David (David) Long & Elizabeth Chapman (Joseph) Ransome ?

Family Group Sheet

NameDavid (David) Long, G Grandson

Birth1 Oct 1800, Cranworth, Norfolk, England

Death1855

Baptism2 Oct 1800, St Mary The Virgin Church, Cranworth, Norfolk, England

Residencebef 1855, Dillington Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, England

OriginOf Cranworth, Norfolk.

Note 1Of Dillington Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk. On his early death in 1855 the estate appears to have been retained by his widow until their daughter Laura took over and brought it in dowry to her marriage with William Devas Everington.

Note 2Did he acquire the Dillington estate through his marriage or as a marriage gift from his family?

Note 3Prior to 1829 he managed Thomas Drake’s farm at Stow Bardolph, near Downham Market, Norfolk, and then married Thomas’s widow.

FlagsDenn, Filby, Long

FatherDavid (David) Long (1750-1818)

MotherMary (Edward) Filby (1762-1815)

Marriage5 Nov 1829, St John The Baptist Church, Morningthorpe, Norfolk, England

SpouseElizabeth Chapman (Joseph) Ransome ?

Birth1800

MemoAccording to the Snow family tree.

Death1891

Baptism21 Mar 1800, St Mary’s Church, Halesworth, Suffolk, England

Residencebef 1855, Dillington Hall, East Dereham, Norfolk, England

OriginBrought up at Lammas (Hautbois/Hautboys), Norfolk

Note 1Her parents appear to have died when she was a child. Apparently brought up by an aunt ‘Drake’ (presumably Mary Long m. Drake) and then married Thomas Drake, her first cousin. She appears in a daguerreotype photograph.

Note 2Described on her daughter Lucy’s birth record as “Elizabeth Chapman Drake Wood Ransome”.

Note 3Since she was apparently brought up by her aunt and married her first cousin, we assume that her mother Elizabeth Drake was the sister of Thomas Drake (?-1828).

Note 4The 1861 census has her at Dillington Hall, landed proprietor, with her son William, daughter Laura and visitors Mary Sands, Robert Long, her daughter Emily now Kingsford and three servants (two in the house and a groom).

FatherJoseph RANSOME (1775-?)

MotherElizabeth (---) Drake (1780-?)

Other spousesThomas (Thomas) Drake, G Grandson

Children

1 FElizabeth Jane (David) Long, GG Granddaughter

Birth1830

MemoProbably born at Dillington Hall, Dereham, Norfolk, England

Death1846

Burial19 May 1846, East Dereham, Norfolk, England