12 20 1030 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/221e951b0f3a7192337d56fbd41ec657.pdf 09d4b39dedfc0118816e4d269adb3e77 PDF Text Text The Reepham Archive www.reephamarchive.co.uk Education in Reepham from the earliest date known. Volunteers’ Notes on Contents held in the Archive Details held in the Archive on Schooling in Reepham are sketchy and few. We have some good group photographs and would welcome help with the identification of individuals and corrections to the information given on our website. We hold very little about the present schools, only a few example copies of school magazines. We always welcome additional information. In the local returns to the Select Committee for the Education of the Poor dated 1818 Reepham had a population of 299, Kerdiston 152, Whitwell 355 and Hackford 503 people. Sunday Schools and evening lessons were organised by the curates and supported by voluntary contributions. Children of Dissenters had their own Sunday School. It was observed that ‘the poor children are taught to read and have sufficient means of education’. Booton, population 193, had 18 children attending a school. It was stated here that ‘the poor have not sufficient means of instruction’, while Salle had no school and ‘the poorer classes send their children to the daily school in the neighbourhood’. One has to wonder where they went and how they got there. The Norfolk Directories and Census returns for the period from 1830 - 1851 mention school masters and school mistresses and several day and boarding schools for boys and for girls. In 1851 Orlando Horace Cooper ran a boarding school for 5 boy boarders at The Mill Hill Academy, his home at The Limes in Ollands Road. It was a school for farmer’s sons according to Harry Hawes. In 1866 Hawes then aged 3 attended Old Buck’s School in Back Lane and remembered the cots for babies. In the school holidays he went to Rebecca Goose’s School in the house now known as Swiss Cottage with eight or nine other boys and girls. His mother paid threepence a week. There were other schools in Sall Lane and The Market Place. In 1847 St Mary’s School, Norwich Road, was opened for the children from the parishes of Reepham and Kerdiston. It was closed in about 1920 shortly before Wesley Piercy started at the new Hackford and Whitwell School aged 4. He says it was later used for cookery and woodwork classes for children from other schools. Between 1859-1873 there are records of a small private school at Whitwell Common. There is an Indenture dated 1781 with a decision of a public meeting to repair Hackford Poor House and to appoint a School Master and School Mistress. The parishioners of Whitwell agree to pay £30 towards the costs. In 1837 the Rev. Holley came to live at Hackford House, now The Bircham Centre. and started a school in the building now known at The Town Hall. He employed 3 teachers, Mr and Mrs Buck and a Miss Kemp. His daughter ran a Sunday School. This school was demolished and �rebuilt in 1860 as The Hackford and Whitwell Parochial School. A notice on the wall of the present Town Hall in Church Street states that this work was paid for by public subscription. John Burgoin was Head Master from 1862 – 1877. It appears he was also responsible for the Infant School in Whitwell Street which was open before 1859. In 1862 both William Spooner and Leonora Woodhouse earned about 6/- a week as infant teachers. When she resigned due to ill health in 1890 she was earning 12/- a week. In 1873 there was a proposal to unite several local parishes and to extend St. Mary’s School and to build a new school at Whitwell Common. This was rejected by the Managers of the H&WPS who felt the present school met the needs of the parishes and did not like the idea of a school for boys and a school for girls. The School in Church Street closed in 1893 and on 11 October the Hackford and Whitwell School opened in Whitwell Road. This school is also referred to as Hackford School, Reepham County Primary School and The Primary School. It is now Reepham Primary School. In 1921 when Wesley Piercy was a new boy the Headmaster was Mr C H Thompson who taught standards 7 and 8 while Miss Ethel Boone taught standards 5 and 6. In all there were 4 teachers for 180 children. There was no electricity, no school uniforms, the toilets were outside and boys were caned, but only occasionally. A new Secondary Modern School was built and opened in 1961 with 200 pupils. The first Head Teacher was Edward Riddell Smith. A sixth form college was opened in 2009 and the school is now known as Reepham High School and College. It is a specialist Science, Applied Learning and Mathematics & Computing Centre with around 1050 pupils. Mark Farrer is the current principal. References: Tony Ivins’ research in the 1970’s based on records held by Reepham Parish Council including Hackford Parish Council Minutes Books 1894-1920 and 1921-1935, an Indenture dated 1781, correspondence, letters and WEA course work study sheets. Wesley Piercy: My Town Page 16, School in Reepham in the 1920’s. Harry Hawes’ Walk Page 5. The Norfolk Heritage Explorer. Photographs, Magazine and information held in Box 10, Shelf 2 in the Reepham Archive. Original Documents held in Ring Binder 6. Last updated July 2016 Prepared by: AM. � Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource Edward & Emma Gibbs Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2506031900 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Sepia photograph 150mm x 110mm Mounted on heavy card Families & Businesses/Gibbs [File 6, Archive Box 106] Description An account of the resource Studio portrait of Edward Gibbs (1861-1959) with his wife Emma (1863-1960), possibly taken to record an anniversary. They were first cousins and were married at Hickling in October 1888.<br /><em>If the occasion was their silver wedding the photograph would have been taken in 1913.</em> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource H. Normand 2023 Gibbs https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/343d9c4024e67321bc854c6c884bf906.jpg 23b8f93e45dd1f796288a07d6c4990a6 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/2337bce6d804e21a30876944afebba19.pdf 9f44181fbb5ad0a811737979352a89fa PDF Text Text GB/REE/1601121222 Edward Gibbs jnr WWI Service Badges & Medal Records Army Ordnance Corps Cap badge (seen in the photograph) Medal Record Card 1920 Record of Medals � Photograph-printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1601121222 Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs (Jnr) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914-1918 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource B&W photograph 178 x 126mm Families & Businesses/Gibbs [File 6, Archive Box 106] Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914-1918 Reepham Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 522 Marjorie Gibbs Description An account of the resource Edward Gibbs in his Rover car (1910 6hp) while on leave during WWI. Second image shows the AOC cap badge,shoulder badge and medal records. Gibbs WWI https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/607918326c703da27dd7b941d4c918ee.pdf 4c04833a186471edb74923f0fefbae54 PDF Text Text � Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1603222055 Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs & Son : Blank Invoice Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Paper 200mm x 255mm Families & Businesses/Gibbs [File 6, Archive Box 106] Extra copies held in Large Gibbs Archive Box Description An account of the resource Invoice Form with decorative heading showing telephone number & postal address. Reepham 204. Norfolk NOR 71X. