INGHAM - Norfolk

The village of Ingham (Saxon terms Ing: People Ham: Village) is in the area of England known as East Anglia, in the county of Norfolk.
It lies, a few miles inland from the North Sea and at the northern extremity of the Norfolk Broads.

On this page you will find both information about the history of Ingham and the families that have lived there over the centuries and links to other sites with useful or relevant information for anyone researching the village.
My own g-g-g-grandfather, Jonathan STOREY, was born in Ingham in 1825, the son of a husbandman named William STOREY and his wife, Susannah RICE.

The Swan Inn, built in the 14th Century and originally part of Ingham Priory until it's destruction under Henry VIII in the 16th Century.

Holy Trinity church which dates back to the 11th Century (rebuilt in the 14th Century and restored in 1876)

HISTORY,
GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY
OF
NORFOLK
BY WILLIAM WHITE
1845
HAPPING HUNDRED

INGHAM, 2 miles E. of Stalham, 9 miles S.E. byE. of North Walsham, and 16 miles N.E. by N. of Norwich, is a scattered, but pleasant village wih several neat houses, occupied by the owners. Its parish has 509 inhabitants and 1503A., of which 1000 are arable. A large stock fair is held here on Trinity Monday. Rt. Fras. Whaites, Esq., who resides at the Hall, is the principal owner and lord of the manor which was successively held by the Inghams, Stapletons, Calthorpes, and Johnsons. The Church (Holy Trinity,) is a large and handsome Gothic fabrick, with several antique monuments, two of which have the effigies of Sir Oliver de Ingham and Roger le Bois, the former of whom rebuilt the Church in 1360, and annexed to it the College, which he had founded here for a prior, a sacrist, and six canons of the Order of Trinity and St. Victor, for the redemption of captives from Turkey. This College adjoined the north side of the Church, where some of the ruins still remain. Its revenues were valued at the dissolution at Ł74. 2s. 7d. The founder, Oliver de Ingham, was a valiant knight, and a great favourite of Edward II., who made him governor of several castles, seneschal of Gascoigne, and lord warden of the marches of Guienne, at which time he had raised a large army, and recovered the country of Agnois. Previous to its being made collegiate, the Church was a rectory; but it is now a curacy, certified at Ł28, and augmented in 1810, '17, and '20, with Ł600 of Q.A.B., all vested in land, except Ł89. 6s. 1d. still at interest. The Rev. Edward Wymer, B.A., is the incumbent, and the Bishop of Norwich is patron, and also appropriator of the tithes, which are leased to J. Sewell and J. J. Blake, Esqrs., and have recently been commuted for Ł471. 15s. per annum. The late Bishop augmented the curacy with the value of eight quarters of wheat yearly. Here is a Baptist Chapel. The Poor's Land comprises 2A., given by one Durrant and 1R. 14P., awarded at the enclosure, let for Ł5. 5s. The Fuel Allotment, awarded at the enclosure, in 1812, is 17A. 2R. 28P., let for Ł24. 6d. The poor have also the interest of Ł51. 10s., of which Ł36. 10s. arose from the sale of an old poor-house.

Ames John, wheelwright Priest Charles, relieving officer

Batchelor Martin, shoemaker Venimore Rev. Jas. (Baptist min.)

Beck Wm. blacksmith Whaites Rt. F. & J. Esqrs., Hall

Clements Wm. tailor and shopkpr. Wymer Rev. Edw., B.A., incumbt.

Cork John, shoemaker FARMERS. (* are owners.)

Lack Wm. vict. Swan * Harvey John || * Lusher John

Long John, bricklayer Lack Wm. || Pilgrim Postle

Matthews Geo. miller and farmer Wm. Lack's Omnibus to Norwich,

Oakley John, master mariner Wed. and Sat. 7 morning

Postle John, gentleman

Ingham - County Series c1891
Click on an area to enlarge

Extract from a report by the Norfolk Records Committee
Annual Report 1999-2000
Accessions
244 deposits, gifts or purchases of documents were made during the year. Among them was a Broadland swan roll, c.1500, consisting of five detached parchment membranes with 99 outline drawings of swans' heads, showing marks of ownership and owners’ names, purchased for Ł34,870. The purchase price was met from grant aid from the V and A Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, Norwich Town Close Estate Charity, the proceeds of a public appeal, and with the assistance of the Norfolk Record Society. The appeal also resulted in the deposit of a copy of a related early Norfolk swan roll made by the Revd Edward Wymer, vicar of Ingham, in 1837.

