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

Found 256 files  - displaying 151 to 200 sorted by ID


151

Article

Bocking Hall - Arthur Winsley's Almshouses Charity Report
ID JCK_BHL_010
Title Bocking Hall - Arthur Winsley's Almshouses Charity Report
Abstract ESSEX CHARITIES. Report of Commissioners 1819-1837 COLCHESTER ARTHUR WINSLEY'S ALMSHOUSES re Booking Hall, West Mersea Arthur Winsley, of the parish of All Saints, Colchester, by his Will bearing date 28th March, 1726, and proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 17th June 1727, ...
Source Mersea Museum / Janet Cock

152

Article

The Salcott Murder of 1890
ID JMO_SAL_101
Title The Salcott Murder of 1890
Abstract

"FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT SALCOT" "A FARMER SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY HIS NEPHEW" "THE BODY TIED IN A SACK" Joseph Leatherdale was born on 3rd March 1822 at Chappel, Essex. As a boy, he worked as a labourer for his father Thomas, who farmed at Wakes Colne. ...

Author John Moore
Published 2013
Source Mersea Museum

153

Article

The police steam launch
ID JPA_001
Title The police steam launch
Abstract The poaching of oysters is recorded in the history of the island at least from the 18th century. As early as 1789 the theft of oysters was rife enough to see the setting up of a Protection Association to regulate the oyster trade and dissuade poaching. In 1808 a watch house was built on the Cob ...
Author John Pullen-Appleby
Source Mersea Museum

154

Article

Motor barge GOTHIC lost December 1937
ID JSK_001
Title Motor barge GOTHIC lost December 1937
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 ...
Published February 2021
Source Mersea Museum

155

Article

Dengie Ranges, Bradwell-on-Sea
ID KBC_DRA
Title Dengie Ranges, Bradwell-on-Sea
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 ...
Source Mersea Museum / Kevin Bruce Collection

156

Article

Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea
ID LCM_AHM
Title Margery Allingham - literary connections to Mersea
Abstract MARGERY ALLINGHAM Many of you will have read novels by Margery Allingham or seen dramatizations on TV; perhaps her most famous series of books feature the quirky detective Albert Campion. Eight of her Campion mysteries were televised in 1989 and 1990 across two series starring Peter ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

157

Article

Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea
ID LCM_DMY
Title Dora Greenwell McChesney - literary connections to Mersea
Abstract Literary connections to Mersea Dora Greenwell McChesney I first became aware of American author, Dora Greenwell McChesney (1871 - 1912), following the chance finding by a researcher friend of an article Dora had written about Mersea Island in the Wichita Eagle newspaper dated 16th November ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

158

Article

The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing
ID LCM_GNG
Title The House of Marney: John Goodwin alias Sidney David Gowing
Abstract The House of Marney: John Goodwin (alias Sidney David Gowing) John Goodwin was a nom de plume for author Sidney David Gowing (1877 - 1943) who lived for a few years on Mersea Island - his widow was to stay on Mersea until her death in 1969. Below is the only picture I have found of Gowing, ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

159

Article

Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
ID LDH_WW1_001
Title Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye
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 ...
Published 28 October 1917
Source Mersea Museum

160

Article

Lewis Taylor Gibb and a Tale of two paintings.
ID LTG
Title Lewis Taylor Gibb and a Tale of two paintings.
Abstract Thanks to the generosity of an important London museum, Mersea Museum acquired in 2018 two attractive new exhibits. These are two landscape paintings by the artist Lewis Taylor Gibb (1873-1945). Both are small oil paintings on canvas; one is titled "The River Stour near Dedham" the other simply "The ...
Author David Nicholls
Source Mersea Museum

161

Article

Ralph Luckham 1920 - 1990
ID LUC_RAL
Title Ralph Luckham 1920 - 1990
Abstract

Ralph was born in Surrey and until the Second World War worked in telephone engineering. During the war he was seconded to the Foreign Office and was sent to Paris immediately after liberation ...

Published 2012
Source Mersea Museum

162

Article

Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
ID LUC_SCH_007
Title Memories - the wartime school at The Nothe
Abstract As elsewhere in the country, Mersea has been looking "back at the war years. Those of you who visited the Museum last year will have seen many reminders of the Second World War, and we of a "certain age" tended to say, "Do you remember?"! One wartime event on the Island, perhaps not so ...
Author Susan Luckham
Published 2006
Source Mersea Museum

163

Article

The Mazengarbs of Copt Hall, Little Wigborough
ID LWG_MZG
Title The Mazengarbs of Copt Hall, Little Wigborough
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

164

Article

That Statue - and Copt Hall Lane
ID LWG_RPJ
Title That Statue - and Copt Hall Lane
Abstract That Statue! [which refers to the statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oriel College Oxford and the controversy about whether it should remain] Article written for Peldon and Wigborough Village News September 2021 It all started in March this year.  Well to be exact it actually started in ...
Author Joe Kennils
Published September 2021
Source Mersea Museum

