The family history of Robert J Austin
We have in the archive a history of Robert J Austin and his grandparents the Austins, the Gaskins, the Coopers and the Frosts.
The history comprises family trees and Census information. Robert's ancestors all lived in Norfolk and mainly in the Cawston area. They were butchers, labourers, laundresses, brickmakers, needlewomen and publicans. For more information on Robert's family visit the Cawston Heritage Archive at the Village Hall Cawston where you can see the whole family history. A snapshot can be viewed by clicking on the PDF file.
Naomi Horrocks
Victor and Bertha Austin
Memories of The Loke off Chapel Street Cawston
David Palgrave has fond memories of living in one of the cottages owned by Sir Dymoke White of Salle Park Estate.
In this item David Palgrave recounts his memories of living in one of the cottages in The Loke Cawston. His family lived there from 1956 to 1964 when the cottages were sold. The Howes and the Chatters also lived in the cottages.
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Naomi Horrocks
David Palgrave and Bren Tuttle
1956 to 1964
David Palgrave and Bren Tuttle
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_baronets" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="The White Baronets of Salle Park Estate, Norfolk">The White Baronets of Salle Park Estate, Norfolk</a>
William Dove 1809 - 1866
William Dove a farm labourer was charged in 1830 with breaking a threshing machine belonging to John Bond of Cawston. He was sentence to seven years transportation to Tasmania. He was pardoned after five years and settled in Hobart with his wife Sarah Ann Stanhope. William became a man of property in Hobart, dying in 1866. To read more about William Dove and his ancestors click on the item to view in full screen.
The resource is an extract from a book by Tony Satchell. 'Linked by chains and lineage' published in Ashburton, Victoria AU in 1992. It provides a background to the Dove family, the political situation in the early 1800s and details about life in a prison ship and life as a convict in Tasmania (then Van Diemen's Land).
Naomi Horrocks
Satchell, Tony. Linked by chains and lineage. Ashburton, Vic Au1992
1784 to 1866
Extract contributed by Martin Sullivan
Original documents relating to land and property in Cawston
The CHS archive has a number of original documents relating to families, land (including some Inclosure documents) and property in Cawston and Eastgate. These have now been catalogued and can be viewed at our open mornings or by appointment. They cannot be taken away. Note that many of the documents are written in old and legal English and not necessarily easy to read.
Click on the files to see the full details of the resources. The contents include papers relating to Cooks of Cawston, family history of the Clements family, an Inclosure document outlining the Cawston boundary, documents relating to Roopham House, 3 Norwich Road and two cottages in Eastgate.
Naomi Horrocks
1601 - 1971
Avis Marsh
<p>Scouting</p>
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/1ebbc46cd8869641de8266cc48e519d1.jpg" width="322" height="265" /></p>
Scouting was her life....
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May Purdy
Dick Spencer
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/76" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Scouts"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Scouts</span></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/92" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Church"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cawston Church</span></a></p>
Manor Water Tower
<p>Part of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Remembers" href="http://mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank">Cawston Remembers Project:</a></span></p>
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<p>The water tower was built to provide fresh water to the Manor in 1897....</p>
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<p>David Forster</p>
<p>Martin Sercombe</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Remembers" href="http://mediaprojectseast.co.uk/cawston/index.html" target="_blank">Media Project East</a></span></p>
<p>Neil Storey</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Manor" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank">Cawston Manor</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="George Cawston" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/142" target="_blank">George Cawston</a></span></p>
Dewing and Spooner by Peggy Dewing
Herbert John Spooner with horses/Imperial Service Medal presented to Arthur Dewing & School Memories by Peggy and Pam....
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Peggy & Pam Spooner (Dewing & Shreeve)
Walter Frederick Carman
<p>He joined the Royal Navy when he was 15 years old....</p>
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G. Carman
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" title="War Times Collection" target="_blank">War Times Collection</a></span>
Ivy Lake
<p><img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/077f48275022e63b14dce4ae3c4718e8.jpg" width="277" height="331" /></p>
<p>Ivy was a excellent supporter of the Historical Society.</p>
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A few years ago Ivy wrote down a few of her memories....
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Ivy Lake
Patsy Rayner
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/237" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston 1912 - 1920 Remembered">Cawston 1912 - 1920 Remembered</a></span>
George Chapman
Employment letter 1904 for George Chapman....
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1904
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/238" title="Ivy Lake" target="_blank">Ivy Lake</a></span>
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/238" title="Ivy Lake" target="_blank">Ivy Lake</a></span>
Hilda Dewing
<p><img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/34d44477f9cd89c7a3361e65dcde1aa0.jpg" width="205" height="153" /></p>
On the 4th April 1996, Hilda was privileged to be invited to receive the Maundy Money from the Queen in Norwich Cathedral....
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1996
<p><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/93" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Womens Instsiute"><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Women's Institute</span></span></a></p>
Isabella Bumphrey
Cawston's Own Charity Champion....
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Tommy and Grace Neale
Appreciation/Memoriam....
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Rev Farnham
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/207" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="St. Johns Ambulance Brigade">St. Johns Ambulance Brigade</a></span>
John Kett
Champion of Norfolk Dialect.
Mr John Kett retired in March 1978 after 26 years as Headmaster of Cawston School.
In a few words it is impossible to do justice to what Mr. Kett has meant and means, to the school, the village and the wider community in which he has lived and worked.
In the school, it is no exaggeration to say that he has been greatly loved and respected. Recent letters of appreciation include such words as "Dear Mr Kett", "unbounding help and encouragement", "the best Headmaster we have ever known", a wonderful Headmaster", "a very good friend to myself and family He is a schoolmaster of great kindliness, understanding and wisdom, who has shared his interests and, indeed, his life with his pupils.
