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Thanks for making the Revenue Survey information available on this site.

I'm interested to note that in the 1910 survey Emma Partridge owns two properties and occupies 15 Gold Street.

Family story has it that when my grandfather Arthur William Sutton returned from active service at the end of WW1 Miss Partridge was instrumental in "getting them a cottage down Bull Jit" where my father was born in 1923. AW had married Minnie Ruth nee Bissell in 1914 and she and their first child had been living with her parents in New Bradwell whilst AW was away at the front.

Minnie Ruth was a descendant of Sam and Susannah (nee Frost) Bissell and Emma Partridge appears to be the grand-daughter of Elizabeth Brownsell (baptised Elizabeth Frost Bissell in 1828) who married Thomas Brownsell in 1846.

AW and Minnie and their children moved from Buckingham Terrace to one of the newly built council houses in the early 1930s (where she is supposed to have been the first person with an electric cooker in the village, AW being an electrician in The Works).

I'm not clear if Miss Partridge owned the Buckingham Terrace property or just knew the landlord.

I'm interested to know more about "Miss Partridge" if anyone knows anything about her.

Thanks