This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.

Found 256 files  - displaying 101 to 150 sorted by ID


101

Article

The Devil and the Wood - the Virley devil
ID ELS_101
Title The Devil and the Wood - the Virley devil
Abstract The celebrated Virley Devil Legend belongs equally to Tolleshunt Knights. It is generally recounted as follows: When they dug the land in the Devil's Wood and started to build the house, they worked first day and left a man on guard at night with his three spey bitches. In the night Satan came and ...
Source Mersea Museum / Owen Ellis

102

Article

Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson
ID ERV_1894_275
Title Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson
Abstract SALCOT CHURCH From Essex Review Vol 3, Page 275 (1894) By: J.C. Atkinson, Danby Parsonage, Castleton. My reminiscences of Salcott and Virley Churches of sixty-five to seventy years ago (c1830) are somewhat peculiar. My father was frequently officiating in them, one or both, and I was ...
Keywords 1830
Source Mersea Museum

103

Article

May and Bean family history from Willoughby John Bean
ID FBQ_102
Title May and Bean family history from Willoughby John Bean
Abstract It was Edward May of Coppid Hall [ Copt Hall ], indeed I believe there were two of these and both are buried at West Mersea - no William May there - Mr Quincey the Timber Merchant of London put his savings into land in Essex and Suffolk. He first had as his estate agent a Mr. William Newman ...
Author Willoughby John Bean
Published 1930s
Source Mersea Museum / Alan Brook

104

Article

Tollesbury Memories - recollections from Fred Garrod
ID FGD_101
Title Tollesbury Memories - recollections from Fred Garrod
Abstract I was born in Tollesbury in the year 1902. My relatives on my father's side had had connections with the sea from time immemorial, fishing and boat-building. My father owned a fishing smack, and my two uncles also had one. I used to go with them to work almost as soon as I could toddle, and ...
Author Fred Garrod
Published 1972
Source Mersea Museum

105

Article

Tollesbury Memories - further recollections from Fred Garrod
ID FGD_102
Title Tollesbury Memories - further recollections from Fred Garrod
Abstract It was interesting to read that hay to feed the horses at the Equestrian events at the Olympic Games was supplied by Old Hall Farm. In the mid eighteenth century Old Hall used to be one of the busiest places in Tollesbury. The inn there was called the "Crooked Billet" and was kept by a man ...
Author Fred Garrod
Published 1972
Source Mersea Museum

106

Article

Appendix II - George Saunders Smith in Australia
ID GSS_102
Title Appendix II - George Saunders Smith in Australia
Abstract Appendix II
Author Jan Davey
Keywords sanders
Source Mersea Museum

107

Article

Church Briefs - Wigborough
ID GWG_CBR
Title Church Briefs - Wigborough
Abstract CHURCH BRIEFS A transcription in P.A.F. Stephenson's book "The Parish Registers of Great and Little Wigborough" 1905 In the register for St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough, is bound a mutilated ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

108

Article

Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel
ID GWG_CGC
Title Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel
Abstract According to White's Trade Directory of 1848 in its entry for the village of Great Wigborough, there was an independent chapel sited by the Maldon Road, Great Wigborough. The entry reads Adjoining the Maldon Road is an Independent Chapel, belonging to a Congregation formed in 1720. ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published September 2020
Source Mersea Museum

109

Article

The Parish Church of St Stephen Great Wigborough. A history
ID GWG_CHC
Title The Parish Church of St Stephen Great Wigborough. A history
Abstract The Parish Church of St Stephen, Great Wigborough. Beautifully situated on the top of a hill at the highest point of the parish, the tower of the church is a landmark for many miles around. The large manor (Abbots ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

110

Article

Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922
ID GWG_CHC_201
Title Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922
Abstract GREAT WIGBOROUGH From the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (1922) Typed by T.B. Millatt, source document not known. Transcribed August 2020 by Anne Taylor Great Wigborough is a parish 7 miles south of Colchester. Parish Church of St. Stephen stands towards the North end ...
Author 1922
Source Mersea Museum

111

Article

Memorial to Ann Marke in St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough
ID GWG_CHD
Title Memorial to Ann Marke in St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough
Abstract Edward and Ann Marke: St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough In St Stephen's Church, Great Wigborough there is a slab set in the nave floor engraved with the inscription HERE LYETH BURIED THE BODIE OF ANN MARKE THE WIFE OF ...
Source Mersea Museum

