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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 707 files - displaying 251 to 300 sorted by Date Added Descending
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Article |
Clifford William Wyncoll killed 3 November 1916 |
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IYS_035 |
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Title |
Clifford William Wyncoll killed 3 November 1916 |
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Abstract |
WYNCOLL Clifford William
Rank: Shoeing Smith 98046
Royal Field Artillery "B" Battery 173rd Brigade
Date of death 3 November 1916 Age 18
Clifford was the son of Thomas and Emily Eliza Wyncoll of Church Cottage, ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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252 |
Article |
Peldon Hostel Post-War: the Polish |
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ID |
PH01_HPW |
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Title |
Peldon Hostel Post-War: the Polish |
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Abstract |
As you drive out of Peldon west towards Wigborough and leave the 30mph speed limit, just past the drive to Harvey's Farm on the right is a dilapidated building half-hidden by bushes and trees behind a wooden five-bar gate. This was The Hostel.
During the Second World War the hostel had been ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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253 |
Article |
The Bullock Family Part 2 The Peldon Connection |
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ID |
PH01_BLP |
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Title |
The Bullock Family Part 2 The Peldon Connection |
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Abstract |
The Story so far. Early in the 1500s John Bullock, a member of the wealthy Bullock family of Arborfield in Berkshire came to Moulshams Manor in Great Wigborough and together with his wife, Margaret, settled with their three sons and a daughter. The children were all to marry and have families and ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
brick house |
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Published |
February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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254 |
Article |
Motor barge GOTHIC lost December 1937 |
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ID |
JSK_001 |
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Title |
Motor barge GOTHIC lost December 1937 |
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Abstract |
The GOTHIC was a large steel barge belonging to E J & W Goldsmith of Fenchurch Street, EC3. She was built as a sailing barge at Krimpen in
Holland 1904, one of several built there for Goldsmiths at the time.
In 1933 she was converted by James Pollock, Faversham, to a twin screw
motor barge ... |
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February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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255 |
Article |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock |
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ID |
PH01_BLL |
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Title |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock |
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Abstract |
The Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock was instituted as incumbent of St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough in 1925. It was his final appointment before retiring in 1933 having moved to Great Wigborough from ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
revd, rev |
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Published |
February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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256 |
Article |
The Cold War |
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ID |
TUP_CWA |
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Title |
The Cold War |
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Abstract |
An occurrence took place at Mersea which went mostly unnoticed and as far as I know unrecorded. Although it happened on Council ground it is
doubtful that this body had any say or were even consulted. The fore-going I must stress is quite unsupported but there has been no indication of
it in any ... |
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Author |
Peter Tucker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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257 |
Article |
Arthur Hugh Sebborn killed 27 April 1917 |
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ID |
IYS_149 |
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Title |
Arthur Hugh Sebborn killed 27 April 1917 |
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Abstract |
SEBBORN, ARTHUR HUGH
Rank: Private Service No. 29867
Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion
Date of death 27 April 1917 Age 24
Arthur was the ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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258 |
Article |
Dengie Ranges, Bradwell-on-Sea |
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ID |
KBC_DRA |
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Title |
Dengie Ranges, Bradwell-on-Sea |
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Abstract |
Description of the Bombing Range built off the Dengie peninsular from 1936 onwards.
In 1948 the American Air force, chiefly from Wethersfield began using the range, using the "Newlands" of "Eastlands. Pyramid shaped position markers near St. Peter's Chapel pointed to the target. However, because ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce Collection
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Article |
Typhoon aircraft down in the River |
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ID |
ML2021_002_059 |
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Title |
Typhoon aircraft down in the River |
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Abstract |
Typhoon aircraft down in the River Blackwater
The New Year brought a very interesting Email to Mersea Museum, from Mark Pottinger. The name was not familiar, until Mark explained that his father was the pilot of the Hawker Typhoon fighter aircraft that had to ditch in the River Blackwater on ... |
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Published |
February 2021
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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260 |
Article |
Restoration of St Mary the Virgin, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_PCR |
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Title |
Restoration of St Mary the Virgin, Peldon |
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Abstract |
St Mary the Virgin, Peldon : Restoration
The building of Grade 1 listed St Mary the Virgin in Peldon , like most English country churches, is a mixture of ages and styles. We can only guess at what the original Anglo-Saxon church, recorded in the Domesday book, looked like.
