Church of St. John the Divine, Chatham cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Chris Whippet - geograph.org.uk/p/3850305 (St John's a Waterloo church built in 1821 and restructured in 1869, ceased being an active church in 1964, was then used as an art project and finally reopened in 2021.) |
Friday 29 December 2023
Henry George Harcus and Susan Alice Tubb
Friday 7 April 2023
John Harcus and Selina Patrick
Gillingham Parish Church (St Mary Magdalen) cc-by-sa/2.0 - © N Chadwick - geograph.org.uk/p/1146460 |
- Richard John Harcus b. 1845 S Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 05 Page 354, bap. 20 Jul 1845 at St Mary's Church, Chatham
- Henry George Harcus b. 1848 S Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 05 Page 398, bap. 15 Oct 1848 at St Mary's Church, Chatham
- Selina Mary Ann Harcus b. 1850 M Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 05 Page 414, bap. 10 Mar 1850 at St Mary's Church, Chatham
- Alice Martha Harcus b. 1858 J Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 02A Page 323, bap. 30 May 1858 at St Mary's Church, Chatham, died aged 1 and was buried in the Former St Mary's Burial Ground.
- John Edward Harcus b. 1860 J Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 340
- George Frederick Harcus b. 1863 M Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 02A Page 418 (reads John Edward, but can't tell where the error occurred.)
Robbery of a Publican.Helen Reed, 23, was on Monday charged on remand, before the county magistrates, with having stolen half a pint of brandy, from the spirit bar of the "Red Lion" public house, Military Road, Chatham, where she was servant.The spirit was accidentally discovered hidden away, by Mrs. Harcus, the landlady, and on the prisoner being taxed with the robbery, she at once confessed that she had taken the brandy.The magistrates committed her for 3 months' hard labour.
John Harcus died on 9 Jul 1868, at 47. He was buried in the Former St Mary's Burial Ground, now Town Hall Gardens. (The tombstone was amongst those removed from the said Gardens and reinterred, on 5th August 1971, in the Borough Cemetery in Maidstone Road Chatham Section.)
Probate was granted on 8 May 1869, when:
"The Will of John Harcus late of the "Chest Arms" High Street Chatham in the County of Kent Victualler deceased who died 9 Jul 1868 at the "Chest Arms" aforesaid was proved at the Principal Registry by the oath of Selina Harcus of the "Chest Arms" aforesaid Widow the Relict the sole Executrix".
In 1871, Selina Harcus (47) Licensed Victualler was at the Chest Arms, 55 High Street, Chatham, George (7), daughter Selina Caddy (21), Henry Caddy (24) Shipwright; Lydia Emill (16) and lodgers: William Smith (40) Pensioner from Cork and George Atts (31) Photographer from Germany.
Kellys Directory places Selina Harcus at the Chest Arms in 1874, then from From the Rochester and Chatham Journal and Mid-Kent Advertiser, Saturday, September 2, 1876: "Miscellaneous. The magistrates hear adjourned for some time to take of luncheon. On business being resumed the following persons, who had been convicted of various offences during the year, and his cases had been deferred in consequence, apply for the renewal of their licences. vis. Mrs. Harcus, "Chest Arms," Chatham ..." No idea what the offence was.
In 1881, son John Edward Harcus was the Licensed Victualler at the Dartmouth Arms, 257 High Street, Chatham (image), with widowed mother, Selina Harcus (56), Henrietta Golding (18) Domestic Servant, brother George Frederick (18) Mariner and Mary Ann Drago (23) Visitor, listed as wife of Wm Drago. (William Drago, Shipwright, had married Mary Ann Tester in 1876. One of the witnesses to this marriage was George Vokes, who had also been a witnesses for Henry George Harcus and Susan Alice Tubb in 1872.)
Now reinterred, on 5th August 1971, in the Borough Cemetery in Maidstone Road |
Son Henry George Harcus died at 39, in 1887, then son John Edward Harcus died two years later on 12 Jun 1889, at 29 and was also buried at the Former St Mary's Burial Ground, now Town Hall Gardens, on 16 Jun 1889.
In 1891, Selina Harcus (66) widow, was Living on her own means at Pleasant Row, St Margaret, Medway, Kent.