How he has also found time for other things is amazing in itself. A Lay Reader for many years, his work in the parish and in the Cawston Group cannot be overestimated.
For many years too, his work for the St John Ambulance Brigade was unstinted and greatly appreciated.
He is rightly known to many, children and adults alike, as a great lover of the countryside, and all aspects of natural history, a love he has passed on to so many over the years.
And what an entertainer too! How many of us have enjoyed his feel for words, whether in his published books of dialect verse, or in his songs! Very much a man of Norfolk,
He has been an inspiration to all of us. There was in him an inner strength which is difficult to define but which, most certainly, owes much to his own family life and, of course, to Mary his wife. It is sometimes easy to forget that she has been the wife of the Headmaster for 26 years as well,
I am privileged to write for many.
John Asquith.
From the Parish Magazine April 1978
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Mr John Asquith
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/62" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Schools/Education">Schools/Education</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/207" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="St. Johns Ambulance Brigade">St. Johns Ambulance Brigade</a></span></p>
Major Hubert Rodwell
<img src="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/bfde05f117527413235ce865f529ab8b.jpg" width="273" height="357" />
Newspaper Piece regarding History and family information....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="War Times" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/collections/show/5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click Here</a></span> for: War Times including Roll of Honour. Memorials. Home Guard. Memories & Photos etc.
Michael and Jean Thompson
History/Photo Collection....
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Michael & Jean Thompson
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/193" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Trades in Village 1946">Trades in Village 1946</a></span>
Mary Maude
Mary Maude who was born in 1876 came to Cawston in her twenties and lived with....
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John Gilbert
A mid Norfolk Man has spoken of his pride at laying a wreath alongside one placed by the President....
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John Gilbert
Beryl Rounce
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Beryl with her long service Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association award in 1998, the only female farmer.....
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Beryl Rounce
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Jimmy Payne. Church Farm" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/135" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Payne. Church Farm</a></span>
Celebrities
Celebrities born in Cawston or who have had Cawston connections....
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Walter Edward Tuddenham
Walter Edward TUDDENHAM was born in 1859 at Cawston. Into a large and very respectable family of some prosperity. I know.....
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1859
R.P Tuddenham
Peter C Tuddenham - Western Australia.
John Randal Bradburne
Son of Cawston Rector: Thomas William Bradburne -
Joining the army in 1939, in 1940 he was commissioned into the 9th Gurkha Rifles, a regiment of the Indian Army and found himself in Malaya, facing....
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June Hopper
Mary Gurteen
Robert Williams Family History
This was supplied with many thanks by Marg Keable and writes - I have my Williams family that was from Cawston....
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Marg Keable
Peter Lee Family Tree
I have been looking at your website for Cawston and found it very interesting and helpful in my research into my grandfathers family history.
I know that my grandfathers family still reside in Cawston and I thought that this may be of interest....
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Mr Peter Lee
<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/263" title="S.G.C. Lee - Cawston" target="_blank">S.G.C. Lee - Cawston</a></span>
Eddie Cox
Eddie 91 in flight of fancy....
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Mrs Sylvia Raven
George Cawston
<img src="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/files/original/d2c85a33b79f45559641aec47c19e852.jpg" width="306" height="397" />
<p>In 1896 the manorial rights having passed from Augustine Earle to the Bulwer family were sold to George Cawston of London....</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Cawston Manor" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/87" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cawston Manor</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Manor Water Tower" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manor Water Tower</a></span></p>
Beatrice Ellen Etherington
Beatrice Ellen Etherington, born in Cawston as Beatrice Ellen Dunn on 11 October 1889, was one of the older sisters of Cecil Dunn who many senior citizens in the parish may still remember.
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Michael Yaxley
<p>Michael has vivid memory of our village and social changes and have put together numerous pieces about our history.</p>
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<p>And the Links below for his pieces -</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/392" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country">Eric Monsey - He Died for His Country</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Alvington" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alvington</a></span> - The Extinct Village near Cawston</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Dunn Family" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/119" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dunn Family</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Monsey Family" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Monsey Family</a></span> at the Old Ratcatchers Row</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/379" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Ratcatchers Row">Ratcatchers Row</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/204" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Shoping in Cawston in the 1950's">Shopping in Cawston in the 1950's</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/376" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Life in Cawston 1870 - 1900 (Victorian Age)">Life in Cawston 1870 - 1900 (Victorian Age)</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/admin/items/show/375" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Christmas in Cawston 1950's - 1960's">Christmas in Cawston 1950's - 1960's</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/374" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Cawston Primary School 1954-60">Cawston Primary School 1954-60</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/369" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Sunday School 1950s and 1960s">Sunday School 1950s and 1960s</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Radio Broadcast" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/91" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Radio Norfolk Broadcast 1992</a></span></p>
<p>Family History: <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beatrice Ellen Etherington</a></span></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/171" title="Fiction Stories" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fiction Stories</a></span></p>
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Monsey Family at the old Ratcatchers Row.
Stanley Monsey (early 1890 - 1953), his wife May Monsey (late 1890 to mid 1970’s), and their children lived at the old Ratcatchers Row in the first half of the 20th. century. Stanley died in 1953....
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Dunn Family
Dunn Family in Cawston - At the present time there are no members of this family left in the village as they have migrated to other places in the vicinity and abroad. The furthest I can go back is to what my grandfather....
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<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Michael Yaxley" href="http://www.cawstonheritage.co.uk/items/show/121" target="_blank">Michael Yaxley</a></span>