It would ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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261 |
Article |
Typhoon crash in River Blackwater - the pilot's story |
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ID |
MPO_011 |
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Title |
Typhoon crash in River Blackwater - the pilot's story |
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Abstract |
Extracts from diary of the pilot, Ron Pottinger
Ron Pottinger and Typhoon aircraft at Manston, 1943
Taking off from Bradwell Bay and subsequent ditching in the River Blackwater at Night!
Wednesday 22nd March ... |
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Author |
Ron Pottinger |
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Keywords |
hawker typhoon, aircraft, fighter |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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262 |
Article |
Typhoon salvage - River Blackwater |
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ID |
REG_2005_TYP |
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Title |
Typhoon salvage - River Blackwater |
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Abstract |
On 22 March 1944 Hawker Typhoon R8895, flown by Flt. Sgt. R.W. Pottinger, belonging to No. 3 Squadron based at Bradwell Bay,
came down in the River Blackwater.
The Squadron record states that the engine over-revved on take-off for dark night-flying practice. The pilot could
not make height and ... |
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Author |
Brian Jay |
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Keywords |
r.8895 |
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Published |
June 2005
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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263 |
Article |
Hugh Green, 19th Century West Mersea Doctor and Surgeon |
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ID |
DHG_001 |
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Title |
Hugh Green, 19th Century West Mersea Doctor and Surgeon |
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Abstract |
Hugh Green, 19th Century West Mersea Doctor and Surgeon 1823-1895
Hugh Green was the second of four children born to William Green and Charlotte Emily Green (née Cooper) of Coddenham Hall, Boxford, Suffolk.
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Author |
Simon Eagle |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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264 |
Article |
Alan Cudmore remembers Games Farm in Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_GMS |
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Title |
Alan Cudmore remembers Games Farm in Peldon |
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Abstract |
Alan Cudmore lived in Peldon between about 1946 and 1954 as a teenager used to help the farmer at Games Farm, Jack Stockley. What follows are his memories.
Jack Stockley and his wife Diana were at Games Farm when I came to live in Peldon. His father farmed at Akenham in Suffolk and in ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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265 |
Article |
Church Seating for the Poor |
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ID |
PH01_CSP |
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Title |
Church Seating for the Poor |
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Abstract |
Church Seating for the Poor
Great Wigborough and Peldon
In storage at St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough, is a framed board which used to hang upon the church wall and records the installing of free church seating ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Mersea at War |
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ID |
ML2021_001_050 |
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Title |
Mersea at War |
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Abstract |
I am often asked what it was like on Mersea Island during the Second World War. Well, the answer is a lot different to what it is now. I lived throughout the war in Suffolk Avenue in a new bungalow my dad had built while working for local builder Clifford White & Co. We moved in August 1939 from 6 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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267 |
Article |
Recollections of Mike Watson |
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ID |
PH01_MWA |
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Title |
Recollections of Mike Watson |
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Abstract |
RECOLLECTIONS OF MIKE WATSON
By Geoff Gonella
Peldon History Project
Mike and Jane Watson have lived in Peldon for many years, and have taken part in a variety of local activities. In the company of Elaine Barker I was fortunate to interview Mike in December 2017, at their charming and ... |
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Author |
Geoff Gonella |
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Published |
12 December 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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268 |
Article |
Church Cottage, Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_COT |
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Title |
Church Cottage, Peldon |
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Abstract |
Church Cottage, Peldon
Early 17th century timberframed and plastered house with some brick. Red plain tile roof. One storey. Two window range double hung vertical sliding sashes. rear extension with pantile roof. Double range plan, with newel staircase British Listed Buildings
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
12 December 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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269 |
Article |
Morant history 1768 - the Wigboroughs |
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WIG_MOR |
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Title |
Morant history 1768 - the Wigboroughs |
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Abstract |
Philip Morant's The History and Antiquities of Essex 1768
Great Wigborough, Salcot Wigborough and Little Wigborough
Wigborough
Two contiguous Parishes so named stand west of those we have been last describing. The name is formed from the two
Saxon words, Wig , a battle, and burg ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Keywords |
viners, copt hall, faulkborne |
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Published |
1768
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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270 |
Article |
Frederick Thomas Hicks |
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ID |
