, the walls painted and stencilled in pastel shades, and an ornate text running around the top of the walls. The finishing touch is Powell & Son's lush Risen Christ flanked by Mary and John in the east window. Another nice detail is the Mothers Union banner. Thousands of these were embroidered from kit form in the early 20th Century, but as at neighbouring Knodishall the one here has been customised with a hand-painted central image of the Blessed Virgin and child.
A memorial board reminds the parishioners of Friston that In the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the Reverend John Lambert bequeathed to the parish the sum of two hundred pounds, to be placed in the 3£ per cent consols, and the interest thereof to be distributed by the churchwardens every Christmas ___ for ever: to poor Housekeepers who should not for twelve months preceding have received Pay of the Parish. The word Day or Eve has been eradicated at some point, perhaps for legal reasons, possibly because of the difficulty of getting to the bank in Saxmundham on a public holiday.
Two hundred pounds was a fairly large amount of money in 1811, roughly equivalent to forty thousand pounds today, and for ever must have seemed an enticing prospect. However, consols were effectively bonds, their value remaining the same but offering a guaranteed return (in this case three per cent) based on the perceived annual growth in the economy. Like endowment mortgages, they would turn out to be a fairly short-sighted enthusiasm. The safe return from consols came to an end as a result of the great depression of the 1870s and 1880s, and inflation thereafter reduced such holdings to almost nothing. The Reverend Lambert would have been better off investing in land or gold, but such is the gift of hindsight, of course.
The totem at this garage stands rather imposingly on the brow of a rise which made for a reasonably striking photo opportunity.
To the Glory of God
and in grateful memory
of the men of this parish
who laid down their lives in the Great War
……1914-1919…….
FREDERICK T. ALDRED
WILLIAM H. ATKINS
GEORGE W.BARNES
ALBERT V.BEDWELL
GEORGE BEDWELL
SAMUEL F.BRIGGS
GEORGE CHAPMAN
JOHN M. CHAPMAN
ARTHUR HAYWARD
ALBERT E.KEEBLE
WALTER W.KEEBLE
BERTIE MILES
FREDERICK R. ROOKYARD
ALBERT G. SMITH
SPENCER H. SMITH
Wm GORDON SMITH
ARTHUR STANNARD
FREDERICK STANNARD
THOMAS STANNARD
STANLEY A.C.STANNARD
FREDERICK W. TAYLOR
RICHARD WOODS
“Their souls are in the hand of God”
Names additional to those on the Village War Memorial are William H. Atkins and Thomas Stannard.
I’ve added more information for each name in the comments boxes below.
General notes when reading the comments.
The Civil Registration District for registering Births, Deaths and Marriages was the Hartismere District.
Neighbouring villages include Thwaite, Aspall, Debenham, Mendlesham, Cotton, Bacton and Wickham Skeith.
Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
SDGW – Soldiers Died in the Great War
IRC – International Red Cross
MIC – Medal Index Card
British Sugar Corporation 0-6-0 steam locomotive 1700 "Wissington" approaches (new) Brockford railway station on the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
This loco is on loan from the North Norfolk Railway (NNR), it was built in 1938 by Hudswell-Clarke and operated on the BSC railways at Downham Market and Wisssington. It was preserved by the NNR in 1977. At the present time the loco carries no fleet number / name or indeed any identification so working out which loco it was took some time. The current MSLR website is extremely poor and amateurish and has no information regarding any of the locomotives or coaching stock at Brockford, unfortunately the website seems more concerned about promoting clothing and a local coach company.
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
Mid-Suffolk Light Railway affectionately known as "The Middy"
Brockford Station, Wetheringsett, near Stowmarket, Suffolk, England, UK
St Mary, Friston, Suffolk
Friston is a medium-sized village out in the rolling fields beyond Saxmundham and Leiston which seems to have an air of quiet self-sufficiency about it. In 2010 I had been here on the hottest day of the year so far, nearing the end of a meandering bicycle tour of the north and east of Suffolk. The train at Saxmundham was an hour off, but I headed south again, from the Saxmundham to Leiston road, under the vast chain of power lines that links the Sizewell nuclear power station with the rest of the country. I recalled vividly coming this way back at the start of the century, on that occasion a darkening afternoon in late November. I had cut a swathe along roads which ran like streams. All around was water, after the wettest autumn for 250 years. The power lines sizzled and cracked as I threaded through the pylons and beneath them, the sound of 10,000 quintillion volts of nuclear-generated electricity urgently seeking the shortest possible path to the ground. This concentrated my mind somewhat, as you may imagine.