Extracts from:- Amoryus and Cleopes
Edited by Stephen F. Page
Originally Published in Amoryus and Cleopes
Kalamazoo, Michigan: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1999

The late medieval poem Amoryus and Cleopes, written by John Metham in 1449, survives in a single manuscript, Princeton University Library's MS Garrett 141.
Metham's patrons, fortunately, are well documented in historical records. Sir Miles Stapleton (d. 1466) was one of the leading men of Norfolk during the middle part of the fifteenth century. 4 In 1427 he was appointed to care for the signal beacons in Norfolk to warn of French invasions during the Hundred Years' War. He later served in France, having license from the French for safe passage to transport prisoners for ransom in 1436-37 and again in 1441. In 1440 he was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the next year he was Knight of the Shire and summoned to Parliament and to attend the King's Council. He again served as member of Parliament in 1448 and 1450. In addition, he was appointed by the King to serve on a number of commissions to raise funds and muster troops in Norfolk and Suffolk for the English war effort. He was also appointed to help maintain a local militia to resist any seaborn attack by the French, and served on numerous Commissions of the Peace to investigate lawlessness and to bring to justice wrongdoers in Norfolk.
Sir Miles married twice, first to Elizabeth Felbrigge, who died without bearing children, and second, to Katherine de la Pole, who bore two daughters as heirs. The first wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge (1368-1442), and, like Stapleton himself, a prominent landowner, frequently involved in public affairs and also in foreign campaigns. Katherine de la Pole, Metham's patron whom he praises at the end of the poem, was the daughter of Sir Thomas de la Pole, uncle of one of the great magnates, William, Duke of Suffolk, oldest son of Michael de la Pole, the Earl of Suffolk.
The Stapletons of Ingham represent a southern branch of an aristocratic family that had, like Metham - and about which I will say more shortly - originally come from Yorkshire. 5 The great grandfather of our poet's patron, another Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorkshire (d. 1364), had an illustrious career in the wars in France, participating in the great English victory at Crécy, and was one of the original Knights of the Garter. 6 His second marriage was to the daughter and sole heir of Sir Oliver Ingham, Joan, who brought a considerable Norfolk estate into the Yorkshire family. Their eldest son was also Sir Miles (d. 1419), who married the niece of Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. Their heir, Sir Brian (c. 1379-1438), married the daughter of William, Lord Bardolf, who became Sheriff of Norfolk. Brian was taken prisoner in the French wars, and ransomed, in part, by war-rich neighbor Sir John Fastolf of Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Given the propensity of aristocratic and gentry families to arrange marriages with local families with whom they had similar landed interests, it not surprising that the Yorkshire families of the Methams and the Stapletons had ties of kinship. Elizabeth, the second cousin of the Garter Knight Sir Miles Stapleton, married Sir Thomas Metham III in 1370; their heir is Sir Alexander Metham, mentioned above, perhaps the grandfather of the poet. As a consequence of this marriage, a considerable amount of land that had been in the Stapleton family came into possession of the Metham family. What then seems probable concerning the relation of the two families and the poet John Metham is that after he attended Cambridge, he sought employment with his relatives in Norfolk, and joined the Stapleton retinue where he may have had administrative duties in the household or perhaps in the attached Trinitarian Priory founded in 1360 by the Stapleton family. In the concluding envoy of Amoryus and Cleopes, Metham encourages the reader to seek his four other major works - all now lost - to find biographical encomia about his patrons, Sir Miles and Lady Katherine. He then proposes to continue to write about Miles Stapleton's many heroic deeds. Both his previous writings and the prediction, or perhaps supplication, suggest that Metham had been regularly compensated by the family. We may speculate that Metham was either a sometime-poet living in Norwich, or perhaps, more likely, a member of the Stapleton retinue, perhaps the family secretary.
LINKS
GENUKI pages:
White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883
GENUKI Full Contents for England

The village of Ingham (Saxon terms Ing: People Ham: Village) is in the area of England known as East Anglia, in the county of Norfolk. It lies, a few miles inland from the North Sea and at the northern extremity of the Norfolk Broads.
On this page you will find both information about the history of Ingham and the families that have lived there over the centuries and links to other sites with useful or relevant information for anyone researching the village. My own g-g-g-grandfather, Jonathan STOREY, was born in Ingham in 1825, the son of a husbandman named William STOREY and his wife, Susannah RICE.



