VARIOUS WAYS OF SPELLING "PENNEY"

                                                COLIN PENNEY

PONNY.         PENYE.                                " COPPERS "

PYNNE.         PUNNEY.                               OAK LANE 

PENNYE.        PENNEY.                               MINSTER  

PENY.                                                SHEPPY.

PENNIE.                                              ME12 3QW   

PENEY.

PUNNEY.

PENNEE.

PEENY.

PENNY

PINNIE.

PINNOY.

PHYNY.

PHYNNY.

PINNEY.

PENHEY.

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STRANGE PENNEY NAMES.

MERRITE CASH PENNEY.

BAYSINGER    PENNEY.

PERRY COMMODORE PENNEY.

PHYDELIA     PENNEY.

DELIVERANCE  PENNEY.

RUTH TORODE  PENNEY.

ZILPAH       PENNEY. NEE SMITH OF BISHOPSGATE m1791.

ALBERTINA    PENNEY.bGREENWICH.1808

ELIZABETH FRIEND PENNEY.b1762 DEPTFORD.

JAMES BRAVIL PENNEY.b1771 DEPTFORD.

GEORGE FARRANT PENNEY.b1801.

THEODOSIA    PENNEY.b1812 BERMONDSEY.

FORTUNATIS HUGLY PILE PENNEY.d1803 DEPTFORD.

JOHN OWLET   PENNEY.b1819 LAMBETH.

AMOS CRYMES  PENNEY.b1826 STEPNEY.

MINNIE ALETHEA PENNEY.b1874 JAPAN.

STRANGE OTHER NAMES.

THANKFUL BANGS (A FAMALE)                            LAYCOCK.

CHARLES SPURGEON RAYNER..                            GLASSCOCK.

MUNGO MURRAY.b DEPTFORD 1700.                        HANDCOCK.    

NORBERRY ROUT.m1736.                                 HISCOCK.

JAMES DAFFORNE BARLING. mWOOLWICH 1801.              HITCHCOCK.

THADDEUS CARTER                                      WOODCOCK.   

SEAMAN BRUNGER OF ASHFORD.                           COCK.

HENRY GRABHAM OF CHARD.                              JOHNCOCK.

GILBE BROMLEY.                                       LEWCOCK. 

JAMEN LADD TERRY OF MILTON.                          POCOCK.

HOMONIA BAINES OF IRELAND.                           WILLCOCKS.              LEWSHALL GOOCH OF DARAY.                             HAVERCOCK.

FRIEND LISSENDEN.                                    BADCOCK.

JOHN JEYKLL.                                         DANCOCKS.   

MAY GRABHAM

YORKE INEZ WATTS.

FRANCES CLAPSHOE.

ELIZABETH DULY WRIGHT.

HARMONES WEYSE.

ARRIMINTA SCOTT.

SHADRACK DEWEY.

ADAM EVE.

ABLE WILDISH.

FLO CHURCHYARD.

JOHN WILLEY.

MERCY MACEY.

RAGNAL POWER GIDDY

SHEPPEY RESIDENTS.WITH STRANGE NAMES.