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Pre 1968 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Pre 1968 Reepham Gibbs https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9916ba0230d224334633da656f914c7b.jpg 5fd5b80a1f088ee506cb3336d448ebbd Text-handwritten Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1512141916 Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs Accounts Book Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Edward Gibbs Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1888-1915 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Families & Businesses/Gibbs [File 6, Archive Box 106] Leather bound account book 10 x 15cm Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1888-1915 Reepham Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society Marjorie Gibbs Description An account of the resource Detailed manuscript accounts book dating from the purchase of the Ironmongery and Agricultural Seed Business from Stephen Leeds in 1888 until 1915. Business valued at £1196 on 11 October 1888. 1880s Gibbs ironmonger Leeds https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/813a6d31d681c552515622e1d36402b6.pdf edad486ff792250a861bb9331ae3409e PDF Text Text Edward Gibbs and Son  Edward Gibbs and Son, ironmongers and seed merchants, became an institution in  Reepham and their shop and general agricultural services to the farming fraternity in  and around Reepham is still remembered with fondness today by many people in  Reepham, even though their shop closed well over twenty years ago. It was said that  the Gibbs business was famous for two things; firstly, its picturesque premises and  the excellent services it gave and secondly, the late Mr Edward Gibbs, who attended  the business daily until he was ninety‐eight.  The premises, at the height of the business, were situated in the area which has now  been converted into the commercial and residential area occupied by Merchants  Yard, Ewings estate agents, Saralle Systems, M‐Tec and a number of others. It was  and probably will be the occupier of the largest commercial site in the centre of  Reepham, with perhaps the exception of the Old Brewery House Hotel.  It is said that there were ironmongers on this site long before the business was  bought by Gibbs, but the exact date of the foundation of this business is not known  but in the churchyard is a tombstone inscribed “William Samuel George, ironmonger  of this parish who died at the age of 69 years in 1802”. The George family ran the  business until it was purchased in the early 1870s by a firm called S. and S.W. Leeds  who ran it until 1888 when Mr Edward Gibbs took it over.  Edward Gibbs was born in 1860 the son of a farmer; he always wanted to be a farmer  but during the 1870s farming was in a bad way, so he applied for an apprenticeship  with James Cooper and Son, ironmongers of East Dereham. He was accepted at a  premium of £30 and served his five years starting at 2s 6d a week. He stayed with  them until 1887 and when he left his weekly wages had raised to 30s. He took over  the business of S. and S. W. Leeds on October 11th, 1888 a week after he was  married at St Mary’s Church, Hickling. His two children subsequently became  partners, his son Edward in 1920 and in about 1957 his daughter Marjorie took an  active partnership.  Edward Gibbs Senior took an active part in the business until he was ninety‐four, and  he then maintained a daily interest almost until his death in December 1959 at the  age of ninety‐nine. Edward Gibbs Junior started to work for his father immediately  after leaving school, and only service in the First World War intervened. A motorcycle  accident in 1915 robbed him of his sight but he still carried on working in the shop.  At the age of seventy‐four (in 1966) Edward Gibbs Junior decided to retire together  with his sister, Marjorie, although both regarded the closing of the business as “a  matter of real regret”. Mr Gibbs, after 60 years in the business. decided to retire for  two reasons – firstly, because he wanted to, and secondly, because of trade. The  �days of horses in farm work had long since departed; he stocked the equipment they  needed but there was no longer a demand for it.  It was decided in 1966 to try and sell the business as a going concern but  unfortunately the firm was unable to find a buyer. In early 1967 the stock was  discounted by 5% and this discounting continued for the next three months reaching  20% before an auction was held in April 1967 in Irelands saleroom in Reepham (now  the site of the car park in Station Road) when the remaining items were sold off.  Part of the premises was bought by Mr W. Ewing (now the estate agents) and the  main part was bought by Mr Ernest Clark who ran a hardware business until he  retired due to ill health in 1982.  After Cyril Jolly’s article appeared in the Eastern Daily Press, Mr Gibbs received a  letter from a reader in Gislingham, Suffolk, who had read about the closure, but he  wondered if it was possible for him to obtain “a pound of so of the ‘rotten stone’  powder which so intrigued Mr Jolly”. It seems that this powder mixed with certain  acids and oils offered the best means of restoring the lustre to ancient copper. The  reader had tried with a number of ironmongers and chemists to find some, but to no  avail.  Miss Gibbs was able to supply the reader with some of the “rotten stone” and he was  able to clean some pieces of antique copper which until then had resisted all the  orthodox methods of cleaning.  From articles published in the Reepham Society Newsletter, Spring 1989, written by  the editor, Michael Black, with assistance from Marjorie Gibbs.  � Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs and Son Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2302202000 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 PDF Description An account of the resource From articles published in the Reepham Society Newsletter, Spring 1989, written by the editor, Michael Black, with assistance from Marjorie Gibbs. