The Haverhill Echo of April 9th 1970 has an article about "Mr and Mrs Herbert Orbell, both in their eighties who live with their four grown up children and a large colony of cats". In summary, their cottage at Mill Green, Stoke-by-Clare was declared as uninhabitable, and the owner of the cottage had been served with a demolition order. The Orbells were refusing to move to a three-bedroom house in Stansfield. Elsewhere in the article Mrs Orbell is referred to as 82-years-old Mrs Ada Orbell and says that they had lived there for 51 years.
There is a death in Q1 1972, registration Newmarket, for Herbert Orbell born 19/12/1885.
I found Herbert and Ada in 1939 at Mill Green, Stoke. When I was looking for Herbert Orbell's death there was another candidate, a Herbert T E Orbell who I ruled out as he was too young to be in his eighties in 1970. By some remarkable coincidence (?) Herbert T E Orbell and his wife Dorothy are listed immediately above Herbert and Ada in the 1939 Register. Both men are "horseman on farm".
