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Suffolk - Beccles
Kelly's Directory for Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk, 1883,
pp.802-807.
[Partial entry - details of the County Court (p. 203), and Wangford Union {p. 804]
Transcription Copyright © E.C."Paddy" Apling]
PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS.
County Court, Sir Francis Roxburgh Q.C. judge; Edward Brown Fiske, registrar; Edward Muskett, high sheriff; William Smith, bailiff; Henry Nicol, treasurer. The Court sitsevry alternate month at the police court, Beccles & the Corn Exchange, Bungay. The following parishes are comprised in the district:— Aldeby, Barsham. Beccles, Bedingham, Broome, Bungay St. Mary, Bungay Trinity, Burgh Saint Peter, Chedgrave, Ditchingham, Ellingham, Eilough, Geldeston, Gillingham All Saints. Gillingham St. Mary, Haddiscoe, Hales, Heckingham, Hedenham, Henestad-with Hulver Street, Ilketshall Saint Andrew, IlketshallSaint John, Ilketshall Saint Lawrence, Ilketshall Saint Margaret, Kirby Cane, Kirstead, Loddon, Mettingham, Mundham, North Cove, Norton Subcourse, Raveningham, Redisham, Ringsfield, Seething, Shadingfield, Shipmeadow, Sotterley, Stockton, Thorpe-next-Haddiscoe, Thurlton, Thwaite, Toft Monks, Topcorft, Weston, Wheatacre All Saints, Willingham, Woodton and Worlingham.
Board day monday (fortnightly) at the Boardroom,
The union comprises the following places:— All Saints & St. Nicholas (South Elmham),
Barsham, Beccles, Bungay Holy Trinity, Bunghay St. Mary, Ellough, Flixton, Homersfield, Mettingham, North Cove, Redisham, Ringsfield, St. Andrew (Ilketshall), St. Margaret (Ilketshall), St. Cross (South Elmham). or Sanderoft, St. James (South Elmham), St. John (Ilketshall). St. Lawrence (Ilketshall), St. Margaret (Ilketshall), St. Margaret (South Elmham), St. Michael (South Elmham), St. Pter (South Elmham),Shadingfield, Shipmeadow, Sotterley, Weston, Willingham, and Worlngham; the population of the union in 1881 was 14,456, rateable value, £71,476
Clerk to the Guardians, Frederic Shelly Rix, Bailygate street, Beccles
Relieving and Vaccination Officers , David Jude, St. Mary's road, Beccles;
(Bungay district), Hezekiah Stammers, Bungay
Medical Officers & Public Vaccinators, , Edward Bowles Crowfoot M.B.;
(Bungay district). J. K. Wormsley, Bungay
Superintendent Registrar, Frederick Shelly Rix, Beccles
Registrars of Births, Deaths & Marriages,
No. 2, Beccles sub-district
, David Jude, St. Mary's road;
No. 1, Bungay sub-district, Hezekiah Stammers, Bungay
Workhouse, Shipmeadow, Samuel Capon, master;
Rev. Maurice Shelton Suckling M.A., chaplain;
Edward Bowles Crowfoot, medical officer;
Mrs. Martha Capon, matron
© Transcription Copyright E.C. ("Paddy") Apling, November, 2009.
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