VERY OLD FOLK TALES OF SHEPPEY.
These short tit-bits of Sheppey Tales were
collected by L.G. (Algy)
These are/were ? sold in the Church Shop.
The “ Memory Jerkers “
below are to assist me in finding
certain required articles.
In my next Web Page revision I will possibly have sound to
some ( all !! <B.G>)
of the short articles below .
A few reports are duplicated (please excuse any
spelling mistakes )
TAPE ONE.
Song By Ken Hollow(Les Hogan ) Re
The Ballard Of The Witch And Lord Robert
De Shurland’s
horse.
Names Of Sheppey,Wool Staples
W.H.Srubsole Master Mast Maker Preacher ,Tonoc-Sol-Far System inventor
Sheerness Natural
History
Haywoods And The Black Box And
Haywoods Charity Etc Etc Etc
Old Kings Of
Cheyney history bulls horn on his crest.
Fossils on the
Johnson
and his fossils of Sheppey.
James II escapes from
Sheppey at Harty
Holy Trinity Church Sheerness cost
£4,000( and £4,000,000)
Hogath and his wanderings on Sheppey
Iron blocks in the
Dockyard re ballast then used as paving,
Overtime and long
hours –never seen children in daylight for years
Visit trip to Island
etc ,Harty, Queenborugh
1747 food etc etc well ,Nore
Chapel,food , oystera,,Chatham
,Minster , Abbey.
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Sexburgha saint , 77 nuns,Family of.
Robert De Shurlands family line.and his
horse
Wrecks
at sea.
Ann Plot run over ,as flat as a pancake legent
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
1560 explorer left wife and family .Discoveed New Foundland
Queenborough and Elephant and Queen Elizabeth
John Taylor and the
paper boat.1620
Harty and Trial by Combat (Paramour)
Fish
,3 rod long by Stephen
Rouse 1769 Parish Clerk
1322 + ghost + Priest in love with a nun.
1340 kidnapped a nun
of Sheppey
Mutiny of the Nore ,
Captain Trollop , crew joined mutiny ,captain to blow up
Nore Mutiny and Richard Parker very long incl Captain Blyth
Buttercup and the
Fairy.1920 R.A.F.plane race of two planers
Queen borough smuggler in goal access to goal .from council chamber
Rouse diary 41 years
each day ,school ,undertaker etc etc
very good data .
The oak tree and Kingsborough court.
The
first co-op ever. The
history of
Sheppey and flight members who
flew. And first accident.
Escaped prisoner by
railway
Bouncing bombs tested
at Leysdown.
TAPE TWO
Memorials and epitaphs
gravestones in the cemetery
War time boom Sheppey
Oak lane pub,beagle pack RAF officers
Richard Montgomery
The Smugglers stone
and story .
Dockyard and chips and
Blue House
Sheerness in three
parts Mile Town etc
Dockyard two unseparable twins but one was female !!!
Smuggled liquor French
gin ,names etc
fined £75
Poachers found out, fined ,no money jailed
3
Julius Ceaser on Sheppey
King Richard ransom, freedom, dunes
Elephants prehistoric etc one at sea
Royal Arms on Sheppey,
churches etc Anne , William iiii
1734 gun accidents 3
off
Bronxe age metalworker tools found at Harty Old coins found 3rd C
1781 Wild Wolf French
ship lands men at Sheppey for food left ashore.
1840/1846 Pile of clothing on beach
Old
Smugglers and pigeons
dash to bed to hide
Vicar of High Halden ,and
man found dead with large stone around neck
Shurland Hall ghost , 1769 Ghost of Grace seen at Eastchurch pond
1795 John Redman of Faversham and 200 seamen captured and rations
fireworks thrown
fined 5/- etc
Simon Gilks
Nore Mutiny death of doctor
Water boats and water
buckets plus wells
Windmills on Sheppey
horizontal mills
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June 1756 letter re
large fish Stephen Rouse
U2567 Stephen Rouse Diaries at
Stephens family
history very very long and his work etc very good.
His garden products . names he worked for/with
all subjects
STEPHEN
ROUSE very very good and very very
lkong.
1760 Work house WITH NAMES
TAPE THREE.
Jerrold theatre and actors and Punch
Poet” The shipwreck “ ,
Sheerness theatre and
smuggling, cracks
in floor found 80 sacks of Gin
Smuggling “ Times “
1832 fires insurance claims 50 houses burnt down lady refused help gin.
Annual Fair Minster,
Dockyard
Dockyard block iron paving ,Ballast .paved in Yard.
