Lillian (Lily)
Jemima Horne 1892-1973 - (81 years)
Daughter of Frederick William
Horne and Elizabeth ??
Born:- 20th July 1892, Old Palace
Road Norwich: Norfolk
1901: Census
- Dereham Road, Mattishall
William Horne
- Head - age 69 - Shopkeeper (Grocer) own account
- born Mattishall
Sarah Horne - Wife - age 69 - born Mattishall
Emily Horne - Dau - single - age 48 -
born Mattishall
Lily Horne
- G/Dau - age 10 - born Norwich
1911: Census
- Dereham Road Mattishall E Dereham
Emily Rosa Horne - Head - Single - age
59 (1852) - Draper born Mattishall, Norfolk
Lily Jemima Horne
- Niece - Single age 18 (1893) Servant Domestic
- born Mattishall, Norfolk
1917:- 26th
May, Married at the Independent Chapel, Old
Moor Chapel, Mattishall
Lillian Jemima Horne, age 23, Spinster, Mattishall
Charles Herbert Smith, age 23, Tractor Engine
Driver, Mattishall
Father; Frederick William Horne, Whitesmith
Father; John Smith (deceased) Agricultural Labourer
Witnesses; Robert Smith, (uncle) George Horne,
(Brother) Evelyn Kate Smith (Sister) & Emily
Rosa Horne (Aunt)
Minister; F. Brown …. Entry 12 (information
from Marriage Cert.)
1919:- 29th
October, Son Russell John Smith was born, Mattishall
1939: Census
- The Quackers, Badley Moor Mattishall
Charles Smith - Head - born Jan 29th
1894 - Ag Engineer
Lily Smith - Wife - born Jun 20th 1892
- Unpaid Domestic Duties
Russell Smith - Son - born Oct 29th 1919
- Ag Motor Transport Duties
1949:- 29th
January Emily Horne (Ernie’s wife) died
at Norwich, age 71. (From Lily’s Diary’s)
1949:- 9th May, brother George
died, buried at Wymondham. (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1950:- 6th
January, Electricians finished wiring house.
• 16th May, Electric Light ON, Meter put
in.
• 19th June, Cooker fixed to use.
• 29th December, Arthur Godfrey died……
(From Lily’s Diary’s)
1952:- 23rd
May A.J. Farrow died in nursing home.
• 10th September, fetched car from Cromer.
New Austin A40 Somerset F/4 Saloon Reg No NVF
318 for the some of £754, 7 shilling and
3 pennies. …… (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1955:- 31st
January, Brother Percy died.
• 4th February, Percy’s funeral
at St Faiths Crematorium.
• 5th December, Sister Edie died
• 8th December, Edie’s funeral…….
(From Lily’s Diary’s)
1958:- 15th
April, Charlie Earl moved to Easton Dog Pub
• 13th May, Doctor came, had Phlebitis.
• 30th June, Russell went back to work
after 7 weeks looking after me with Phlebitis.
……. (From Lily’s Diary’s)
1959:- 13th
August, Sister Gertie died in the Norfolk Norwich
Hospital, age 75.
• 12th December, Fowls pest broke out
243 birds effected. ……. (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1960:- 27th
January, Russell bought Austin Truck from Rix’s
of Fakenham.
• ? February, Sister Alice’s husband
Bill Wrench died.
• 14th February, Fowl Pest withdrawal
Order.
• 26th April, Mrs. Farrow moved to Gorlston.
• 11th May, Electric Organ induction at
the Chapel (Welgate) Muriel switch on.
• 6th December Fowl Pest confirmed, 163
birds effected. ……. (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1961:- 31st
January, Declared open from Fowl Pest.
• 23rd March, Sister Alice married Alfred
Wright.
• 25th July, Mrs. G. Farrow went to Brunswick
Hospital at night.
• 26th July, Mrs. G. Farrow died, age
60.
• 8th August, Gillian started work in
Norwich GPO.
• 17th August, Charlie & Russell went
to the Lawyer & Mr. Chapman came to survey
the land.
• 4th October, Son Russell married Madge
Brend (formally Earl) at Dereham Church.
• 8th ? Refusal of building site. …….
(From Lily’s Diary’s)
1963:- 29th
October, Charlie sold his Morris car to Mr.
Meal of Southborough………. (From
Lily’s Diary’s)
1964:- 1st
June, A.J. Farrow’s business & lorries
was sold to Walpole & Wright.
• 1st June, Russell started working for
Walpole & Wright.
• 5th October, Russell & Madge took
over Mrs. Harrison’s house.
• 7th October, Charlie finished work at
A.J. Farrow’s after 57 years
• 28th November, Russell & Madge moved
into Notch View. ……. (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1965:- 27th
February, Gillian’s wedding at Dereham.
• 13th June, Gillian’s 21st Birthday.
• 17th August, Russell & Madge had
their car, Ford Popular. ……. (From
Lily’s Diary’s)
1966:- 6th
November, Our cat Tiny died, age 20 years. …….
