Elizabeth Boyce d. 3 June 1870

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“PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery,made in a cause Oldfield v. Boyce, the creditors of Elizabeth Boyce, late of Ashill, in the county of Norfolk, Widow (who died in or about the month of June, 1870), are, on or before the 18th day of May, 1872, to send by post, prepaid, to Henry Baxter Branwhite Mason, of Wereham (Dereham?) , in the county of Norfolk, Solicitor for the plaintiffs, Edmund Oldfield and Henry Oldfield, the executors of the said Elizabeth Boyce, deceased, their Christian and surnames, addresses and descriptions, the full particulars of their claims, a statement of their accounts, and the nature of the securities (if any) held by them, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Every creditor holding any security is to produce the same before the Master of the Rolls, at his chamber?, situate in the Rolls-yard, Chancery- lane, in the county of Middlesex, on Wednesday, the 31st day of May next, at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon, being the time appointed for adjudicating on the claims.—Dated this 12th day of April, 1872.”

War dead - Private George Butters

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Private George Butters M2/200614, M.T., Army Service Corps who died age 37 on 9 November 1918. Son of Richard and Mary Ann Butters, of Hale Rd., Ashill. ASHILL (ST NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD

War dead - Corporal Frederick Cater

Corporal Fredeick Cater 5940, 2nd/6th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment who died age 23 on 19 July 1916. Son of James and Maria Cater, of 13, Ashill. LAVENTIE MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE The date of death is different on the cross and in the official record.  



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War dead - Machine Gun Officer Lieutenant KC Ford

Machine Gun Officer
Lieutenant KC Ford

"Machine Gun Officer Lieutenant KC Ford died of wounds received in Plogstrat Wood on the 1^st December 1915. This cross would have been placed above him in a temporary grave on the field which is why the cross has a large hole in the middle, obviously caused by ongoing gunfire. After proper reburial in due course such wooden crosses were sent home to the place which had once been the soldier’s home. "

"He was the son of Archdeacon the Venerable George Adam Ford and Ellen Isabella Ford of The Rectory, Ashill, Norfolk. He was born in Norwich and had been educated at Marlborough College"

St. Peter's Terrington - Norfolk

“The parish clerk of St. Peter’s, Terrington, has caused his coffin and gravestone to be prepared, although in excellent health.  The former he keeps in his sleeping room, and uses as a wardrobe, and the latter stands in the church, ready to be put down when required.  The stone contains the following:—

“This aged clerk, long ere he died,
His coffin had and placed by his bedside;
His neighbours all well know the truth is spoke—
’Twas made of Mr. John Perry’s best oak;
His old friend Death just touch’d him with his spear
And in pure kindness laid him quietly here.

“The upper part of the stone contains the name, with blanks for cutting age, &c., when the time of his dissolution shall take place.”


Title: Norfolk Annals  A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 1     Author: Charles Mackie