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This database contains some of the books, papers and records held by Mersea Museum.
Found 296 files - displaying 251 to 296 sorted by Date Added Descending
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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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| 252 |
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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| 253 |
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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| 254 |
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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| 255 |
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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| 256 |
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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| 257 |
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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| 258 |
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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| 259 |
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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| 260 |
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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| 261 |
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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| 262 |
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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| 263 |
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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| 264 |
Article |
Dedication of War Cross at Layer de la Haye |
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ID |
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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| 265 |
Article |
Salcott Wigborough Chantry |
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ID |
SAL_CTY |
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Title |
Salcott Wigborough Chantry |
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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: ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 266 |
Article |
Unmade Roads |
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ID |
ML2020_010_073 |
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Title |
Unmade Roads |
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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). ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 267 |
Article |
Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary |
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ID |
GWG_YTS_001 |
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Title |
Yates Family Wedding at Great Wigborough - Mary Hopkyn's Diary |
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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 ... |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 268 |
Article |
The Great Plague of Colchester and London |
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ID |
PH01_PLG |
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Title |
The Great Plague of Colchester and London |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 269 |
Article |
Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel |
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ID |
GWG_CGC |
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Title |
Great Wigborough Congregational Chapel |
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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.
... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 270 |
Article |
The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_REC |
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Title |
The Rectors of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 271 |
Article |
Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933 |
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ID |
SAL_BDL |
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Title |
Salcott and Virley by George Biddell 1933 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
George Biddell |
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Published |
30 December 1933
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 272 |
Article |
Salcott Coffin-Slab |
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ID |
SAL_CFN |
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Title |
Salcott Coffin-Slab |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 273 |
Article |
75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye |
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ID |
TLR_WW2 |
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Title |
75th Anniversary of end of WW2 - Layer de la Haye |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Anne Taylor |
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Published |
2 September 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 274 |
Article |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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ID |
EC64_05_316 |
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Title |
The Story of Layer de la Haye since Saxon Times |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Rev. James Allen |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 275 |
Article |
Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis |
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ID |
SVN_1992_005 |
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Title |
Stories of Old Salcott - Mr Francis |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Tom Parmenter |
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Published |
May 1992
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 276 |
Article |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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ID |
EAS_1936_P155 |
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Title |
Reverend Llewellyn Christopher Watson Bullock M.A. |
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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 ... |
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Keywords |
revd, rev |
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Published |
1936
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 277 |
Article |
"Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley |
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ID |
TBM_SAL_101 |
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Title |
"Your Essex" at Tolleshunt D'Arcy, Salcot and Virley |
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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. ... |
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Author |
C.R. Jefferies |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 278 |
Article |
Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt |
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ID |
PH01_PRV |
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Title |
Peldon, John Ball and The Peasants' Revolt |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 279 |
Article |
Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson |
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ID |
ERV_1894_275 |
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Title |
Salcot Church c1830 by J.C. Atkinson |
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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 ... |
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Keywords |
1830 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 280 |
Article |
Burial in Wool |
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ID |
PH01_BWL |
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Title |
Burial in Wool |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 281 |
Article |
The Bean Family of Peldon Hall |
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ID |
PH01_FBN |
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Title |
The Bean Family of Peldon Hall |
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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.
... |
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Keywords |
copt hall |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 282 |
Article |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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ID |
ML2020_009_074 |
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Title |
Ron Green - A Mersea Builder |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 283 |
Article |
Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union |
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ID |
PH01_AGU |
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Title |
Peldon and the National Agricultural Labourers' Union |
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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, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 284 |
Article |
Church Briefs - Wigborough |
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ID |
GWG_CBR |
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Title |
Church Briefs - Wigborough |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 285 |
Article |
Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922 |
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ID |
GWG_CHC_201 |
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Title |
Great Wigborough Church Royal Commission on Historical Monuments report 1922 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
1922 |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 286 |
Article |
The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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ID |
PH01_BLS |
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Title |
The Bells of St Stephens, Great Wigborough |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 287 |
Article |
The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs |
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ID |
GWG_MTR |
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Title |
The Reformation and the Wigborough Martyrs |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 288 |
Article |
Wigborough Carriers and Buses |
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ID |
WIG_BUS |
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Title |
Wigborough Carriers and Buses |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 289 |
Article |
The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough |
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ID |
WIG_WEQ |
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Title |
The Earthquake of 1884 - Great and Little Wigborough |
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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, ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 290 |
Article |
Wigborough War Memorial |
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ID |
GWG_WMM |
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Title |
Wigborough War Memorial |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Tony Millatt |
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Keywords |
ww1 ww2 |
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Published |
July 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 291 |
Article |
Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914 |
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ID |
IYS_001 |
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Title |
Frederick Theobald of Great Wigborough died 26 August 1914 |
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Abstract |
THEOBALD, FREDERICK GEORGE
Rank: Captain
Regiment: Kings Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) 1st Bn.
Age 38
Date of death 26 August 1914
Service No.
... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 292 |
Article |
Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915 |
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ID |
IYS_099 |
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Title |
Alexander Charles Ponder of Great Wigborough died 13 October 1915 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
garr |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 293 |
Article |
Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917 |
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ID |
IYS_153 |
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Title |
Frederick James Oxenham of Great Wigborough died 23 May 1917 |
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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, ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 294 |
Article |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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ID |
ML2020_008_022 |
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Title |
Brierley Hall Estate |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Ron Green / Tony Millatt |
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Published |
August 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 295 |
Article |
Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915 |
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ID |
IYS_092 |
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Title |
Bertram Charles Juniper of Great Wigborough died 15 Sept 1915 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 296 |
Article |
Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916 |
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ID |
IYS_105 |
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Title |
Frederick Hutley of Great Wigborough died 30 June 1916 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Keywords |
Fred, brickhouse |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 297 |
Article |
Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917 |
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ID |
IYS_154 |
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Title |
Alfred Charles Francis died 3 June 1917 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 298 |
Article |
Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918 |
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ID |
IYS_194 |
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Title |
Charles Godfrey Bonner died 27 August 1918 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 299 |
Article |
Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough |
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ID |
PH01_EPR |
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Title |
Edward Ponder of Great Wigborough |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Elaine Barker |
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Published |
July 2020
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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| 300 |
Article |
William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915 |
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IYS_078 |
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Title |
William Potter Bond died 14 May 1915 |
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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 ... |
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Author |
Edwin Sparrow |
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Source |
Mersea Museum
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