Last Stop
Arriving at St Peter Mancroft we went inside to seek out the Yallop memorial. This is the first time I have been in this church, its full of tablets, memorials, mayoralty shields and dedications. Its the biggest church in the centre of Norwich – I am imagining you would need to have certain credentials to be buried or mentioned here. The memorial tablet near the door describes Yallop as a person of ‘few pretensions and many merits’. He is buried with his brother-in-law Nathaniel Bolingbroke and possibly surprisingly not with his wife but Sophie Ann Goddard whom he was once engaged to but due to her untimely death at aged 25 did not marry. Where his wife was buried is unknown.
After the walking tour, back at NRO everyone seemed to undertake separate activities, looking at Land Tax Assessment Records, gathering visual sources from the search room library and exploring documents held in the National Archives. I made a list of the National Archive documents and have downloaded copies of the wills relating to each of the commissioners. From first glance they might be difficult to read so I will get the files printed for Thursday’s session so we can look at them after we have undertaken part 2 of the walking tour.