(From Lily’s Diary’s)
1967:- 11th
February, Russell & Madge moved to Stone
Road, Toftwood.
• 23rd March, Mrs. Doris Farrow went into
West Norwich Hospital.
• 26th May, Brother Bertie died, age 84.
• 27th May, We went to Russell & Madge’s
for our Golden Wedding Party.
• 1st June, Bertie’s funeral,
• 7th June, Press photographer came to
take photo’s of Charlie and me and presents.
• 7th June, Congratulations Letter from
MP at the House of Commons
• 13th June, Mrs.Doris Farrow died at
the Norfolk Norwich Hospital. …….
(From Lily’s Diary’s)
1968:- 5th June, Russell Horne
connected us to the mains water.
• 11th August, Gillian’s baby Andrew
Christened. ……. (From Lily’s
Diary’s)
1973:- 2nd
December, Died Age 81:- West Norwich Hospital,
of Congestive Cardiac Failure and Gangrene to
the left foot due to arterial embolism Diabetes
Mellitus, certified by B. I. Anazodo M.D. From
death cert, Entry 60 EA855308
Oct 19 - 20th went to Mattishall
Evangelical Church Opening
About:- Husband; Charles Herbert
Smith 1894 - 1975 (81 years)
Son of John Smith (Agricultural
Labourer ) and Hannah Holland
Born January 29th 1894 at Low
Road, North tuddenham - Lived at Yaxham, Howletts
Cottage for 6 months - Moved to Filded Cottage,
Yaxham, 1901 age 1, 1895 - Moved to Dereham
Corner House, Mattishall - 1910 (April) moved
to quarker House, Mattishall.
Started work a A J Farrows in 1907 after leaving
school at 13 years old - Married May 26th 1917
- Lived at the Croft for 5 years Then Mattishall
Shop House 2 1/2 years
- Moved to Quacker House in 1926 - 1964 retired
from A J Farrows after 57 years.
1871: Census
- Nr The Rectory Yaxham
Hagar Smith - Head - Widow - age 59 - Farmer
36 Ac Emp1m - Norfolk - Whinburgh
John Ju Smith - Gson - age 12 - Scholar - Norfolk
- Yaxham
Robert Smith Gson - age 8 - Scholar Norfolk
- Yaxham
1879: Marriage
record - John Smith married Hannah Holland at
Mitford - Dec quarter (4b 796)
1881: Census
- Rawbrig Lane Shipdham, Norfolk
John Smith - Head - age 22 Farmer of 50 Ac 1Man
1Boy - Yaxham
Hannah Smith - Wife - age 23 - Farmers wife
- Garveston
Hager Smith - Grand Mother - Widow - age 70
- Whinburgh
Robert Smith - Brother - age 18 - Ag Lab - Yaxham
William John Smith - Son - age 1month - Shipdham
Susanna Smith - Sister - age 16 - Shipdham
1891: Census
- Yaxham
John Smith - Head - age 32 - Farm Lab - Yaxham
Hannah Smith - Wife - age 33 - Garvestone
William John Smith - Son - age 10 - Scholar
- Shipdham
Edith Mary Smith - Dau - age 7 - Scholar - Shipdaham
James Henry Smith - Son - age 6 - Scholar -
Mattishall
Harriett Christine Smith - Dau - age 3 - North
Tuddenham
Born:- 29th January 1894, Low
Street, North Tuddenham, Norfolk
1894:- Birth
Cert entry Mitford, Mattishall No: 134….John
Smith
Mothers Name; Hannah Smith formally Holland
Fathers Name; J. Smith, Farm Labourer, North
Tuddenham.
1894:- July,
lived at Howlett’s Cottage Yaxham
1895:- Moved
to Field Cottage Yaxham 1 year old.
1901: Census
- Yaxham
John Smith - Head - age 43 (1858)
Hannah Smith - Wife - age 42
James Smith - Son - age 16
Frederick Smith - Son - age 9
Chalres Smith - Son - age 7
Everlyn Smith - Dau - age 4
Winifred Smith - Dau - age 2
1901:- Moved
to Corner House, Mattishall
1907:- Age
13 started work at A. J. Farrows
1910:- April,
Moved to Quaker House, Mattishall
1911: Census
- Yaxham Road Mattishall E Dereham Norfolk
Hannah Smith - Head - Widow - age 53 (1858)
- born Garvestone Norfolk
James Smith - Son - Single - age 26 (1885) -
Farm Labourer - born Mattishall Norfolk
Frederick Smith - Son - Single - age 19 (1892)
- Baker Assistant - born N Tuddenham Norfolk
Charles Smith - Son -
Single - age 17 (1894) - Farm Labourer - born
N Tuddenham Norfolk
Evelyn Smith - Daughter - age 14 (1897) - born
Yaxham Norfolk
Winifred Smith - Daughter - age 12 (1899) -
School - born Yaxham Norfolk
1916:- 12th
December, C. H. Smith 23052 Army form W. 3291
Classification Certificate, ‘A’
Fit for general service.