112

Article

Brick House Farm alias Chestnuts, Great Wigborough
ID GWG_CTN
Title Brick House Farm alias Chestnuts, Great Wigborough
Abstract Chestnuts Farm, Great Wigborough, formerly known as Brick House Farm, is situated North west side of and with a frontage to the road from Maldon to Mersea. It ceased being a working farm many years ago and most of the land was sold off to a local farmer. Up until the 1990s it used to ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

113

Article

Great Expectations at Great Wigborough
ID GWG_GEX
Title Great Expectations at Great Wigborough
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

114

Article

The Hyde, Great Wigborough
ID GWG_HYD
Title The Hyde, Great Wigborough
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 ...
Published October 2020
Source Mersea Museum / Elaine Barker

115

Article

King's Head, Great Wigborough
ID GWG_KHD
Title King's Head, Great Wigborough
Abstract The King's Head, Great Wigborough, by the turn to Colchester off the Maldon Road. It was rendered and painted white in the 1950s, and is now a private house, known as the Olde Kings Head. This story of the King's Head is rather incomplete. An inn is recorded as being at the site in the 17th ...
Source Mersea Museum

116

Article

The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs
ID GWG_MTR
Title The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs
Abstract The Reformation and the Great Wigborough Martyrs At a time of a Europe-wide move to break away from the Roman Catholic Church, in 1534, Henry VIII, declared himself supreme head of the Church of England . This move, triggered by his wish to divorce Catherine of Aragon was also a means by which ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

117

Article

Joseph Picknett Dissenting Minister Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel 1762 ...
ID GWG_PCK
Title Joseph Picknett Dissenting Minister Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel 1762 - 1780
Abstract One of Mersea Museum's latest acquisitions (April 2022) has come about as a result of an article I wrote about a Dissenters Chapel (Congregational) that existed in Great Wigborough. There is still a United Reformed Church chapel on the site of the original 1750 building and, because of nineteenth ...
Keywords rivenhall
Source Mersea Museum

118

Article

Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough
ID GWG_RCT
Title Rectory Cottages Great Wigborough
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

119

Article

Great Wigborough's Rectory 1963
ID GWG_RCU
Title Great Wigborough's Rectory 1963
Abstract From The Wigborough News a monthly magazine for the two parishes of Great and Little Wigborough. Editor The Reverend Roland Hall No.22 June 1963 When I was appointed Curate-in-Charge of the Wigborough parishes nearly two years ago, the old rectory adjacent to St Stephen's Church was declared ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published June 1963
Source Mersea Museum

120

Article

The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough
ID GWG_REC
Title The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough
Abstract In writing the biographical details that follow I am following in the footsteps of local historian, the late Tom Millatt who was responsible for the beautiful artwork above which hangs on the walls of St Stephens. It is Tom's ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published September 2020
Source Mersea Museum

121

Article

Great Wigborough School
ID GWG_SCH
Title Great Wigborough School
Abstract Great Wigborough School - Alan Theobald Great Wigborough School - Gill Graham Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

122

Article

Church Terriers - Great and Little Wigborough
ID GWG_TER
Title Church Terriers - Great and Little Wigborough
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

123

Article

Wigborough War Memorial
ID GWG_WMM
Title Wigborough War Memorial
Abstract The War Memorial in St. Stephen's Parish Church, Great Wigborough. The memorial is alabaster and is in the closed north doorway. To the Glory of God and in Loving Memory of the soldiers of this Parish who fell in the Great War 1914-1918. Their Name Liveth for Ever More. There are nine ...
Author Tony Millatt
Keywords ww1 ww2
Published July 2020
Source Mersea Museum

124

Article

Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary
ID GWG_YTS_001
Title Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary
Abstract The following is the diary of a visit to Great Wigborough for the wedding of Joan Yates, daughter of the Rector Revd. Frederick Yates. It was sent by Ivor Hopkyns, son of Joan and John Yates. DIARY OF THE WEDDING OF JOAN YATES AND JOHN HOPKYNS 20th November, 1941 By Mary Dean Hopkyns ...
Source Mersea Museum

125

Article

Wedding of Joan Yates and Dr John Hopkyns at Great Wigborough - Joan's ...
ID GWG_YTS_003
Title Wedding of Joan Yates and Dr John Hopkyns at Great Wigborough - Joan's Recollections
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 ...
Author 22 November 1941
Source Mersea Museum

