Hi Jaznjj,
John Sadd, from the Woolpack Inn, is my gr-gr-gr-grandfather. I have a copy of his marriage certificate to Rosamond Banham and it states that his father's name was Henry Sadd and he was a labourer ... nothing about where he lived, his wife's name (even if diseased), birth year, NOTHING!
According to the 1841 census, it states he was born in Norfolk, then the 1851 and 1861 censuses state he was born in Whaplode Drove (actually a variant of this but close), Lincolnshire and they all say about 1816. The 1871 census states another place, maybe Crowsland, Lincolnshire. I have had him searched in Lincolnshire but to no avail ... and I couldn't afford to have him search in Norfolk. All I have found about him is his father's name, HENRY. There is one born in Diss, Norfolk abt. 1796 which could be an appropriate age but a woman wrote me to say that my John Sadd was not a member of this Henry's family. Maybe she's right and maybe not.
I came upon your RootsWeb post because I Googled "john sadd terrington st john" hence the late response.
While searching today, I stumbled on something (can't quite remember now) that made me think that possibly this Sadd family came from Cambridgeshire as I saw some names and places that could match up with the Hubbard family which his daughter Edith "Ede" Sadd (I have a very bad picture of her I could send you) married into; Henry Hubbard was her husband and my gr-gr-grandfather and she my gr-gr-grandmother.
You are the only person I've come across who is searching for this same Sadd (Sad) family; maybe between the two of us we can find out more about them. And I still think, especially now, that John Sadd does descend from the Henry Sadd of Diss, Norfolk.
Here is my e-mail address: (*) and I can send you material I have found and pictures of the Woolpack Inn (which I understand is gone now, rather recently) but we have a couple of modern pictures of the inn too. The Woolpack went from John Sadd (who purchased it in 1851) then willed to his daughter Edith Sadd who was by this time Edith Hubbard who willed it to one of her children, my gr-grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Hubbard who married my gr-grandfather, Horace Holdgate and that's how it came into the Holdgate hands (for a short period). Gramma sold it and the 133 acres of land that came with it and move to Canada in 1913, a widow with her 4 children in tow, one being my grandfather, Herbert Holdgate ... thus the beginnings of another Holdgate line which will end abruptly if my nephew, the one and only Holdgate male left in our line, to carry it on. They haven't had any babies yet so keep your fingers crossed.
Anyway, e-mail me and I can start sending you things I have discovered and the pictures.
Take care,
Heather Holdgate
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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