- ANDERSON Rev Robert Gerard-vicar of Walcot.-Market Place
- ANNIS Edwd- stonemason & builder
- BAILEY Mrs Susannah- Market Place
- BAKER Anthony - tailor
- BARBER William -baker & flour dealer- Market Place
- BRITTAIN Edward -butcher -Market Pl
- CARR George- gas manager
- CASSWELL Ann & son -farmers- Low farm
- CASSWELL John Henry -farmer -Laughton
- CASSWELL Henry [A. & son]
- CHAMBERS John - farmer -manor Ho
- CLIFTON and STEPNEY -grocers & drapers -Market Place
- CLIFTON Thomas [C & Stepney] h Market Place
- COOKSON Miss Eliza Catherine
- DEBNEY Francis -miller
- DRAYCOTT John -cattle dealer -Marker Place
- DRAYCOTT Matthew -cattle dealer
- DREWERY Thomas -vermin destroyer -Laughton
- CARR Geo -mangr Gas & Coke Co
- GEORGE Robert -baker & confectioner -Market Place
- GREWCOCK George.M.D. -surgeon -Market Place
- GRUMMITT Edward John -farmer -brewer & vict -Greyhound -Market Place
- HAMMER William Jeremiah -ironmonger,smith & organist -Mrkt Place
- HARMSTON William- sexton
- HANDLEY John -boot &shoe maker, Market Place
- HAVERCROFT Henry -police constable
- HIGGINS James -governor- House of Correction
- HIGGINS Mrs Emma -matron -House of Correction
- HILL Mrs Catherine -shopkeeper
- HOLMES Henry -farmer& vict -Five Bells
- HOLMES James -beerhouse & carrier
- HOWITT Richard -carpenter
- KELHAM William -boot & shoe maker, parish clerk
- MILLAR William -boot & shoe maker, Market Place
- MACKLAND John -postmaster, Market Place
- MITCHELL Hy -brewer & wine/spirit merch & insurance agent
- MITCHELL Thomas -maltster
- MOODY Thomas -plumber & glazier
- OWEN John -farmer, Market Place
- PAULING Mrs Susannah -schoolmistress
- PICKETT Robert -farmer
- PICKWELL William -baker
- PILE David -market gardener
- PULLEN Mrs Mary -dyer
- RASTALL George -wool dealer, Market Place
- RASTALL William -wool buyer & spirit agent, Market Place
- ROBINSON Rd -farmer, Laughton Ldg
- ROSE John -savings bank actuary, schoolmaster[Endowed School] Etc
- ROSE Miss Rebecca -boarding & day school
- ROLLISON Frdk -farmer Laughton hs
- SENSICLE Robert -wheelwright & vict Red Lion, Market Place
- SHEPHERD Miss Mary -Market Place
- SHIELDS Miss Alice -shopkeeper
- SMITH Mrs Sarah -Market Place
- SIMPSON James -plumber, glazier & painter, Market Place
- SMITH Rev William Wilton, curate of Lenton,Market Place
- STEPNEY Frederick Jas -grocer &c, Market Place
- STREDDAR Robert -carter
- SUMNER William -shopkeeper
- SUMNERS Mary Turner & son, farmers & graziers
- SYSON Thomas -land agent & steward, West Cottage
- TORRINGTON Mrs Amy
- VYE James -bookseller, stationer & chemist, Market Place
- WATSON Thomas -grocer, draper, tallow chandler, ins agent, Market Place
- WILLIAMSON Edward -butcher
- WILSON Benedict Geo -excise officer
- WISEMAN Mrs Elizabeth
- WISEMAN Henry -watch & clock maker, optician
- WYER Daniel -farmer
- WYER Daniel, jun -MRCVSL, veterinary surgeon, Elm Walk
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Whites Directory of 1872 for Folkingham
Folkingham or Falkingham, is a small but ancient and well-built market town, is pleasantly situated on the Lincoln and London road, on the southern acclivity of a picturesque valley, 3 miles West of Billingborough Railway station on the bourn and Sleaford branch of the Great Northern system, 9 miles north of Bourn and south of Sleaford, and 12 miles east by south of Grantham. It is in Bourn Union and County Court district. It has a small rivulet on the north, and ascending grounds on the south. Its parish contains 696 souls and 1861 acres of land. The manor was given by William the Conqueror to Gilbert de Gaunt, together with 112 other lordships in Lincolnshire, and 41 in other counties. Gilbert made Falkingham his principal seat, and the head of his great barony, which one of his descendants [dying without issue] bequeathed to Edward 1, who granted it to Henry de Bellamonte or Beaumont, who was usually styled " Consanguineus Regis". The manor remained with the Bellomontes till thereign of Henry V11, when it passed to the Duke of Norfolk, but being forfeited on the attainder of Thomas, the ninth