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Historic photos from the village of Stanhoe, Norfolk, UK

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  • Carol Otty (nee Goss) - Friday 2 March 2012 22:09
    This photo shows my Dad - Lenny (Leonard Charles) Goss and his sister Ella. He is also on another of your photos. Dad went on to work at Barwick Hall, where I was born in 1953. Dad was married to Doris Mary Farrow. We used to come and stay with my Aunt Ella at Barwick, she married Dick Seaman. We used to walk down to see my Nan Goss who lived next to the Post Office opposite the pond.
    The photos are lovely, and the earliest ones I have seen of my Dad. If there was any chance of having a copy, I would be very grateful. Thank you.
  • Chris Branch - Tuesday 21 February 2012 21:59
    Minor corrections: So pleased that the doorway has been identified and I'm looking forward to visiting the locality again soon and to see it for myself. I think I agree that the female holding the chidren is Bessie the daughter born to Thomas Calver of Ivy Farm, Burnham Thorpe in 1863 - her mother being Susan Bobbins. Thomas Calver and Susan Bobbins were not permitted to marry it would seem until 1871 - after the death of his widowed mother: Susan Calver (Nee Blake) of Tuddenham. Bessie Bobbins married first the Vet Charles William Heinemann. He came from Mile End in London and his sister was an artist. Their father was a Baker in Mile End. C.W Hienemann (in the wheel-chair was a vet in Burnham Market but died in about 1903. Bessie Heinemann then seems to have re-married a Henry de Fray Walden in Ceylon. He was a Tea Planter. They returned to London and took some Tea rooms on the Isle of Wight Henry died at the age of 62 but Bessie lived until 85 in 1949.

    A distant cousin/relative of Bessie Bobbins is now in touch and wrote: I looked up Henry De Faye Walden on Ancestry and found that there were two candidates for this identity, both born in St Helier, Jersey between 1876 and 1878 and probably both first cousins, sons of two Walden brothers who married two De Faye sisters. One of these two, Henry Thomas Walden, was killed in the 1st World War, leaving the field clear for the other one, born about 1878, son of Henry Matthias Walden and his wife, Eliza De Faye. He disappeared after the 1891 census so probably off to foreign parts between 1891 and 1901.
    Also by googling the name Henry De Faye Walden, came up with a website called Kabristan Archives which had lists of burials and marriages in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, surnames arranged alphabetically but with no date given. Under the heading: Protestant Marriages Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, I found listed in the W's: WALDEN, Henry De Faye, and listed in the H's: HEINEMANN, Bessie. Don't know whether Nuwara Eliya is a place or has some other meaning, but that was all the info. available. At least we know that they were married in Ceylon and I do think that Bessie must have gone there at the invitation of her sister-in-law, Clara Plate, nee Heinemann. (We think Clara might have painted some pictures in oils that were hung at Station Farm - in the old house until 1965 but they remain to to traced - landscapes possibly of Bavaria).
    she continues : Well, I think that is all I can add to the story of Aunt Bessie or Bessie Bobbin for the moment. I expect there will be some more revelations soon - watch this space.
  • Gillian Beckett (Gillian) - Saturday 18 February 2012 15:25
    This picture is taken at Barwick Hall Farm where the McKenzie-Williams lived in the 1970s and shows the garden front.
  • Rita McIver - Monday 13 February 2012 17:11
    John Calver was born at Banham Dec 1774,
    he was baptised at Burnham Thorpe May 1782
    his brother Henry was born in Banham Dec 1776 and baptised
    Burnham Thorpe May 1782
  • Rita McIver - Monday 13 February 2012 12:31
    Re Nelson’s birth place, it seems that he was born in the Shooting box a house in Creake Road.
    Which I expect is where Henry and Ann lived. Later Henry’s daughter Elizabeth lived there with husband William Press who was a wine merchant!!
    The Calvers were certainly in Thorpe when Nelson had his 5 years “on the beach”. A dinner was held when he left but sadly we have no record of those present. Apparently all the village were there, apart from one boy.
  • Rita McIver nee Calver - Monday 13 February 2012 12:12
    I am the younger daughter of Arthur and Mary Calver.
    I have researched the Calvers back to a John Calver who was buried in 1559 at Kenton in Suffolk.
    I would love to be in contact with any of my "cousins"
  • Rita McIver - Monday 13 February 2012 11:50
    This is Dairy Farm Burnham Overy, I think the person holding the children is Bessie (Betsy) Waldon nee Calver sister of THC born prior to the marrage. The man in the wheel chair is a vet Charles William Heinemann.
  • Gillian Beckett (Gillian) - Wednesday 16 November 2011 15:21
    The Stanhoe connection is that the figure at the left front of the pictures is Mr Roddy Ralli, of Barwick House, one of the Directors of Sheringham & Overman whose premises, at the southern end of the Market Place, were later bought by Woolworths.
  • Gillian Beckett - Sunday 6 November 2011 17:29
    demolished soon after the picture was taken, early 1960s
  • Gillian Beckett - Sunday 6 November 2011 17:21
    The group in this photo is watching a display of country dancing during a Fete at Barwick House.