Rosa Holden

  General Notes:

[Holden.GED]

Written by Joan Peck, great niece

Aunt Rose was born in1866 and the youngest child , she died in Rattlesden in the early 1950's and is buried at Wetherden Chapel. She is the great Aunt I saw most of all and really know comparatively little about.
She married Harry Bannister who was younger than her and there were no children. The family always queried why she married him and thought she was afraid of being left on the shelf. He was a dealer and tenant farmer,a very uncouth man. He was a strict Baptist Harry was born at "Little London" Wetherden in 1879 and his father is given as an agricultural labourer I always thought Harry farmed Little London but perhaps that was in later years, I may be wrong.
They farmed Town Farm Stonham, Gelham Hall Wickham Market for Mrs Stanford,and Mutton Hall Wetherden for Mrs Mothersole. I don't remember them at Gelham but they were at Mutton Hall in the 1920's where I remember them until about the age of five, I suppose about 1933 and I imagine the bad farming years made them give up. They were living at Rattlesden before the war in a cottage opposite what was then the shop and immediately adjacent the churchyard walk. He owned a row of three cottages

  Noted events in her life were:

• Alt. Birth: Alt. Birth, 2 Sep 1866, Creeting All Saints, Sfk.

• Alt. Death: Alt. Death, Between 1950 and 1959, Rattlesden, Sfk.

• Alt. Buried: Alt. Buried: Wetherden Chapel, Sfk.

• Census-1901, 30 Mar, 100 High Road, Earl Stonham.

• Census 1871 (Apr 2), 1871, Creeting All Saints, Sfk 4.

• Census 1881 (Apr 3), 1881, Farm House, Creeting All Saints, Sfk 14.

• Census 1891 (Apr 5), 1891, ?.

• Census 1901 (Mar 31), 1901, Earl Stonham, Sfk Um 34 With Mother.

• Lived 1, After 1881, Town Farm Stonham, Sfk.

• Lived 2, After 1881, Gelham Hall, Wickham Mkt, Sfk.

• Lived 3, After 1920, Mutton Hall, Wetherden, Sfk.

• Lived 4, After 1930, Rattlesden.

Rosa married Harry Bannister after 1901. (Harry Bannister was born in 1879 in "Little London", Wetherden, Sfk.)