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Eastry| Deal| Sandwich| Ripple| Walmer| Elvington| Eythorne| Kingsdown| Ash| Nonington| Barfrestone| Frogham| St Margarets-At-Cliffe| Wingham| St Margarets Bay| Aylesham
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Norris or Norrice Family in Finglesham Kent 1844-81
For over 36 years from 1844 to after 1881, Sarah Susannah Jell born in Ringwould about 1804 lived in Finglesham as the wife or widow of Thomas Norris, agricultural labourer. He was the son of John Norris & Sarah Berwick of Great Mongeham, brother of Mrs Eliza Tyler of Deal, and Miss Mary Norris of Great mongeham, brother-in-law of Mrs Ursula Marsh of Sholden.
Their son George Jarvis Norris was born in Northbourne around 1830, his wife was Jane Kemp who died in the village before 1891 (and was a relation of William & Sarah Kemp who in their 60's lived in the village in 1891). George worked as a blacksmith or agricultural labourer in Finglesham for over 40 years and all their children were born in the village. They were: Thomas Norris who became husband of Sarah Grayham in 1889 and was a farm labourer in the village... Read more
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Berwick Family 1717-1852
Mrs Sarah Norris, born Berwick, died in 1852 at Great Mongeham. Although she was a pauper, she had lived to a grand old age of 85 and was kept out of the workhouse by her daughter Mary, who cared for her and did the village's washing. In 1851 her grandaughter Mary lived next door with her husband Stephen Lawrence and their baby son William. Sarah's father William Berwick was born in the village in 1717, the son of John Berwick & Anne Beane. With his first wife Hannah he had 9 children who were christened in the village between 1738-55, namely John, William, Stephen, Elizabeth, Andrew, Mary, Richard, Joseph & Edward. William married his second wife widow Elizabeth Taylor in Great Mongeham in 1766. Although Elizabeth already had a child Elizabeth born by her former husband William Taylor in 1752, with William Berwick she produced Sarah in 1767, (who became Mrs Norris in 1784), and then about 1769 James Berwick was born . Richard Berwick married Susanna Bowles in the village in... Read more
Wraight or Wraite Family With Bailey Family
Leonard Wraight, a Farmer & carrier, his wife Elizabeth and their son of 16, Walter Wraight lived in Great Mongeham in 1901. Leonard was the son of Richard Wraight & Ann Holmes and was born in 1842 at St Margarets At Cliffe a few miles away. There, he married Elizabeth Brown Bailey in 1867.
The Publican at the Horse Shoe Inn in 1901 Great Mongeham was William Wraight, his wife was Sarah, whom he married in 1887 at Northbourne when she was Sarah Ann Bailey. William was born in 1866 at West Langdon and was the son of John Wraight & Elizabeth Hopper.
Leonard Wraight the Farmer, & William Wraight the Publican were related, as William was the grandson of Richard Wraight's brother James. It is probable that the were also related through their marriages both their wives were born with the surname Bailey
The Old Post Office - Mrs. Wraite
I used to live at Brewery Farm House, on the junction between Northbourne Road and Ripple Road. I remember the old lady who ran the (then) Post Office was a Mrs. Wraite.
One day my friend and I (we had been given cowboy outfits for Christmas) decided it would be a good idea to 'hold up the shop'! We gave her quite a fright, she told our parents and I don't think I could sit down for a week!
We lived in Great Mongeham from 1947, until I was 25, and I have many very happy memories of life in the village in the fifties!
Pittock & Wraight Family
In Studdall Street, Little Mongeham in 1881-91, Henry Pittock a wagonner lived with his wife & daughter both called Frances.
Henry was born about 1856 in Kingsdown, Kent, the son of Henry Stephen Pittock & Margaret Rattray Goldsack. Mrs Frances was christened Frances Beaney Maria Wraight at St Margarets at Cliff in 1861 by her parents William Wraight & Sarah Curling Baker. Her unmarried brother William was living with them in Little Mongeham in 1881.
Bickers The Newsagent
THis was the village newsagent. We lived to the right as you look at the photo, and traded as Premier Garage.
Place of Birth
From just about where the photograph was taken I was born. The house was called Forge House obviously because of the Forge which my father used as a shed to house chickens in and then used as a workshop for his carpentry. He was Foreman carpenter at Tilmanstone colliery. My brother and I were both born in the house which I believe now is being used as a care home. I was 16 when that photo was taken.
Elizabeth Andrews February 2007
