Post Office Directory of 1865.
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Peasenhall 1865 Post Office Directory
PEASENHALL is a parlsh and large village, in Blything hundred and union,
Halesworth county court district, rural deanery of Dunwich, archdeaconry of
Suffolk, and Norwich diocese, East Suffolk, on the river Minsmere, 7 miles
northeast from Framlingham, and 7south-west from Halesworth, The church is named
St. Michael. The living is a perpetual curacy, consolidated with the vicarage of
Sibton, in the gift of J. W. Brooke, Esq., of Sibton Park, and held by the Rev.
Sterling Moseley Westhorp, M.A.,who resides at Sibton. The Wesleyans and
Independents have each a chapel. The extensive works of Messrs. Smyth and Sons,
the original inventors of the Suffolk drill, are in this parish. The population
in 1861 was 875, and the parish contains 1,999 acres.
LITTLE POY STREET lies to the north.
Parish Clerk, Robert Tillett.
POST OFFICE.�Alfred Freeman, receiver. Letters are received through the Yoxford
office; arrive at 7 a.m.; dispatched at 6 p.m. Yoxford is also the nearest money
order office
INSURANCE AGENTS :�
Eagle, Joseph John Lay, M.D
Liverpool & London Globe Fire � Life, Alfred Freeman
Norxeich Equitable Fire & Life, Thomas White
Norwich Hailstorm, Thomas White
Norwich Union, Thomas Girling, Rendham, Saxmund ham; George William White,
Brundish, near Framlingham
CARRIER.�Coates, to Ipswich on mon. & fri.at 8.30 a.m.; to Halesworth, tues. &
sat. at 9 p.m
Lay Joseph John, M.D
Norton Mr. Isaac
Potter Mr. William
Scadding Rev. Frederick [Wesleyan]
Turner Mrs
White Mrs
Wright Mr. William
COMMERCIAL.
Adams James, butcher
Aldridge Robert George, farmer
Barber Charles, shoe maker
Bone Robert, shopkeeper
Brown George, tailor, shopkeeper & hair dresser
Brown John, farmer
Burrows William, farmer
Cole John Westley, miller
Crisp James, shoe maker
Crisp Mary (Mrs.), ladies' school
Crisp William, tailor
Davy David, wheelwright
Flaxman James, farmer
Ford Samuel, baker
Foster John, shoe maker
Freeman Alfred, grocer, draper & patent medicine vendor, & postmaster
Fulcher John, schoolmaster
Gibbs Charles, Angel, & bricklayer
Gibbs Henry, bricklayer & beer retailer
Gilbert James, gardener
Gilbert William, shoe maker
Girling & White, auctioneers ice
Girling Thomas William, farmer
Goldsmith James, farmer
Goodacre Ellen Mary (Mrs.), seminary
Haward Francis, Swan, & collar maker
Haward Henry, blacksmith
Hunt Thomas, cooper
Hurren James, gardener
Jillings James, poulterer
Johnson William, farmer
Lay Joseph John, M.D. surgeon
Ludbrook Edmund, jun. carpenter
Ludbrook Edmund, sen. carpenter
Moore William, farmer
Mutimer Epbraim, farmer
Newson Richard, shopkeeper
Pipe George, farmer
Row Charlotte (Mrs.), tailor
Salter Hannah (Mrs.),plumber & glazier
Smyth James k Sons, inventors, patentees & manufacturers of the original Suffolk
drill; & at Witham, Essex, & Dieppe, France
White Thomas, auctioneer, fanner & maltster, & agent for the Norwich Equitable
Fire & Life & k Norwich Hailstorm Insurance Companies
White Thomas Girling, farmer
Wright James, tailor
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