GENUKI: Norfolk: Whissonsett, Norfolk

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William White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1864

WHISSONSETT, a village and parish, 5 miles S. of Fakenham, contains 692 inhabitants, and 1344 acres of land, mostly belonging to Colonel Jones, lord of the manor, Robert Campbell, Esq., and Mr. William Skinner.

The Church (Virgin Mary) is a large structure, comprising nave, chancel, south porch, and tower with four bells. It was partly reseated in 1851, and contains several inscriptions to the Bozoun, Hapton, Guybon, and other families. The rectory, valued in the King's Book at £10. 3s. 4d., is consolidated with Horningtoft, in the patronage and incumbency of the Rev. Edward Curtis Kemp, M.A., who has 60A. 3R. 29P. of glebe, a yearly tithe rent-charge, for both parishes, of £686, and a good residence, erected in 1830. The tithes of this parish have been commuted for £327; and the common was enclosed in 1812.

The National School, with teacher's residence attached, was built by the present rector in 1857, and is attended by 50 children. The Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists have each a chapel here. In making a drain in the churchyard, in 1851, several silver coins of the reigns of Charles, Elizabeth, and the Edwards, were found; also two massive antique rings, one of gold and the other of silver.

Nicholas Dunham, in 1591, left yearly rent-charges of 16s. 8d. to this parish, and 3s. 4d. each to Colkirk, Oxwick, and Horningtoft, for the poor.

POST OFFICE at Sarah Hoy's. Letters despatched, via Brandon, at 4 p.m.

         Barker      Aldridge          butcher
         Basham      C.                hawker
         Bunning     John              plumber, painter, &c.
         Christopher George            beerhouse
         Franklin    John Thos.        boarding school
         Greenwood   Louisa            schoolmistress
         Kemp        Rev. Edw. Curtis,
                       M.A.            Rectory
         Melton      William           shopkeeper
         Nelson      John              carpenter
         Smith       Dennis            bricklayer
         Watts       Saml.             saddler
         Yaxley      Mr Matthew
         Yaxley      J.                clothes dlr
         Yaxley      William           corn miller
 
            BAKERS.                       BLACKSMITHS.
 
         Fox         John              Fox      John
         Thompson    Jane              Mann     Wm. Brooke
         Wyer        John              Parker   Robert
                                       Taylor   Thomas
 
                                FARMERS.
 
         Barker      William           Makins   John (and
         Branford    Wm. Hall                     brickmaker)
         Buscall     Elizabeth         Makins   Jeremiah
         Christopher George            Nelson   John
         Copeman     James             Skinner  William
         Fish        Robert            Wiffin   William
         Jarerd      Susan             Yaxley   William
 
                             INNS & TAVERNS.
 
         Rush        James             Bell
         Fish        Robert            King's Head
         Buscall     Robt.             Swan
 
            GROCERS & DRAPERS.            TAILORS.
 
         Garman      R. Hendry         Ramm     Lawson
         West        Robert (and       Ramm     William
                       leather cutter) Thing    James (and
                                                  parish clerk)
 
            SHOEMAKERS.                   WHEELWRIGHTS.
 
         Chapman     Jeremiah          Brown    George
         Hall        William           Fox      John
         Howard      John
         Pratt       Robert
         Yarham      Robert

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