GENUKI: Norfolk: Southery, Norfolk

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White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1845

SOUTHERY is a considerable village, on the London road, 7 miles S. of Downham, on a gentle eminence surrounded by fens and marshes. Its parish increased its inhabitants from 739 in 1831, to 1023 in 1841, and contains about 3,500 acres of land, watered by the Great Ouse river, over which there is a Ferry, about a mile S.W. of the church. Near the ferry, a steam engine, of 60 horse power, was erected in 1842, for improving the drainage of the fens.

Robt. Cunningham Taylor, Esq., is lord of the manor; but the soil belongs to several proprietors.

The CHURCH (St. Mary,) is a neat fabric without a tower. The rectory, valued in K.B. at £7 10s., and in 1831 at £303, is in the gift of Geo. Hall, Esq., of Ely, and the incumbency of the Rev. Chas. Mann.

Here is a National School, established in 1844; and a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1842. The Baptists and Primitive Methodists have preaching rooms in the village.

          Cattermole  George           tailor
          Eastgate    Jonathan         shoemaker
          Grimditch   William          wheelwright
          Hardy       William          butcher
          Osler       John             blacksmith
          Osler       George           land surveyor
          Peckett     Hephsba          dress maker
          Reeve       William          corn miller
 
               PUBLIC HOUSES.
          Crown & Anchor   James Bowden
          Bell             William Peckett
          Boat             Elizabeth Porter, Ferry
          Plough           James Tingey
 
               Beer Houses.
          Fuller      Cooper
          Galley      Mary
          Watson      Richard
 
               FARMERS.(* are Owners)
          Boyce       William
          Osler       John
         *Porter      Robert
          Robinson    Fredk.
          Russell     Philip
         *Sayle       Jno.             Northfield House
          Sayle       Thomas
          Savage      William Peacock
          Thornhill   John
         *Weasenham   Ths.             Ferry Bank
 
               Shopkeepers.
          Barley      Francis
          Palmer      John
          Peckett     Susan
          Porter      William
          Rodgers     William

POST OFFICE, at Wm Porter's; letters desp. at 5 afternoon

CARRIERS, Wm. Rodgers, to Ely, thurs., & Downham, sat.; and A. Peckett, to Lynn, tuesday

From ERRATA on page 816:

Rev. Theodore Shurt, B.A., curate of Southery.

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