165

Article

Little Wigborough School
ID LWG_SCH
Title Little Wigborough School
Abstract Little Wigborough school was built in 1875 with room for 50 pupils. It was closed by 1894 and all trace has gone. Its location is shown on the map below. Little Wigborough School on west side of Copt Hall Lane, ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

166

Article

An Epiphany East Window and Maimonides
ID LZB_PAP_011
Title An Epiphany East Window and Maimonides
Abstract

An Epiphany East Window and Maimonides After the end of the Great War 1914 - 1918 the family of Ernest Arthur Lazarus Barlow gave the parish church of St Edmund King and Martyr East Mersea an East Window celebrating the feast of the Epiphany. At the top, scarcely visible ...

Author J.H.G. Sunnucks
Published 19 February 2004
Source Mersea Museum / Lazarus Barlow Papers

167

Article

Will of Joan Thornback of West Mersey 1637
ID MARG_108
Title Will of Joan Thornback of West Mersey 1637
Abstract Will of Joan Thornback [ Thornbacke ] of West Mersea 1637 transcribed from Essex Record Office document D/ABW 54/24 Transcriber Trevor Hearn 8th January 2020 There is a translation to modern English further down the page 24 1   In the name of god Amen. I Joan Thornbacke ...
Published 4 October 1637
Source Mersea Museum

168

Article

Thomas Frere and his Connection to the British Slave Trade
ID MARG_127_021
Title Thomas Frere and his Connection to the British Slave Trade
Abstract Thomas Frere and his Family's Connection to the British Slave Trade East Anglia has been the home of the Frere dynasty from early times and it is considered that they are descended from the Normans. Henry le Frere of Suffolk is the first known recording of the Frere name in England in 1212 ...
Author Trevor Hearn
Keywords pete hall
Source Mersea Museum

169

Article

Will of Abraham Fokes of Peldon 1597 D/ABW 15/49
ID MARG_207
Title Will of Abraham Fokes of Peldon 1597 D/ABW 15/49
Abstract The Will of Abraham Fokes [ Foakes ] 14 November1597 transcribed from Essex Record Office D/ABW 15/49 Transcriber Elaine Barker January 2020 Foakes Abraham [Rgr, probably an abbreviation of 'Registered'] 1.   In the name of god Amen the xxiiijth day of Novembre in the Fortithe yere of ...
Published 24 November 1597
Source Mersea Museum

170

Article

Manorial Customs in West Mersea - The tenants' destruction of the records
ID MARG_313
Title Manorial Customs in West Mersea - The tenants' destruction of the records
Abstract Manorial Customs in West Mersea, etc. - The tenants' destruction of the ancient records of the manor. - In further reference to the customary of West Mersea, Fingringhoe, and Pete hall manors printed in Transactions, vol. xiii., pt. 2 [ See ...
Author W. Gurney Benham
Source Mersea Museum

171

Article

Earliest written references to Mersea Island
ID MARG_401
Title Earliest written references to Mersea Island
Abstract 894: Anglo Saxon Chronicle [Parker A] 'The [Danish] host marched across Northumbria and East Anglia so that the [Saxon] levies were unable to get at them, until they reached east Essex, on an island out at sea called Mersea ( hie comon on Eastseaxna lond easteweard on an igland paet is ute ...
Author Sue Howlett
Source Mersea Museum

172

Article

Charter of King Edward the Confessor 15th Century
ID MARG_402
Title Charter of King Edward the Confessor 15th Century
Abstract Charter of King Edward the Confessor Granting the Royal Estate of West Mersea to St Ouen's Abbey, Rouen, Normandy (translation of Latin text from 15th century copy of lost original dated 1046) In the name of almighty God, thundering on high, who made all things out of nothing, and ...
Published 1046
Source Mersea Museum

173

Article

Memoirs of Grace Edenborough - East Mersea
ID MBK_GHE_038
Title Memoirs of Grace Edenborough - East Mersea
Abstract Extract from the memoir of Grace Edenborough in the possession of her grandson Adrian Flatt. I often went away to stay with a family known as the Wilsons, to be a sort of companion to their youngest daughter Wankie, I cannot remember her proper name as she was always known as Wankie [ Kate ...
Author Grace Edenborough
Source Mersea Museum / Adrian Flatt

174

Article

Mersea Island Trust
ID MCT_002
Title Mersea Island Trust
Abstract

The following article was written by J.H.G. Sunnucks for Mistral Magazine in 1995 1995 saw the 30th anniversary of the opening by Miss Akhurst of the first "sheltered" accommodation on the Island. There must be many varied memories of how it all began, but this is how the ...