	The Swan Inn, built in the 14th Century and originally part of Ingham Priory until it's destruction under Henry VIII in the 16th Century.

	Holy Trinity church which dates back to the 11th Century (rebuilt in the 14th Century and restored in 1876)

HISTORY, GAZETTEER, AND DIRECTORY OF NORFOLK BY WILLIAM WHITE 1845 HAPPING HUNDRED INGHAM, 2 miles E. of Stalham, 9 miles S.E. byE. of North Walsham, and 16 miles N.E. by N. of Norwich, is a scattered, but pleasant village wih several neat houses, occupied by the owners. Its parish has 509 inhabitants and 1503A., of which 1000 are arable. A large stock fair is held here on Trinity Monday. Rt. Fras. Whaites, Esq., who resides at the Hall, is the principal owner and lord of the manor which was successively held by the Inghams, Stapletons, Calthorpes, and Johnsons. The Church (Holy Trinity,) is a large and handsome Gothic fabrick, with several antique monuments, two of which have the effigies of Sir Oliver de Ingham and Roger le Bois, the former of whom rebuilt the Church in 1360, and annexed to it the College, which he had founded here for a prior, a sacrist, and six canons of the Order of Trinity and St. Victor, for the redemption of captives from Turkey. This College adjoined the north side of the Church, where some of the ruins still remain. Its revenues were valued at the dissolution at Ł74. 2s. 7d. The founder, Oliver de Ingham, was a valiant knight, and a great favourite of Edward II., who made him governor of several castles, seneschal of Gascoigne, and lord warden of the marches of Guienne, at which time he had raised a large army, and recovered the country of Agnois. Previous to its being made collegiate, the Church was a rectory; but it is now a curacy, certified at Ł28, and augmented in 1810, '17, and '20, with Ł600 of Q.A.B., all vested in land, except Ł89. 6s. 1d. still at interest. The Rev. Edward Wymer, B.A., is the incumbent, and the Bishop of Norwich is patron, and also appropriator of the tithes, which are leased to J. Sewell and J. J. Blake, Esqrs., and have recently been commuted for Ł471. 15s. per annum. The late Bishop augmented the curacy with the value of eight quarters of wheat yearly. Here is a Baptist Chapel. The Poor's Land comprises 2A., given by one Durrant and 1R. 14P., awarded at the enclosure, let for Ł5. 5s. The Fuel Allotment, awarded at the enclosure, in 1812, is 17A. 2R. 28P., let for Ł24. 6d. The poor have also the interest of Ł51. 10s., of which Ł36. 10s. arose from the sale of an old poor-house.
Ames John, wheelwright	Priest Charles, relieving officer
Batchelor Martin, shoemaker	Venimore Rev. Jas. (Baptist min.)
Beck Wm. blacksmith	Whaites Rt. F. & J. Esqrs., Hall
Clements Wm. tailor and shopkpr.	Wymer Rev. Edw., B.A., incumbt.
Cork John, shoemaker	FARMERS. (* are owners.)
Lack Wm. vict. Swan	* Harvey John \|\| * Lusher John
Long John, bricklayer	Lack Wm. \|\| Pilgrim Postle
Matthews Geo. miller and farmer	Wm. Lack's Omnibus to Norwich,
Oakley John, master mariner	Wed. and Sat. 7 morning
Postle John, gentleman
Ingham - County Series c1891 Click on an area to enlarge
Extract from a report by the Norfolk Records Committee Annual Report 1999-2000 Accessions 244 deposits, gifts or purchases of documents were made during the year. Among them was a Broadland swan roll, c.1500, consisting of five detached parchment membranes with 99 outline drawings of swans' heads, showing marks of ownership and owners’ names, purchased for Ł34,870. The purchase price was met from grant aid from the V and A Purchase Grant Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, Norwich Town Close Estate Charity, the proceeds of a public appeal, and with the assistance of the Norfolk Record Society. The appeal also resulted in the deposit of a copy of a related early Norfolk swan roll made by the Revd Edward Wymer, vicar of Ingham, in 1837.
