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Cromer club fears licence may be lost
A club owner fears he may lose his licence because of the noise smokers are making outside his club since the smoking ban was imposed. Steve Cottingham, owner of Cromer's private members club, Blazers, is to appear before the North Norfolk District Council licensing committee following a series of complaints made about the club, which include grievances about the noise from smokers in the street.

Aylsham Show success
Visitors in their thousands teemed around the ringsides, browsed the colourful and creative stalls and soaked up the sunshine and the Bank Holiday atmosphere at the annual Aylsham Show yesterday.

Waste site fears aired at North Walsham
Two hundred people turned out to a meeting to air concerns about a waste site on the outskirts of North Walsham. Local company HFS want to use a former Anglian Water site at Spa Common for the transfer and storage of liquid wastes.

North Norfolk schools' GCSE results
AYLSHAM HIGH 66pc (59) (45) (51) 72pc (62) (55) (53) “English and Maths is yet another record breaking year for AHS which builds upon our recent Ofsted report which says we are a very good school with outstanding features.

£2,500 for Aylsham good causes
GOOD causes in and around Aylsham have benefited from a £2,500 handout, thanks to darts, billiards and snooker enthusiasts. Teams from all over north Norfolk have been taking part in the annual Chamberlain Shield competition, playing pub games for a variety of trophies.

Sheringham theatre hopes of Lottery cash
Staff from The Hub at the Sheringham Little are heading to London this weekend, hoping for a winning performance at the National Lottery Awards on Saturday (30 August).

Family butchery closes after a century
A century of serving up sausages and steak comes to an end when a village butcher's shop shuts in a few days' time. Ken and Lesley Lanham are calling it a day as they retire from their shop overlooking the picturesque green at Aldborough near Cromer.

Blakeney Point - a landmark under threat
Blakeney Point is among the most threatened landmarks on Britain's coastline, warns a new report. It says the narrow sand and shingle spit, pictured, is one of 10 beauty spots in England and Wales which are likely to be radically changed or lost to climate change and rising sea levels.

Coltishall cyclist makes it to Beijjing
If there were an Olympic medal for surviving the trials and tribulations of a 10,000-mile cycle ride, Michael Raven would surely have won gold. As our celebrated athletes returned home, the 22-year-old, from Coltishall, was putting his feet up after making it to Beijing, following a five-month journey, in time for the closing ceremony on Sunday.

70th anniversary for Sheringham couple
When Mary and Laurence Coley first met more than 80 years ago, they didn't quite see eye to eye. But, yesterday, the Sheringham couple celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary and, thanks to a shared sense of humour, nowadays they get on like a house on fire.

£10,000 reward offered to find arsonists
A businessman has put up a £5,000 reward in a bid to catch arsonists who torched his vehicle rental company. David Wright, who runs East Anglia Car and Vehicle Rental in Bacton, has been left with a bill for more than £40,000 after two vans and a 4x4 were set alight on Sunday night.

More results from Aylsham Show
Sheep Any other British breed Ram: 1 Ben Harvey, Bluefaced Leicester; 2 Andrew Elliott, Hampshire Down; 3 Kenny Lincoln, Hampshire Down.

Noisy smokers put club licence in danger
A club owner fears he may lose his license because of the noise smokers are making outside his club since the smoking ban was imposed.

Air crash tragedy remembered
Victims of a horrific midair collision over Holt were remembered yesterday. Forty years after a tragic accident where two RAF planes crashed above the town killing seven airmen, St Andrews Church in Holt held a service in their memory.

Fishing boat rescued off Sheringham
A fishing boat with engine failure was towed to shore by the Sheringham lifeboat this morning. The Blue Boy, with one person on board, was drifting with the tide and wind about 1½ miles offshore.

Sun and fun for Cromer carnival day
Carnival day for Cromer cut a rainbow shaft of sun and fun into Norfolk's damp dismal summer. The big day of arena attractions, aerobatics and an evening parade only had a brief light shower as looming black clouds let the event off lightly.

Cromer pier stroll for author
With the carnival in full swing as he strode along Cromer Pier yesterday his Edwardian costume may not have seemed out of place amongst all the festivities.

Tribute to Holt air crash victim
The cousin of a brave RAF man who lost his life in a horrific mid-air collision over Holt has said she fears his memory could be lost. Forty years ago seven servicemen were killed as a thunderstorm raged and two RAF aeroplanes crashed 12,000ft above the north Norfolk town.

Second site homes plan quashed
North Walsham could face several more years of ugly, disused brownfield sites at its main entrances after a plan to build homes on a key gateway into the town was quashed - the second site to suffer such a setback in the space of a few weeks.

Cromer's big carnival day
The finishing touches were being put to carnival floats yesterday as Cromer geared up for the most important day in the seaside town's calendar. Today the town will buzz with excitement as the skies are brought to life with colour by the Red Arrows display team and the streets dance to a carnival beat.

Hanworth Family Histories

This section of our website traces Hanworth family histories. Our first contributor is Jill Waterson with an account of her strong family links to Hanworth.

If you would like to contribute to this section of the website then please email your content to mpickett@hanworthcommon.org.uk.

WATERSON FAMILY OF HANWORTH

As a descendant of Hanworth agricultural labourers, it gives me great pleasure to support the current Hanworth Common campaign. Below is some information about my ancestors which I hope is of interest.

Theophilus Waterson (1753-1809), my 4 x great grandfather, was a farmer in Hanworth. From his will we can see that he kept animals - "horses, cows, swine, poultry etc" - as well as growing crops - "corn, hay, turnips etc" - and possessed farming implements, including "carts, ploughs and harrows". It seems that he was a tenant farmer as there is no mention in his will of real estate.

Theophilus is buried in Sustead, along with his wife, Mary Platten (1756-1820), and some of their children and grandchildren. The gravestones were transcribed by Walter Rye, a historian, in the late 1880s. My son and I recently visited Sustead Church and found that several of the family's gravestones are still there, and although the writing is now barely visible, we were able to identify some of them by matching them to the transcripts.

The IGI shows that there was another Theophilus Waterson living in Gresham in 1656 and it seems likely that the two were related, although I haven't yet identified the links.

Thomas Waterson (1782-1855) was one of Theophilus and Mary's sons. He was an agricultural labourer in Hanworth. His wife was Elizabeth Hendry/Goodwin (1777-1848), a widow. In 1851, Thomas was living at 32, Hanworth with two of their children.

Their son James (1808-89) was also an agricultural labourer in Hanworth. He is shown in all the censuses from 1841-1881 as resident in Hanworth. In 1851, he was living at 10, Hanworth; in 1861, at 39, the Common; in 1871, at 19, the Hall; and in 1881 at Wood Cottage. By then he was aged 73, and still recorded as being an agricultural labourer. He lived to be 82.

Another of Thomas' sons was Samuel Waterson (b1806), who was a blacksmith journeyman. In 1851, he was living in Antingham, but by 1861, he was back in Hanworth, living with brother James at 39, The Common.

George Waterson (1817-78), my great great grandfather, was born in Hanworth and in 1851 was an agricultural labourer, living at 32 Hanworth with his father, Thomas, and sister Maria (1811-57), a dress maker. George later moved to Shoreditch and became a brewer's drayman. We are wondering whether he became involved with brewing while still living in Norfolk, as Whitbread brewery, where we think he worked when in Shoreditch, had maltings in Dereham, Whittington and King's Lynn.

One thing that puzzled us about George is how he acquired his middle name of Christmas. Then we discovered that in 1743, a Lydia Platten married Edmund Christmas in Little Barningham, which I imagine must be the connection between the families.

© Jill Waterson April 2006

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