Why Bells Lane?

Last year, in an article on the main Glemsford History Website, I posed a question about the naming of Bells Lane.

Proving that the internet is still fulfilling its original intended function, Jenny Wear has been in touch with the following additions to our collective knowledge:

During my searches at the Bury Record Office, over the past couple of years, I have come across The Six Bells, Glemsford.

The period is mainly 1752-1776 and the Public House also crops up in the Ipswich Journal between 1761 and 1776 (thanks to the Foxearth LHS).

I'm pretty sure the place was named after the six bells of St Mary's and the lane then after the pub/hostelry.

It must have occupied a good plot as horse and sheep fairs were held there regularly; unfortunately it was too early for the Tithe map and there is a dearth of other maps for that period.

 

Thanks, Jenny. Another question with a possible answer, and more questions to be looked at - all at the same time. Now, about those horse and sheep fairs ...

 

SC

Chatters and Scott families

Clive Scott has contacted me from Texas:
(with apologies for a delay in posting)

I am looking for any information about Emily Selina Chatters and her husband William Henry Scott.
Emily was born in Glemsford on December 29, 1891 and married William in Wandsworth London on 25 Nov, 1916.
She died in Glemsford in 1965 at 47 Brook Street. She also lived in Chequers Lane, and may have worked at the silk works when younger.
William was born in London in October 1895.
Scotts did live next door to Emily in Chequers Lane, were these relatives of William?
Emily's father was Leonard and her mother Jane Brown.
William's family appear to have come from the Channel Islands were the trail goes cold.

If anyone can help Clive with his search, please get in touch via me - admin@glemsford.org.uk