Author J.H.G. Sunnucks
Published 1995
Source Mersea Museum

175

Article

Coastguards on Mersea
ID MHS_CGD
Title Coastguards on Mersea
Abstract There were Coastguards living on Mersea for a long time. By 1760 the Customs had two boatmen on Mersea and two at Brightlingsea. They were part of the Customs at the time, but in 1822 the Coast Guard service started, under control of the Customs, and it is the Coast Guard we are mainly concerned ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

176

Article

Hilda Page of East Mersea
ID MIS_1968_HKP
Title Hilda Page of East Mersea
Abstract A Mersea Lady. Profile of Mrs Hilda Page of East Mersea, by Mary Tyler. Mistral - Journal of the Mersea Island Society. Winter 1968 / 1969 pages 5 and 6. One of the most interesting people living on Mersea is Mrs Hilda Page of West Mersea. With her mother, she came to the island before the ...
Author Mary Tyler
Source Mersea Museum

177

Article

An old lady remembers - Isabella Rosa Dawson
ID MIS_1968_IRD
Title An old lady remembers - Isabella Rosa Dawson
Abstract More than 150 years ago [ in 1968 ], Professor Horace Hayman Wilson sent his six year old son home to England in the care of the ship's captain from Calcutta. The voyage took nearly six months. Some years later the boy married a lady from North Farm, East Mersea. A marquee was put up for the ...
Author Alan Dawson
Source Mersea Museum

178

Article

Joy Gethen - Mersea Memories
ID MIS_1982_A02
Title Joy Gethen - Mersea Memories
Abstract The text for this article was written by Joyce Gethen for Mersea Island Society Mistral Magazine in 1982. The photographs have been added, some of them from Joyce's collection at Mersea Museum. Joy Gethen came to Mersea about 1906 at the age of 4 ...
Author M.J. Gethen
Published 1982
Source Mersea Museum

179

Article

Memories of WW2 by Mary Jardine
ID MIS_1995_A28
Title Memories of WW2 by Mary Jardine
Abstract This article was written in 1995 by Mary Jardine née French for Mersea Island Society Mistral Magazine. Yes, I remember, even if it was 50 years ago! In June 1944 I was teaching in Southall in Middlesex when the first V1's began to fly over London. We called them "buzz-bombs" and, later, ...
Source Mersea Museum

180

Article

Memories of World War 2 by M.J. Gethen
ID MIS_1995_A29
Title Memories of World War 2 by M.J. Gethen
Abstract In 1995 Dr Alison Bush talked to Mary 'Joy' Gethen, mainly about Mersea during WW2, and wrote this article for Mersea Island Society Mistral Magazine. Mary was 93 at the time. Mary Gethen was born in Canada, but came to Colchester when she was three years old , on a visit with her parents. Her ...
Author Alison Bush
Source Mersea Museum

181

Article

Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine
ID MIS_2005_A30
Title Margery Allingham - Mistral Magazine
Abstract Article published in ...
Author Sylvia Gower
Source Mersea Museum

182

Article

Memories of V.E. Day by Kathleen Haines
ID MIS_2009_A34
Title Memories of V.E. Day by Kathleen Haines
Abstract Kathleen Haines recorded her memories of V.E. Day during an exhibition in Mersea Museum, and they were published in Mersea Island Society Mistral Magazine in 2009. "We were there! We lived in Nottinghamshire at the time, and my father suggested we should have a family day out....and that it ...
Author Kathleen Haines
Source Mersea Museum

183

Article

Too Good to Leave
ID MIS_2019_A18
Title Too Good to Leave
Abstract Article published in ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

184

Article

My Life by David Stoker
ID MIS_2019_A33
Title My Life by David Stoker
Abstract Article published in ...
Author David Stoker
Source Mersea Museum

185

Article

Why I Love Mersea Island by Heather Haward
ID MIS_2021_A22
Title Why I Love Mersea Island by Heather Haward
Abstract Article published in ...
Author Heather Haward
Source Mersea Museum

186

Article

The Strood Soldiers. The final journey to bring the "boys' back home, by Becca ...
ID MIS_2021_A24
Title The Strood Soldiers. The final journey to bring the "boys' back home, by Becca Brown
Abstract The Strood Soldiers The final journey to bring the "boys' back home, by Becca Brown Article published in ...
Author Becca Brown
Source Mersea Museum

187

Article

Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh
ID MIS_2021_A36
Title Drainage by Sarah Shehadeh
Abstract DRAINAGE It's amazing how quickly the headlines change ..... Brexit ........ Flooding ........ Coronavirus ....... Article published in ...
Author Sarah Shehadeh
Source Mersea Museum

188

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - bands
ID ML2012_006_P44
Title Mersea Bygone Days - bands
Abstract I started at West Mersea Council School as it was then called, after Easter 1937. The boy sitting next to me was a real pest and kept pulling my ears. After the first term and holiday some new children came in and I had a new partner at my desk, his name was Sidney Sherwood, a quiet friendly boy. ...
Author Ron Green
Published July 2012
Source Mersea Museum

189

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Green family
ID ML2012_007_P42
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Green family
Abstract

My great great grandfather John Green lived in a cottage next to the Fox Inn. He was an agricultural labourer and the tithe awards shows him as occupier, with others, of cottages and yards owned by James Fenn. One of his sons Robert Chinnery married Maria Radford at West ...