ANN PEED                      WELCOME COLYER                     

UNCY PIPER                    RICHARD ORMOND CARRICK    

PERSEVERANCE LAWTON                   CHRIS.CHAS.HUISH CLARK

PLEASANT BANFIELD                     GEORGE YARKER DICKSON

JAMES PRECIOUS WISEMAN         FLORINE GAZELLA KENNEDY        

DR.JULIUS CAESAR                      LILIAN LAMMA KITE

CHARITY SAFFERY                FRANCIS CONELLI HAYTER

MOTLEY THOMPSON                LOUISA SHEERES DUNSTAN

ELIZA MAYBE                           DIX GEE

PHILADELPHIA WAGHORN           FRANK BAYMAN HORROKS

STEM HOOKER                           REGINALD BALIOKER HURN

ASSIAN CARLISLE                AYERST HOOKER

GILBEE BROMLEY                ALMERIC STUART SPENCER

WABONE HAYHOW                 EVA FIDIES THWAITES     

BETHA BASTARD                 HAPPIE WRIGHT   

TREDOLINA CASY                        JESSIE BENBOW SALTER   

CATHERINE SHERER PEAKE         ALVENIA BRETT

MILCAH ROBINSON                WM. GRILLS CALLAWAY

NOLAH MACAULEY                        ALICE MAY GRABHAM

PALM GIBBS                            THOMAS BONDY GALLEHAWK

HAMBLETON MAXWELL              FRANCES LOUVIAN MONK

JOHN SKILLING SUTERS           SYDNEY KEPLE MASKELL

VASTI NEWMAN                          WILLIAM NIAS RUFF

EDWARD FUNGE SLADE                    JOHN TINMOUTH

DIGGERY KNOWLES                EDMUND LILLICRAP MASON

WILLIAM SHINN FOSTER           ROBERT LOSTE MOON

MARTHA MAY GRABHAM                    BENJAMIN BOTTLE MOORE

TRYPHENIA TROWELL                     CONIL MOREN

TRYPHOSA TROWELL                      E.WAKEHAM

TALIESEN PROSSER                      E REDHAM

FLORENCE MAHALD LLOYD          A GOLIGHTLY

DORCAS GRIFFITHS                      THOMAS GENTLE WILLIAMSON

ROSETTA RUMP                          BAWDEN SKEWIS

PHILADELPHIA WORGER           FLO CHURCHYARD

ADELIZA BROWN                         JOHN WILLEY

BRITIANNIA WHITING            ALEA MAUD MEARS

CHARLES GANGES BLEASDALE              EVIS OLIVER FRANKLIN

SIDNEY KEPLAR MASKELL          THUZA REECE

SERIAL VENABLES                PHAROH QUAINTANCE

PENTON GALE                           MAY BALL

LABANC GRAVES                         PRIESTHOOD HUTCHINGS

DAVID DRAPER HUNT             SEAMON BRUNGER 

GEORGE NOWELL HALLIWELL               MIOIAN WICKENS

THOMAS JINKING LOWRY           FOUNTAIN HEBNER

FRANCES LOUVIAN MONK          ALFRED TEMPLE ELLIS 

DELMAR SILLCOCK                       COUSEPION LEVETT

THOMAS SINOCK TAYLOR          LERONZO SEPTRES APPLETON

THOMAS SENNOCK TAYLOR          ENID MARWICK BANNER

SARAH COMFORT WISE                    RICHARD BEETENSON BARBER

ELSIE KEZIAH BOURNE           MONTAGUE J S BLAGROVE-FISHER              

IVY ROSE BUDD                 SINGLER SHRUBSOLE   

CODRINGTON PARR BICKFORD      REBEKAH AZABAH LAWRENCE

GIBBEN BATT                   LOTHORP LEWIS DE BERNIERE-SMITH

MAUDISTLEY GAUSSEN BEST       JOSEPH BILLINGSLEY BULLOCK

EDSOR BRITON                  EMMIE JANE MERAB

AUSTEAN KITTIE TUMBER         WARHAM FRANKLIN

HAMILTON ORIEL SEARLE FREEMAN    MAUDISTLY GAUSSEN BEST

BEBEKAH AZABAH LAWRENCE       LABAN GRAVES

CARL MARX LASALLE GRUNDY      GUY LAVI HASTIE 

EMILY COSSAR MIRAMS           SEPTIMUS OCTAVUS HULFORD

WILLIAM TOOMER INGRAM

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SAMUEL SLEE LARCOMBE          CHARLES HORN LASLETT

CHARLES DE LATOUCHE           CRESSWELL PAILETE ROOKE

ELLEN WARMAN LISTER                   ALICE LE HAYE

ALFRED LE FUEL                        BLANCHE MAUD LOMBARDO

BABARA LOPOLKHINE

                  EPITAPH.

WE SHALL ALL DIE

SHALL ALL DIE WE

ALL DIE WE SHALL

DIE WE SHALL ALL 

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          A PUZZLE.

MY FATHER IS MY SON

I AM MY MOTHER'S MOTHER

MY SISTER IS MY DAUGHTER

AND I AM GRANDMOTHER TO MY BROTHER.