Extracts from:- Amoryus and Cleopes Edited by Stephen F. Page Originally Published in Amoryus and Cleopes Kalamazoo, Michigan: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1999 The late medieval poem Amoryus and Cleopes, written by John Metham in 1449, survives in a single manuscript, Princeton University Library's MS Garrett 141. Metham's patrons, fortunately, are well documented in historical records. Sir Miles Stapleton (d. 1466) was one of the leading men of Norfolk during the middle part of the fifteenth century. 4 In 1427 he was appointed to care for the signal beacons in Norfolk to warn of French invasions during the Hundred Years' War. He later served in France, having license from the French for safe passage to transport prisoners for ransom in 1436-37 and again in 1441. In 1440 he was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, and the next year he was Knight of the Shire and summoned to Parliament and to attend the King's Council. He again served as member of Parliament in 1448 and 1450. In addition, he was appointed by the King to serve on a number of commissions to raise funds and muster troops in Norfolk and Suffolk for the English war effort. He was also appointed to help maintain a local militia to resist any seaborn attack by the French, and served on numerous Commissions of the Peace to investigate lawlessness and to bring to justice wrongdoers in Norfolk. Sir Miles married twice, first to Elizabeth Felbrigge, who died without bearing children, and second, to Katherine de la Pole, who bore two daughters as heirs. The first wife, Elizabeth, was the daughter of Sir Simon Felbrigge (1368-1442), and, like Stapleton himself, a prominent landowner, frequently involved in public affairs and also in foreign campaigns. Katherine de la Pole, Metham's patron whom he praises at the end of the poem, was the daughter of Sir Thomas de la Pole, uncle of one of the great magnates, William, Duke of Suffolk, oldest son of Michael de la Pole, the Earl of Suffolk. The Stapletons of Ingham represent a southern branch of an aristocratic family that had, like Metham - and about which I will say more shortly - originally come from Yorkshire. 5 The great grandfather of our poet's patron, another Sir Miles Stapleton of Bedale, Yorkshire (d. 1364), had an illustrious career in the wars in France, participating in the great English victory at Crécy, and was one of the original Knights of the Garter. 6 His second marriage was to the daughter and sole heir of Sir Oliver Ingham, Joan, who brought a considerable Norfolk estate into the Yorkshire family. Their eldest son was also Sir Miles (d. 1419), who married the niece of Robert Ufford, Earl of Suffolk. Their heir, Sir Brian (c. 1379-1438), married the daughter of William, Lord Bardolf, who became Sheriff of Norfolk. Brian was taken prisoner in the French wars, and ransomed, in part, by war-rich neighbor Sir John Fastolf of Yarmouth, Norfolk. Given the propensity of aristocratic and gentry families to arrange marriages with local families with whom they had similar landed interests, it not surprising that the Yorkshire families of the Methams and the Stapletons had ties of kinship. Elizabeth, the second cousin of the Garter Knight Sir Miles Stapleton, married Sir Thomas Metham III in 1370; their heir is Sir Alexander Metham, mentioned above, perhaps the grandfather of the poet. As a consequence of this marriage, a considerable amount of land that had been in the Stapleton family came into possession of the Metham family. What then seems probable concerning the relation of the two families and the poet John Metham is that after he attended Cambridge, he sought employment with his relatives in Norfolk, and joined the Stapleton retinue where he may have had administrative duties in the household or perhaps in the attached Trinitarian Priory founded in 1360 by the Stapleton family. In the concluding envoy of Amoryus and Cleopes, Metham encourages the reader to seek his four other major works - all now lost - to find biographical encomia about his patrons, Sir Miles and Lady Katherine. He then proposes to continue to write about Miles Stapleton's many heroic deeds. Both his previous writings and the prediction, or perhaps supplication, suggest that Metham had been regularly compensated by the family. We may speculate that Metham was either a sometime-poet living in Norwich, or perhaps, more likely, a member of the Stapleton retinue, perhaps the family secretary. LINKS GENUKI pages: White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Norfolk 1883 GENUKI Full Contents for England