Stanhoe Archive photo gallery

Stanhoe Archive photo gallery

Historic images of Stanhoe, Norfolk, UK.

Please help us with names and dates for our photos — just click the "Add a comment” button beneath any photo. Many thanks to everyone who has already contributed!

Don't forget to visit the main Stanhoe website stanhoe.org.

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  • Title: Stanhoe Archive photo gallery
  • Description: Historic images of Stanhoe, Norfolk, UK.

    Please help us with names and dates for our photos — just click the "Add a comment” button beneath any photo. Many thanks to everyone who has already contributed!

    Don't forget to visit the main Stanhoe website stanhoe.org.
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  • 1901 - The Calver family
    Chris Branch said: Minor corrections: So pleased that the doorway has been identified and I'm looking forward to visiting the locality again soon and to see it for myself. I think I agree that the female holding the chidren is Bessie the daughter born to Thomas Calver of Ivy Farm, Burnham Thorpe in 1863 - her mother being Susan Bobbins. Thomas Calver and Susan Bobbins were not permitted to marry it would seem until 1871 - after the death of his widowed mother: Susan Calver (Nee Blake) of Tuddenham. Bessie Bobbins married first the Vet Charles William Heinemann. He came from Mile End in London and his sister was an artist. Their father was a Baker in Mile End. C.W Hienemann (in the wheel-chair was a vet in Burnham Market but died in about 1903. Bessie Heinemann then seems to have re-married a Henry de Fray Walden in Ceylon. He was a Tea Planter. They returned to London and took some Tea rooms on the Isle of Wight Henry died at the age of 62 but Bessie lived until 85 in 1949.

    A distant cousin/relative of Bessie Bobbins is now in touch and wrote: I looked up Henry De Faye Walden on Ancestry and found that there were two candidates for this identity, both born in St Helier, Jersey between 1876 and 1878 and probably both first cousins, sons of two Walden brothers who married two De Faye sisters. One of these two, Henry Thomas Walden, was killed in the 1st World War, leaving the field clear for the other one, born about 1878, son of Henry Matthias Walden and his wife, Eliza De Faye. He disappeared after the 1891 census so probably off to foreign parts between 1891 and 1901.
    Also by googling the name Henry De Faye Walden, came up with a website called Kabristan Archives which had lists of burials and marriages in Ceylon, Sri Lanka, surnames arranged alphabetically but with no date given. Under the heading: Protestant Marriages Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon, Sri Lanka, I found listed in the W's: WALDEN, Henry De Faye, and listed in the H's: HEINEMANN, Bessie. Don't know whether Nuwara Eliya is a place or has some other meaning, but that was all the info. available. At least we know that they were married in Ceylon and I do think that Bessie must have gone there at the invitation of her sister-in-law, Clara Plate, nee Heinemann. (We think Clara might have painted some pictures in oils that were hung at Station Farm - in the old house until 1965 but they remain to to traced - landscapes possibly of Bavaria).
    she continues : Well, I think that is all I can add to the story of Aunt Bessie or Bessie Bobbin for the moment. I expect there will be some more revelations soon - watch this space.
  • Headstone of Susan Calver nee Bobbins born 1839
    Rita McIver said: John Calver was born at Banham Dec 1774,
    he was baptised at Burnham Thorpe May 1782
    his brother Henry was born in Banham Dec 1776 and baptised
    Burnham Thorpe May 1782
  • 1927 - Richard Calver
    Rita McIver said: Re Nelson's birth place, it seems that he was born in the Shooting box a house in Creake Road.
    Which I expect is where Henry and Ann lived. Later Henry's daughter Elizabeth lived there with husband William Press who was a wine merchant!!
    The Calvers were certainly in Thorpe when Nelson had his 5 years "on the beach" a dinner was held when he left but sadly no record of those present, apparently all the village were there, apart from one boy.