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Next door. |
William
and Mary Seaboy |
He
can't read. He works for Mr Pearman. She can [read] a
little. They have no kindred here, were married at Ashwell where the eldest children
were Christened; the three youngest in Croydon Church. He was a widower, she a
widow before, and she has two daughters by her first husband out at service. They
seldom attend Church and are not very tidy or respectable people - drink |
1. George
Seaboy, aged 15. Works for Mr Pearman. In the Sunday School. 2. William Seaboy, aged 13. Works for Mr Haydon. In the Sunday School. 3. Edward Seaboy, aged 11. Works for Mr Pearman. In the Sunday School. 4. Sarah Seaboy, aged 6. 5. Eliza Seaboy, aged 3. 6. Abraham Seaboy, aged 1. |
They
are about to move up to the Lime Kilns to Lowring's house. |
One of her
daughters by the first husband is now at home with a bastard child. |
The house
belongs to Rule Miller, and Jabez Chapman and family are come to live with
him in the room of the Seaboys. |
Lodges
here. |
Rule
Miller |
A
bad and drunken fellow. |
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Next door. |
Joseph and
Honor Wootton |
He
can't read, works for Mr Ellis. She can. |
1.
George Wootton, aged 18. Reads very little. Married. 2. Thomas Wootton, aged 15. Can read. 3. Naomi Wootton, aged 12. Can read and is in the Sunday School. |
They
were married at Orwell. Their children were Christened at Croydon. They have buried
two children since last February, viz Eliza, March 15, and Ebenezer, June
21 1842. They are very respectable people and attend Church very regularly. She
keeps a shop - and rather talkative and inclined to dissent. |
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Next door. |
John and
Sarah Hilott |
Reads
a little. He works for Mr Wilkins. She can read. She is cousin to Ann Pearce.
He is brother to Anne Hill and Bathsheba Chapman who is now gone
to live at Hatley. |
1.
Thomas Hilott, aged 21. Works for Mr Wilkins. 2. John Hilott, aged 19. Works for Mr Law. 3. Eliza Hilott, aged 15. She was in the Sunday School but has lately left it. A steady girl. 4. Joseph Hilott, aged 5. |
They
were married in Croydon Church, and their children baptised here, and they attend
Church. They do not bear the best character for honesty, and the young
people are wild. |
RSBS:
(Thomas has since married.) |
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23 |
Next door. |
William
and Mary Payne |
Can't read, works for Mr Ellis. Can read a little. She is daughter of John
and Bathsheba Hagger (page 10). They attend church. She is a good needlewoman,
and we have her often to work in the house. |
1. Alfred
Payne, 2 months old, Christened in Croydon Church. |
Lodge in the
same house. |
Thomas
and Julia Payne |
Father
and mother of William. They can't read. He works for Mr Ellis. They both attend
Church. She is an odd woman and a great gossip. |
Also have another
son, James a widower not resident in Croydon. |
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Next
door. |
William
and Anne Hill |
He
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1.
John Hill, aged 24. Can read. 2. Samuel Hill, aged 15. A very idle boy, reads very little indeed. In the Sunday school. 3. Mary Hill, aged 13. In the Sunday school. 4. Rebecca Hill, aged 10. In the Sunday school. |
They
were married, and all their children Christened in Croydon Church - she is sister
to John Hilot. |
John
is gone to Canada - William Hill bears a good character. An elder son of
William and Anne Hill is just returned from abroad, discharged from the Army blind
of the eye. |
RSBS: (His name is Ilott, and he is since married, in November
1848, to Susan Warboys, a widow.) |
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Next door. |
Samuel and
Kitty German (alias Lyon) |
He
can read, is a carpenter, has worked generally for Mr Carter. She can read a very
little. He attends Church tolerably, she but seldom. She is not a very straightforward
person in what she says. |
1.
Sarah German, aged 25. Can read. Has a base-born child one month old. Abraham
Pearman is said to be the father. |
RSBS:
(Sarah is a dressmaker. I have not heard anything against her since the above
occurrence.) |
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Next door. |
James and
Susan Warboys |
He
can read a very little. She reads a little. He works for Mr Lilly at Hatley. They attend Croydon Church. |
1.
Eliza Warboys, aged 18. In service at Mr C Kings. Reads very little. 2. Mary Warboys, aged 14. Rather silly. 3. Hannah Warboys, aged 12. In the Sunday School. 4. James Warboys, aged 11. In the Sunday School. 5. Charles Warboys, aged 6. 6. Alfred Warboys, aged 2. |
Eliza
is married to Jabez Chapman, and they all live together. Gone to live with
Rule Miller. |
Mary is dead. Hannah is very steady, learning dressmaking at Potton. Susan Warboys
herself is a respectable, well spoken woman, and I believe the man is steady. |
RSBS: (James
Warboys died in the summer of 1846 and the widow is married to Ilot (see page
24).) |
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Next door. |
Sarah Lyon |
Widow.
Can't read. She is a carrier to Royston and Cambridge. |
1.
Mary Lyon, aged 19. Can't read, laid up with a bad leg. 2. Robert Lyon, aged 21. 3. William Lyon, aged 15. 4. Joseph Lyon, aged 10. In the Sunday School. |
She
herself has a tolerable character, but all the rest of the family are very disreputable
and wild. All the children Christened in Croydon Church. None of the attend Church,
or but rarely. She does our carrying business. |
In
the same house |
James
and Mary Lyon |
26.
Son of the above. Can read. Nobody knows how he lives. He is just returned from
prison where he has been confined for poaching etc. |
1.
Levi Lyon, aged 5. Has been christened. 2. Emily Lyon, aged 1. Has not. |
He
has taken out a game certificate this year!! |
RSBS: (Sent
again to prison in July 1847 for one and half years for carrying lead that had
been stolen from Wimpole Mansion.) |
In
the same house |
Robert
Lyon |
Aged
and infirm. |
Dead. |
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Next
door. |
Thomas
Pestill |
A
shoemaker. A woman of the name of Lyon lives with him - not his wife. She
is a Wimpole woman, and relative to the Lyons next door. He has a wife. I have
remonstrated with him. I presented him at the Visitation, but without any effect. |
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Next
door. |
Thomas
Nash |
A
widower. His wife was a gipsy and they used until
very recently to live in a tent in a lane towards Hatley. He can't read. |
1.
Emily Nash, aged 17. Can read a little. 2. Isabel Nash. At the Sunday School. 3. Henry Nash. |
Emily
is not a very steady girl and their home is the most destitute, comfortless place. |
RSBS:
(Thomas Hilott , wife and child live here now - since he married
and he is become a steady man.) |
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