And now it was 2019 I was here in spring, the trees coming into leaf like something almost being said, and it took me a moment to recognise the lane up to the church, in its huddle of houses with the curiously urban hall opposite.
It must be said that the tower of St Mary is rather striking. The tower seems to be a Victorian rebuild, and quite a late one. Mortlock generously considers that it is an exact copy of what was there before. In all honestly, I would find this doubtful, if it were not for the fact that the architect was Edward Bishopp, a man not best remembered for his creative imagination. The most striking features are the niches, one in each buttress, and a possible rood group above the west window. This is a bit like the same at Parham and Cotton, and the buttresses like those at Wetheringsett, so they may be original, or perhaps just based on those other churches. The body of the church must be Norman originally, judging by the blocked north door, but there are so many late Perpendicular windows, I wonder if it wasn't entirely rebuilt retaining the doorway sometime in the early 16th century.
As with all the churches around here St Mary is open daily, an evocative and intimate space which you step down into to be confronted by the Parish of Friston's most famous possession. This is the massive James I coat of arms. It is fully eight feet wide and six feet high, carved from boards six inches thick. The story goes that it was found in pieces in the belfry by Munro Cautley during his trawl of Suffolk churches in the 1930s. In his capacity as Diocesan architect, he insisted that the churchwardens repair it, and restore it to its rightful place. However, since the chancel tympanum where it had hung had been removed by the Victorians, this presented the churchwardens with an interesting problem. So, they solved it by attaching the arms to the north wall of the nave, level with the tops of the pews, where it remains. it is not in great condition, but it is rather extraordinary to be able to see it at such close quarters.
The nave is long and narrow, under an arch-braced roof. The 19th century font stands on an upturned medieval one as its pedestal, with a rather good early 20th century font cover. At the other end of the church is something rather remarkable, an unspoiled late Victorian chancel. So many of these have been whitewashed in the last fifty years or so, but this is utterly charming, the walls painted and stencilled in pastel shades, and an ornate text running around the top of the walls. The finishing touch is Powell & Son's lush Risen Christ flanked by Mary and John in the east window. Another nice detail is the Mothers Union banner. Thousands of these were embroidered from kit form in the early 20th Century, but as at neighbouring Knodishall the one here has been customised with a hand-painted central image of the Blessed Virgin and child.
A memorial board reminds the parishioners of Friston that In the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven, the Reverend John Lambert bequeathed to the parish the sum of two hundred pounds, to be placed in the 3£ per cent consols, and the interest thereof to be distributed by the churchwardens every Christmas ___ for ever: to poor Housekeepers who should not for twelve months preceding have received Pay of the Parish. The word Day or Eve has been eradicated at some point, perhaps for legal reasons, possibly because of the difficulty of getting to the bank in Saxmundham on a public holiday.
Two hundred pounds was a fairly large amount of money in 1811, roughly equivalent to forty thousand pounds today, and for ever must have seemed an enticing prospect. However, consols were effectively bonds, their value remaining the same but offering a guaranteed return (in this case three per cent) based on the perceived annual growth in the economy. Like endowment mortgages, they would turn out to be a fairly short-sighted enthusiasm. The safe return from consols came to an end as a result of the great depression of the 1870s and 1880s, and inflation thereafter reduced such holdings to almost nothing. The Reverend Lambert would have been better off investing in land or gold, but such is the gift of hindsight, of course.
"Here lyeth the body of John Spelman esquier, who fyrst had to wyfe Judyth one of the daughters of Syr Clement Higham knight, and after Katherine ye daughter of William Saunders esqyer .