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Reepham Society https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/d0c0c9df8e6cbd33318362b77919457a.pdf 97b16e7881fff3579db1e8ada03b5f36 PDF Text Text Edward Gibbs and Son Edward Gibbs and Son, lronmongers and Seed Merchants, became an institution in Reepham and their shop and general agricultural services to the farming fraternity in and around Reepham is still remembered with fondness today by many people even though their shop closed many years ago. It was said that the Gibbs’ business was famous for two things: firstly, its picturesque premises and the excellent service it gave, and secondly, the late Mr Edward Gibbs, who attended the business daily until he was 98. The premises were large, with many warehouses, each one assigned to one section of the various goods stocked. Two years after Edward Gibbs took over the original business, the grocers’ shop adjoining became vacant and this was added to the existing shop. There was a dwelling house attached which was enlarged in 1904 to assist with the expansion of the business. Behind the front buildings there was a courtyard surrounded by the warehouses and other buildings that made up the complex which for the next 60 years was to become such a vital and well-respected part of business life in Reepham. It is said that there were ironmongers on this site long before the business was bought by Gibbs. The exact date of the foundation of this business is not known but in the churchyard is a tombstone inscribed “William Samuel George, ironmonger of this parish who died at the age of 69 years in 1802”. The George family ran the business until it was purchased by a firm called S & S W Leeds in the early 1870s who ran it until 1888 when Mr Edward Gibbs took it over. Edward Gibbs was born in 1860 the son of a farmer; he always wanted to be a farmer but during the 1870s farming was in a bad way so he applied for an apprenticeship with James Cooper and Son, ironmongers of East Dereham. He was accepted at a premium of £30 and served his five years starting at 2s 6d a week. He stayed with them until 1887 and when he left his weekly wages had been raised to 30s. On 11 October 1888 he took over the business of S & S W Leeds and a week after he was married at St Mary’s Church, Hickling. His two children subsequently became partners: his son Edward in 1920 and in about 1957 his daughter Marjorie took an active partnership. Edward Gibbs Senior took an active part in the business until he was 94, and he then maintained a daily interest almost until his death in December 1959 at the age of 99. Edward Gibbs Junior started to work for his father immediately after leaving school, and only service in the First World War intervened. A motorcycle accident in 1915 robbed him of his sight but he still carried on working in the shop. At the age of 74 (in 1966) Edward Gibbs Junior decided to retire together with his sister, Marjorie, although both regarded the closing of the business as a “matter of real regret”. Mr �Gibbs, after 60 years in the business, decided to retire for two reasons: firstly, because he wanted to, and secondly, because of a declining trade. The days of horses in farm work had long since departed; he stocked the equipment they needed for which there was no longer a demand. It was decided in 1966 to try and sell the business as a going concern but unfortunately the firm was unable to find a buyer. Early in 1967 the stock was discounted by 5% and this discounting continued for the next three months reaching 20% before an auction was held in April 1967 in Ireland’s saleroom in Reepham (now the site of the car park in Station Road) when the remaining items were sold off. The old-fashioned ironmonger’s shop is now a thing of the past. Those that have survived have adapted their methods and their stock to meet today’s requirements. With no horses on farms there are no blacksmiths requiring iron for horseshoes and wagon tyres. Nobody has oil lamps any more and there is little demand for paraffin. It is a similar story for the seed merchants. There are no horses needing hay and so there is no call for hay seed. Bullocks are no longer fattened in yards and so farmers do not grow swedes and mangolds. Much as the passing of these traditional trades may be regretted, change is inevitable. lronmongery is just one of the many trades that once flourished in Reepham and is now gone. In 50 years time will the computers that now fill the shop premises of Edward Gibbs evoke as much nostalgia as does the smell of linseed oil and the sight of hazy sunshine pouring through the mixing of clover, rape and trefoil seeds? The closure prompted the following article by Cyril Jolly which appeared in the Eastern Daily Press in April 1969: The Shop That Mirrored 200 Years of Change The Norfolk Ironmonger’s Shop now closed after 200 years of trading revealed on its shelves two centuries of social history and change. There are more interesting ways of studying social history than in books. The closing of an ironmonger’s shop, after 200 years of trading, has shown me in a fascinating way how the tides of change have ebbed and flowed over rural life. Changes in lighting, cooking, travel, farming, sport and craftsmanship – revealed by goods on the shelves of a picturesque 18th century premises making a corner of Reepham’s Market Square. The square has its own charm, with thatched and Georgian houses, Flemish and crow-step gables, and two parish churches enclosed by the winding wall of one churchyard. The ironmongery is itself a little kingdom, with two double-fronted shops, attics, cellars and a neighbourly medley of store-rooms and granary. Beneath �four panes of “bulls-eye” glass I entered the main shop, which resembled Hampton Court Maze with its passages and stairs. One stairway beneath the main counter led to a cellar. I bent double under the counter to enter this Ali Baba’s cavern. Instead of oil jars I found two large tanks, one for linseed oil and the other for lard oil. The spillings of generations mixed with sawdust caked the floor, and wall racks held paint, turpentine, black harness oil and preparations only old tradesmen would recognise. A dozen smells also competed for recognition; linseed oil won easily. In an attic, beneath adze-trimmed beams, were scores of parcels that had slept snug on their dusty shelves for a century. They contained nails (mostly handmade); nails for carpenters, builders, wagon wheel tyres and strakes; nails for shoeing horses and the bullocks that once worked ploughs; frost nails and caulking nails. Here I tried out a machine that might have eased the drudgery of knife cleaning fifty years ago. “Tortoise” stoves elbowed door furniture into a corner, some would have graced a mansion and some a coal shed. A tub of gum arabic (used for starching shirt fronts in Edwardian times), scythe blades and plough blades, put back the clock half a century. Climbing up cobwebby stairs to the seed warehouse, I skirted bins labelled clover, rape, trefoil and saw a set of seed riddles and a set of measures made in Dereham by Bradley and Utting and a flailing stool. The operator sat on one end, laid the corn on the other and beat it with a swipe of a hand flail. In the yard was a gunpowder magazine for cartridges that were made here. A hundred cases