Post Office Directory of 1865.
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MONK SOHAM is a parish and village, in Hoxne union, hundred, and
rural deanery, county court district of Framlingham, Suffolk archdeaconry, and
diocese of Norwich, East Suffolk, 15 miles north from Ipswich, and 4 north-east
from Debenham. The church of St. Peter has a chancel and square tower, and will
accommodate about 400 persons. The register commences from 1712. The living is a
rectory, annual value £530, with residence and 90 acres of glebe, in the gilt
of, and held by, the Rev. Robert Hindes Groome, M.A., of Caius College,
Cambridge, and honorary canon of Norwich. There is a parish day school, erected
in 1850. The land belongs to Lord Henniker, M.P., the Creasey, Randall, Garneys,
and other families. W. Deane, Esq., is lord of the manor. There are charities to
the amount of £80 per year, which are applied to the repairs of the church and
tenements, for providing two shillings worth of bread every Sunday at the
church, and in yearly distribution of coals and money amongst the poor. The
population in 1861 was 442, and the area Is 1,509 acres.
Parish Clerk, Edward Kemp.
Letters through Wickham Market. The nearest post office is at Bedfield; the
nearest money order office & savings bank is at Debenham
Parish Day School, Miss Ellen Fooks, mistress
Groome Rev. Robert Hindes, M.A. [rector], The Parsonage
COMMERCIAL.
Bond John, boot & shoe maker
Bond John, farmer & carpenter
Creasey James, farmer
Edwards Seman, farmer & assistant overseer, The Hall
Garneys William, farmer
Hall John, farmer
Hammond John Edgar, farmer, Woodcroft hall
Mutimer John, farmer
Pattle Temple, White Elm, & horse dealer
Pepper Thomas, farmer
Preston Henry, farmer & auctioneer, estate agent & surveyor, Mount Pleasant, &
at Warlingworth
Reed John, shopkeeper
Reeve Charles, farmer
Ringe John, gardener
Shulver James, wheelwright
Shulver Robert, blacksmith
Symonds Nathaniel, farmer