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Post Office Directory of 1865.
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RISBY in 1844, is a small village, pleasantly situated nearly 4 miles W. by N.
of Bury St. Edmund's, has in its parish 360 souls, and 2,620 acres of land,
having a light mixed soil. Edward the Confessor gave the manor of Risby to Bury
Abbey, and it was granted in the 31st of Henry VIII., to Sir Thos. Kitson. Sir
Thomas Gage is now lord of the manor, but part of the parish belongs to the Rev.
J. D. Wastel, J. Cottingham, Esq., and a few smaller owners. The Church, (St.
Giles) is a small ancient structure, with a round tower, and a curiously carved
screen. It was new pewed and repaired in 1842, at the cost of £260; and a new
vestry was built in 1843. The rectory, valued in KB. at £19 10s. 5d, and in
1835, at £750, with that of Fornham St-Genevieve consolidated with it, is in the
patronage of the Crown, and incumbency of the Rev. S. H. Alderson, M.A., who has
a commodious Rectory House, built in 1839. The tithes of Risby were commuted in
1839 for £575 6s. 8d. per annum, and those of Fornham-St-Genevieve, for £140.
Risby Poor's Estate consists of a house and 19a. of land at Needham-street, in
Gazeley, let for £14 12s. a year. It was given before the reign of Henry VIII.,
for the purpose of easing the poor parishioners of the town charges, &c. that
might be imposed upon them. For many years, no part of the rent has been applied
to the payment of taxes, but the whole has been distributed yearly among the
poor; who have also £1 13s. 6d. yearly from land purchased with £10 given by
William Firmage, in 1599; £2 a year from Lady Kitson's Charity, (see Hengrave ;
£8 10s. 4d. yearly from £212 19s. Id. new four per cent. Annuities, purchased
with £200 left by Launcelot Danby, in 1812; and £1 16s. lOd. a year from £61
10s. 9d. three per cent.Consols, purchased with £50 left by John Spink, in 1822.
Directory
Rev. Samuel Hurry Alderson, Rectory;
William Adkin and Zach. Fenton, shopkeepers;
William and Thomas Orrage, blacksmiths;
Hannah Smith, beerseller;
George Smith, bricklayer;
Mrs. Amy Sutton ;
Rev. John Daniel Wastel;
William Cook, farmer, Risby Hall;
John Cottingham, farmer, Risby Place
Robert Kemball, farmer;
and John Denton Paine, farmer, Quays.