John had at the day of his death 4 sons and one daughter lyving viz Clement and William of the body of the said Judyth. & Robert , Francys and Bridget of ye bodye of ye sayd Katherine. John deceased ye 27th day of Aprell Ao 1581 "
(John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 was the son of John Spelman 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/17Mv1W & Margaret 1558 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE
He m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures
Children
1. Clement 1607 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/fXKuk7 m1 1602 Anna dsp only daughter and heiress of Edmund Carvill / Kervyll of Wiggenhall ; m2 Ursula 1647 daughter of Sir John Willoughby of Risley 1602 by Frances daughter of Henry Hun
2. William dsp
He m2 Catherine 1608 daughter of William Saunders 1570 & Joan Marston Mynne Widow of Edmund Kervylle / Carvil of Sandringham & Calthorpes 1570 who m3 Sir Miles Corbet 1607 of Sprowston www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/57594Z
Children
1. Robert
2. Francis
3. Bridget m Anthony Drury of Besthorpe 1628 - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Wetheringsett cum Brockford, Suffolk.
The figures flanking the church tower represent two past rectors of All Saints' church, famous for very different reasons.
On the left is Richard Hakluyt, rector from 1590 to 1616, and known as the "father of modern geographers" for his works Divers Voyages Touching the Discoverie of America (1582) and The Principall Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoueries of the English Nation (1589–1600).
On the right is George Ellis, who served as rector for 5 years until 1888 when it was discovered that he wasn't ordained, earning himself a jail sentence and obliging Parliament to rush through a law validating all the marriages he'd conducted!
British Sugar Corporation 0-6-0 steam locomotive 1700 "Wissington" on a passenger train at the station platform located at the eastern end of the current line east of Brockford, Mid–Suffolk Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
This loco is on loan from the North Norfolk Railway (NNR), it was built in 1938 by Hudswell-Clarke and operated on the BSC railways at Downham Market and Wisssington. It was preserved by the NNR in 1977. At the present time the loco carries no fleet number / name or indeed any identification so working out which loco it was took some time.
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
'Wissington' (ex-British Sugar Corporation) 0-6-0ST (Hudswell Clarke 1700 of 1938), arriving at Brockford & Wetheringsett Station with an afternoon service, on 26-5-2014. The vehicle at the rear, is the UK's oldest railway horse box, which returned to service today.
"Here lyeth buryed the Bodys of Syre John Spelman Knyght and Secondary Justice of the Kyngs Bench, and Dame Elizabeth his wyfe, which had riii Sonnes and vii Danghters of there Bodyes between them begitten, the which Syr John decessyd the 26th day of February, in the yere of our Lord God 1545 , and the said Dame Elizabeth decessyd the 5th day of November, in the yere of our Lord 1536 , on whose Sowls Jesu have Mercy, Amen"
John's scroll reads - Jesu Fili Dei, misecere mei. (Jesus son of God, have mercy on me)
Elizabeth's scroll reads - Salbator M...., memento mei. (Saviour, remember me)
Elizabeth's cloak has the arms of Frowyk and Sturgeon quarterly.
Above them is Christ rising from the tomb
Sir John Spelman dressed in his judge's robes. He was a successful barrister, & a Justice of the King's Bench being present at the trial of Sir Thomas More. He rebuilt Narborough Hall
He was the 3rd son of Henry Spelman 1496 & Ela www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/t4X4td heiress daughter of William Narborough. He was heir to his 2 elder brothers William & Henry who died without issue
He m Elizabeth Frowyke 1479-1557 co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
She was the grand daughter of Thomas Frowyke & heiress Joanna Sturgeon
Children - 13 sons & 7 daughters
1. Henry died an infant
2. John 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/CqWT01 Margaret 1558 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4M48ZE daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQ
3. Francis ,clerk ,1578
4. Erasmus 1512- after 1567 of Beeston m Ursula daughter of Edward Baynton of Devizes Wilts & Elizabeth Sulliard / Sulyard: Ursula was the widow of Edmund Thoresby of Lyn
5. Henry 1581 of Congham m1 Anne Knyvett dsp c1560 daughter of Sir Thomas Knyvet 1512 of Buckenham, Norfolk, by Muriel Howard 1512 widow of John Grey, Viscount Lisle 1504, and daughter of Thomas Howard 1524' 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by 1st wife, Elizabeth Tilney flic.kr/p/PsVFj m2 Frances 1622 daughter of William Saunders 1571 of Ewell & 1st wife Joan 1539 co-heir of William Marston 1512 of Horton near Epsom, Surrey, by Beatrice / Beatrix Barlee, (Joan was the widow of Nicholas Mynne 1528)