1917:- 6th
March, Temporary exemption granted from Military
Service until 1st May 1917, Cert No 156 at the
Guildhall, East Dereham.
1917:- 26th
May, Married at the Independent Chapel, Old
Moor Chapel, Mattishall
Lillian Jemima Horne, age 23, Spinster, Mattishall
Charles Herbert Smith, age 23, Tractor Engine
Driver, Mattishall
Father; Frederick William Horne, Whitesmith
Father; John Smith (deceased) Agricultural Labourer
Witnesses; Robert Smith, G. Horne, Evelyn Kate
Smith & Emily Rosa Horne
Minister; F. Brown …. Entry 12 (information
from Marriage Cert.)
Lived at the Croft for 2 ½
years
1926:- Moved
to Quaker House, Mattishall
1935:- 6th
April, bought Morris Car (VF 1780) off ?? 90
Southwell Road, Norwich, for £15.00
1961:- 4th
October, Son Russell John Smith was married
to Madge Brend
Marriage Cert D7 212900, No 173
Russell John Smith, age 41, Bachelor, Lorry
Driver, Quaker House, Mattishall
Madge Brend, age 46, Widow, Clerk, 67 Norwich
Street, Dereham
Father, Charles Herbert Smith, Agricultural
Engineer.
Father, Frederick Bertram Earl, Farmer.
Witnesses; Charles H Smith, Charlie Earl
1964:- Retired
after 57 years with A. J. Farrows.
1975:- Jun
3rd - Charles Herbert Smith died
1975: Aug 5th - Probate - £18204
About:- Russell Smith 1919 -
2009 - (89 years)
Russell Smith of Welgate Close,
Mattishall – died in the Norfolk &
Norwich University Hospital on 9th September
following a car accident.
‘Russell was Mattishall’
and Mattishall was everything to Russell.
He was born in Mattishall on
the 29th October 1919, the only child of Charles
Herbert Smith and Lilian Jemima (Horne). They
lived at the Quaker’s House, Dereham Road,
Mattishall.
Russell attended the Mattishall
village school, and was a popular pupil he was
also a member of the school and village football
teams.
On leaving school Russell followed
in his father’s footsteps and worked for
A. J. Farrow of Mattishall, who's business was
'Motor Transport and Threshing Contractors'
the villages largest ever employer, (information
on Farrow's can be found on the Mattishall village
website under the HISTORY section). Starting
in 1937 until 1953 when Mr. Farrow died and
the business was taken over by Walpole’s,
Russell continued to be a loyal employee until
his retirement in 1984.
Russell married Madge Brend
4th October 1961, daughter of Fred Earl (landlord
of the Swan public house Mattishall). He thought
the world of Madge’s daughter (from her
first marriage) Gillian, and was always talking
about her family. Madge and Russell were both
very active within the village and when Madge
died in 1997 he found it difficult to stay at
home on his own. He soon became one of Mattishall’s
best known, respected and loved village characters.
Russell attended almost every
event and meeting within the village, he was
a member of most of Mattishall’s clubs,
he would support everything in the village that
he could, and his letters would often appear
in the Dereham & Fakenham Times and EDP
voicing his opinion on various local topics,
he was once a guest on Radio Norfolk.
If you wanted to know anything
about this area or Mattishall’s past he
was the ‘oracle’ he could not only
give you facts but he would embroider the enquiry
with many a story. He had a remarkable memory.
The stories would often be told with a little
twinkle in his eye and a nudge, nudge, wink,
wink! On many occasion he would pull open his
little old suitcase and present an old picture
or newspaper cutting to back it up.
My own personal relationship
with Russell could fill many pages but his enthusiasm
for village matters and local history was the
inspiration behind me starting the Mattishall
Village Website, to which he contributed many
hours.
He had a real dry Norfolk wit
– One of his neighbours told me that after
attending a recent funeral of a village shopkeeper
(the day before his accident) he said “I
think I’m going to be next” to which
he replied ‘What makes you say that’
“cause the undertaker kept looking me
up and down, I think he was measuring me up!”
He would attend every funeral
in the village to pay his respects and more
and more times recently saying ‘goodbye’
to old friends.
Russell was very proud of the
fact that his Great Grandfather William Horne
bought the decommissioned Duke of Edinburgh
public house (now known as Edinburgh House)
in 1896 and went on to sell the front of his
property to the Methodists so they could build
a church in 1900. His Aunt Emily Horne also
gave some land so they could build a stable
(now the church rooms). It is very suiting that
this church is where his Thanksgiving Service
was held and wherever he is Russell will have
that sideways smile and twinkle in his eye pleased
by the recognition of his family connections
with the building and such goings on.
This Thanksgiving Service on
the 22nd September will be the first funeral
service in the village that he has missed for
a long time but a lot of people were there to
say goodbye to an old friend.
He will be greatly missed.
Ray Taylor |