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Castle Acre is a village in north-west Norfolk lying four miles north of Swaffham and best known for its impressive castle earthworks and ruined Cluniac priory. Less familiar is the cluster of GOTTS living here over three generations and recorded in registers and Censuses for nearly a century.
Samuel GOTTS, born about 1766 and buried at Castle Acre in 1808, married Ann W(H)ITBY at Castle Acre in 1792. He was living in the neighbouring hamlet of South Acre at the time of his marriage. They had six children baptised at Castle Acre:
Samuel 3347, 1793. No trace beyond baptism
Thomas W(h)itby 3348, 1795 – 1874
George 3349, 1796. No trace beyond baptism
John 3350, 1801 – 1885
William 3351, 1804 – 1881
Martha 3352, 1808 – 1808
Thomas Whitby 3308 Gotts married Frances RAWLIN at Swaffham in 1819. They lived at Swaffham, where 4hey had baptised two sons and one daughter:
Mary Ann, 1822,
William, 1827,
Samuel, 1827
What became of these children is not known; they do not appear on Censuses.
John 3340 married Sarah MONEYMENT at Norwich in 1825. They lived at Castle Acre, where they had baptised one son and two daughters:
Monument, 1827 – 1829
Mary Ann, 1831. She is last found on the 1861 Census as an unmarried field worker living at home.
Sarah Ann, 1835 – 1899. She married Wil
William 3351 served as a lancer for over 24 years, enlisting at Norwich in 1823 and discharged at Dublin in 1847, being unfit for further service. He married Mary Ann HART, possibly in Ireland. Censuses find the family at a Cavalry Barracks in Hamilton (1841), Castle Acre (1851), Thorpe (1861), Poringland (1871) and Heigham (1881). They had four daughters:
Elizabeth, born Dublin about 1837. No trace beyond the 1861 Thorpe Census, when she is an unmarried servant at home.
Emma, born Hamilton about 1842. She married William CROMPTON or CRUMPTON at Norwich in 1867.
Isabella, born Nottingham about 1843. She married Pearson EYRE at some point between 1861 and 1881.
Mary Ann, born Castle Acre in 1850. She married William MARSHAM at Norwich in 1871.
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