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fallenleaves
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What was and where is the Heath at Gt-waldingfield was there any large houses in that locality that may of been Orphanges ??
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fallenleaves
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Thank you i will take a look!!!!!
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suffolkmawther
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'Jumper' & Eliza Fulker
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Been along The Heath six times today 
I live in Little and dad lives in Great Waldingfield.
The Heath is the main road through the village B1115 from Sudbury to Lavenham. Once you get to the Post Office Stores crossroad with Ten Trees Road and Heath Estate, the road becomes the Lavenham Road.
There are a couple of large very old houses along there, set back behind the modern ones.
Interesting query? Have you contacted me before regarding adoption in GtW? As I have dealt with a similar query in the past.
If not, please let me know (via PM if preferred) and I will see what I can do to help.
Pat ...
PS I saw a Google Camera Car driving along The Heath last week it stopped at the junction with Folly Road.
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Every time I find an ancestor, I have to find two more !
SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally from Framlingham/Parham Suffolk)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert and Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith/Barnes LND - Fulker
LONDON/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
Gt-Grandfather Michael Wilson was born in Cork, lived in Fulham London - arrived Boston USA 1889 alone - what happened next?
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timpunchard
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There is a very large house going out of the village towards Lavenham called brookwood manor, its an old peoples home now!
http://www.brookwoodmanorcarehome.co.uk/
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suffolkmawther
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Sorry, I'm afraid that 'Brookwood Manor' is in fact Holbrook Hall, the manor house for the parish of Little Waldingfield.
When it became a nursing home caring for people with dementia - the new owners gave it a new name, thus ending a long association with Holbrook Hall - the first reference to the hall was in 1327. There have been three buildings over the years on this site with that name. The name change is a source of annoyance to the villagers.
Several years ago I was contacted by a chap whose family ran a horse stud in the USA, he had returned to Suffolk to find his ancestral home. Suffolk Record Office directed him to the village of Holbrook. Unable to find a Hall there he returned to the SRO, another researcher suggested Little Waldingfield.
He parked at the pub in the village and walked the mile to Brookwood Manor, as it is the largest house in the village. He met a care assistant leaving work and asked if he had indeed found Holbrook Hall, no she replied - this is Brookwood Manor!
He returned to the USA thinking he had not found his ancestral home - his forebears having worked in the stables, and one of them left for the USA and continued with his love of horses and caring for them and built up a successful stud.
I have a copy of 'A short history of The Holbrook Hall Estate in Little Waldingfield' pub 1982 by John F Bridges and an updated copy from 2007 outlining the history of the Hall to the present day. It has had a lot of uses in the last few years.
Thank for thinking of the Hall Tim 
Pat
Patricia Bridges
Local History Recorder for Little Waldingfield
Suffolk Local History Council
www.slhc.org.uk
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Every time I find an ancestor, I have to find two more !
SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally from Framlingham/Parham Suffolk)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert and Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith/Barnes LND - Fulker
LONDON/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
Gt-Grandfather Michael Wilson was born in Cork, lived in Fulham London - arrived Boston USA 1889 alone - what happened next?
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suffolkmawther
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'Jumper' & Eliza Fulker
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Epenn Welcome to Rootschat
The Heath starts at the PO office junction with Ten Trees Road and towards Sudbury, from the PO towards Lavenham the Road becomes Lavenham Road. It could well have been called Sudbury Road in the past, although a friend living along there has always had the address The Heath (sadly she does not live at Laurel Cottage - but that does ring bells  )
Did you find which one was the Dr Barnardo's Home for children?
I would love to know 
Pat ...
still in Little Waldingfield and traveling the two miles to Great Waldingfield every day
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Every time I find an ancestor, I have to find two more !
SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally from Framlingham/Parham Suffolk)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert and Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith/Barnes LND - Fulker
LONDON/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
Gt-Grandfather Michael Wilson was born in Cork, lived in Fulham London - arrived Boston USA 1889 alone - what happened next?
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epenn
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There was no home run by Barnados, but I believe children may have been placed by them.
The 1901 census entry was as follows;--
Heath
Susannah Bowers wid 72
Meannah Bowers dau single 40
Octavia Bowers dau single 37
Minnie Bean 15 )
Annie Sims 9 ) Dr. Burnados Homes place of birth u/known
Amy M May 8 )
also on the same page
Emma Poole wid 56
Henry C Barnes 16 )
Walter W Brewer 15 ) all boarders
Sidney S Alexander 11 )
Sidney E Tomes 6 )
1911 census
Laurel Villa
Emma Poole wid 67
Walter Brewer Boarder 25
Royston Clark Visitor 12
Bertie Waghorn Boarder 11
Reginald Derriman Boarder 7
Reginald was mistranscribed on the index as Dewman
Reginald was my husbands Great Uncle , his mother died in 1906, he was one of 7 children, 2 stayed with there grandmother, 2 went to Barnados at Barkingside, 2 girls went to Bristol to Mullers Homes and Reginald came to Suffolk. In July 1911 he was sent on to Wattisfield, but we have no idea why.
We are amazed that children were sent so far from there home, Reginald was born in Lambeth.
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fallenleaves
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I havent been on this site for sometime so sorry i havent answered straight away!!
This is interesting epenn i took a peek at the 1911 census for great waldingfield to find out where grandmother was and it appears she was with a couple by the name of reeve or reeves at the heath and over a few census they seem to have taken a number of children in of various ages though they seem to be mostly from the london and south area of the country now i wonder why so did the famous Dr Barnardoes have something to do with it..
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suffolkmawther
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I may have found the property, at present un-occupied since the death of the owner a couple of years ago.
Now that you are back in touch, if you wish I will try and take a walk round to the property to check it out. It is a large detached red brick villa.
My dad has been very poorly lately and I am a bit behind with my lookups, hoping to visit Boxford Cemetery on Sunday pm - a long outstanding look up for another very patient researcher
Pat ...
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Every time I find an ancestor, I have to find two more !
SUFFOLK - Pendle, Stygall, Pipe, Fruer, Bridges, Fisk, Bellamy, Sparham
DERBY - Bridges and Frost (originally from Framlingham/Parham Suffolk)
NOTTINGHAM - Lambert and Selby
BERKSHIRE/then Hammersmith/Barnes LND - Fulker
LONDON/MDX - Murray, Clancy, Broker, Hoskins, Marsden, Wilson, Sale
Gt-Grandfather Michael Wilson was born in Cork, lived in Fulham London - arrived Boston USA 1889 alone - what happened next?
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fallenleaves
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Hello Pat,
All this is fascinating i would like to know more about this i was hoping the 1911 census would tell me more but it didn't all it gave me was a george reeve or reeves and his wife and a nursemade and a servant looking after several children which included two babies one of which was my grandmother aged 8mths she was born in great waldingfield though some of the others came from london area and the south east..
That would be interesting to know how large house was.
My grandmother once told me her earliest memory was being held by the hand and walking down the stairs in a fairly large house she was about 2years old she beleived...
Would be good to know where all these children went ...
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