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I have 1876 photos of Lawson Scarnell Fryer and wife Ann Maria Fryer nee Lawson my Gt Gt Grandparents so try and contact me...

I have sent some Fryer documents and transcriptions to the Norfolk Family History Society, The Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library and The Society of Genealogists. Some more Fryer and Scarnell papers will be sent this next week 11th March 2013...All have their roots in Hempnall and Norwich...Regards, Barrie Stevens 3xGreat Grandson of Christmas Fryer and 2xGreat Grandson of Lawson Scarnell Fryer..

I was under the impression that John Fryer Born Gt Yarmouth 1819 son of Christmas and Lucy Fryer from Hempnall Norfolk was in 1891 a resident of The Great Hospital Norwich aged 71 and died there in 1897 aged 77...The Norfolk Record Office has some papers/mortgages/letters about him...REF: N/TC/D125/10 317 x 1 1878 to 1881....(From Town Clerk's Records)...Christmas Fryer was my 3x Gt Grandfather...My Grandfather is John Fryer born in Bermondsey whose father was William Lawson Fryer son of Lawson Scarnell Fryer 1824-1892 who lived and worked as an Ostler at 13, White Hart Yard Southwark and died 46 Nelson Street Bermondsey 1892...He was father of your Sarah Jane Fryer...Contact me...I have put some Fryer material on Roots Chat....See my early memoirs "Essex Boy" by Barrie Stevens (on line "Walthamstow Memories")...

John Fryer Blacksmith of Norwich was the eldest son of Christmas Fryer born Hempnall Norfolk 25th December 1794 died Norwich 2nd February 1874 with a will leaving £20...or less...John Fryer was born in Great Yarmouth in 1819 and is on the Mormon Records...I am descended from the second surviving son Lawson Scarnell Fryer born Hempnall 1824 and died Bermondsey 1892...Lawson had a son William Lawson Fryer who was my Gt Granfather and who had a son John Fryer my maternal Grandfather...I have lot of information....Google my early memoirs "Essex Boy" by Barrie Stevens...Christmas Fryer farmed Turkey Row hempnall and his wife Lucy Fryer died 1834 was daughter of Lawson Scarnell of Hempnall whose will is on "Norfolk Sources" look there for Lucy Fryer also and papers signed by Christmas Fryer

Tithes map of 1842 showing the fields farmed by Christmas and Lucy Fryer...They rented the house, buildings and land from Robert Riches of Hempnall...