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Norfolk Family History Society A private company limited by guarantee Registered in England - Company No. 3194731 Registered as a Charity - Registration No. 1055410 Registered Office address: Kirby Hall, 70 St. Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1LS Headquarters and Library Kirby Hall, 70 St. Giles Street, Norwich NR2 1LS Telephone No. (01603) 763718 NFHS Web pages: http://www.norfolkfhs.org.uk For a full list of contacts with email addresses please see page 100 Board of Trustees Mike Dack NORS Admin Paul Harman Transcripts Organiser Margaret Murgatroyd Parish Registers/Ancestor Edmund Perry Company Secretary Carol Reeve Volunteer Co-ordinator Jean Stangroom Chair and Membership Sectretary Carole Taylor Treasurer Robin Whitmore Editor Editorial Team Robin Whitmore Editor Mary Mitchell Proof Reader Gillian James Proof Reader Linda Hurley Proof Reader Current Rates for Membership Single Joint Single Joint Single Joint 10 Year 10 Year Life Life UK £10 £15 £75 £112 £165 £250 Overseas Airmail £12 £18 £90 £135 £200 £300 ISBN 0141 4505 © Copyright 2013 NFHS and Contributors The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 63 June 2013 CONTENTS The Norfolk Ancestor June 2013 Page A Sad Tale About a Barn 62 Diary of Events 66 Special Offers 67 Guidelines for submitting articles to The Ancestor 68 Book Reviews 69 - 72 Group Reports Norwich Group Report Roy Scott 73 - 75 London Group report Mary Seeley 75 - 77 South Norfolk Group Report Jenny Jenkins 77 - 80 Parson Woodforde Society Journal Liz Mann 81 NFHS Website and NORS Mike Dack 82 New Members and Members Intereststs Jean Stangroom 83 - 93 The Live Bait Squadron 93 Norfolk Record Office Report 95 - 97 Transcripts Printed and Shelved 98 NFHS Constitution Edmund Perry 98 Family Tree Appeal 99 Pedigrees added to the Library shelves 99 Contacts and Where to Reach Them 100 William Lovel-Laws, Ex Norwich, England - Weaver, burglar, escaped convict, digger, axeman . and good father Peter Lovel 103 - 109 William Pigman 109 Notes and Queries 110 - 112 Books for Sale 113 Postcards from Great Yarmouth 114 - 115 Looking for W T Hudson 115 - 116 The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 64 June 2013 NOTICES Kirby Hall Library Opening Times Tuesday and Thursday 10.00am - 1.00pm Wednesday 10.00am - 4.00pm First and last Sunday in the month 10.00am - 1.00pm The Norfolk Ancestor The Norfolk Ancestor is a quarterly journal published in March, June, September and December. Opinions expressed in this journal are those of individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of either the Editor or the Norfolk Family History Society which cannot take responsibility for the accuracy of facts in the articles submitted. All advertisements are commercial and their inclusion does not indicate endorsement by the Society, which accepts no responsibility for any loss suffered directly or indirectly by any reader or purchaser as a result of any advertisement or notice published in this journal. No part of this journal may be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the prior permission of the Society. The Front Cover The picture on the front cover is the pub sign for The Kings Head in Magdalen Street. The licence can be traced back to 1760 and 300 years later it is still trading. Despite an extensive renovation in 2004/5 the entrance to the adjacent courtyard still depicts the emblem of the Crown Brewery, dating back to when it was tied to Youngs, Crawshay & Youngs. The picture is reproduced by the kind permission of the family of Arthur Panks, the artist. You can view this and other pub signs at http://www.norwich-pubs-breweries.co.uk/pub signs/pub signs norfolk.shtm. Alternatively go to http://www.norwich-heritage.co.uk to view other work and see Norwich Heritage’s plans for this year’s project. They can be contacted at [email protected]. The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 65 June 2013 DIARY of EVENTS July to September 2013 Date Event Speaker Group 11 June TBA TBA South Norfolk 14 June ‘Newspapers in Family History Research’ 7.30pm Rosemary Dixon Archant Norwich 9 July ‘Britain’s First Serial Killer’ Mike Wabe South Norfolk 12 July Guided Tour of The Archive Centre Norwich (This is for members only and is a 6.60pm start at The Archive Centre) 9 August Member help Member Evening - 7.30pm Norwich 13 August ‘War & Peace’ Tracing a Marine and His Family 1790/1850’ Simon Pawley South Norfolk 10 September ‘Frederick Rolfe - King of Norfolk Poachers’ South Norfolk GROUP MEETING VENUES DISS Diss Methodist Church, Victoria Road, Diss (A1066) SOUTH NORFOLK (2nd Tuesday of each month at 7.00 pm) £1 per member - £2 for non-members NORWICH Kirby Hall, 70 St Giles Street, Norwich (2nd Friday of each month at 7.30 pm) LONDON Society of Genealogists, 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road. London