(unknown)

Susan Gladwell (1830-1893)

Ellen Louisa Gladwell (1850-1933)

Susan Gladwell¹

Female

William Gladwell (1800?-1884)

Harriett Moye (1804?-1875)

daughter of William Gladwell (labourer) and Harriott of Haughley

aged 11, living with parents and two siblings. Born in Suffolk

servant aged 22 unmarried, a house servant living with Robert Edwards, Martin Edwards (future husband), her daughter and another servant. Born in Haughley Suffolk

wife aged 30 married, living with her husband, three children and two servants. Born in Haughley Suffolk

married wife living with her husband Martin, sons Samuel, Charles, Philip, Spencer and Herbert, and daughter Jane and Eliza. Born in Haughley Suffolk

wife aged 50, living with her husband and three children. Born in Haughley Suffolk

married wife living with her husband Martin, sons William and Herbert, and a servant. Born in Haughley Suffolk

relict of Martin Edwards Gipping

aged 63 of Stonham Aspal, buried with her husband Martin

Ellen Louisa Gladwell^1,19

Female

John Colchester (1848?-1922)

Ellen Louisa Colchester (1851-1933) was born illegitimately as Ellen Louisa Gladwell. Her mother, Susan, was maid to Martin Edwards (and was 20 years his junior) with whom she had an affair. Martin and Susan subsequently married and had a large family. However Ellen Louisa was not brought up by them, but by Martin's childless sister Mary and her husband Jeremiah Jarman and Mary Oxer. Adoption did not exist in those times and she was known as Louisa Gladwell Edwards. She was specifically not left an inheritance after her birth parents death, but was sole beneficiary of Jeremiah Jarman Oxer'sestate after his wife's death

She was married to John (Bonky) COLCHESTER in 1885 in Gipping. John (Bonky)COLCHESTER was born in 1847 in Mendlesham Suffolk, England. He was christened on 5 May 1869 in Mendlesham Suffolk, England. He died in 1922.He was known locally as 'Bonky' at a time when everybody had a nickname.He farmed first with his father at Cherry Tree Farm at Creeting St Mary andthen at Ashes Farm Mendlesham, which his father had purchased a few daysbefore he died. He remained at Cherry Farm until he married Ellen LouisaGladwell from Gipping a few years later when they set up home at Ashes Farm whilst continuing the management of Cherry Tree Farm for his sisters.

This was not a good time to move farm as agriculture was in decline and 1879 was a disastrous year, with rust disease rampant in the wheat crops and falling prices to exacerbate the problem. The outlook was bleak, the farm run-down, the barn derelict and the house in bad repair, a gable end subsequently collapsing. But John survived, although corn had to be stored in sacks in the house for several years running until a new barn erected by the Arbon family from the Green, came in to use in 1891. The £300 it cost was borrowed and still remained unpaid when John died on 1st January 1922 although he had increased the size of the farm by 12 to 101 acres in 1892

.He developed the farm, erecting a four bay barn, raising the granary above the three bays cartlodge, adding a lean-to gighouse and pony stable, and building a stable for the carthorses and installing cow, bullock and coltyards with calfboxes and pig sties to accommodate several sows and a boar.All to compliment the existing nine place thatched nettis (neat house) where the cows were milked, and even this was given a small lean-to known as the engine house, so named because it housed the horse drawn grass clipper

1901 census says born in Wetherden

base born daughter of Susan Gladwell of Haughley

servants daughter aged 12 months as Louisa Gladwell, living with her mother in home of Robert Edwards and Martin Edwards and another servant. Born in Haughley Suffolk

niece aged 11, attending school and living with Jeremiah and Mary Oxer and two servants. Born in Haughley Suffolk

niece aged 20 single as Louisa Oxer, living with Jeremiah and Mary Oxer. Born in Haughley Suffolk

married wife living with her husband John, daughters Beatrice and Ida, son Spencer and a servant. Born in Haughley Suffolk

married wife living with her husband John, son Spencer, and daughters Ida and May. Born in Wetherden Suffolk

married wife living in ten rooms with her husband John, daughters Beatrice, Ida and May, and son Spencer. Born in Haughley Suffolk and married for twenty-five years with four children all of whom are still living

aged 82 years. Wife of John who died 1922

widow of Front Street Mendlesham, effects of £399 12s 2d (~£14,000 in 2005) to Spencer Colchester farmer