The British Newspaper Archive (BNA)
This page is a "work in progress" and I am in the process of dumping articles and then adding references and links to them.
The question is do I subscribe to this service so I can add significantly to my pages?
When you make a search on the bna website you get snippets of the articles which are mixed case and have deliberate
errors. Copy and pasting them as is will reveal that you do not have a subscription.
When I was researching the gravestones in the churchyard of St. Marys I came across
a reference to the British Newspaper Archive.
Like so many services you find on-line this is a subscription service, in a similar manner to a lot of the geneological research
sites. While this is understandable as it is big-business these days with many wanting to research their own past, it makes it
an expensive proposition for a more general historical approach. Much of the information was originally in the public domain
it is only now in the Internet/Information age that this has become a commodity.
The descriptions/extract of the articles in the archive are purposely changed presumably so that they turn up in Internet searches
but some of the names have been changed or mis-spelled so that a researcher can't just copy and paste the synopsis into
their own text.
This page contains some of the articles found by making a search of the Archive. I have also added a
few that came from the Foxearth and District Local History Society archives.
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Subscribing to the BNA Service
I may well do this as there are quite a few interesting articles that I have found and would like to see the text in full.
The cheapest subscription is for 12 months for £6.67 for a year, or £80. You can see 3 articles for free and
I may well do that after I have found enough examples to add to this history.
So far I have found articles from the 1860's to the 1900's - on topics such as the organ in St. Mary's church and the sale
of various farms etc.
Some articles found searching for Belchamp Walter
I started off this having found a reference to BNA in a blog about the
Rev. John Mayne St.Clere Raymond.
As the service is one that you have to subscribe the "snippets" of the articles have been "obscured" with capital letters
and mis-spellings. I have left these in.
New Organ - Suffolk and Essex Freee Press.- June 1868
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A NEW ORGAN WILL BX OPENED In the Church of this parish THURSDAY - , THE 2nd JULY NEXT, When Special Choral Services will be held.
In the Afternoon will be preached THE LORD BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE IN AID or THE ORGAN FUND. SUFFOLK ...
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Add to page on organ.
Corn Mill - Suffolk and Essex Free Press. - September 1866
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WET harvest. FREDERICK COPLAND IS prepared to CORN at reasonable charge- Belchamp Walter Mill. Sept. 14
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Malting at the Corn Mill - Suffolk and Essex Freee Press. - Thursday 02 December 1869
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MR. FREDERICK COPLAND MAKE MALT. Prom parties own BARLEY at the usual charge, STEAM AND WATER MILLS,
BELCHAMP WALTER, ESSEX. Oct. 20th, 1869
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This article would be great background to my page on Belchamp Water Mill.
Fishers Farm - Suffolk and Essex Freee Press - Wednesday 10 September 1890
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... FISHERS FARM, BELCHAMP WALTER, near SUDBURY. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION BY Messrs Osborne and Son On SATURDAY, September, 27 ...
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Parish Council Vacancy - Wednesday 05 October 1921 - Suffolk and Essex Free Press
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Parish of Belchamp Walter. THE Parish Council will shortly appoint an ASSISTANT OVERSEER and CLERK to the Council. The united salaries
are about £2O annually. Applications in writing only should reach the undersigned, from whom exact particulars can bo ..
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Smallpox in BW - Evening Star - Monday 22 March 1886
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BELCHAMP WALTER- Outbreak of Small-Pox. — The inhabitants of the respective parishes of Belchamp St. Paul, Belchamp Otten,
and Belchamp Walter have been much exercised recently in consequence of an alarming ...
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Fire in BW Essex Standard - Saturday 02 July 1892
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At Belchamp Walter, at the farm of Mr. John Prigg, some stacks were tired, but the villagers turned out and assisted Mr. I'rigc,
that extension of the fire was prevented. Mr. is insured. EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT AND NARROW ..
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Ploughing Match
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Plough DRAWING and FETE at EYSTON HALL on WHIT-MONDAY, May 21st commencing 2 p.m. GOOD PRIZES First in each Class 40/-.
Bowling for Pig, Skittles for Pig, Darts, Teas, Tombola, etc. Proceeds equally divided between Gestingthorpe and District ..
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Munt Farm sale - Suffolk and Essex Free Press - Thursday 03 September 1863
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TO BE SOLD BY' AUCTION, BY George Cootr, September 30th. 1863, direction th* Rev! J. M. ST CLERE R______, who has left the
Mont and adjoining farms, CAPITAL HORSES and COLTS Herd of 13 Superor Suffolk Cows Short-horn Bull 16 Heifers and ...
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J. M. St. Clere Raymond possibly dedicated himself to being a Reverend in 1863.
Verbal Assult in Sudbury - May 23rd 1876 - http://www.foxearth.org.uk/1872-1880HaverhillEcho.html
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John Mower of Little Cornard, a supporter of the Argricultural Labourers Movement, was summoned for using abusive and insulting
language to Mr John Prigg of Walter Belchamp on Sudbury market hill. It appears that the agricultural labourers of Little Cornard
were on strike and that they had marched into Sudbury market hill on the 11th and held a meeting. The defendant was the principal
speaker and the words used to Mr Prigg were " your old father got his money by grinding the poor man down, he is a old rascal,
I knowed him when he only had a bunch of straw to lie down on and it stunk worse than a sow's court.