Shurland story De Shurland Cheyney
Hogath and his trips and De Shurland
De Shurland
tales by
Hasted De Shurland Wreck of the sea
Smugglers stone Beaney institute advert
re murder on Sheppey 1814
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1798 Christmas in Borstall Hall ,All names VERY VERY GOOD
EDWARD Shurland re 13th May 1609 buried in
Romans here then
Saxons Nunnery 670 . 8oo AD Vikings Wrecked Abbey
.Settled on Sheppey
Newington Nun killed
.nuns sent to Minster, rebuild the Abbey .On a down £139.8d
Roads running North digging ,trenches skeleton s
small bodies and large
Viking Chief loved a nun did not touch , went to sea .On Danish
coast a cave for them .
Nore Mutiny very long letter to Admiral1797 122 men aboard
Ships red flag to join or sink ship
Letter 1747 12 to 14
years old family to go to Queenborough
TAPE FOUR.
Cliff falls
False alarm invasion ?
Storehouse HMD Size of .,spring door stealing
Shurland house 4? Ghosts, A Saunter thro’……
Silk Farms .To grow mulberry . sites of.
Sea glass
??/ mica.
Mice/rats tales legends
.why no rats on
Copperas Falconer 1682
Roman Cement
Harty and Elmley 1850 Globe pub
school. The Wells .
Coursing and sanctuary
Kingsmill
Airship scare Zepplin U.F.O. at Sheerness Churchill and Parliament 1912
Banks Family and Sir John Rennie
Banks and Jollife Ltd built Sheerness Dockyard and Royal Hotel and
Sheppey Court Warden Manor and P.O.
Rouse The
Cat and nine lives
Tontines and an
Example
The Mayor of Queenboro’ Greet
Race around Sheppey
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Highland Pub in one of six booklets.
Plus tales of Sheppey
No. 2 booklet Shurland tale
No. 3 booklet Queenboro paper boat
No.4
? Smugglers freed from goal
No.5? Mayor on ground and queen breeches elephant
No.6 Liversy
Shurland hall visit and good description of feast
and Ransom paid
Harty +water day ,an old
organ, Brising Stone ,Water divining ,
Arden of Faversham killed ,his death
Sheppey Sport cricket
matches.-Rouse-etc etc 1770 golf course Dr. Grace cricket ,boxing
Sheppey names , people , and sites
1635 freemasons to
view steeples, £135 collected to repair
Press gangs
1573 bakers dozen =13 .scolding, school
,arms in church cost of ,
1660 36/- for the
Kings arm
Old Queenborough family names 1590
TAPE FIVE.
Minster Abbey
description of parts
etc 2 saxon high windows ,Roman bricks
St Catherine and St
.Large figure dug up .holding
his soul..very long
3 Memorials +tablets.. The
Sheppey Founder of
Gunner Worth headstone
Abbey Gatehouse
History/ Description
of Sheppey
Rouse, Wesley , Shrubsole
Scandnavian influence.
Blockhouses bottoms
cleaned, beacons ,
Start up of
Dockyard/description
Garrison point
Hulks
Chips and Bluehouses
Naval Hospoital 300 worked in Dockyard Fort Townsend
Nore Mutiny ,Burial of
Parker
Coffin closes the
Hulks wells
Hulks Rennie Plan of Dockyard to
Boathouse sizes Basins ,Church , Drawbridges
Description of Bluetown
, Sheerness
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Sheppey/Sheerness description size from
-0000BC Harty
iron works VERY VERY VERY LONG
Rebellious Sheppey
Haywoods charatices .
S ROUSE A mystery man . Thoughts on churches. 1785 10th October last
sermon glad to see him go
Dockyard 177 Stokes
preached to 4 score men . 1777 Morton and family
married Mary Baker v
ery quick promotion
?why ? 1786
very poor sermon etc .
TAPE SIX
Stephen Rouse Diary “ had my dogs hanged”Rabies?? “
took down the sentences ?? /Faversham
Church Sentences Georgian
texts
Silver locks 1770 ? John Payne
Sir Thomas Cheyney coat of arms a description
of him, Big John 7 feet tall.
Minster Thanet/Sheppey
oldest.?
Ship models Stockwell
Model first ? built ship then
the model ???
HMS Leopard mutiny and hanging list of names 1797
carver of ships head
Donkey stolen anchor taken to
Faversham and returned no donkey
Cricket match Teams
listed
Canterbury & Danes killing. Only king buried in
Ospringe roads hangmans field
1777 female found hanging
buried with ashen stake in
a crossroad through her heart.
Gunner Worth tombstone .
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Sondes Family line and Earl of Faversham
Earthquakes in
Priest holes on
Sheppey
1939 hide holes
Land/houses for sale
Irish troops.very small
Militia
, defensibles,
local voluteers
1803 and definition and numbers
Press gangs or prison
Nore Mutiny
Sheppey pubs trip all
listed
Prison food John
Redman 1795
Boats built at Faversham
1808 Frenchmen escaped
Parker /Nore Mutiny 21 ships flying the red flag.Dover .
Clock
Tower 1907 origin.