were set up in a frame, filled with powder, shot and wadding and the ends rolled in with a treadle machine – now only fit for the scrap heap. The proprietors, Mr E Gibbs and his sister, showed me the main shed with its countless drawers, each bearing a sample of the contents nailed to the front. What a cavalcade of village life they represented. There were brass plug-taps for wine barrels of halls or public houses (some had a locking device – and probably needed it). Cattle clippers, pig and bull rings, “humbugs” for putting in the nostrils of cows when giving a medicinal drink, cheese wire; a key for fitting skates and ancient brass gear for shutters and blinds. Some peculiar needles puzzled me – they were larding needles used to pierce meat on a spit and draw off the grease into a larding tray; I handled lamp glasses of all shapes and curious tools for many crafts made in an age when wearing value mattered more than a glossy finish. In the office was a “wheelers’ round”, used by wheelwrights to measure iron for re-tyring cart wheels, and well-thumbed price books going back to Victoria’s �golden reign, listing nails at 10s 6d a cwt., a bass broom at two pence, and copper sheet at fifteen pence a pound. My brow furrowed as I picked up a swan-necked object – a stand for goffering irons! There was an ancient machine with a turntable for sharpening horseclipper blades; unopened boxes of candle snuffers; a whip socket and undressed leather for pump clacks. Miss Gibbs recalled, as a girl, selling “penn’orths” of red ochre for smartening doorsteps and “penn’orths” of black gunpowder for cleaning out oven and copper flues. Had I known, in my boyhood, what fun I would have had with mother’s wall oven! As a lad, Mr Gibbs first had to collect a frisky pony from the meadow and then had to take down 16 shutters for the shop to open at 7 am. It closed at 7 pm and 9 pm on Saturdays; Thursday was half-day – it closed at 4 pm! He also remembered a tub containing macassar oil which his father boiled with beeswax and oil of lavender to make a hair pomade. We looked in vain for some needles used to make up straw and oat flight mattresses. Turning out more drawers we conjectured on the use of “Rotten Stone” powder and green copperas (was it used to prevent lime rubbing off walls?). There were dozens of other objects, once in common use, now museum pieces. They were facets of bygone rural life; peepholes on to a half-forgotten yesterday. In fact, beneath the many-angled roofs was 200 years of social history, told in oil lamps, flat irons, tarred twine – and, I suppose, “Rotten Stone”. After Cyril Jolly’s article appeared in the Eastern Daily Press, Mr Gibbs received a letter from a reader in Gislingham, Suffolk, who had read about the closure but he wondered if it was possible for him to obtain “a pound or so of the Rotten Stone powder” which so intrigued Mr Jolly. It seems that this powder mixed with certain acids and oils offered the best means of restoring the lustre to ancient copper. The reader had tried with a number of ironmongers and chemists to find some, but to no avail. Miss Gibbs was able to supply the reader with some of the Rotten Stone and he was able to clean some pieces of antique copper which until then had resisted all the orthodox methods of cleaning. Thomas Piercy worked for Edward Gibbs and Son for more than 50 years and any article which refers to the history of this firm would not be complete without a mention of his time with them. Thomas Piercy was born in 1861 and lived with his parents at Thorney Farm, Kerdiston, where his father was steward. After leaving school at fourteen he worked �on the farm with his father but in 1879 he decided that he did not much care for farm work and went to work for S & S W Leeds the ironmongers and seed merchants. He was employed as a carter at 15 shillings per week (75p). The two Leeds, uncle and nephew, were both named Stephen (not to be confused with the Whitwell tanner who was another Stephen Leeds). The elder Leeds lived at the shop and the younger at Church Hill in the house now occupied by Mr and Mrs Betts. After working for the Leeds for some years Thomas decided to join the Metropolitan Police but when the Leeds heard of this, they promptly revised his wages to one pound per week, quite a good wage a century ago and enough to make him change his mind about the police force. The business was sold to Mr E Gibbs in 1888. The elder Mrs Leeds (now a widow) moved from the shop and went to live with the other (and younger) Mrs Leeds at Church Hill. When Mr Gibbs purchased and took over the ironmongers’ business, he lacked experience in the seed trade. Thomas Piercy knew both sides pretty well and initially Mr Gibbs depended on his knowledge of the seed side of the business. His eldest son, Fred, was taken on to learn the trade of ironmongery from Mr Gibbs, but tragically he was killed in an accident in the shop in 1904 aged fourteen. His place was taken by another son, Wilfrid, who served for a time and then went to work for a Norwich ironmonger. He was killed in action in France in 1916. Thomas Piercy became a pensioner in 1920 but still went to the shop on a part-time basis. When he died in 1930, he had worked for more than fifty years in employment with Edward Gibbs and Son. His grandson, Wesley Piercy, who lives in Reepham, recalls his childhood when as a small boy he would frequently visit the premises with his grandfather. While an ironmongers and seed merchants shop may not have been deemed the most interesting of places Wesley always found it fascinating. “The shop itself had stairs under the counter leading down to a mysterious cellar and other stairs to rooms above. Throughout the entire premises there was an indescribable smell of turpentine, lard oil, linseed oil and the smell of a dozen other substances. “Across the yard was the seed room. This was reached by ascending a winding staircase to the top floor, at the far end there was a low door with a sign stating, ‘Mind Your Head’. Here the various grass and clover seeds were mixed; these would be sown with barley and when grown would be cut for hay. “Occasionally, I was allowed to accompany my grandfather with the horse and cart delivering bars of iron to blacksmiths in the surrounding district. One of these was Hardiments of Kerdiston which was where the horse went to be shod. Another was �Millets whose smithy was on the main road to Sparham; in those days, the road was often referred to as the turnpike. The most exciting trip was to Barrets at Lyng. In those days this involved going through the river. This was in the early 1920s when the present bridge had not been built. “l also remember going to Weston House, Weston Longville, and Heydon Hall to deliver paraffin. I believe these trips for me came to an end when Mr Gibbs replaced the horse and cart with a Ford lorry. This was driven by a man named Henry Rose; my grandfather never learned to drive.” From an article published in the Reepham Society Magazine 1993 �S & S W