126

Article

HELENA MODJESKA - a Liberty Ship
ID HMJ_JBL
Title HELENA MODJESKA - a Liberty Ship
Abstract In the years following World War Two, a wide variety of ships were laid up in the River Blackwater, looking forward to new future, or in many cases to the scrapyard. Merchant ship conversions rendered obsolete by the end of the war, ships with war damage that would not be worth repairing, ships that ...
Source Mersea Museum

127

Article

Noel Beadle, 373 Battery, Royal Artillery
ID HNB
Title Noel Beadle, 373 Battery, Royal Artillery
Abstract

Mersea Island World War II 2000 troops were stationed on the island during the threat of invasion. The Headquarters of the Royal Army Corps Motor Boat Company was stationed nearby. The coastal defence of the area around Mersea Island was the ...

Author Chris Harris
Published November 2013
Source Mersea Museum

128

Article

The Changing Foreshore - talk by Ralph Merry
ID IM05
Title The Changing Foreshore - talk by Ralph Merry
Abstract Slides from a talk given by Ralph Merry at Mersea Museum 14 March 2008. For more on Fish traps, see ...
Author Ralph Merry
Keywords fish weirs
Published 14 March 2008
Source Mersea Museum / Ralph Merry

129

Article

Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914
ID IYS_001
Title Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914
Abstract THEOBALD, FREDERICK GEORGE Rank: Captain Regiment: Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Bn. Age 38 Date of death 26 August 1914 Service No. ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

130

Article

Percy William Mortlock
ID IYS_009
Title Percy William Mortlock
Abstract MORTLOCK, PERCY WILLIAM Rank: Private Regiment: Northamptonshire Regiment, 2nd battalion, 24th Brigade, 8th Division Age 16 Date of death 14 March 1915 Service No. 12628 Percy was the son of Mr George & Mrs ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

131

Article

Mark Hyam 1889 - 1990
ID IYS_031
Title Mark Hyam 1889 - 1990
Abstract Mark Hyam was son of Samuel Hyam (1839 - 1916) who started a grocery business in Peldon. The shop was later run by Mark's half-brother Clem. Mark was born in Peldon 25 May 1889 to parents Samuel and Eliza. Eliza was Samuel's second wife. In 1891 the family were living in The Shop in Peldon ...
Source Mersea Museum

132

Article

Clifford William Wyncoll killed 3 November 1916
ID IYS_035
Title Clifford William Wyncoll killed 3 November 1916
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, ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

133

Article

Frederick Robert Francis killed 25 November 1916
ID IYS_041
Title Frederick Robert Francis killed 25 November 1916
Abstract FRANCIS, FREDERICK ROBERT Rank: Deck Hand Stoker Service No. 4009SD Service: Royal Naval Reserve HMS BURNLEY Date of death 25 November 1916 Age 21 Frederick was the son of William and Helena [Elenor] Francis of ...
Source Mersea Museum

134

Article

Thomas Henry Bossence Batten killed in action 29 July 1916
ID IYS_050
Title Thomas Henry Bossence Batten killed in action 29 July 1916
Abstract BATTEN, Thomas Bossence Australian Rank: Private Australian Infantry A.I.F. 26th Battalion Age 19 Date of death 29 July 1916 Service No. 1718 ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

135

Article

William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915
ID IYS_078
Title William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915
Abstract BOND, WILLIAM CHARLES POTTER (also known as William Edward Bond) Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment 2nd Battalion,12th Brigade, 4th Division. Age 18 Date of death 14 May 1915 Service No. 3/1960 William had ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

136

Article

Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915
ID IYS_092
Title Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915
Abstract JUNIPER, BERTRAM CHARLES Rank: Private Regiment: Essex Regiment in the 2nd Battalion. 12th Brigade, 4th Division. Age 22 Date of death 15 September 1915 Service No. 10776 Bertram Charles Juniper was the adopted ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

137

Article

Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915
ID IYS_099
Title Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915
Abstract PONDER, ALEXANDER CHARLES Rank: Lance Corporal Regiment: South Staffordshire Regiment, 1/6th Battalion, TF 137th Brigade, 46th Division. Age 36 Date of death 13 October 1915 Service No. 3728 Alexander Charles ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Keywords garr
Source Mersea Museum

