COMBS

COMBS POST OFFICE
[Thanks to Don Burt for this]

TANNERY

The Tannery is to the right behind the large house. From a postcard dated 1911.

SCHOOL

CHURCH

Early 20th Century - date unknown

An early 19th century drawing of Combs Church by a member of the Longe Family of Spixworth, Coddenham and later of Abbotts Hall, Stowmarket. Robert Longe who later succeeded his father as Vicar of Coddenham was Curate here in the 1830s.

[Photos by permission of Ashley Barnard]

DENNY

The people pictured are -

Samuel DENNY, Thomas Reeve DENNY, Sarah DENNY (nee SPARK), Jonathan DENNY, and (seated) Joseph Addison DENNY

This photograph appears in the 'Denny Genealogy in England and America', by Christopher Columbus DENNY and was taken on the 3rd August 1874 by Stowmarket photographer. A. Bugg. It was taken on the occasion of the visit to the Denny house of Joseph Addison DENNY of Massachusetts. USA. He was a descendent of a member of the Denny family of Combs who went to the USA in the early 1700s. J. A. Denny refers to the visit in his diary - 

"We then walked into the village and called at the Old Homestead where I was introduced to Mr & Mrs Samuel Denny, and Emily and William Denny, grandchildren by their son Thomas, who are living with the old couple. Here also we found Mr Thomas R. Denny who had arrived before us, and our Photographer with his Machine. We soon arranged matters for a front view of the house, with Mr & Mrs Samuel Denny and Thomas, Jona. & myself in the front yard, and afterwards for a view of the backside of the dwelling, with its inmates in and around it - We afterwards took a view of Mr Samuel Denny sitting at a table, on which lay the Family Bible, and the whole being in the walk in front of the front door -

We then took dinner with the family and walked over the farm which contains 116 acres of good land belonging to Mr Thomas R. Denny, and were then joined by Mr Southgate and Mr James Baker who married two daughters of Mr Samuel Denny, and we all visited the old Combs Church and yard.

We all took tea with the family, and after a careful inspection of the Old House, and receiving from the hand of its owner, a goodly number of chips from a cross beam in the bedroom of Mrs Grace Denny, where probably Daniel Denny our first emigrant was born"

The photo and the extract from the diary were kindly sent to me by Geoffrey Woollard

COMBS PUNCHBOWL

Both photos sent to me by Barbara Turnham. 
The middle person in the first photo with the jug is the publican, Barbara's grandfather William Dickerson and the child with him in the horse and cart photo is his first child Maurice Dickerson.

STOWMARKET HISTORY AND HERITAGE
2007
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