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Parsonage Farm, Burwell (Religious Houses of Cambs, 1988)Parsonage Farm, Burwell
History of Parsonage Farm
Listed Building
Farmhouse with parlour wing to east of tower-house proportions with attached late medieval barn partly derelict to west. Three building periods; late C16 farmhouse includes the end bay and gable wall of the earlier barn and possibly other medieval fragments in the strange alignment of the parlour wing and service rooms; enclosure of area to east of stair turret and service rooms early to mid C17.
Ramsay abbey had a large estate in the vicinity and they planned a new settlement at the head of Burwell Lode because of the importance of the waterway in the early medieval period. This manor house replaced on on the site of the Castle and dates from the 14th century. The barn may have been used as a public building, perhaps a trading hall.
1861 Parsonage
Thomas T Ball [son of Edward Ball and his first wife, Ann Dunn], 39, merchant’s clerk, b Burwell
May, 36, b Norfolk
Anna M, 11, b Burwell
Edward M, 8, b Burwell
Alfred S, 7, b Burwell
Walter, 6, b Burwell
Ernest F, 4, b Burwell
Thomas L, 2, b Burwell
Emma Arber, 21, servant, cook, b Suffolk
Louisa Carmer, 21, servant, housemaid, b Suffolk
Eliza Bowman, 28, servant, nurse, b Suffolk
1871
Salisbury Ball, 34, farmer of 365 acres employing 11 men, 10 boys, 3 women coprolite digger (36 men 10 boys) miller (2 men 1 boy) landowner 144 acres
Emily, 32, b Yorks
Percy Fielding, 6, b Burwell
James Edward, 5, b Burwell
Julia Ann, 4, b Burwell
Frederick Eustace, 2, b Burwell
Florence Fielding, 1 mos, b Burwell
Ann Marsh, 74, monthly nurse, b Burwell
Mary Elizabeth Harding, 21, cook, b Swaffham Prior
Lucy Marsh, 19, nurse maid, b Bottisham
Zikah Marsh, 16, housemaid, b Burwell
1891
Salisbury Ball, 54, farmer and miller, b Burwell
Emily, 52, b Yorks
Julia A, 24, b Burwell
Florence, 20, b Burwell
Sarah E Brown, 18, b Swaffham Prior
1901 Parsonage Farm
Frederick Ball, 32, farmer ?? overseer collector of taxes, b Burwell
Jessie B, 38, b Scotland
Eustace T, 16 mos, b Burwell
Noel M, 3 mos, b Burwell
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