Author Ron Green
Published July 2012
Source Mersea Museum

190

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Mersea men on the barges.
ID ML2012_009_P42
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Mersea men on the barges.
Abstract

One hundred or so years ago the sailing barge was a common sight around Mersea Island, tucked into various creeks and quays around the island collecting corn, hay, straw etc and delivering manure to the farms. Many an old photograph of The Strood shows a stackie barge. In those days ...

Author Ron Green
Published September 2012
Source Mersea Museum

191

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Farming
ID ML2012_010_P41
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Farming
Abstract

The outbreak of war in 1939 found many farms in Mersea and much of the rest of Britain in a run down state with many fields not seeing the plough for many years. Cheap imports of foreign grain made it impossible for our farmers to compete. With the ships bringing in this grain now ...

Author Ron Green
Keywords wellhouse
Published October 2012
Source Mersea Museum

192

Article

Proud of our tradition
ID ML2012_011_P10
Title Proud of our tradition
Abstract My family are very proud of our Poppy tradition, and thought you might be interested in our history. The "powers that be" in East Mersea in 1933 were looking for someone to take the poppies from door to door. The only person to show an interest was a 13 year old girl called Peggie ...
Author Wenda Lord
Published November 2012
Source Mersea Museum

193

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 1.
ID ML2012_011_P47
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 1.
Abstract

My early memories of Mersea shops comes from the mid 1930s when we lived in Barfield Road and my mother used to take me with her when she went shopping in my pre-school days. Then later when I left school in 1946 and started working for builder Clifford White & Co. As the 'Boy' I ...

Author Ron Green
Published November 2012
Source Mersea Museum

194

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 2.
ID ML2012_012_P48
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 2.
Abstract As we left Arthur Cock's butcher's shop in part one, we head off down Yorick Road past a garden plot where Glennie Cock later built a pair of shops he named Mersea Stores. The next shop past this plot was Charlie Williamson's newsagents and toy shop. He also published and sold postcards. Charlie's ...
Author Ron Green
Published December 2012
Source Mersea Museum

195

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 3
ID ML2013_001_047
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 3
Abstract

Having left High Street last month, we will take a few steps into High Street North and Clem Smith's greengrocers on the corner of Mersea Avenue Clem was another local shopkeeper who was a local councillor and could often get quite excited about certain issues. I recall ...

Author Ron Green
Published January 2013
Source Mersea Museum
Page 47

196

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 4
ID ML2013_002_047
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 4
Abstract

Firstly - I have been asked which shop it was that was owned by Mr & Mrs Slaughter. It was Central Stores which was later run for many years by Oscar and Elsie Whiting together with son Richard. It was demolished to make room for the Co-op Extension. I cannot leave the ...

Author Ron Green
Published February 2013
Source Mersea Museum

197

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 5
ID ML2013_003_047
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 5
Abstract

In the last issue we had arrived at Queens Corner and the loss of the large horse chestnut tree. On the opposite side of the road in the West end of the pink cottage, there was a butcher shop many years ago, there are hooks on the ceiling beams where the meat used to hang and the ...

Author Ron Green
Published March 2013
Source Mersea Museum

198

Article

Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 6
ID ML2013_004_047
Title Mersea Bygone Days - Old Mersea Shops Part 6
Abstract

Now concluding my look at old Mersea shops, we can take a look at what were probably the first purpose built shops on the island. The first picture shows a busy scene at Samuel White's shop ...

Author Ron Green
Published April 2013
Source Mersea Museum

199

Article

School Days at Mersea in the War Years Part One
ID ML2013_005_P41
Title School Days at Mersea in the War Years Part One
Abstract

I started my education at West Mersea Council School, Barfield Road in the spring of 1937. I was a very reluctant starter and after several failed attempts my father loaded me on to the back seat of his bicycle in the pretence of going to East Mersea to visit Auntie Nellie. We ...

Author Ron Green
Published May 2013
Source Mersea Museum

200

Article

School Days at Mersea in the War Years Part Two
ID ML2013_006_P47
Title School Days at Mersea in the War Years Part Two
Abstract

With the evacuees leaving the island we had our school back full time. The young male teachers Mr Reason, Mr Burt, Mr Davies all went off into the services. I understand Mr Hucklesby was at our school for a short time before going off into the services but I don't remember him ...

Author Ron Green
Published June 2013
Source Mersea Museum
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