138

Article

Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916
ID IYS_105
Title Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916
Abstract HUTLEY, FREDERICK Rank: Private Regiment: Royal Sussex Regiment, 12th Battalion. 116th Brigade, 39th Division. Age 34 Date of death 30 June 1916 Service No. SD/1972 Frederick was born 1881, son of Charles and ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Keywords Fred, brickhouse
Source Mersea Museum

139

Article

William Griffin Francis killed 23 April 1917
ID IYS_145
Title William Griffin Francis killed 23 April 1917
Abstract FRANCIS, William G. Private Service No. 41658 C Company 9th Platoon 17th Battalion Manchester Regiment Formerly G/15906, Royal West Kent Regiment. ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

140

Article

Arthur Hugh Sebborn killed 27 April 1917
ID IYS_149
Title Arthur Hugh Sebborn killed 27 April 1917
Abstract SEBBORN, ARTHUR HUGH Rank: Private Service No. 29867 Wiltshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion Date of death 27 April 1917 Age 24 Arthur was the ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

141

Article

Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917
ID IYS_153
Title Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917
Abstract OXENHAM, Frederick James Rank: Rifleman Regiment: London Regiment (City of London Rifles) : 6th Battalion. Age 22 Date of death 23 May 1917 Service No. 322328 Frederick was born in Kings Norton, ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

142

Article

Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917
ID IYS_154
Title Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917
Abstract FRANCIS, ALFRED CHARLES Rank: Serjeant Regiment: Royal Field Artillery: "D" Battery. 58th Brigade Age 23 Date of death 3 June 1917 Service No. 68105 Alfred was the son of Alfred and Eliza Francis. Alfred ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

143

Article

Arthur George Whiting
ID IYS_169
Title Arthur George Whiting
Abstract WHITING, ARTHUR GEORGE Rank: Private Regiment: Worcestershire Regiment 1st/8th Battalion. 144th Brigade, 48th Division. Age 19 Date of death 17 ...
Author Ted Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

144

Article

Frederick Thomas Hicks
ID IYS_180
Title Frederick Thomas Hicks
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 ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

145

Article

Alfred George Baldwin
ID IYS_185
Title Alfred George Baldwin
Abstract BALDWIN, ALFRED GEORGE Rank: Private Regiment: Duke of Wellington's 9th battalion (West Riding Regiment) Age 19 Date of death 24 March 1918 ...
Source Mersea Museum / Edwin Sparrow

146

Article

James Thomson killed 28 March 1918
ID IYS_186
Title James Thomson killed 28 March 1918
Abstract THOMSON James Rank: Private G/48138 Royal Fusiliers 4th Bn, 9th Brigade, 3rd Division Date of death 28 March 1918 Age 27 James was the son of James Thomson, of Butler's Farm. This farm straddled the Parish ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Published 27 October 2007
Source Mersea Museum

147

Article

Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918
ID IYS_194
Title Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918
Abstract BONNER, CHARLES GODFREY Rank: Private Regiment: Coldstream Guards 2nd Battalion. 1st Guards Brigade, Guards Division Age 34 Date of death 27 August 1918 Service No. 21972 Charles Godfrey Bonner was born ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

148

Article

David Laurence Talbot
ID IYS_200
Title David Laurence Talbot
Abstract TALBOT, DAVID LAURENCE Rank: Private Service No. 41941 Regiment: Suffolk ...
Author Edwin Sparrow
Source Mersea Museum

149

Article

ESSEX MAID built Rowhedge Ironworks 1939
ID JBL_RIW
Title ESSEX MAID built Rowhedge Ironworks 1939
Abstract ESSEX MAID was built in 1939 for John Blott, who had previously owned the yacht ALPHA, and had become "bitten with the idea of power in excess of sail". Designed by W.G. McBryde of Glasgow along the lines of an East Coast drifter. She ...
Source Mersea Museum

150

Article

Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s
ID JBL_TOL
Title Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s
Abstract James Blott's memories of Tollesbury and the Essex Saltings in the 1950s and 1960s On arrival in Tollesbury, with a car bursting with suitcases, food and drink, we would be met by Charles Spooner, our 'Steward' who was employed year-round initially, looking after us when we visited, and keeping ...
Author James Blott
Published August 2021
Source Mersea Museum / James Blott
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