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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883

[Transcription copyright © Pat Newby]

PULHAM ST. MARY MAGDALEN, or Pulham Market, is a considerable village on the Waveney branch railway, about a mile north from Pulham St. Mary the Virgin, on an eminence 4½ miles N.W. of Harleston, and was formerly noted for the manufacture of hats, dornocks, coverlets, &c. Its parish is in Depwade union, Earsham hundred and petty sessional division, Harleston county court district, Ipswich bankruptcy court district, Harleston polling district of South Norfolk, Redenhall rural deanery, and Norfolk archdeaconry. It had 1127 inhabitants in 1881, including 203 in the Depwade union workhouse, which is situated in this parish. It has a rateable value of £4217.

The parish includes many scattered houses, and 2956A. lR. 19P. of land, of which the commons called Bush Green, Colegate End, and Gresham Green, were enclosed in 1838-9. It is nearly all in George Copeman, Esq.'s manor of Pulham (fines arbitrary), and anciently had a weekly market, and a cattle fair used to be held on the third Thursday in May. A small estate here is held by the service of blowing a horn at the opening of the manor court, and 7 acres by being 'the lord's hangman;' but the duties, of the latter office have long been obsolete. Lord Waveney, George Leggett, Esq., G.F. Bevan, Esq., W.H. Cole, Esq., and others, have estates here. The Hall, anciently a seat of a younger branch of the Percy family, was rebuilt by the late J. Crickmore, Esq. and is now the property of George Leggett, Esq., who occupies it.

The CHURCH is a large structure of mixed architecture, chiefly Perpendicular, and consists of a lofty nave with aisles, a chancel, and a tower with six bells. The roof is of carved wood, and part of the nave-roof is painted and gilt, and evidently ancient. There is a piscina in the chancel, and another in one of the aisles. Here are handsome mural monuments of the Rosier, Stanhawe, Cole, Roope, Palgrave, and Page families. The rectory, valued at £646, is in the patronage of the Crown, and in the incumbency of the Rev. Spencer Fellows, M.A., who has a commodious residence, which was enlarged and new fronted in 1861.

The NATIONAL SCHOOL was erected in 1852, at a cost of £352, and is attended by more than 100 children. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a small chapel here, the former built in 1862. There are two cemeteries in the parish, one belonging to the Church and the other to the Dissenters. They were formed in 1860, when the churchyard was closed.

The Town Estate, which was vested in trust for the poor as early as the 16th century, consists of two farmhouses and 66 acres of land, let for £113, and seven cottages, let for £27 a year. Out of these rents £30 are appropriated to the church expenses, and the remainder is equally divided between the school and poor.

DEPWADE UNION comprises an area of 73,000 acres, and had 23,588 inhabitants, in 1881. Their average annual expenditure, from 1832 to 1835, was £24,000. (For present expenditure, see page 42 [which is the entry for Norfolk Poor Law].)

The following is an enumeration of the parishes in the Union, showing their territorial extent, the population in 1881, and the present rateable value:-

Parishes   Acres Population Rateable
Value
Parishes   Acres Population Rateable
Value
Alburgh
Aswellthorpe
Aslacton
Billingford
Brockdish
Bunwell
Burston
Carleton Rode
Denton
Dickleburgh
Diss
Earsham
Forncett St. Mary
Forncett St. Peter
Fritton
Fundenhall
Gissing
Great Moulton
Hapton
Hardwick
Hempnall
Morningthorpe
Needham
1,512
979
1,194
1,820
1,069
2,470
1,449
2,631
2,437
2,343
3,627
3,052
728
1,828
889
1,347
1,981
1,347
695
855
3,636
1,001
1,127
602
371
301
194
434
861
406
772
484
829
3,846
608
275
616
229
318
454
359
195
197
881
119
349
2,382
1,548
1,643
1,414
1,895
3,465
2,322
3,984
3,413
3,574
11,958
5,090
1,151
3,299
1,281
2,047
3,246
2,442
1,141
1,141
5,073
1,552
1,656
Pulham St. Mary Magdalen
Pulham St. Mary the Virgin
Redenhall with Harleston
Rushall
Scole with Thorpe, Parva and Frenze
Shelton
Shimpling
Starston
Stratton St. Mary
Stratton St. Michael
Tacolnestone
Tasburgh
Tharston
Thelveton
Thorpe Abbot
Tibenham
Tivetshall St. Margaret
Tivetshall St. Mary
Wacton
Wortwell
 
Total
} 5,995
 
3,714
1,170
821
1,292
780
2,244
1,517
1,050
1,580
916
1,582
1,050
1,122
3,286
1,668
1,125
1,044
--
72,681
1,127
822
1,731
209
720
142
175
510
622
264
438
446
375
160
225
629
339
299
233
416
23,582
4,217
4,278
5,930
1,484
2,953
1,645
1,181
3,100
2,640
1,707
2,407
1,443
2,682
1,444
1,527
4,396
3,023
1,606
1,524
1,677
117,581

The Union Workhouse was built in 1836-7, at a cost of £8240. It has room for 400 inmates, but has rarely so many. Clerk - J. Furness, St. Stephen's Chambers, Norwich. Medical Officers - Messrs. C.A. Owans, Stratton; J.L. Currie, Bungay; H.F. Howard, New Buckenham; W. Pratt, Pulham; F.R. Rose, Diss; J. Candler, Harleston; and H. Hardwicke, Saxlingham. School Attendance Officer - T.W. Garrood. Relieving Officers and School Enquiry Officers - Messrs. Edgar Shaw, Redenhall; George B. Mann, Dickleburgh; and George T. Myhill, Forncett St. Peter. Superintendent Registrar - J. Hotson, Long Stratton. Registrars of Marriages and Deaths - Henry Starr, Long Stratton; and the three relieving officers. Registrars of Marriages - Messrs. Edgar Shaw, Redenhall; G.T. Myhill, Forncett St. Peter; and F.R. Rose, Diss. Master of Workhouse - William J. Hardwick. Matron - Mrs. Emma S.M. Hardwick. No schoolmaster. Mixed school in future. Schoolmistress - Emma Kate Brock. Depwade Rural Sanitary Authority - Clerk, J, Furness; Medical Officer of Health, J. Candler; Inspector of Nuisances, T.W. Garrood, Tasburgh, Long Stratton.