IYS_180 |
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Title |
Frederick Thomas Hicks |
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Abstract |
HICKS, FREDERICK THOMAS
Rank: Private Service No. 30923
Regiment: Bedfordshire Regiment 7th Battalion
Date of death 25 April 1918 Age 24
Frederick Hicks was born in Nutfield, Surrey and was baptised 19 November ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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271 |
Article |
David Laurence Talbot |
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ID |
IYS_200 |
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Title |
David Laurence Talbot |
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Abstract |
TALBOT, DAVID LAURENCE
Rank: Private Service No. 41941
Regiment: Suffolk ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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272 |
Article |
Robert Leslie Coppin, Langenhoe, died 21 October 1941 |
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ID |
OOD_214 |
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Title |
Robert Leslie Coppin, Langenhoe, died 21 October 1941 |
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Abstract |
WW2 Memorial Profiles for Abberton and Langenhoe
ROBERT LESLIE COPPIN
Aircraftman 2nd Class, Service No. 1134494
6 Service Flying Training School, Royal Air Force ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
NEVILL |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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273 |
Article |
Alan Cudmore: Peldon Reminiscences |
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ID |
PH01_PCM |
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Title |
Alan Cudmore: Peldon Reminiscences |
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Abstract |
I have been in touch with Alan Cudmore, now in his eighties and living in Hertfordshire, whose family lived in Peldon, probably from 1843 right through to 1970. I had come across Alan's family when researching, Honeysuckle Cottage on Lower Road then called Olde Home; his grandad, Joshua, bought the ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Some Record of the Parish of Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_SRP |
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Title |
Some Record of the Parish of Peldon |
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Abstract |
Book in Essex Record Office Reference D/P 287/28/6 (not digitised)
This volume was begun by the Rev C.R. Harrison who was the rector of St Mary's Church, Peldon between 1855 and 1867.
During his incumbency he wrote of the parish records, church lands, churchwardens, school, rectory house, the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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275 |
Article |
Proposed new Power Station at Bradwell |
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ID |
ML2020_012_059 |
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Title |
Proposed new Power Station at Bradwell |
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Abstract |
In the last issue there were accusations of scaremongering with an illustration that appeared in the October edition of Mersea Life showing steam belching from cooling towers and the scale of the towers being out of proportion to the existing power station. I think the proportions are right and any ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
December 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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276 |
Article |
1891 Census - recorded occupations Mersea Island |
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ID |
CEN_1891_OCC |
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Title |
1891 Census - recorded occupations Mersea Island |
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Abstract |
Census East and West Mersea 1891
1,407 named people are listed
458 Male 15 years or older
292 Male under 15
401 Female 15 years or older
257 Female under 15
Recorded occupations (not all people have occupation recorded)
Male
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Published |
5 April 1891
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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277 |
Article |
HMS YORK visit to Clacton 1930s |
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ID |
CPR_VST |
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Title |
HMS YORK visit to Clacton 1930s |
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Abstract |
Mersea Museum recently had an email from Peter Watts of Clacton Pier Company, with 4 small photographs taken on Clacton Pier. They had the same photographic markings on the back, but no clues as to the date or the event. Two photographs show a Royal Navy cruiser at anchor, one ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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278 |
Article |
Peldon Home Guard - Beyond the Photo |
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ID |
PH01_HG2 |
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Title |
Peldon Home Guard - Beyond the Photo |
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Abstract |
PELDON HOME GUARD - BEYOND THE PHOTO
Peldon History Project
Researched & compiled by Geoff Gonella
Introduction
Many local residents and visitors have probably seen the group photograph the Peldon Home Guard, which has been on display in the Peldon Rose Public house for many years. ... |
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Author |
Geoff Gonella |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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279 |
Article |
The Coat of Arms in Peldon Church |
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ID |
PH01_ARM |
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Title |
The Coat of Arms in Peldon Church |
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Abstract |
The Coat of Arms over the North door, now the door into the new kitchen, belongs to the reign of George III (1760 - 1820), and probably dates to sometime after the King's accession. The original was restored in 1967, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
November 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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280 |
Article |
Ship Money |
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ID |
PH01_SHM |
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Title |
Ship Money |
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Abstract |
