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Suffolk / Re: Wightmans of Framlingham (and Websters)
« on: Tuesday 12 March 24 10:32 GMT (UK) »
My line is via Edmund's son, Samuel. Samuel was a (tenant) miller at Framsden by 1851. The census has him as a master miller employing one man and one boy. Shortly afterwards, he took over the mill at Thornham Magna. His death there in 1857 forced a sale of all his possessions, which must have been bought by loan. The sale notices referred to him as a "farmer and miller of Stoke Ash and Thornham and also of Framsden".
Samuel's son, Edmund, briefly took over the running of the mill at Framsden (Framsden had two mills but this is assumed to be the current one). Edmund made a hash of things and his involvement with the mill did not last long. Evicted from his house by Lord Tollemache and involved in at least one fight at the local pub! His son, also Edmund, was much more successful, as was his son Sam, who went on to run Debenham mill and Hill Farm at Debenham.
The mill passed into Webster ownership in 1879, hence the name of Websters Mill, even though the Webster family had been involved with running it, with some gaps, some years beforehand.
For me, the interesting feature of these families is that although the trees of the later Framsden millers and my own diverge in the early 19thC, the family ties were still strong enough in the 1930s for my mother to spend summers recuperating from illness at Sam Webster's farm at Debenham.
Samuel's son, Edmund, briefly took over the running of the mill at Framsden (Framsden had two mills but this is assumed to be the current one). Edmund made a hash of things and his involvement with the mill did not last long. Evicted from his house by Lord Tollemache and involved in at least one fight at the local pub! His son, also Edmund, was much more successful, as was his son Sam, who went on to run Debenham mill and Hill Farm at Debenham.
The mill passed into Webster ownership in 1879, hence the name of Websters Mill, even though the Webster family had been involved with running it, with some gaps, some years beforehand.
For me, the interesting feature of these families is that although the trees of the later Framsden millers and my own diverge in the early 19thC, the family ties were still strong enough in the 1930s for my mother to spend summers recuperating from illness at Sam Webster's farm at Debenham.