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PUB LIST PUBLIC HOUSES Paul Skelton

Earliest 1788-

Mariner's

Latest 1831+

Brambledown

Eastchurch

 

I am assuming this is indeed a public house, but have only seen the two instances of it to date.

 

From the Stephen Rouse diaries transcribed by Wendy James.

6 Feb 1788.

At a Meeting of the Jury at the "Mariners" at Eastchurch. Mr Pratt, Ferry Warden; Edward Reynolds, Constable; John Swift Esq., William Brett Snr., James Penn, Samuel Craydon, John Rice, John Head Snr., John Gold, Henry Grainger, James Turner, William Brett Jnr., John Davis, Jonas Mantle...John Rice.

William Norris, was declared to be Ferry Keeper for the Island of Sheppey, Eastchurch Minster Leysdown Warden.

Norris is to bring up two of Nicholas’s children, to help repair the boats, to employ but one man and to pay a rent of ten pounds per year, as informed by Mr Penn.

 

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 22nd 1831.

Isle of Sheppey, Minster Parsonage Farm, 12 cart horses, four ditto Colts, three cows, 31 hogs and pigs, agricultural implements, &c.

To be sold by auction, by Mr. J. Jordan, on Wednesday, 5th of October, 1831, at 11 o'clock, on the premises, at the Parsonage Farm, Minster, and the Isle of Sheppey, (the property of Mr. Champers, who is leaving the farm.)

Comprising 12 useful cart horses, w two yearling cart Colt, one yearling ditto, one suckling ditto, three cows in calf, 31 hogs and pigs, two strong wagons, one tug, four dung carts, one water barrel on carriage, three Kent wheel ploughs, two drill ditto, one furrow ditto, one four horse harrow, four pair small harrows, two wheat ditto, one wood roll, one capitol four horse stone ditto with frame and rods, one two horse ditto, four bean breaks, about 300 wattle gates, corn chests, cutting boxes, hay and cork forks and rakes, shovels and dune spuds, waggon and plough harness, the other effects as will appear in Catalogues, which may be had two days preceding the Sale, at the "Ship Inn," Faversham; "Bull Inn," Maidstone; Phoenix Printing Office, Rochester; "Thatched House," Minster; "Mariners," Eastchurch, Sheppey, and of the Auctioneer, House and Land Agent, Milton next Sittingbourne.

 

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