Scarning Families & People

The internet reaches people that word of mouth never can. In May 2010 people from 23 different countries visited this website.

This is the section for memories to be recorded for posterity. We would love to hear from anybody with memories of Scarning village life to contact us with a view to putting them on this site. If you have any memories, anecdotes or photos please let us know and we may be able to use them to include them here There is an email link at the bottom of this page.

The village has been associated with many famous people including Horatio Nelson’s father who attended the school in Scarning. Click on this link to see who lived in Scarning in 1901 Perhaps you know of or remember someone listed in this census. Perhaps you wondered who lived in your house all those years ago, or maybe you are researching your family tree. If so the following doocuments may be of interest, just click on the images to find out more.

Can you help?

Dale Wiseman is interested in finding out about some of his ancestors who lived and worked in Scarning for about 100 years.The family in question is that of George Cross,his first wife Mary and his second wife Martha Rogers,who lived for a long time at the Carpenters Arms.They lived in Scarning between 1800 and 1900.If anyone has any information or are related please could they contact him at: dale.wiseman@ntlworld.com

Who lived in the village in 1921 and 1945?

Click on the left image below to see the electoral roll for 1921 and the right for 1945

Who died defending the country?

Click on the image below

Click on the image below to see a list of the cottagers, the number of their children and their addresses in 1931. The valuation list dating from 1904 prepared by the Overseers of the Poor which details the owners and occupiers of property in Scarning can be viewed by clicking on the right hand image below:

If there is sufficient interest it would be possible to have sections for families as well as individual people. If you have photographs I can scan them in a form suitable for inclusion with any text you might like to submit.

Please e-mail Richard Allan at mail@scarning.info by clicking the logo below.

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY HEARS REMARKABLE STORIES OF HEROES LIVING IN NORFOLK HOME

Residents of Oak Manor Nursing Home in Norfolk marked Remembrance Day with a look back in time to some of the fantastic achievements of residents by spending the day recounting memories and creating commemorative art work.

Gordon Goodwin is 95 years old and has been at Oak Manor for two years. During the Second World War, Gordon was part of an elite mission that changed the course of history forever. The night before the D-Day landings, Gordon and a small team of soldiers were dropped behind enemy lines in Northern France. Faced with unimaginable danger, the team courageously worked to take out German lines of communication, ensuring the success of the operation and saving countless Allied lives.

Another veteran with a fascinating past is Richard Frost. During The War Richard fought in the invasion of Sicily, code named Operation Husky. The battle was a huge success and helped topple Mussolini from power. Now aged 86, Richard is very active and enjoys many of the activities at the home. As well as painting and singing, Richard has set up his own email account so he can keep in touch with his family in Australia. Richard Frost said, “I love talking about the old days with our Activities Co-ordinator Billy, and reminiscing with other residents. Remembrance Day is such an important occasion and I’m proud to have done my bit.”

Richard Frost

Billy Mckee the Activities Coordinator at Oak Manor Centre said: “Gordon and Richard have had such amazing lives and have done so much. I love hearing about their days in the Army and all the stories they have from that time. The sacrifice they and so many others made during that time is truly amazing and it should never be forgotten.”

Sheila Parker nee Walpole wrote:
Hello, I just wish to say what an interesting web site that has brought such joy to me through your information and old photo's. Many of my ancestors resided in and around Scarning, my father being born there in 1907. Sadly both his parents died 1911& 1916 when he was a small boy and are buried in the Parish Churchyard so the old lovely pictures give me a real insight to what the village was like in their time. The 1918 School picture is a special delight as there is a chance he could be on it!
On the 1921 voters list I found both my Great Grandmothers! Hester Draper and some of her family including Great Uncle Sam who I remember visiting us when I was a little girl. Hester Walpole and two of her sons along with Rachel who I have yet to find if she is a daughter or daughter in law. Also there may be a new connection, when time permits I shall do more research as my father's stepfather was a William Mayes and Arthur and Florence on the list may have been Williams parents?
    Being a bookworm myself I think the old copies of books and records are wonderful and how fortunate they have been kept for future generations.
    The more I look at the school photo 1918 I am convinced the boy (front row right-hand side of the left-hand window) is my father as he would be aged 11 in October of that year and always had a lovely mop of curly hair.
    Dabbling with a little poetry I had written of the joy with earlier Census of finding, via the Internet, both the Grandparents I never knew and now, fortunate enough to being able to view the 1911 Census it has been magical to be able to have record of my father and his parents together for that one and only time with his father dying in July that same year and his mother in 1916.
   How good to see both the old and now renewed twenty-first century Village Hall still in use, a great asset to your village social life.

Scarning School in 1918