West Mersea Church Gazette page 3.
Services.
Baptisms 1898
9 January 1898 Lilian Alma Couch
10 April 1898 Harold Frederick Stoker
1 June 1898 Robert John Cross
1 August 1898 Marian Mehalah Depree
28 August 1898 Grace Mole
11 September 1898 John Henry Cecil Connell Smith
18 September 1898 Doris Butcher
25 September 1898 Ernest William Woolf
2 October 1898 Eleanor Lucy Mole
11 December 1898: Edward Thomas Wyatt, Hector Pearl Hewes, Dorothy Priscilla Hewes, Willie Stacey, Albert John Pullen, Emily Gertrude Trim, Edith Slowgrove, Violet Maud French, Reginald French, William Milgate.
Marriages
9 April 1898 George William Vince and Flora Ada Pettican
8 November 1898 Henry William Smith and Sarah Wright
Burials
5 January 1898 William Southgate, 49 years
14 January 1898 John Sharpe, 75 years
27 February 1898 Daniel Ennew, 74 years
5 March 1898 Ivy Maud Cudmore, 8 months
24 March 1898 Mary Tracey, 75 years
2 April 1898 Harriet Hutson, 77 years
23 November 1898 Abraham Green, 83 years
9 December 1898 Eddy Andrew Hempstead, 1 year
16 December 1898 Emily Catherine Oliver, 68 years
Date: January 1899