SEE 1864 DEC.3RD. FOR THE ANSWER.!!

   LIVED TO BE 100.

JANE CONDE     D1851 MAR 23RD.AGED 100.

WILLIAM FRIDAY D1856 SEP 15TH.AGED 100

MRS.THOMAS OF EYE'URN HOUSE D1911 FEB 10TH AGED 101.

MARY PAGE      D1815 NOV 2ND AGED 100.

FRANCES ROAD   D1915 MAY 3RD (3 WEEKS TO GO)

JON CLOSE      D1858 SEP 24TH.AGED 104 OF WOOLWICH (AND HIS G.FATHER)

M.STACEY       

? EDWARDS                     AGED 100+

?ELVY                         AGED 100+

W.H.FILMER                    AGED 99

GRIFFEN                       AGED 100

SUTHERLAND

K.WATERS      

H.WOODCOCK

MARY BATCH      D1873

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  CRIMEAN VETERANS.

J.BENTLEY  BOWDER    J.BROTHERS   J.EASTCOTT   G.LANCASTER  R.LEDDEN

E.LEDGER   G.PHILPOTT  J.SOUTHERN   J TROTTER   W.WALSH   G.BLACKMORE

J.WHITING  F.GRIFFITHS

SEE LOCAL PAPER 1907 JUN 1ST.- 2 PARAGRAPHS VVVG.

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 VARIOUS VETERANS.

M.BLACKMORE    BALACLAVA

LAWTON         WATERLOO

LEONARD        TRAFALGAR

H.MATTHEWS     LUCKNOW

J.MOORE        INDIAN MUTINY

POVER          DR.LIVINGSTONE

H.STRONG       POLAR EXPIDITION

I.STUBBERFIELD ARTIC EXPLORER

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POPULATION SHEPPEY? ON FILE CARDS IN LIBRARY.

1851    11,082         1861    15,964         1871    15,110         1881    15,658

1891    16,111         1901    18,179         1911    17,478         1921    18,789

1931    16,833         1941-------            1951    15,796         1961    13,691

1971 13,060

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1723--200 IN THE DOCKYARD.

1797--1,500 IN THE DOCKYARD.

EARLY 1800'S--800 IN THE DOCKYARD.

S.TIMES APRIL 18TH. 1866--16,000 IS THE POPULATUION OF SHEERNESS.

EASTCHURCH RECORDS.   THOMAS HAMMOND -DROWNED IN A HOG TUB, SUPPOS'D TO 

HAVE BEEN BLOWN IN BY YE WIND.  MARCH 5TH.1791.

MILTON CHURCH M.I.   HERE LYETH THE BODY OF SIMON GILKER.JUNIOR, WHO WAS KILLED BY MEANS OF A ROCKETT NOVEMBER 5TH 1696 AGED 48.

SHEERNESS TIMES  1865  IT WAS REPORTED THAT DUE TO THE WARM WEATHER THIS SUMMER ALL DOGS MUST BE MUZZLED. THIS DEMAND WAS REPEATED IN 1878, SO MAD DOGS SEEM TO HAVE BEEN COMMON.   IN 1871, IN FACT, A RABID DOG ENTERED HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND CAUSED PANIC AS IT RUSHED UP AND DOWN THE AISLE. THE SERVICE WAS RESUMED AFTER A FEW MINUTES WHEN THE DOG WAS CAPTURED.

ISLE OF SHEPPY WALTZES.  WHEN THOMAS BRISTOW MARRIED LYDIA VERNON AT JEVINGTON IN 1790 .THEIR SON WILLIAM RICHARD BRISTOW WAS BAPTISED AT THE DOCKYARD CHURCH FEB. 5TH.1803, AND HIS SON GEORGE FREDERICK BRISTOW WAS A NOTED 19TH. CENTURY AMERICAN COMPOSER. HE COMPOSED AND HAD PUBLISHED, AT THE AGE OF 14, A GROUP OF DANCES FOR PIANO CALLED "THE ISLE OF SHEPPY WALTZES "(1840):

        1.SHEERNESS.

        2.MILETOWN.

