Since 1867
Samuel Stibbards, the company’s founder, first came to Hadleigh around 1850 to train as a wheelwright and carpenter under the direction of the Choppen family, another long-established hadleigh family. At the time it was common for local tradesmen to ‘undertake’ funeral arrangements in the community and Samuel was one of the tradesmen who did this. Over time the undertaking business grew and Samuel decided to turn his full attention to it, establishing S. Stibbards & Sons Ltd Funeral Directors in 1867.