In 1634, with Charles I on the throne, Parliament had not convened for six years. The King, wanting to raise money, had no intention of following the usual course of recalling Parliament and decided to levy a tax known as Ship Money. This was a tax extending back into the medieval period, last ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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281 |
Article |
Recollections of the Village Blacksmith, Peldon Village |
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ID |
PH01_RBM |
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Title |
Recollections of the Village Blacksmith, Peldon Village |
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Abstract |
Recollections of the Village Blacksmith, Peldon Village
circa 1950
The Forge or Smithy fronts the top road and overlooks the Common. It is a timber framed building with typical Essex black weather-boarding under a tiled ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Peldon and the Mayors of Colchester |
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PH01_MYR |
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Title |
Peldon and the Mayors of Colchester |
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Abstract |
Colchester boasts the longest surviving borough mayoralty in Essex which is also amongst the oldest in the country. This year (2020), Peldon's Robert Davidson, farmer of Brick House Farm, has become the 188th mayor of Colchester and his wife Liz, the lady mayoress. In the midst of the coronavirus ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
November 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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283 |
Article |
Alexander Jamieson Duncan killed by mine Mersea Island |
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ID |
WW2_AJD |
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Title |
Alexander Jamieson Duncan killed by mine Mersea Island |
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Abstract |
Alexander Jamieson Duncan
Second Lieutenant 91196
8th Bn Royal Scots
Buried Inveresk Parish Churchyard
Son of the Revd. David Duncan and Catherine Duncan; husband of Isobel Fordyce Duncan, of Plockton, Ross and Cromarty
Killed on Mersea Island in accident with mine.
Reference: National ... |
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Author |
Roger Bullen |
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Published |
12 September 1940
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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284 |
Article |
Vincent Magson killed by mine 1945 |
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ID |
WW2_VJM |
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Title |
Vincent Magson killed by mine 1945 |
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Abstract |
Vincent John Magson
Vincent Magson was born 1929 and was the adopted son of Winifred M. Magson née Crampion and Frederick Magson. Winfred and Frederick had married in 1925 and come to live in Mersea, initially in Captains Road and then at 2 Rainbow Road.
Frederick was a retired Royal ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Published |
8 March 1945
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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285 |
Article |
Ian Michell killed by mine 1945 |
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ID |
WW2_IVM |
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Title |
Ian Michell killed by mine 1945 |
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Abstract |
Ian Michell 1927-1945
Ian Michell - Air Training Corps
Ian with his parents
Ian Victor Michell was born in 1927, ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Published |
8 March 1945
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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286 |
Article |
Martin Aurel King |
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ID |
WW2_MAK |
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Title |
Martin Aurel King |
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Abstract |
WW2 Memorial Profiles for West Mersea
Martin Aurel King
Pilot Officer 42845, Royal Air Force
249 (Gold Coast) Squadron
Shot down over Southampton 16 August 1940, age 18.
Buried Fawley, Hampshire, 22 August 1940
Martin Aurel King was born 15 October 1921 in West Mersea to George ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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287 |
Article |
Corporal Herbert William Christmas |
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ID |
WW1_CHR |
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Title |
Corporal Herbert William Christmas |
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Abstract |
WW1 Memorial Profiles for Great wigborough
HERBERT WILLIAM CHRISTMAS
Corporal Service No. 127577
73rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
(Enlisted at Woodstock, Canada)
Died 1 March 1917 age 21.
Buried Givenchy-en-Gohelle Canadian Cemetery, Souchez. France.
Commemorated ... |
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Author |
Roger Bullen / Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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288 |
Article |
The Mazengarbs of Copt Hall, Little Wigborough |
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ID |
LWG_MZG |
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Title |
The Mazengarbs of Copt Hall, Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
Walkers have long enjoyed the wild peace and seclusion of the Copt Hall marshes, many will have popped into the little church of St Nicholas (now sadly closed permanently) with its piece of WW1 Zeppelin mounted on the wall ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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289 |
Article |
Married Clergy in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth |
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ID |
PH01_MCL |
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Title |
Married Clergy in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth |
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Abstract |
Great Wigborough and Peldon
The first official action in English history specifically permitting clergy to marry was presented to Convocation in December 1547 and then to Parliament by Archbishop Thomas Cranmer. He himself had married in the early 1530s during the reign of Henry VIII after the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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290 |
Article |
Methodism in Peldon |
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ID |
PH01_MPL |
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Title |
Methodism in Peldon |
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Abstract |
Ben Cudmore's account of Methodism in Peldon, probably written in the early 1960s before Peldon's chapel closed in 1970.
