In this article the Rev Bryan O'Malley (MA) pleads for charity from public subscription in the sum of £1,000 to endow the Flitcham living in order to supplement his living.

Around this time it seems he was divorced from his wife and their young children amid charges of neglect.

The article's introduction is sympathetic if not entirely logical: "The simple manner in which the story is told is evidence of its truthfulness...one year ...there was no burial at all"

Just why he had to walk 4 miles to obtain a jug of milk is not clear.

This newspaper cutting is unattributed but probably originates locally from Norwich Mercury publications c1875-1880

(If anyone can identify the source I shall be happy to attribute accordingly)

Rev O'Malley apparently wrote a book "The plundered Church; or The woes of poor clergymen"

He died on 12 January 1909.

Frances (nee Keppel) was the daughter of Rev. Hon. Thomas Robert Keppel, rector at North Creake. They had married on the 5 March 1872. At the 1881 Census, aged 42, she was living with her children under the name "Malley" in lodgings at Fulham, but apparently still married.

All the children had been born at Flitcham:

Bryan Malley 8 yrs; Louis Malley 6 yrs; Grace Malley 4 yrs; B Malley 3 yrs