POST OFFICE. at Henry William Churchyard's. Letters, viâ Harleston, arrive at 8 a.m. and depart at 5.15 p.m. This is a Telegraph Office.

Alexander  Mr.             Town farm
Alger      Henry           cattle dealer
Andrews    Stephen         farmer, Manor farm
Bailey     Edgar           shoemaker
Bailey     Alfred          carpenter
Barber     James           thatcher
Barker     Matthew         farmer
Barnes     John            farmer and owner
Baxter     James           farmer
Bean       John            farmer
Berrett    Robert          accountant, auctioneer, and valuer,
rent and debt collector, and agent
for the Norwich Union, Norwich
Equitable, Briton, Norwich and
London Accident, General Hailstorm,
Imperial Live Stock, Eastern
Counties Building Society, and
Accident Insurance Cos
Boughton   Geo.            glover and hairdresser
Boughton   Robt.           gardener and thatcher
Brown      George          farmer, Town farm
Brown      Robert          farmer
Buckle     Charles         shoemaker
Buckingham Herbert,
M.R.C.V.S.L   h Harlston [sic]
Carpenter  Philip          (exors. of) farmer
Churchyard Henry Wm.       grocer, draper, milliner, postmaster,
and organist
Clark      Robert          blacksmith
Cook       Henry           shopkeeper
Crisp      John            saddler
Dolman     Philip          farmer, Julian farm
Dolman     Mr William
Edwards    George          farmer
Edwards    John            farmer
Farrow     Samuel          vermin killer
Feaveayer  George          farmer
Fellows    Rev. S.         rector, The Rectory
Flegg      John            farm steward
Goldsmith  Philip          farmer and owner
Gostling
& Co.                    chemists, &c.; and Diss
Gough      Hadereza B.     tailor and draper
Gowing     Robert          farmer
Grimes     Mark            superintendent of police
Hart       George          farmer
Hazill     Charles         vict. Crown Inn
Hesketh    Wm.             National schoolmaster
Howlett    Edwd.           carpenter and farmer
Howlett    Jacob           farmer
Jeffreys   John            pig killer
King       Robert          farmer
Kingsbury  Misses Hannah
& Emma
Lait       Miss Esther
Lucretia      day school
Lait       Mrs Esther
Leggett    Mrs Elizabeth   Brook cottage
Leggett    George          farmer and owner
Mann       Frederick       farmer
Middleton  Mrs Mary
Moore      Mrs Lucy
Muskett    Charles         manager
Nash       Arthur          farm steward
Nurse      William         farmer, owner, surveyor, and guardian
Outlaw     John            butcher
Overy      Walter Henry    station master
Palmer     Edward          wheelwright
Palmer     Henry           farm steward
Parkerson  Mr James
Pead       Mr Edmund
Pratt      Walter          surgeon
Randell    John            vict. Queen's Head Inn
Rayson     Thomas          carpenter
Reeve      Willlam         bricklayer, builder, and coal merchant
Roberts    -               farmer and owner
Rope       James           parish clerk
Rope       John            miller
Rope       Wm.             carpenter, painter, & glazier
Rudling    Joseph          watchmaker
Salter     James           farmer
Salter     Miss Mary Ann   farmer
Seago      Edward          pork butcher
Skinner    Charles         farmer
Skinner    Samuel          farmer, Fox hole
Smith      James           farmer and overseer
Smith      Walter          beerhouse
Soanes     John            farmer
Spicer     William         farmer
Stannard   Jno.            frmr. & market gardener
Stanton    Miss Ellen      baker
Stimpson   Richard         farmer
Tewsley    Mr George       Beech cottage
Vince      John            blacksmith, tinner, and ironmonger
Wade       Richard         carpenter
Waller     Mr John
Waller     John            baker and flour dealer
Waller     Miss Mary
Walne      Thomas          farmer
Warnes     Frederick       tailor
West       Henry           grocer and draper
Wharten    Mrs
Wier       Mrs Lydia       vict. Falcon Inn
Wilby      Thomas          pig killer
Williams   Jeremiah        shopkeeper
Wilton     Frank           farmer

RAILWAY STATION - G.E.R. Waveney valley, trains several times a day; W.H. Overy, station master


From ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS on pages 13-16:

Second paragraph:
  take out 'Lord Waveney;'
Fifth paragraph:
  replace "trust for the poor" with "trust for the church and poor"
First paragraph after the table of parishes:
  for 'W. Pratt,' read 'L. Paulley.'

In Directory,
  take out 'Alexander Mr.,' 'Alger Henry,' 'Edwards George,' 'Seago Edward,' 'Tewsley Mr George.'
  For 'Berrett Robert,' read 'Borrett Robert;'
  for Brown 'George,' read 'Daniel;'
  add J.P. to 'Fellows Rev. S.;'
  for 'Pratt W.,' read 'Paulley Legge;'
  for 'Rope' James, John, William, read 'Roope' in each case;
  for Waller Miss 'Mary,' read 'Ellen;'
  for 'Wharten,' read 'Wharton.'


See also the Pulham Market parish page.

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