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ROBERT
NORTON
Age 67 in 1861 |
*1847 - *1869 |
| Owing to a general dislike of the police
by labourers in the area, and the assaults that had occurred, the
feeling of the Magistrates was shown on 2nd June 1847. Robert Norton was
fined £5 and costs for refusing to admit police into his house between
the hours of twelve and one o'clock, on the
night of 25th May, . |
ELIZA GERMANY
as farmer of 46 acres 1871
as farmer of 35 acres 1881 - age 45 |
1871 - 1885 |
CHARLES
HARDING BARNES
Age 52 in 1891 |
*1888 - *1892 |
SAMUEL EWEN
Age 44 in 1901 |
1896 - 1903 |
| ROBERT WARD |
1904 - 1909 |
THOMAS CRABB
(came from London)
Age 45 in 1911 |
11.10.1909 |
| MARK MASON |
15.01.1912 - 1915 |
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Property described 18th July 1872 as
"All that Messe now used as a Public House at West Dereham.
Abutting land known as Spanish Close towards the South and upon footpath called Church
Lane towards the West. Upon drove leading to Fen towards the East." Tenant given as Eliza
Germany.
An indenture dated 1st May 1885 between Eliza Germany and Algernon Roydes Bentley, trading
as Elijah Eyres & Co. gives value of £370.
The property said to be a public house with 1 acre 1 pole of land.
The house was sold by A. R. Bentley to Charles Page of Baldock and Emily
Page of Snettisham - for £275 - in September 1885.
Eliza Germany said to be still living there in 1914....
DEMOLISHED
by 2000
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