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Hi Bugbear & Ruskie, many thanks for all the information the map showing the location of Walcot House is brilliant, when I come upto Norfolk for my hols in Sept I intend to visit Walcot Green and take some photo's of Walcot House. You are dead right about the Quaker connection, when my mother stayed with Mrs Wallis Sundays were very strict and quiet, the day was spent reading, and confined to ones room, then singing hymns in the evening.

The news paper clips are excellent and give a little into the life at that time in the 1950's.

Prior to my mother dying, I knew very little of her life in Diss as an evacuee aged 13-18 prior to WW2, she only ever referred to Alice Wallis as 'Mrs Wallis' and there was an older gentlemen which I now know as Harry Rice her father.

Alice Wallis was a widow her husband George came from London where she also worked as a domestic marrying in 1913, he was killed on 9/12/1918 Royal Garrison Artillery in France. From the military records it would appear that she moved back to Diss to her parents house after her husbands death in 1920's. 

My next aim is to try and find out what school my mother Joyce Chudley b1925 may have attended as the National 1939 Register shows her being a scholar aged 13, one suspects it must have been a school very local to Diss?

Again thanks for all the effort especially the cycle reconnaissance trip.

Hi,

I wonder if anybody would be able to let me know whether Walcot House still exists, and to the exact location in Walcot Green, Diss. A photo past or present would be even better.

My mother was evacuated there in 1939 just prior to WW2, where she lived with a Alice Wallis and her father Harry Rice. The latest record I have located is that of the Will of Harry Rice which states he lived at Walcot House when he died in 1943, his daughter Alice died in 1979 and quite possibly was still living there at the time of her death.

Any information would be great as I intend to visit Diss in September plus the relevant Norfolk record office to track down any info. 

Hi my mother Joyce A Chudley was evacuated to Diss in 1939 as a 13year old just prior to WW2, where she lived with a Mrs Alice Wallis and her father Harry Rice both widows in Walcot Green, I am trying to find two things, the name or number of the house where they lived and which school she may have possibly attended at that time. The 1939 register shows she lived in Walcot Green and went to school. Any help to finding the answers would be great or where I could find the relevant records to answer my questions.

Regards

Peter

Hi,
  I am trying to find the birth of my great grandmother Mary Ann Lindsay who was born in Newry Armagh in 1863 , I have her marriage to Arthur Edward Rogers 1883  at the Church Downshire Road Presbyterian Church Newry County Down,  it states that her father was  Charles Lindsay occupation as a Hatter  , any help would be greatly appreciated  .

petles

Hi,

Thanks for looking I think he was a non conformist from his death cert so maybe that is why there is no baptism record for him . Maybe if there are non conformist ones he would be in them  .

Petles