Freston Suffolk Local History Page

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Freston, Suffolk - Local History Page

Updated April 2006

Freston is a small village 4 miles South East of Ipswich, Suffolk. It is bordered on the north eastern side by the River Orwell and on the other sides by the parishes of Wherstead, Holbrook and Woolverstone.

Freston Families

BERNERS (16th to 20th Century) or click here for an Acrobat version of this document

BRYAN (19th Century) [External Link] (Rev Wilmot Guy BRYAN (Curate of Freston, 1849-52) married Georgina VENN 1852 Freston)

BLOSSE or BLOYSE (17th Century) [External Link]

CATCHPOLE

GRIMWADE & GRIMWOOD ONE NAME STUDY [External Link ] by Maggie Driver

DURRANT (A 19th Century Rector of Freston) [External Link]

FROST (Transcription of IPSWICH JOURNAL 17th January 1745)

PHILPOT (19th Century)

VENN family of Freston Lodge or click here for an Acrobat version of this document

Also the following book is of interest is (Henry VENN is a relative Edward Beaumont VENN of Freston) Letters of Henry Venn - Published 1993 by "The Banner of Truth Trust"

WYNCOLL Isaac (1558-1638)/GAWDY Sir Thomas [External Link]

[Other names - Currently Under Preparation]

British Library Holdings for Freston

The British Library are known to hold two publications which relate to Freston. The first is a fictional work, by a author more famous for his autobiography of Margaret Catchpole.

Further details are available from the British Library's On-line Catalogue BLPC.

Author: COBBOLD Richard
Title: Freston Tower; or, the Early days of Cardinal Wolsey. [A novel. With plates.]
Publisher: 3 vol. Henry Colburn: London, 1850. 12o.
Publisher: pp. 303. Ward, Lock & Co.: London, [1880.] 8o.
Publisher: pp. 124. Ward, Lock & Co.: London, 1913. 8o.
Series: [Lily Series.]

Author: FRESTON Parish Church
Title: Freston Parish Magazine, 1886(-1908). Life in a Suffolk Village. Edited by C. R. Durrant.
Publisher: [Freston,] 1886-1908. 8o.

INDEX OF NAMES 1886 - 1887

British Library - Manuscripts Reading Room

Manuscripts covered by the British Library's internet manuscript catalogue. Selected items.

Add.Ch. 63195 Freston . co. Suff. Deed rel. to 1328.

Add.Ch. 14997 Add.Ch. 14998 Freston . co. Suffolk. Grant and quitclaim of lands in 1421, 1430.

Add.Ch. 9754 Freston Manor . co. Suffolk. Court roll 1526.

Add 21057 Maps and Plans of Estates in Suffolk

Item C : Estate of George BURLEIGH, Gent., Lying in Freston and Woolverstone now occupied by Henry FAIRBROTHER 1723.

Item M : A plan of the buildings upon the farm in the occupation of Mr William JACOBS, Freston, the property of Sir Gilbert EAST, 1823.

Stowe Ch 382

Acquittance from Bailiffs, Burgesses of Ipswich, Suffolk, to William GODDINGE, executor, William Thomas GOODINGE 10/4/1595.

22248

Letter to Wm HARVEY, Freston Hall 1719?.

National Register of Archives

Items listed in the National Register of Archives.

VENN, EDWARD BEAUMONT (1781-1857)

1. VICAR OF FRESTON, SUFFOLK 1816-55: commonplace book Lambeth Palace Library London SE1 7JU Reference: MS 2167

2. 1801-29: correspondence Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Department of Western Manuscripts Broad Street Oxford OX1 3BG Reference: MS Eng lett b 5

National Archives

PRO MAF 14/29 Exchange of Land between Rev C R DURRANT and L G DALRYMPLE 8/9/1880.
PRO MAF 11/158 Exchanges of Land between A BOND, SIR P BROOKE, W RODWELL 1858-1872.
PRO MAF 9/280 Bonds in Freston (Items 2125/12346) 1860, 1876.
OS 29/239 No 95 Journal of Inspection Freston (Part1)

Norfolk Record Office

Documents held at Norfolk Record Office (see http://nrocat.norfolk.gov.uk/dservea/Welcome.htm)

DN/ADR 9/9 1888 Correspondence re new Freston (Suffolk) rectory

DN/GLE 16/116 Glebe Exchanges (Transferred to Suffolk R.O)

DN/INV 2/45 Probate Inventories Gowre, John, Freston, S. 1584.

DN/INV 8/152 Probate Inventories Partryche, John, Freston, S. 1591

DN/INV 10/79 Probate Inventories Daye, William, Freston, S. 1593

DN/INV 11/26 Probate Inventories Patrick, Thomas, Freston, S. 1594

DN/INV 81C/60 Probate Inventories Whelham, Richard, Freston, S., yeoman 1747

House of Lords: Journal Office: Main Papers 1509-1700

Ref. HL/PO/JO/10/1/259 - date: 18 Apr 1648 - 29 Apr 1648 - 24 April 1648 -- Certificate of the Assembly of Divines that Samuel Aldus has been approved for the rectory of Freston, Suffolk. Lords Journals, X. 224.

Soldiers Records

PRO WO97 Soldiers Documents held by the National Archives.

Surname, Given Name, Place of Birth, Enlisted, Discharged, age, regiment, WO97 reference

ATKINS, James, Freston Suffolk, 1804, 1819, 32, D7, 14
CATCHPOLE, John, Freston Suffolk,
COULSON, William, Freston Suffolk, 1804, 1816, 32, RAD, 1221

See Article "TRACING JOHN CATCHPOLE AT THE National Archives USING SOLDIERS' DOCUMENTS"

Index of Freston Census Returns 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1891

[Other years i.e. those above without links to follow]

A full index of the 1901 census for Freston, Surrey, England.

Freston References in The Times, Newspaper, London

The Times - 12th June 1912 Page 17

FRESTON LODGE, IPSWICH Messrs. Garrod, Turner and Son in conjunction with Messrs Knight, Frank and Rutley, offered this property at Ipswich yesterday. The estate extends to 541 acres, and every lot was sold, the total being over £13,840.