The Cudmore family first appears in the censuses for Peldon in 1851 and Ben and his family lived in Honeysuckle Cottage (known then as 'Olde Home'), Lower Road, after his ... |
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Author |
Ben Cudmore |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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291 |
Article |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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ID |
ML2020_011_075 |
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Title |
West Mersea Brickworks |
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Abstract |
West Mersea had a brickworks. In 1905 the Mersea Brick and Iron Company was advertising Red Facing Bricks and Tiles. Behind the company was a developer from London, involved in the ambitious development plans for Mersea before World War 1, but the brickworks was run by Maurice Thorp, a local ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Published |
November 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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292 |
Article |
The Wigboroughs in WW2 |
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ID |
WIG_WW2 |
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Title |
The Wigboroughs in WW2 |
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Abstract |
On 14th January 1939 the neighbourhood news in the Essex County Standard reported the first of a series of six Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) lectures to volunteers from Peldon and Wigborough in Peldon School. About 40 were present and first aid demonstrations were given by the St John's Ambulance. ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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293 |
Article |
Peldon's Poor and the Poorhouse |
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ID |
PH01_WKH |
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Title |
Peldon's Poor and the Poorhouse |
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Abstract |
Queen Elizabeth's Poor Relief Act of 1601 pulled together all previous Poor Law Acts, formalising earlier practices of poor relief distribution. Before Tudor times and the Dissolution of the Monasteries (these religious houses had provided some care and relief to the poor) any contributions to the ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
October 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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294 |
Article |
Jabez and Emma Wenlock |
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ID |
WIG_JBZ |
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Title |
Jabez and Emma Wenlock |
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Abstract |
MR AND MRS JABEZ WENLOCK
These two obituaries of Jabez and Emma Wenlock appeared in the Essex County Standard neighbourhood news, and were, most likely, written by Mrs Dansie of Peldon Village Stores who contributed weekly columns, mainly for Peldon, every week between 1931 and 1948.
... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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295 |
Article |
Great Expectations at Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_GEX |
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Title |
Great Expectations at Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
I have been going to the coffee mornings at Gt Wigborough Church which are currently being held every fortnight on a Friday morning. St Stephens is a pretty church in a beautiful location and a welcome is guaranteed plus tea, coffee and cake. Standing on top of Wigborough Hill the views are amazing ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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296 |
Article |
The Hyde, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_HYD |
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Title |
The Hyde, Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
The Hyde in the 1930s
Owners of historic houses almost invariably have a fascination with the history of their homes and over the years their notes, drawings, photographs and research are faithfully passed on to new ... |
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Published |
October 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum / Elaine Barker
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297 |
Article |
Church Terriers - Great and Little Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_TER |
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Title |
Church Terriers - Great and Little Wigborough |
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Abstract |
A Church terrier, or Glebe terrier is specific to the Church of England and is a survey or inventory of each parish church's assets giving details of land and property. These lands and property were held by the incumbent as part of the endowment of his benefice providing the income with which he ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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298 |
Article |
Wedding of Joan Yates and Dr John Hopkyns at Great Wigborough - Joan's ... |
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ID |
GWG_YTS_003 |
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Title |
Wedding of Joan Yates and Dr John Hopkyns at Great Wigborough - Joan's Recollections |
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Abstract |
Joan Yates married Dr John Hopkyns at St Stephen's Great Wigborough 22 November 1941. Joan was the daughter of Revd. Frederick Yates, Rector of Great and Little Wigborough.
Joan's Recollections
My bridesmaid, Mary ... |
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Author |
22 November 1941 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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299 |
Article |
Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_RCT |
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Title |
Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough |
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Abstract |
The two cottages known as Rectory Cottages, situated on top of Wigborough hill, just opposite the church and the Rectory were demolished in approximately 1967.
Rectory Cottages, Great Wigborough
The cottages ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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Article |
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye |
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LDH_WW1_001 |
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Title |
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye |
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Abstract |
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
On Sunday afternoon, October 28, the Bishop of Colchester, (Dr Whitcombe) unveiled and dedicated a War Cross which the people of Layer de la Haye have ... |
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Published |
28 October 1917
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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