In 1901, Selina Harcus (78) was living in the household of her youngest son, George F Harcus (37) Barge Captain at 18, Cecil Avenue, Strood, Kent, with Charlotte Harcus (34), Richard Harcus (13) and Nellie Harcus (12).
Selina Harcus died, aged 81, at Coburg House, Cliffe Rd, Strood and was buried on 28 May 1904 at Strood Cemetery, Section K Grave No. 3 (C).
Strood Cemetery, Cuxton Road cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Marathon - geograph.org.uk/p/3602387 |
Wednesday 25 January 2023
William Ebenezer Eastabrook and Mary Connolly
Victorian villa, Marionville Road cc-by-sa/2.0 - © kim traynor - geograph.org.uk/p/1606980 The house stands in the grounds of St. Ninian's and Triduana R.C. Church. |
William Ebenezer Eastabrook, second son of Samuel Ebenezer Derry Eastabrook and Eliza Back married Mary Connolly, in 1909. Listed in Scotland Roman Catholic Parish Marriages in Edinburgh, Restalrig, Midlothian, this is likely to have taken place at Ss Ninian & Triduana R C Church.
- Mary Magdalen Eastabrook b. 1910 J Q in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 771
- Eliza Winifred May Eastabrook b. 1911 J Q in MEDWAY Vol 02A 782
- William Ebenezer Eastabrook b. 13 Jan 1913 in MEDWAY Vol 02A 1452
- Thomas James Eastabrook b. 1917 J Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 02A Page 1178. Died 25 Jun 1917 J Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 02A Page 999 and is buried at Grange Road Cemetery, Gillingham.
- Mary Magdalen Eastabrook married Henry J Cox, in Medway, in 1929. Mary Magdalen Cox died in Q1/1986 in CHILTERN AND BEACONSFIELD (3252) Volume 19 Page 1374.
- Eliza Winifred May Eastabrook, listed as Winnie, living with the family in 1921. Winifred Easterbrook (40) sailed to New York from Southampton on the Queen Elizabeth on 15 Jun 1951. Winifred Eastabrook, born 11 May 1911, died at 84, in 1995 in Sutton, Surrey.
- In 1928, William Ebenezer Eastabrook, born 13 Jan 1913, from Gillingham Kent, was a Greenwich School Boy (Royal Naval College, Greenwich). He transferred to the Royal Navy on 1 Jan 1929 and signed up for another 12 years from 13 Jan 1931, advancing to Yeo Sigs (Yeoman of signals), being re-instated in 1943 and again in 1944. William E Eastabrook married, in 1946, in the New Forest, Hampshire. In late 1946 and 1947, as William Ernest Eastabroook, with 17 years experience at sea with the Royal Navy, he was QM (Quartermaster) on the RMS Queen Elizabeth luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States. Also listed as William Ernest Eastabrook, but birth date of 13 Jan 1913 agrees, he died, aged 62, in Southampton, Hampshire in 1975.
Thursday 29 April 2021
Stephen Botterill and Elizabeth Tubb
Shakespeare Road, Gillingham cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Chris Whippet - geograph.org.uk/p/3889536 |
- Alice Bottrill b. 1877 J Quarter in MEDWAY Volume 02A Page 477
- Mary Elizabeth Botterill b. 1881 M Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 586
- Stephen Botterill b. 3 Sep 1883 D Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 556
- John Botterill b. 20 May 1886 J Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 606
- Grace Hannah Botterill b. 1888 D Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 603
- Florence Botterill b. 1891 D Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 587
- Gertrude Botterill b. 1894 M Qtr in MEDWAY Vol 02A Page 608
Daniel Thompson Botterill and Jessie Elizabeth Maslin and Evelyn John Gutton Budge and Gerald Foll
Bromell's Road, Clapham cc-by-sa/2.0 - © Derek Harper - geograph.org.uk/p/4349683 |
- Joseph Daniel Botterill born 3rd quarter of 1907, died in the 1st quarter of 1908 and buried on 25 January 1908 at Charlton Cemetery
- Daniel Thompson Botterill born in the 3rd quarter of 1908, in Greenwich