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104-108 Needham Market High Street.
Once this was one of the blacksmith shops in Needham Market.
Joseph Colchester G6 married Elizabeth Tydeman who was the sixth child of Martin and Elizabeth Tydeman. The house originally consisted of the whole row of cottages, but it was divided up subsequently.
68-70 Needham Market High Street formerly Waterloo House.
Samuel Colchester (1776-1844) G12 lived above a shop on this site after his marriage to Elizabeth Soundy when it was a grocery shop – Elizabeth’s first husband was a grocer. Their son Samuel Hare Colchester H1 advertised for a job as a draper from this shop, the last record of a Colchester living in Needham Market or Barking.
Ruffles Farm.
Samuel Colchester G1 married Mary RUFFELL in 1743, the daughter of Samuel Ruffell yeoman of Needham Market.
Barclays Bank, formerly Alexanders Bank.
Alexanders Bank founded in Needham Market in 1744 and is the oldest branch of Barclays Bank. Thomas Colchester G8, was a clerk here when he was robbed of £31,199 in 1822. His brother Benjamin COLCHESTER G9 had also been a clerk in the bank, leaving it to make his fortune in Ipswich. Benjamin’s son Henry S1 also worked for the bank, but probably in Ipswich.
Benjamin Colchester 1759-1826.
This is a damaged copy of a miniature portrait now with Kitty Colchester.
And Deborah Colchester nee DEATH 1761-1850 his wife.
This is the earliest known photograph of any member of the family; the original is a Daguerreotype.
Edmund Colchester G34 (1810-1857), surgeon at the East Suffolk Hospital
Emily Colchester (1824-1885) G34 nee Dobson, Charles Edward & Cecil
Emily Jane Esther Colchester G44 (1856-1945)
Charles Bye Colchester, who on bankruptcy fled to Cannes
Hester Colchester nee Gwynne (1815-1871)
Clara nee Sutton & Charles Edward Colchester in Hamburg
St Peter St Ipswich with St Peter’s church in the background.
Benjamin Colchester G9 (1759-1826) owned various properties in St Peter St, living in one which was referred to in GR Clarke's History of Ipswich, 1830. Charles Bye Colchester G36 (1815-1871) lived in Benjamin's old house in St Peter St and had a soap making business there.
A courtyard house in St Peter St, Ipswich. Perhaps this was where Benjamin G9 boiled up his soap.