RAYMOND BROUGHTON (1842 - 1912)

Raymond Broughton c1911		 This is the only picture of Raymond Broughton that I have been able to obtain - a real find. I have put a tentative date of 1911 on this from the probable ages of the other people in the photograph, and the fact that Raymond died in Pakefield in 1912. If this date is correct, Raymond would have been aged about 69 or so. Raymond started off his career as a blacksmith - probably taught the trade by his father John at the forge in Spixworth. When the Broughton family left Spixworth for Norwich in the 1850s - after the death of John Broughton's in-laws, John and Catherine Coe - Raymond only stayed in Norwich for a short time. He was in the Suffolk town of Beccles from around 1871 and stayed there for 30 years, working as a journeyman smith - i.e. working for someone else and not on his own account as a master. There is no obvious reason for the move from Beccles to Pakefield, except perhaps for the fact that his brother-in-law Horace Garrould was living there and running a bootmaker's business in Kirkley. His death certificate lists him as a tinsmith.
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