Leeds ran the business until it was purchased by Edward Gibbs in 1888. This is a card presented to local farmers by this firm. Such representations today would be hard to find. Thomas Piercy (on the left) and Edward Gibbs Senior mixing seed in the seed room. �This picture was taken in the 1890s a few years after the business was purchased by Edward Gibbs. Edward Gibbs Senior with “Monarch” – the horse was stabled at the rear of the premises, the area now known as Merchants Yard. �“Monarch” ready for the day’s deliveries. During the First World War the Honourable Artillery Company was Reepham based and “Monarch” had to share his stable with two of their horses. The late 1950s... and horses. �The business premises had been enlarged in 1904 and now occupied the whole of the frontage which is contained today between Towns End Corner and the former Barclays Bank. Apparently, the array of hardwood and ironmongery was brought out every morning and taken in again at the end of each day. �The premises in the 1950s: wares are no longer displayed in such volume outside the shop. The Virginia creeper has by this time nearly covered the whole frontage . � Text-digital Any text item for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The text can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a text owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. 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Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs and Son Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2402141115 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource A4 11 pages Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1993 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived From an article published in the Reepham Society Magazine 1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Reepham Society Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Scanned and edited by Geoff Fisher Gibbs Gibbs Shop ironmonger Piercy https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9cdfcacb0a18a5da7b0455fa24ff667d.jpg e7fdca7bff3d5f9a8140fca87e0ce0dc Photograph-printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Edward Gibbs Shop Description An account of the resource Gibbs Ironmongers expanded and ivy covered + crowds at Towns End. Dixon's shop on corner across Station Road advertising "Triumph Cycles &amp; Motors".<br /><br />On reverse :<br /><em>Darcy Collyer, Solicitor, in pith helmet<br />"taken the first year of the great war. Welsh troops passing through Reepham"<br /><br />also added: K Hall, 1 Coles Way, Reepham.<br /></em> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1607301539 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource B&W postcard 140mm x 90 mm Streets & Buildings/Market Place [File 17, Box 117] Item 21] Families & Businesses/Gibbs [File 6] WWI [File 21] Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 277 RS Library Presentation Book No.3 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914 Reepham 1914 Collyer Dixon garage Gibbs Towns End https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/f2e123e760cf9cf050d27d9dbd8bf7ba.jpg a9ba257ae40bd089e414daad132b15a9 Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eglington & Gooch Machine Works Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2501041145 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families and Businesses [File 6, Archive Box 106] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1910s Description An account of the resource Eglington & Gooch's works existed on the site of the current Spar shop in Ollands Road employing a variety of skilled workmen, blacksmiths, carpenters, wheelwrights and farriers. blacksmith carpenter Eglington farrier Gooch Malthouse Yard RL Calendar 2017 Spar wheelwright https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/6545ce97657fa334e38d5b0098602f2e.jpg 87147bfb8b69f36cf5754ead30e43e71 Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eglington & Gooch's Steam Engine Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2508021600 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families & Businesses [File 6] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1900s Description An account of the resource The view of the church towers in the background suggests that this is the workyard on the site of the current Spar shop and the yard behind it. Sidney Eglington is on the left, the older man in the three-piece suit may be Robert Parker Gooch who died in 1907. The steam engine would have been supplying power to run a circular saw for cutting logs as a preliminary process of the wheelwright business and making carts and traps. Eglington Gooch Malthouse Yard RL Calendar 2015 https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/89a4e2e6761cce322c7535ef504a2851.jpg 166fb1ddaa5115c3dc03ef161f2f49be Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eglington's Work Yard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2502151430 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families & Businesses [File 6] Description An account of the resource Sepia postcard of Eglington & Gooch's machine works with a large assortment of agricultural equipment. The work yard based in the area of Malthouse Yard and the site of the Spar supermarket. The name on the right-hand shed is McCormick Harvesting Machines. Eglington Malthouse Yard Spar https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/7392628a738df624ead846ec4febe7b5.jpg eb4b0babf9aded3e24ec62ab42d42aa8 Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Electricity Cottages Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2204021025 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Streets & Buildings/Cawston Road (File 17, Archive Box 117] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1938 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1938 Cawston Road Description An account of the resource The six semi-detached 'Electricity Cottages' on Cawston Road were built in the 1930s to house workers installing electricity in the town. The road was apparently then called Salle Road. <em>Possible date of image 1938/07/08.