6. Michael b1521 of Whinburgh m Margaret daughter of George Duke of Brampton Suffolk
7. Jerome 1576
8. William m Catherine daughter of Cornelius von Stonhove, a judge in Holland.
1. Elizabeth m 1531 Edmund son of Thomas de Grey by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard fitz Lewes flic.kr/p/zrXg1r of Ingrave & Thorndon Essex & 1st wife Alice daughter of John Harleston of Shimpling by Margery Bardwell
2. Dorothy 1508-1552 m1 1524 William Cobb m2 Thomas son of Sir John Heydon and Catherine Willoughby flic.kr/p/kbg35T of Baconsthorpe
3. Ella 1515-1564 m George Jerningham / Jernegan; 1515-1559 eldest son of Sir John Jermingham of Somerleyton by Bridget, daughter of Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead; Grandson of Sir Robert Drury and Ann Calthorpe www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/4258436115/
4. Bridget 1599 m (2nd wife) Osbert of Feltwell flic.kr/p/VDAF1M son of Francis Mundeford / Moundeford / Monford and Margaret Thoresby flic.kr/p/Vs7DsK
5. Martha m Alexander Brockdish of Brockdish
6. Alice m Francis Soame of Wantisden Suffolk
7 Anne died unmarried
www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Probate/PROB_11-63-400.pdf
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6... - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Wetheringsett, Suffolk.
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway was originally envisaged as a way of opening up the central areas of Suffolk to the rest of the county and the country. Mid-Suffolk was made up predominantly of farming communities, but ones which were quite far from the larger local markets in Bury St. Edmunds, Stowmarket and Ipswich.
The original plan for the MSLR was for it to cross central Suffolk from Haughley on the Great Eastern Railway’s main line to Halesworth on the same company’s East Suffolk line, with other connections with the GER at Needham Market and Westerfield. However because of financial difficulties, managerial issues and some disagreements with the GER the line was curtailed 19 miles east from Haughley (where construction started) at Laxfield.
The line, bankrupt before it opened for business, struggled on independently until it was absorbed into the London and North Eastern Railway in 1924 (the LNER didn’t want to take over the line during the grouping of 1923, so waited until the MSLRs financial situation was resolved the following year), and then British Railways in 1948.
As the line was in a poor state of repair following the strains of WWII and the number of people using its services were declining, the MSLR (or the Haughley – Laxfield branch as it was under the LNER and BR) closed in 1952, well before the Beeching cuts.
Here, the Ruston and Hornsby 165 0-4-0DM shunts a short freight from Brockford Station.
In the church of All Saints, Wetheringsett.
1939 – 1946
CLAUDE A. CHAPMAN
HAROLD A.P COLE
LESLIE A. LING
JOHN H. NUNN
PETER A.P. SHELDRICK
Also ERNEST H. BARKER Civil Defence
For more on each name see comments below.
Abbreviations used.
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Hartismere was the Civil District for the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriage.
Ruston Class 165DS RH 304470, on the Mid Suffolk Light Railway Co, Brockford & Wetheringsett Station, Suffolk. This locomotive was supplied new on the 20/03/1951 to the West Midlands Gas Board, Nechells East Works, Staffordshire, where it carried the running number 12.
Photograph taken by Ian Lake and used with his kind permission.
On the south wall of the chancel is the brass figures of John Eyre 1561 & wife Margaret Blennerhassett Spelman 1558
"Here do lye John Eyer, late Receyvor Generale to Elizabethe the Quenes Majestie in the Counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cantabridge, and Huntynton, and one of the Maisters of her hyghe Court of Chancerye, and Margaret his Wyfe, one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Bleverhaiset of Frens Knight, late Wyfe of John Spelman Esquire, Sone and Heyre apparent of Syr John Spelman Knyght, which John Eyre dy'd the xxth Daye of May, the Yere of our Lord MV LXI. and in the thirde Yere of the Raing of Elizabeth by the Grace of God Quene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faithe, and the said Margaret dy'd the xvth Day of December in the Yere of our Lord MDLVIII".
John's scroll reads "with the Lord there is Mercy
and on Margaret's "and with hym is plenteous redemption"
Above are 3 shields :
Over John - 1st Quarterly in 1st and 4th arg. on a chevron in a bordure ingrailed sab. bezant three quaterfoils arg. (Eyre), in the 2d and 3d Townsend.
