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

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251

Article

Corporal Herbert William Christmas
ID WW1_CHR
Title Corporal Herbert William Christmas
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 ...
Author Roger Bullen / Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

252

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

253

Article

Married Clergy in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
ID PH01_MCL
Title Married Clergy in the reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

254

Article

Methodism in Peldon
ID PH01_MPL
Title Methodism in Peldon
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 ...
Author Ben Cudmore
Source Mersea Museum

255

Article

West Mersea Brickworks
ID ML2020_011_075
Title West Mersea Brickworks
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 ...
Author Ron Green
Published November 2020
Source Mersea Museum

256

Article

The Wigboroughs in WW2
ID WIG_WW2
Title The Wigboroughs in WW2
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. ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

257

Article

Peldon's Poor and the Poorhouse
ID PH01_WKH
Title Peldon's Poor and the Poorhouse
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 ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published October 2020
Source Mersea Museum

258

Article

Jabez and Emma Wenlock
ID WIG_JBZ
Title Jabez and Emma Wenlock
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. ...
Source Mersea Museum

259

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

260

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

261

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

262

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

263

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

264

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

265

Article

Salcott Wigborough Chantry
ID SAL_CTY
Title Salcott Wigborough Chantry
Abstract

What we now generally know as Salcott was formerly a hamlet of Great Wigborough, and, separated by a creek, a chapel-of-ease was built at Salcott Wigborough for the people there, but served by the rector of Great Wigborough Tom Millatt The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin: ...

Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

266

Article

Unmade Roads
ID ML2020_010_073
Title Unmade Roads
Abstract In August 1939 I moved with my family from the Barfield Road council house where I was born, to a new bungalow in Suffolk Avenue. It was a grass track which got very muddy in winter. There were 15 homes in the avenue ( interestingly the same number as in Empress Avenue which was much longer). ...
Author Ron Green
Source Mersea Museum

267

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

268

Article

The Great Plague of Colchester and London
ID PH01_PLG
Title The Great Plague of Colchester and London
Abstract Imagine an epidemic so virulent that shops, theatres and pubs closed, trade and travel ceased, families isolated if a family member was ill and food was delivered to the door by the community. Imagine special arrangements being made to bury the dead with no funerals allowed and the wealthy fleeing ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

269

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

270

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

271

Article

Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933
ID SAL_BDL
Title Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933
Abstract Virley is a little place, and has never been of much importance in the land, nevertheless its history can be traced back for about 1,000 years. In the reign of Edward, the Confessor (AD 1045-66) a large and thriving village stood at the head of the creek, near the spot where a bridge now ...
Author George Biddell
Published 30 December 1933
Source Mersea Museum

272

Article

Salcott Coffin-Slab
ID SAL_CFN
Title Salcott Coffin-Slab
Abstract According to the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments 1922, in the churchyard of St Mary's Salcott, west of the church tower was sited a coffin-slab, coped with double hollow-chamfered edge, cross with foliated ends on stepped calvery, 13th century. Another broken slab with hollow ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published September 2020
Source Mersea Museum

273

Article

75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye
ID TLR_WW2
Title 75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye
Abstract Layer de la Haye War Memorial 75th Anniversary Tribute for end of World War 2 2nd September 2020 After the success of the Poppy display to commemorate the centennial for the end of WW1 in 2018, we felt it was ...
Author Anne Taylor
Published 2 September 2020
Source Mersea Museum

274

Article

The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times
ID EC64_05_316
Title The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times
Abstract

It was called "Legra" in the Domesday Book By the Rev. James Allen (Vicar of Layer de la Haye) Article from Essex Countryside Magazine May 1964 The name Layer de la Haye is one of ...

Author Rev. James Allen
Source Mersea Museum

275

Article

Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis
ID SVN_1992_005
Title Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis
Abstract Salcott-Virley Village News May 1992 Written by Tom Parmenter. Inspirational Poem To have the steadfast knowledge That we never walk alone And to rest in the assurance That our every need is known Will help dispel our worries Our anxieties and care For fear and doubt ...
Author Tom Parmenter
Published May 1992
Source Mersea Museum

276

Article

Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A.
ID EAS_1936_P155
Title Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A.
Abstract IN MEMORIAM. THE REV. LLEWELLYN CHRISTOPHER WATSON BULLOCK, B.A. Obituary from Essex Archaeological Society The death of the Rev. Ll. C. Watson Bullock on 10 February, 1936, deprived the Society of a ...
Keywords revd, rev
Published 1936
Source Mersea Museum