        3.MINSTER.     

        4.EAST CHURCH.

        5.LEYSDOWN.

        6.QUEENSBOROUGH.

                       THESE ARE NOW IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, MUSIC DIVISION,WASHINGTON D.C. 20540.  THE CALL NUMBER IS MI/A12 I /4.

IT IS POSSIBLE TO PURCHASE COPIES OF THESE.

A SOOTHING NAME.  HERNE BURIAL REGISTER 1619.JUNE THE 7TH. DAY;

        SOBRIETYE YE WIFE OF STEPHEN SAVAGE.

SHEERNESS TIMES .FEB 21ST. 1914 FREDERICK EATON AGED 53 OF LONDON,CUT HIS WRIST WITH A KNIFE,HIS THROAT WITH A RAZOR,TOOK BICHROMATE OF POTASSIUM,AND PLACED HIS HEAD IN THE OVEN AND TURNED THE GAS ON. HE DIED IN GUY'S HOSPITAL.THE JURY RETURNED A VERDICT OF "SUICIDE WHILST OF UNSOUND MIND"

A WORTHY CITIZEN. THE SHEERNESS GUARDIAN OF 1866 REPORTS THAT THE ATLANTA

MESSENGER GAVE THE FOLLOWING NOTICE OF A DECEASED MEMBER OF THAT PLACE;-

"HE WAS THE FATHER OF 11 SONS, 5 OF WHOM MARRIED 5 SISTERS ,HE HAD 189 GRANDCHILDREN, AND AT HIS FUNERAL ON SUNDAY TWO HORSES WERE STUNG TO DEATH BY BEES.

WHAT A GOOD IDEA.  FROM AN OLD QUEENBOROUGH COURT BOOK;

ONE JOHN CLARK WAS APPREHENDED  "FOR BEING A SCOTSMAN, AS IT IS SUPPOSED"

AND ON THIS MERE SUSPICION "IT WAS COMMANDED THAT HE BE KEPT IN SAFE CUSTODY "

OH DEAR!.  SHEERNESS GUARDIAN NOV.16TH 1889, RECORDS THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT FROM A COURT CASE CONCERNING JAMES HAMMOND:- HE WAS BORN IN SHEERNESS,HIS BIRTH WAS NEVER REGISTERED,HE WAS 10 YEARS OLD ON THE 28TH OF NOVEMBER LAST YEAR,AT LEAST HIS PARENTS THINK HE WAS. HE HAD TWO OTHER NAMES BUT HIS MOTHER HAD FORGOTTEN THEM.

SHEERNESS RECORDS.  MARY ANN WOOD ,WIFE OF JAMES WOOD OF SHEERNESS,BORN 1862 NOV 27TH A DAUGHTER.   THIS INFANT IS BLESSED WITH  2 G.G.FATHERS, 

2 G.G.MOTHERS, 2 G.FATHERS, 2 G.MOTHERS, 21 G.UNCLES, 21 G.AUNTS, 8 UNCLES,  8 AUNTS, AND INNUMERABLE COUSINS.

A GRAVE MISTAKE.  AFTER 8 YEARS SEARCHING THE PARISH REGISTERS FOR A NAME TO MATCH THE INITIALS "H.W.P." ON A STONE SLAB IN HIS CHURCH, THE REV.PHILLIP RANDALL OF EYE NEAR PETERSBOROUGH HAS SOLVED THE MYSTERY.

THE INITIALS STAND FOR " HOT WATER PIPE ".

WELL I NEVER DID. SHEERNESS GUARDIAN 1882 SEPT 30TH.

AT GREAT CHART NEAR ASHFORD, MR.HENRY ANDREWS,PARISH CHURCHWARDEN AND THE OCCUPIER OF CHART COURT LODGE, MARRIED MRS.AMELIA WOOD ,WIDOW OF A WELL-TO-DO PUBLICAN OF GREAT CHART. THE  BRIDEGROOM WAS AN OCTAGENARIAN AND THE BRIDE WAS NEARLY THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN.