</em> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource EW https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/fb12bcd407c8ce73a749c226434664f5.jpg c84c181056e45324afbe7480a4c8bfdd https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/ecf5fa81201cdf2c0e4d66e5ecd1afd9.pdf 69695bca524e552fde87bcb10e26329a PDF Text Text Memories of the Silver Jubilee in 1977 In 2022 Moira Dye & June Betts remember Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee on Tuesday 7th July 1977 Back in 1977 Moira Dye and Barbara Chipperfield, were Brown Owl and Assistant of the Brownies. June Betts and Pam Harvey ran a youth club, along with Mr. W. Brown running the Scouts and Cubs; and probably Daphne Hardiment was with the Guides, and all the groups were based at the Reepham Associated Youth Services Hall, known as R.A.Y.S. Hall, on Dereham Road. This building is now a private house but was originally a chapel for Primitive Methodists and later, from the mid-1930s, Reepham Fire Station. Moira says “ I think I remember most of what happened for the Jubilee. At the start we had a small committee made up of the youth leaders and a few members of other groups. We decided to raise money to buy all the Reepham children up to school leaving age, even babies, a Silver Jubilee Crown coin, to be collected from Mrs. Betts who lived on the Market Place in those days. The children had to sign or finger print, or even footprint, in a book so we could make sure all Reepham children had each received a coin.” The Youth leaders had spent at least three years fund raising to buy the ex-fire station by holding jumblesales on a table outside June’s house, every Saturday morning, for at least 35 weeks of each year. So we did some more sales and bought the crowns from Barclays Bank. It also took a long time to make a list of all the children. Moira continues, “On the day the children were at the Schools for a sports day, while tables were all being set on the Market Place for a street party-- then all changed as it started to rain ! “ Most of the tables were from the Town Hall, heavy wooden ones that were used on Friday nights when the Reepham footballers ran Bingo sessions for the local community, raising funds for the football club. “So the decision was made to go into the Town Hall. Well, that was a panic, but we actually managed it before the children all arrived for tea. People arrived with cake tins or dishes with cloth covers; inside were sandwiches with Shiphams meat or salmon paste, egg, tomato, cheese, home cooked ham and even jam sandwiches. There were sausage rolls, buns, jam tarts and ‘Hedgehogs’ – (small pieces of cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks stuck in half an apple or orange body). Then jelly and blancmange and gallons of squash. A great day for all !” “In the evening we had a BBQ back on the Market Place set up by Brian Dawes, Mr. Vertigan and other helpers”. Brian Dawes was one of the first people in Reepham who had a microwave oven and he made sure the sausages were already well cooked inside so they just needed to be browned and smoked. Moira declared “ It was one of the most successful days we have had in Reepham. The next day was back to normal. Mrs. Betts and myself went to clean up the Town Hall. Oh WHAT A MESS ! what had been jelly and ice cream, bread and sandwiches was all over the floor and tables. Thank goodness it was bin day! We did it and left the hall sparkling clean but declaring we would NOT offer to help to manage future Jubilee celebrations.” Moira Dye & June Betts (There was a photograph taken on the front steps of the Town Hall of many of the Children who attended. I have the photo and coin book somewhere. When I find it, I will give it to Reepham Archive.) Image of the children on the Town Hall steps GB/REE/2207161034 Elizabeth II Jubilee Coin Album GB/REE/2207161108 � Artefact-physical Physical objects other than texts, photographs, maps etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth II Jubilee Album Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2207161108 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hard back white leatherette album 320 x 215 x 30 mm + A4 PDF 1 page Events/QEII Silver Jubilee [File 5, Archive Box 105] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1977 Reepham Description An account of the resource Hard backed album marked "Jubilee 1977, List of Children receiving Crown Coins. Each sheet records 15 children, mostly in alphabetical order, who signed by hand or by finger print for their coin. One original 5/- coin remains with the album together with a sheet describing the events held between Saturday 21 May & Tuesday 7 June 1977. Memories of the day from June Betts & Moira Dye when they were part of the team that organised the street party in the Market Place, later removing all the furniture to the Town Hall when it started to rain. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Betts 2022 1977 Silver Jubilee https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/60ebc83b29cb4980f4205c89a1fa9fb8.jpg d84b834bb57fc3ccf4ec076d537fe789 Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2207161034 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Events/ QEII Silver Jubilee [File 5, Archive Box 105] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1977 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1977 Reepham Description An account of the resource Newspaper photograph of Reepham's Jubilee Queen, Mary Shepherd, on the Town Hall steps after the children's Jubilee party. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Betts 2022 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available North Norfolk News Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource North Norfolk News 1977 RL Calendar 2023 Silver Jubilee Town Hall https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/73814899768bc82b99ef61b6cd461a88.jpg 36f646bafa062e2fa467181230476c88 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WWI Description An account of the resource Information relating to the use of Hackford House & Reepham Town Hall as a Red Cross/VAD Hospital during WWI plus photographs of troops assembling/parading in Reepham Market Place. Many of these images were used in the Reepham Archive Exhibition in 2014. The display boards are shown in the RA Exhibition Collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/WWI Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [File 21, Box 121] Artefact-physical Physical objects other than texts, photographs, maps etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Embroidered Red Cross Badge Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2112111210 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Embroidered Badge Gold frame 310 x 318 mm On display in the Archive Rooms WWI [File 21] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1955 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1955 Reepham Description An account of the resource Embroidered Red Cross Badge in a gold frame. The badge was worked and given to Miss Evelyn Gibbs by one of the wounded soldiers during the First World War. Evelyn served as Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) in the Hackford Military Hospital based in Hackford House. In 1955 Evelyn's sister Marjorie Gibbs presented it to the Reepham Detachment of the British Red Cross Society <br /><br /><em>In pen, on the reverse:</em><br /><em>Bircham Centre Archives (donated by Mrs Rosemary Stimpson)</em> Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Bircham Centre Archive Mrs Rosemary Stimpson Miss Marjorie Gibbs Relation A related resource Reepham Archive WWI Exhibition 2014 1955 Gibbs Red Cross https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/fa770bf338145eebe529acf9b05ba89f.jpg f2c594ad3189c8cb219b834e78084c54 Photograph-digital Any photograph for which there is no previously existing hard copy in the Archive. The photograph can be stored on CD, DVD, memory card, USB stick, on hard drive or 'cloud'. It may have been sent electronically to the Archive or it may be a photograph owned by someone else which we have scanned or photographed. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eva Mabel Leonard Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2602031920 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Digital Families & Businesses [File 6} Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1918 Description An account of the resource Eva Mabel Leonard (1896-1977) Studio portrait taken about 1918 Eva's husband was Reginald Fisher, youngest son of George Ephraim Fisher. George ran the grocery an drapery business from the premises that was once Motts Pharmacy, now the Deli/Farm Shop. Reginald & Eva were running a shop in Barnham Broom in 1939, living next door to Eva's parents Herbert and Hannah Leonard. Herbert was a retired farmer who had once run Ollands Farm in Heydon. In 1921 Reginald was a boarder as a farm pupil with the Leonards in Heydon. Reginald and Eva were married in 1924. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wesley Piercy Fisher https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/4ab7a1777a27aceb64a96a179c947631.jpg c8c0845a4639355b3492f33baf3dd310 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource WWI Description An account of the resource Information relating to the use of Hackford House & Reepham Town Hall as a Red Cross/VAD Hospital during WWI plus photographs of troops assembling/parading in Reepham Market Place. Many of these images were used in the Reepham Archive Exhibition in 2014. The display boards are shown in the RA Exhibition Collection. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/WWI Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource [File 21, Box 121] Artefact-physical Physical objects other than texts, photographs, maps etc. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Evelyn Gibbs Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/2201051011 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource B&W photograph 320 x 420 mm Simple wooden frame WWI [File 21, Archive Box 121] Families and Businesses/Gibbs [File 6] Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914-1918 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914-1918 Reepham Description An account of the resource Portrait photograph of Miss Evelyn Gibbs inscribed 'daughter of Mr. Edward Gibbs, Market Place, Reepham'. During World War I Miss Gibbs served as the Assistant Commandant in the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) of Hackford Military Hospital , Hackford House, Reepham. [Now known as The Bircham Centre]. On display in the Archive Rooms Relation A related resource Reepham Archive WWI Exhibition 2014 Gibbs Hackford House hospital nurse VAD WWI https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9750e03dbd23955cd39585db6bd415e3.jpg f4c323a1a0e9c7c104bf01cba6c7617b Photograph-printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Event at Towns End Corner Description An account of the resource Towns End Corner looking toward Dereham Road. Crowd of people including some on flat roof of Pask's shop <em>(Civil &amp; Military High Class Tailor)</em>. Gospel Room on left beyond rounded corner wall. A copy of this image has been held in the Archive for many years. In 2020 the Archive received an anonymous donation wihich included this postcard. On the reverse "taken September 1914" plus a name and address. We believe this is the original image from which previous copies have been taken. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1914 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1609121618 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource B&W postcard 140 x 90 mm Streets & Buildings [File 17] Events [File 5] Families & Businesses/Hall [Archive Box 106] Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914 Reepham Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 268 Anonymous donor K. Hall RS Library Presentation Book No.5 1914 Gospel Room Hall Pask Towns End https://reephamarchive.co.uk/omeka/files/original/9dca3b710f97bf75009f89c83501a76b.pdf 8a6ab8838c1974cb6a6feef719ff24cb PDF Text Text ��������Reepham Archive Item Record IDENTIFIER (Reference Code) TITLE (Title) GB/REE/1604241510 CREATOR (Name of Creator) DATE (Date(s)) ITEM TYPE BOWLES John FORMAT (Extent & medium of the item) (1) Paper COVERAGE (Scope and content) DESCRIPTION (Brief summary of Content) 1818, 1745-1747, 1797, 1775, Reepham, Aylsham, Pedigree (birth, death, marriages, etc.) TAGS (Finding Aids) 1818, HUNT James St John, HUNT Thomas, GIRLING Ann, GILDING Jemima, Reepham, Aylsham, PENNY John Webber, HUNT Ann, GRIMBLE Mary, HUNT Barbara, PENNY Hannah Ann, Horsham St Faith, Norwich, Stalham, GILDING Joseph, Magicienne, NEALE Hannah Notes Identifier: Title: Creator: Date: Format: Coverage: Description: Tags: Evidence of Pedigree Hunt family 1818 March 1818 Text, handwritten (2) Large Legal Papers Always use the format: GB/REE/yymmddhhminmin + word (item) Use existing title or give short title that succinctly defines the subject and purpose of the item e.g. Manor of Hackford Hall Name of person or organisation that created the item. Date the item was created. If date not known allocate a period, eg 1920s. If it’s an estimate add (EST). In Box (1) state medium, the colour(s) and the metric size (mm), the number of parts and any distinctive features such as damage, repairs or labels. In Box (2) state the location in the Archive, including box/binder number where appropriate. The dates, period & location in the item Optional. Details, e.g. list of names too long to be included in the title. Key words, dates, names & file/box number. When complete, add identifier to item and place form ready for data input. �Thomas Hunt of this Parish Single Man and Ann Girling Spinster of the same Were Married in the Parish Church of All Saints in the City of Norwich by Lycennce the Sixteenth Day of December in the Year of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Eight as it Appears By the Register Book of All Saints Parish Chas: W Smyth Curate Mar: 14th 1818 Ch Browne Parish Clarke Thomas James St. John Son of Thomas and Ann Hunt Was Baptized January the 15 1775 as it Appears By the Register Book of All Saints Parish Ch Browne Parish Clark Chas: W Smyth Curate Mar: 14th 1818 March 13th 1818 Extract from the Parochial Register of Horsham St Faiths James Hunt of Aylsham single man and Hannah Neale of the City of Norwich single woman was married by License, the 5th Day of September 1745 Edward Hill P Clark Geo: Kent Perpetual Curate of Horsham St Faiths ......Hunt 1 "Thomas Hunt the Son of James and Hannah" baptized - Sept 12th - 1747 -" The above is a true extract from the Register of Aylsham Witness my hand B Pering Curate March 9th - 1818"James Hunt Son to James and Hannah" - baptized - June 