277

Article

"Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley
ID TBM_SAL_101
Title "Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley
Abstract Salcott always fascinated me. It was the first country place I ever stayed in. I was a schoolboy at the time, and I remember journeying there in a four-wheeler, and returning in a pony cart. That is a good many years ago. ...
Author C.R. Jefferies
Source Mersea Museum

278

Article

Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt
ID PH01_PRV
Title Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt
Abstract

If, as it would appear, John Ball, the visionary social reformer, who first raised the standard of revolt against injustice and tyranny, was born in Peldon, may not Peldon have contributed in the fourteenth century, the greatest of all Essex sons? So asks Kay Gilmour ...

Author Elaine Barker
Published August 2020
Source Mersea Museum

279

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

280

Article

Burial in Wool
ID PH01_BWL
Title Burial in Wool
Abstract Burial in Wool In burial registers from 1666 up to 1814 a note is often written alongside entries saying affidavit or An affidavit that he was buried in woolen. This refers to the oath that had to be sworn by the relatives of the deceased to show compliance with the Acts of ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published August 2020
Source Mersea Museum

281

Article

The Bean Family of Peldon Hall
ID PH01_FBN
Title The Bean Family of Peldon Hall
Abstract Some time around 1827, Samuel Edwin Bean, farmer, his wife Frances and their children moved to Peldon Hall from New Hall, Little Wigborough; the family was to remain in Peldon for approximately the next sixty years. ...
Keywords copt hall
Published August 2020
Source Mersea Museum

282

Article

Ron Green - A Mersea Builder
ID ML2020_009_074
Title Ron Green - A Mersea Builder
Abstract I left West Mersea Council School on April 1946 aged 14. I was to do a bricklayer apprenticeship but was unable to start officially until I was 15, so for the first year I was a labourer. However, I was laying bricks on my very first day at work. I was with my father Les and we were working for ...
Author Ron Green
Source Mersea Museum

283

Article

Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union
ID PH01_AGU
Title Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union
Abstract

Fraternise, centralise! With brotherly feeling with a united front, with every district welded into a great whole, with a common fund to which all shall pay, and on which all shall have right to draw, the time will not be distant when every agricultural labourer shall have, ...

Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

284

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

285

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

286

Article

The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough
ID PH01_BLS
Title The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough
Abstract The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough St Stephens has two bells although only one is now rung. The older bell was made by itinerant bell founder John Danyell who was founding bells between 1450 and 1470. Medieval bell-founders did not confine themselves to bell-making as their only ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

287

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

288

Article

Wigborough Carriers and Buses
ID WIG_BUS
Title Wigborough Carriers and Buses
Abstract During the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the carrier provided transport for most people. Farmers and better-off people would have a horse and cart - and everyone would walk a lot more. The trade directories such as Pigot's, White's and Kelly's list carriers serving Wigborough, and ...
Author Tony Millatt
Source Mersea Museum

289

Article

The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough
ID WIG_WEQ
Title The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough
Abstract The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough 22 April 1884 An earthquake at 9.20am, knocking down a chimney of the house which nearly came through the roof, frightening everybody very much and ringing all the bells. The damage done all the way to Wigboro', Peldon, Mersea, Abberton, ...
Author Elaine Barker
Source Mersea Museum

290

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

291

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

292

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

293

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

294

Article

Brierley Hall Estate
ID ML2020_008_022
Title Brierley Hall Estate
Abstract With the present planning issues going on for West Mersea at the moment. it is interesting to look back to the Brierley Hall Estate as laid out by architect E. Hollyer Evans of The Strand, London W.C. in 1909. From Seaview Avenue to a line one field to the East of Cross Lane there are some 480 ...
Author Ron Green / Tony Millatt
Published August 2020
Source Mersea Museum

295

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

296

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

297

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

298

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

299

Article

Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough
ID PH01_EPR
Title Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough
Abstract Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough Trawling through the Peldon and Wigborough Parish Magazines I came across three articles written by a Wigborough man, Edward Ponder, who I believe was born around 1916 although other biographical information is needed. The first article is about working ...
Author Elaine Barker
Published July 2020
Source Mersea Museum

300

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
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