AFTER THE CEREMONY, THE COUPLE AND THE GUESTS CHEERED AND SALUTED ANOTHER ELDERLY WEDDING PARTY ;MR. CHARLES SPEARPOINT WHO HAD MARRIED MRS.CAROLINE BENSTED,WIDOW, AT THE WESLEYAN CHAPEL,BOTH CONSIDERABLY OVER 70 YEARS OF AGE.  THERE WAS A LARGE FIREWORK DISPLAY IN A MEADOW ADJOINING THE STREET.

UNREGISTERED BURIALS.  SHEERNESS GUARDIAN 1904 JAN.30TH.

FROM CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS,EASTCHURCH "PREVIOUS TO THE YEAR 1771, ALL BODIES WASHED UP BY THE SEA WERE BURIED ON THE SHORE,PROBABLY WITHOUT ANY RELIGIOUS SERVICE. THUS, IN 1698, FOUR MEN WERE BURIED AT THE SASIDE, AS AN ENTRY IN THE ACCOUNTS BOOK (NOT IN THE REGISTER! ) RECORDS."

THE SQUARE MAN. FROM ST.PAULS CANTERBURY BURIALS.

26 NOVEMBER 1737 DAVID FFERNE THE SHORT MAN BORN IN THE SHIRE OF ROSS IN THE PARISH OF FFERNE, AGED 27 WAS BUT 30 INCHES FROM HEAD TO FOOT AND 36 INCHES ABOUT

M.I. IN QUEENBOROUGH CHURCHYARD. IN 1865 ONLY A FEW INCHES OF THIS HEADSTONE WAS UNCOVERED  ( NOW LOST ?)

        H

        ERE

        LYETH

        YE BODY OF

        ELIAS YARDLEY

        GENT. SON OF THOS YARDLEY

        RECTOR OF HVNTON AND OF

        LETTICE HIS WIFE. HE WAS

        SECRETARY TO VALIANT

        SR. EDWARD SPRAGG AND

        MVSTER MASTER OF HIS 

        SQUADREN.UNDER WHOSE

        STANDARD MANFULLY

        FIGHTING AGAINST THE

        DVTCH HE RECEIVED HIS

        DEATH WOUND BY A GRET

        SHOT WHEREOF HE DYED

        JVNE 8TH 1673

        AETAT SVAE 24.

THIS OLD MAN....  DOVER TELEGRAPH 1856 AUG.30TH.

DEATH-AUG 22 AT WINGHAM, MR. EDWARD SMITH IN HIS 98TH YEAR OF HIS AGE, LEAVES A WIDOW AGED 95 YEARS  TO WHOM HE HAD BEEN MARRIED 74 YEARS.

FLOTSAM AND JUMBO.  SHEERNESS TIMES 1882.

A SMALL ELEPHANT WAS WASHED UP AT LEYSDOWN AFTER THE WINTER GALES.

HAIR TODAY.  KENTISH GAZETTE 1796 NOV 22ND.

ON MONDAY LAST ONE, HODGISON , OF GREENWICH ,WAS CONVICTED BY THE BENCH OF JUSTICES ACTING FOR THAT PART OF THE COUNTY OF KENT, IN THE FULL PENALTY OF £20 FOR WEARING HAIR POWDER ,WITHOUT HAVING OBTAINED A CERTIFICATE.

COACHING DAYS. SHEERNESS TIMES 1849,

TWO COACHES A DAY RUN FROM THE BLUE TOWN TO SITTINGBOURNE ,AND IN 1870 EASTCHURCH STARTED ITS OWN BUS SERVICE.

FOR SAIL!.   SHEERNESS TIMES 

IN 1879 THREE TOP SAIL BARGES WERE ADVERTISED FOR SALE  AND IN THE SAME YEAR TWO CAPTAINS BET £200  EACH THAT THEIR OWN BARGE WAS THE FASTEST WHICH WAS SETTLED IN A WELL PUBLICISED RACE.

IN 1900 A BARGE WAS HIT BY A 6" PRACTICE SHOT  AND SUNK.

CABBIE.!  SHEERNESS TIMES 1892.

THE COUNCIL RECEIVED 34 APPLICATIONS FOR CAB LICENSES.

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