duke, it was granted by Edward V1 [in exchange] to the Clinton family. The Rev ThomasHeathcote is now lord of the manor, which has long been held by his relations. Several smaller proprieters have estates in the parish. The Castle stood on the site of the House of Correction, which was built here for the Parts of Kesteven in 1808 and considerably enlarged and improved in 1825, when a treadmill was erected. Twenrt new cells were added in 1849, a west wing in 1852, and 36 additional cells in 1858. The castle was built soon after the Norman conquest, and is said to have been destroyed during the civil wars in the reign of Charles 1, though it was certainly dilapidated and neglected long before that period. Scarcely any vestige of it now remains, except the inner moat, and some faint traces of the outer one, which enclosed an area of about ten acres, near which is a small entrenched enclosure, which has evidently been intended as an advanced work to secure water for the use of the garrison. Many large stones and other remains of the castle were dug up about 1836, and in 1813 a stone gutter, about three feet square was discovered. several brass and copper coins have been found at various periods. In the town and neighbourhood are many excellent springs; and one of them, called Swallow Pit is said to beinfluenced by the Trent, as it rises only during the land floods and high tides of that river, from which it is distant more than 25 miles. In a meadow, west of the town, are two burrows, or tumuli, on one of which a mill appears to have stood. The market is held on Thursday, but is of trifling consequence. Here are five fairs for cattle and merchandise, on Ash-Wednesday, Palm-Monday, May 12th and 13th, and last Friday in September, and November 22nd. The church is a large structure in the perpendicular style, with a handsome tower, containing five bells, and crowned by a rich battlement and eight pinnacles. An elegant screen of Gothic fret-work seperates the nave and chancel; and in the southwall of the latter are three stone stalls and a piscina. The church was thoroughly restored in 1870 at anexpense of £700. The organ was given in 1848, when three of the bells were re-cast. This church was in the appropriation of Sempringham Abbey. The rectory was valued in K.B. at £18, and in 1835 at £532, with the viacrage of Laughton annexed to it. The Rev Thomas Heathcote is the patron, and the Rev george Carter L.L.B. is the incumbent and has a yearly rent-charge of £481 from Falkingham, and £91-5s-6d from Laughton. The Rev F.W.H.Courtier is the curate. The Wesleyans have a neat chapel here, built in 1841, in lieu of their old meeting house. The Free School was founded by Richard Brocklesby, who endowed it in 1713, with one moiety of the rent of 50 acres of land at Pidley, in Huntingdonshire, where he endowed a school with the other moiety. The land is now let for £50 per annum. The founder also left a house at Stamford to provide clothing for the poor scholars, but it was sold for £50. In 1710 PeterRichier and Mary his wife augmented the schoolmasters salary with a yearly rent-charge of £10, out of land at Pointon. Thomas Arpe gave to the poor of Falkingham £50 to which the Rev Lot Mael added £20, and laid the whole out in the purchase of 14 acres of land at Osbournby, to which 10 acres were awarded out of the enclosure. This property is now let for "27 per annum, which is distributed at Christmas among the poor parishioners in sums varying from 2s-6d to 12s. The town is lighted withgas from works established in 1863 by the falkingham Gas Light Company. There are in the town two Friendly Societies, a Lodge of Foresters and a savings bank. The latter was established in 1818 and has now deposits amounting to about £18,500. It is open at the Greyhound Inn every Thursday from 12 to 1 o'clock. A court of requests, for the recovery of debts under £15, in falkingham and many ofthe surrounding parishes, was formerly held here every month, but has given place to the County Court held at Bourn.
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