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Elizabeth Ann Rumsby Origins Suffolk Trip 2002 The Fatal Quarrel Back

In the Summer of 2002 I visited my father in Norfolk and on the way home I couldn't resist visiting a few of the villages which crop up so often in the records.  Remarkably, despite a six-hour drive, the kids were remarkably well-behaved and I was lucky enough to drive from Hoxne to Thorington along the routes our ancestors must have known so well.  Unfortunately I only had half a roll of film left but I have promised myself a return journey with the digicam Santa brought me for Christmas!
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Laxfield

Parish Church
Guildhall
houses a local history exhibition but only
open weekends and Bank Holidays

The Royal Oak

These buildings form three sides of the old market square

 

Fressingfield

  

Parish Church

This building borders the churchyard

 

The road between Fressingfield and Cratfield.  A house named "Rumsbys Corner" stood somewhere along this road in the 1881 census.  The tower of Cratfield church is a tiny speck on the horizon.
   

 

Eye

  
The doors of Eye Parish Church, no doubt where
James Rumsby and Phoebe Suster
would have paused after their marriage.
 
  The ruins of Eye's tiny castle
 

Stradbroke

 
 
Parish Church