MILLER
This family gave their name to one of the farms in Trunch on the Mundesley Road, which is very unusual in this village. John Miller (1803-1862) lived in this house and farmed the 109 acres from 1835 until his death, renting the farm from Ann Dixon. John had been born in Antingham, a nearby village, to William, a farmer and Ann Hunter.
John had several children and his eldest son, John Thomas, lived with his grandparents on a farm in Swanton Abbott until his early death aged 24, in 1858. Two daughters also died at fairly young ages and Elizabeth was born deaf but she lived until at least 74, when she was living with her widowed sister-in-law in 1911. After John's death it seems as though his widow ran the farm until her younger son, James took over in 1865.
John had several children and his eldest son, John Thomas, lived with his grandparents on a farm in Swanton Abbott until his early death aged 24, in 1858. Two daughters also died at fairly young ages and Elizabeth was born deaf but she lived until at least 74, when she was living with her widowed sister-in-law in 1911. After John's death it seems as though his widow ran the farm until her younger son, James took over in 1865.
James Miller (1843 - 1900) farmed here from 1865 - 1878. In 1869 he married Anna Clarissa Neal and by 1881 they had left Trunch and were living at Home Farm, Stanfield, Wymondham in South Norfolk, with 5 children, a governess and two servants. The farm was in the grounds of Stanfield Hall, which was the site of a double murder in 1848, arising from a dispute over ownership. Something must also have happened to the Millers as by 1891 the parents were living with Anna Clarissa's mother, a farmer in Hickling, and James was an insurance agent, while the children were living with their aunt in Pulham St. Mary in South Norfolk.
James and Anna Clarissa had 7 children. Anna Elizabeth, born 1870, remained single and was still alive in 1939, Frederick James worked as a shop assistant, briefly in Manchester, but was back with his mother in Pulham by 1911. John Henry, born 1875, was working as a servant in London in 1891 and then married and became a shop-keeper in Bungay, Suffolk while Kathleen, born 1880, married a Suffolk farmer.