EC1M 7BA (Appoximately every six months, 2.00 - 4.00pm) Diana Spelman, Norfolk Research Specialist will translate FREE one line of Latin for NFHS members. Email: [email protected] Telephone: 01603 664186 The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 66 June 2013 cine - slides - video Have all your treasured Dvd memories transferred to disc 2 8mm & 16mm cine films converted to DVD VHS & camcorder tapes converted to DVD 35mm slides, negatives & prints scanned and saved on disc. These can also be compiled into a slideshow with music and transferred to DVD for viewing on your home TV. Contact Michael on: 01708 735810 or www.slides2disk.co. SPECIAL OFFER Norfolk Marriages 1801-1837 CD Usually £14.50 NOW £7.25 Stock Number 9720 The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 67 June 2013 GUIDELINES Submitting an article: Articles for future editions are always required - submit and see! But please note, the Editor cannot guarantee the issue in which your article will appear. Every effort will be made to reproduce articles as presented, but the Editor reserves the right to edit as necessary. The Editor will assume that all neces- sary authorisation for attachments, photographs etc. has been obtained and the Norfolk Family History Society will not be held liable in the case of a subsequent query. Articles should preferably be typed in a 10pt font for an A5 page with a 1.4cm border - about 400 words per page without photographs. Please keep articles to 3 pages maximum - 1200 words approx. Email or CD versions are most helpful. All material from regular contributors for inclusion in the September 2013 issue should be sent to the Editor at Kirby Hall NO LATER than 20 August 2013. Our thanks in advance to all those who submit material for publication. Notes and Queries: Queries predominate, but offers of help and items of information and general interest may be included. Entries as brief as possible please, preferably less than 150 words, typed in a 10pt font. Addresses should be given in full (an email address alone is insufficient as this may limit response). Membership number and email address should be included. Non-members should include a cheque for £6 (drawn on a UK Clearing Bank) made payable to ‘The Norfolk Family History Society’, for each item intended for publication. Address correspondence to: The Editor, c/o Kirby Hall, 70 St. Giles Street, Norwich, NR2 1LS. Email [email protected] Photographs: Photographs are always welcome, they liven up the layout. Preferably send in your photographs by email as a JPEG attachment (Please scan at 300dpi if possible). Photocopies do not always reproduce well as they need to be scanned into a computer and they lose clarity in the process. If you send in an original photograph. please state whether you wish it to be returned to you. The Norfolk Ancestor Journal of the NFHS 68 June 2013 BOOK REVIEWS Sail and Storm - The Aylsham Navigation The Aylsham Local History Society Edited by Sarah Spooner ISBN 978 0 9521564 5 1 £15.00 This is the story of the Navigation which opened in 1779 on the River Bure between Coltishall and Aylsham in north-east Norfolk. It flourished in the 18th and 19th centuries becoming a vital link in the local economy providing efficient low cost transport for moving heavy and bulky goods such as wheat, oats and barley for brewing; chalk, marl, clay, sand and gravel; bricks and tiles; textiles, paper and timber - all of which were produced and used locally. As with other canals the Aylsham Navigation fell into decline as a result of railway competition and eventually was damaged beyond repair during the great flood of 1912. A number of contributors wrote the text using the Navigation Archives of accounts and minute books retained by Aylsham Town Council and other material at the Norfolk Record Office. Their research is an admirable case study covering the history and technical aspects of the construction, operation and maintainance of the canal, the watermills, locks, bridges, staithes and wherries. It also contains short biographical details of the Lichfield families, landowners, farmers, merchants, millers and solicitors who contributed subscriptions and/or became Commissioners plus information about individuals who worked at all levels on the Navigation. There is an absorbing chapter on the weather conditions and the flooding of 1912 and an interesting description of ‘The Landscape Today’. The book is well illustrated with numerous maps, drawings, graphs, and photographs. It contains various lists of donors and subscribers, toll collectors and different occupations, plus a glossary of terms and an excellent index. Edmund Perry MN3181 Life in the Flegg Villages 1800-1950 Written and Published by David Tubby ISBN 978 0 9568967 1 1 £9.99 In 2002 Barbara Conford produced her book on Medieval Flegg which described the history of the Flegg District up to 1500.