Stuston

STUSTON, (or Sturston), a parish in the hundred of Hartismere, county Suffolk, 1½ mile SE of Diss railway station, and 2½ miles N of Eye. Scole is its post town. The village is situated near the river Waveney, on the road from London to Norwich by Bury St Edmund’s. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich, value £209. The church, dedicated to All Saints, contains a monument to John Castleton and family, and one to Mr and Mrs Clarke. The parochial charities produce about £1 per annum. Sir E C Kerrison, Bart, is lord of the manors of Boylands and Facons.

The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland 1868

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1753
From this time to 1756 the Reverend Mr Oldfield enterd nothing in this register as it appeard to J Pawsey who succeeded him in this rectory

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December 15 1769 the east End of the Chancel at Eye fell down and was rebuilt again in the spring 1770
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memorandum – the bridge at Scole was rebuilt in October 1763 one half at the xpence of the parish of Scole the other at the xpence of Lord Cornwallis
In the year 1780 in the months of July and August the Old Hall at Sturston was pulled down and the foundation of a new house was laid upon the 14th of August of the same year
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In the beginning of May 1771 a bricked grave was made in under the Rector’s Sear in the chancel seven feet square in which Mrs Mary Deye relict of Thomas Deye esquire late of Eye in the county of Suffolk and daughter of the Reverend John Malyn late Rector of Occold and sister to Amy the wife of James Pawset the present Rector of this parish was buried upon the fourth of May 1771
Upon the 28th of October 1775 Amy Pawsey wife of the Reverend James Pawsey was buried in the same grave
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On entering this living I found the church in a most wretched state internally and externally and the church yard thoroughly neglected. The Rectory House outhouses and yard buildings as unsubstantial and comfortless as possible. The house yard and back buildings were in so foul a state that I pulled them entirely down and rebuilt them in September 1860
The church was made decent by me in May 1860
In September 1860 30 large and small bibles and 80 prayer books of different types were provided for the church by the Rector
In Oct 1860 a weather cock was placed on the tower at which time the height of the tower was found to be

Stuston Baptisms FBA 125-D-1 1630-1753

Stuston Baptisms FBA 125-D-2 1756-1783

Stuston Baptisms FBA 125-D-5 1784-1812

Stuston Marriages FBA 125-D-1 1630-1749

Stuston Marriages FBA 125-D-3 and FBA 125-D-4 and FBA 125-D-6 1757-1812

Stuston Marriages FBA 125-D-7 1814-1851

Stuston Burials FBA 125-D-1 1630-1756

Stuston Burials FBA 125-D-2 1756-1783

Stuston Burials FBA 125-D-5 1784-1812

Further registers for Stuston are included in the FreeREG database.