We have already had some valuable contributions to the project, but we would welcome more, especially documents and photographs of historical significance, recollections and anecdotes, and other potential sources of information.
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Colonel Samuel Venner, Elizabeth Venner and John Potter - 7.3.2009
Colonel Samuel Venner died 13th September 1712 and is buried in the nave at Barton Turf Church with his wife Elizabeth who died 9th May 1723. Their daughter Elizabeth married John Potter who was Professor of Divinity in Oxford, afterwards Bishop of Oxford, and lastly, Archbishop of Canterbury and Chaplain to the Queen. Elizabeth appears to have died in 1744 and John in 1747. Their son John was born in 1713. We have been asked for help in tracing their marriage which probably took place in 1709, possibly at Christ Church Oxford or at Cuddesden near Oxford.
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“Barton Turf Rectory” - 22.2.2009
We have received a request for information about Barton Turf Rectory. Our own knowledge and research is summarised below:
The Vicarage at Barton Turf was built in 1884-5 and is located close to Barton Turf Parish Church.
White's Directory, 1890, records:
A handsome new Vicarage House was erected near the church, 1884-5, at a cost of £1,600.
The Barton Church Terrier for 1967 records that it was sold on 19th August 1954 to Mrs B M Burgess for £1,850.
Before 1884-5 the rectory was at Irstead. The building which is close to Gay's Staithe, later became the Barton Angler hotel and is now a private house called the Old Rectory.
White's Directory, 1854, includes the following for Barton Turf:
The Church, dedicated to St Michael is a handsome structure with a lofty tower and three bells, and the living is a discharged vicarage, valued in the King’s book at £5 6s. 8d., and in 1831 at £379, with the rectory of Irstead annexed to it. The Rev. John Gunn, M.A. is the incumbent, and the Bishop of Norwich, patron.
Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848, includes the following for Barton Turf:
The living is a discharged vicarage, united to the rectory of Irstead, in the archdeaconry of Norfolk, and diocese of Norwich, rated in the king's books at £3. 13. 4.
William Gunn, vicar of Barton Turf from 1786 to 1829, lived there, as did his son John Gunn, vicar from 1829 to 1869.
There is a reference to Irstead Rectory in the National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives in the lands belonging to the Bishop of Norwich 1647-1656.
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Salmon(s) and Salmon-Cox Family - 31.8.2009
We have had an enquiry from descendants of Harry Salmons who was born in Barton Turf around 1887. They recently visited Barton Turf in search of information relating to the Salmon(s) and Salmon-Cox family and would like to hear from anyone who knows of any Salmon(s) descendants.
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