Middle quarterly Eyre and Spelman, escutcheon,
Over Margaret - quarterly Eyre and Townsend; impaling 1st, Blennerhasset, and his quarterings in the second place Lowdham. In the fourth Orton. In the fifth Skelton, and in the 6th and last quarter, Bleverhasset.
Margaret 1558 was the daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/30oPQ
She m1 John Spelman 1545 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/76C330 only son of Judge Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
Children - 2 sons & 2 daughters
1. Thomas dsp
2. John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H69W16 m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures m2 Catherine, daughter of William Saunders of Ewell in Surrey
She m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 <of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
John Eyre was a great purchaser of religious houses that were dissolved by King Henry VIII. and bought of that King, the Friars Carmelites, the Gray Friers, the Friars Preachers or Black Friars, and the Augustin Friars at Lynn, &c. He also possessed Bury abbey. - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Haughley and Laxfield branch line closure notice, on display at the Mid–Suffolk Light Railway Museum, Brockford Station, Wetheringsett. Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.
"Here lyeth John Spelman, esquyer, son & heyer apparant to Syr John Spelman, kniyght, one of the justices of plees xxx the kyng, to beholden, and Dame Elizabeth his wyfe,which John maryed Margaret one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Blenhassett, knyght, & Dame Margaret his wyfe, and had issue by the said Margaret too sonnes & too daughters lyving at the tyme of his deth, and decessed the 27th daye of December in the yere of ye Lorde God 1545 and in the 37th yere of the rayne of Kyng Henry Vlll, on whose soule Jesu have mercy"
John Spelman was the only son of Sir John Spelman and Elizabeth Frowyke www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9Rj86X co-heiress daughter of Henry Frowyke of Gunnersby / Gunnersbury, Middlesex & 2nd wife Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh by Elizabeth Langley
He m Margaret 1558 daughter of Sir Thomas Blennerhassett of Frenze 1531 flic.kr/p/rp8dxz & Margaret d1561 flic.kr/p/qsrvxx daughter of John Braham of Wetheringsett and Joan Reyden 1519 flic.kr/p/rmRqsL
Children - 2 sons & 2 daughters
1. Thomas dsp
2. John Spelman of Narburgh 1581 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/H69W16 m1 Judith 1570 daughter of Sir Clement Higham of Barrow Suffolk flic.kr/p/ag3hJy by 2nd wife Anne Waldegrave Bures m2 Catherine, daughter of William Saunders of Ewell in Surrey
Margaret m2 John Eyre dsp 1561 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/j379T8 of Lyn, Receiver General to Queen Elizabeth for the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgshire & Huntingdon
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-hist-norfolk/vol6... - Church of All Saints, Narborough Norfolk
Although the design of the Y7 originates from 1888, No. 985 as it was originally, was built at Darlington in 1923. A batch of 5 was turned out from Darlington in September 1923 and No. 985 - as it then was - was sent to Alexandra Dock Shed at Hull.
The dock had been opened up in the early years of the present century and was the only example of co-operation between two deadly rivals - the North Eastern and the Hull and Barnsley railways.
Eventually, the North Eastern took over the Hull and Barnsley in 1922 - much to the displeasure of many Hull people - and Alexandra Dock became a purely North Eastern preserve.
Now residing at the Mid Suffolk Light Railway, where she will be available for work from mid-April!
For more info on the MSLR, visit - www.mslr.org.uk/
Here's more than anyone needs to know about it ... www.railuk.info/members/steam/getsteam.php?row_id=19777 😁
School Boy humour - Churchmans sign. Mid–Suffolk Light Railway. Friday 24 August 2012.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B.
Camera: Canon EOS 550D
The Mid-Suffolk Light Railway opened in 1904 branching east from Haughley with the intention of crossing Suffolk to Halesworth. It was never fully completed and ended up with the line ending in the middle of a field east of Laxfield. It was bankrupt from almost the very start and closed in July 1952. Stations along the line included Gipping Siding, Mendlesham, Brockford, Aspall & Thorndon, Kenton, Monksoham, Worlingworth, Horham, Stradbroke and Wilby.
A railway museum has now opened at Brockford / Wetheringsett and the railway operates along a short stretch of track, it is hoped that the line will be extended in due course.