Evidence was given that the complainant was going to fight the defendant but was advised not to. The bench inflicted a fine of
£ 1 and 14s costs, one month in defection.
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February 24th 1880 - link as above
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On Monday morning at quarter to eleven, two barley stacks the produce of 23 acres, standing in a field in the occupation of Mr Smith
of Belchamp Walter, were found to be alight. There was a high wind and although help was at hand it was useless and the stacks
were soon burnt to the ground. The stacks were 200 yards apart and the fire was no doubt caused wilfully, the police have no
clue to the offence.
It may be stated that a sale of Mr Smith's effects recently took place and the stacks were covered by a bill of sale.
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September 29th 1879 - http://www.foxearth.org.uk/1879-1880BuryNorwichPost.html
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Benjamin Turner a labourer aged 11 years was charged with shooting a horse at Walter Belchamp. Mr John Cooper said the prisoner
was sent to an off-hand farm with a can of beer for men who were thatching. When Mr Cooper who followed about an hour later on was
passing the stable at the farm, he saw one of his horses was dead, he turned up it's head and found a small hole with blood oozing out,
he however thought it was caused by a nail when it had dropped down dead.
He sent for the knacker who took it home and on flaying it he found some shot in the meat, he gave the shot to Mr Cooper. A gun which
Mr Cooper kept in the chaff house was examined and found to have been shot recently, the shot in the carcase was the same as
which the gun was loaded. The police were sent for and the prisoner was accused of shooting the horse, he denied it at first but afterwards said " I took the gun up and came to the door where the horse was lying and shot it, I did not know the gun was loaded. The horse was valued at £ 14. For trial and to kept in custody.
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July 31st 1875 - http://www.foxearth.org.uk/1874-1875BuryFreePress.html
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Inquest at Walter Belchamp on Monday last on John Chinery, labourer, who died undergoing the amputation under chloroform of a finger,
deceased who was 18 years old jammed his finger while oiling a threshing machine, Dr Mason of Sudbury attended him and his finger
appeared to going on well until a fortnight ago when amputation was considered necessary, deceased was willing to have it
amputated but insisted it was carried out under chloroform though Dr Mason tried to dissuade him for so slight an operation,
Dr Waring and Dr Mason attended him, Dr Waring to administer the chloroform and Dr Mason to carry out the amputation,
on the first application all was well but on the second there was a slight flickering of the pulse,
the chloroform was withdrawn and after a slight struggle he died. Death by chloroform.
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June 26th 1883 - Bury Suffolk Standard
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To be sold by auction at the Rose and Crown at Sudbury, one undivided moiety of and in Fishers farm at Belchamp Walter comprising
186 acres 1 rod 34 perches.
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January 31st 1894 - Suffolk Free Press
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On Sunday last, the Rev.T.L.V.Simkin was inducted to the living of Belchamp Walter.
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September 25th 1895
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Eli Cranfield, a labourer of Belchamp Walter, was charged with being drunk and disorderly on Sept. 14th. P.C.Scott said
he saw the def.outside the Eight Bells, fighting with another man named Smith and refused to go home.
Fined 2s 6d and 12s 6d costs.
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The case was likely to have been judged by Thomas Ruggles who held the lordship at the time.
(1741 - 1865)
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August 11th 1897
Samuel Edwards, a labourer of Walter Belchamp, was charged with stealing tares and grass, valued at three pence, the property of
James Edgar Hostler of the same place. Hostler said that the prisoner had been in his employ for about five years. P.C.Scott said
he saw defendant coming from a field with a bag containing grass and tares.
Hostler said defendant came to my house and asked forgiveness. Fined 10 shillings.
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October 20th 1897
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Sarah Pearsons, was charged with neglecting her children at Walter Belchamp. Defendant, wife of James Pearsons who was a hard
working man who earned 11 shillings a week, lives in a cottage at Chappel Hill. Susan aged 12 years, Annie, aged 7 years and
Jane had been neglected.-- 1 month hard labour.
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May 13th. 1858 - http://www.foxearth.org.uk/1855-1892SuffolkFreePress.html
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At Pentlow on Monday last, a boy aged 14years, Walter Harrington, employed by Mr.Orbell (either Pentlow Street or Bower Hall G.H.)
was leading a young horse out to be fed, he had tied the halter round his wrist. It is thought by some means the horse was
frightened and ran away, dragging the poor boy with it. He was found by Chas. Orbell lying near the gate, quite dead his skull
being fractured and brain protruding. Accidental death.
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Jan.6th. 1859 - same link as above
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Pentlow. Will. Orbell aged 15 years was driving Joseph Orbell's chaff cutting machine. The boy sitting in the centre became
dizzy and fell off the seat, getting his fingers caught in the cogs and smashing his hands. Medical aid summoned and he went
well for three days, but Messrs. Waring and Barnett decided to amputate below the elbow, skillfully and successful performed.
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