Rogers' Directory of Norwich and NeighbourhoodRogers, Edmund Dawson
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Rogers' Directory of Norwich and Neighbourhood
Rogers, Edmund Dawson
Norwich (England) -- Directories
Clare, Charles and Son, millers and merchants
Jarmay, Charles, farm bailiff
Parker, Arthur, farmer
Parker, Charles, farmer
Parker, George, yeoman
Seaman, William, farmer, and poor’s rate collector
Sowter, James, yeoman
Sowter, John, farmer
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BRAMERTON, situate in the hundred of Henstead, 4½ miles from Norwich,
contains 230 inhabitants and 728 acres of land. The living is a rectory
in the gift of Robert Fellowes, Esq: the Rev. Edmund Blake is the
incumbent. The parish school is attended by between 40 and 50 children.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Blake, Rev. Edmund, M.A., Rectory
Blake, John Joseph, Esq.
Blake, Mrs. Sophia
COMMERCIAL.
Beaumont, Henry, sen., carpenter
Beaumont, Robert, farmer and parish clerk
Crisp, William, farm bailiff
Forder, John, grocer and poor’s rate collector
Frost, Samuel, market gardener
Green, John, corn miller
Miller, Mrs. Mary, farmer
Moore, John, postmaster
Nobbs, J., butcher and pig dealer
Nobbs, John, shopkeeper
Osborne, J., farmer and cattle dealer
Rudd, Robert Gray, farmer
Todd, David, blacksmith
Turner, Miss Harriet, schoolmistress
Turner, Samuel, Woods End Ferry, and plumber and painter
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BOWTHORPE, 3 miles from Norwich, has but about 30 inhabitants, and 600
acres of land, belonging to R. Frank, Esq., and all farmed by Mr.
Howlett. The church is in ruins, and the curacy is consolidated with
Earlham.
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CAISTOR ST. EDMUND, a village in Henstead hundred, 3 miles from Norwich,
contains 154 inhabitants, and 1045a. 1r. 10p. of land. The living is a
rectory, consolidated with that of Markshall, in the gift of Mrs.
Dashwood, of Caistor Hall, who is also lady of the manor; the incumbent
is the Rev. John Arthy. Caistor is supposed to have been the capital of
the Iceni, a Belgic tribe, and was by the Romans called Venta Icenorum,
and for distinction, Castrum, the _camp_, whence the East Angles, on
their conquest of the country, called it Caistor. Many Roman antiquities
and coins, preserved at Norwich, have been found here of various
emperors.
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
Arthy, Rev. John, M.A., rector
Dashwood, Mrs. Harriet, the Hall
COMMERCIAL.
Cogman, John, blacksmith and parish clerk
Culling, Thomas Norman, farmer
Davy, A., wheelwright and carpenter
King, James, farmer
Spurrell, John, farmer
Williamson, Thomas, farmer, and poor rate collector
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