25th - 1746 -" The above is a true extract from the Register of Aylsham Witness my hand - B Pering Curate March 9 - 1818 .....Hunt 2 This is to certify that by the Pay Book of Her Majesty's Ship Magicienne it appears that Thomas Hunt able Seaman of that Ship died at the Mole on 31 October 1797. Signature Navy Office 19 March 1818 Public Fee 5/. ....Hunt 3 James Edward son of Thomas Hunt and Jemima his wife was born November 19th and privately baptized the 23rd of the same month in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three From the Stalham Register book in the County of Norfolk Jos Burney PCk March 10th 1818 �Thomas Hunt of this parish widower, and Jemima Gilding of the same, spinster were married in the church by license this eleventh day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two by one John Standerwick Curate This marriage was ) Tho Hunt solemnised between us ) Jemima Gilding In the ) The mark of Joseph B Gilding presence of )The mark of Ann X Gilding From the Stalham Marriage Register book in the County of Norfolk March 10th 1818 Jos Burney PCk ......Hunt 4 Surrey to Wit Hannah Ann Penny Wife of John Webber Penny late of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk and now of the City of London Master Mariner and one of the two daughters of Thomas Hunt late of Stalham in the County of Norfolk CNR by Ann his first wife before her marriage Ann Girling Spinster maketh oath and saith That the said Ann Hunt her mother died in or about the year One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty one and that after her decease, and in or about the month of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty two, the said Thomas Hunt her late Father intermarried with Jemima Gilding of the parish of Stalham in the said County of Norfolk Spinster - That the said Thomas Hunt her said late Father departed this life in or about the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety three leaving CNR by this Deponents Mother the said Ann Hunt one son namely Thomas James St. John Hunt and two Daughters namely this Deponent and Jane Barbara Hunt CNR CNR and by the said Jemima Hunt his second wife one child only namely James Edward Hunt now or late of Bermondsey in the County of Surrey Tobacco Manufacturer and no other CNR - And this Deponent further maketh oath and saith that she has been informed, and verily believes that the said Thomas James Saint John Hunt her said brother of the whole blood was born in the month of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five or at the latter end of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy four, and that he the said Thomas James Saint John Hunt in or about the month of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety six (being as this Deponent believes then unmarried) entered as a Seaman on Board .....Hunt 5 Board his Majesty's Ship The Magicience, and that he continued on board of, or to belong to the said Ship to the time of his Death, which as this Deponent has been informed, and verily believes happened at the mole on the thirty first day of October in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven And this Deponent also maketh oath and saith that to the best of her knowledge information and belief the said Thomas James St. John Hunt died a Bachelor. That during his residence in this Kingdom, and up to the time of his entering as a Seaman on board the Magicience she had constant intercourse with him, and was well acquainted with his concerns - That in or about the year one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety five he paid his addresses to, and engaged to marry Mary Grimble late of Leadenhall Street in the City of London Spinster and that after he left this Kingdom, and up to the time of his death, he frequently wrote to the said Mary Grimble, and that in his letters to the said Mary Grimble he always requested her to remain unmarried until he should return when he would make her his wife. And this �Deponent further saith that she was well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Thomas James St. John Hunt, and that the said Mary Grimble being unable to read was accustomed to bring the said Letters so written to her as aforesaid to this Deponent, for the purposes of being read to her. And this Deponent always read the said Letters to the said Mary Grimble, and she verily believes that they were in the hand writing of the said Thomas James Saint John Hunt and this Deponent further maketh oath and saith that she also was in the habit of receiving Letters from the said Thomas James Saint John Hunt during his absence from this kingdom, and that in such letters he never mentioned, or in any way referred to any ....Hunt 6 any wife or any marriage engagement, other than his said engagement with the said Mary Grimble and that she verily believes that he never was married, and that he never thought of marrying any woman except the said Mary Grimble. Sworn before me at the Public Office Union Hall the 5th May 1818 John Bowles ......Hunt 7 Evidence of Pedigree ........Hunt 8 ) ) Hannah Ann Penny ) � Text-handwritten Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1604241510 Title A name given to the resource Evidence of Pedigree : Hunt Family Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March 1818 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Handwritten text Transcriptions [File 19] Large Documents Box Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1818, 1745 - 1747, 1775, 1797 Reepham, Aylsham, Stalham Relation A related resource <a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Magicienne_(1778)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Magicienne_(1778)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_frigate_Magicienne_(1778)</a> Description An account of the resource Evidence gathered to prove that Hannah Ann Penny was the blood sister of Thomas Hunt, a sailor who died whilst serving on the ship 'Magicienne'. 1810s Aylsham Gilding Girling Grimble Hunt Neale Penny Reepham Text - printed Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GB/REE/1603031859 Title A name given to the resource Excavation and Fieldwork at Whitwell Hall Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource J.C.Barringer and D.C. Yaxley Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Foolscap single sided roneo'd text giving details of a Field Study Day to be held at the site of the Whitwell Tannery. Box 55 Shelf 10 Folder Whitwell Hall Description An account of the resource Norfolk Research Committee : Excavation and Fieldwork to be carried out at Whitwell Hall on Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April - year tbc This was part of a study course run by Chris Barringer and David Yaxley. These courses created a great interest in the history of Reepham and the surrounding areas. . Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Whitwell Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reepham Society RS Database 634 Whitwell Hall Yaxley