Beaumont
Rev William Edwin Beaumont was from Leeds and studied at Downing College Cambridge training as a lawyer before he entered the priesthood. He took up the incumbency of Stowupland in 1887 after holding a number of curacies. In 1888 he left for a position as Vicar in St. Jude’s Chelsea after which he served churches in Oxfordshire, Derbyshire and finally St. Pancras resigning due to ill health in 1908 to Cambridge where he lived until his death in 1921.
In the 1901 census the Beaumont family are living in Saxham Street, near Town Farm. Parents James (b. 1846 from Rattlesden) and Anne (b. 1857 from Combs ) with 5 children: Frederick(b.1882 in Little Finborough), Harry (b. 1884 also in Little Finborough), Walter (b, 1889 in Bacton), Elizabeth (b. 1893 in Bacton) and William ( b. 1897 in Bacton).
James is a horseman on a farm, Fredericks occupation is given as an agricultural labourer, Harry is a cattleman. No occupation is given for 12 year old Walter, so maybe he is still at school.
In the 1917 Stowupland Roll of Honour Harry and William are named, but not Walter.
Both are named as privates in the Suffolk Regiment, but discharged by 1917. I couldn’t find any more details for Harry, but there is a record for William.
