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Contents
1. Funny Bits - poems, medical advice and rhymes
2. Parish Register Extracts - Miscellaneous Oddments & Snippets
3.School Log Book Extracts: Elson (Gosport), Leesland (Gosport), Itchen
(Hampshire)
4.Historical Portsmouth - Calendar of Events
5. Haslar Hospital, Gosport
6. Prisons
7. The Traitor
8.List of Passengers - Cunard Line - RMS Mauretania ( First Class
)
1. FUNNY BITS
A COLD CURE FROM 1430: -
Put your feet in hot water
As high as your thighes
Wrappe your head up in flannelle
As low as your eyes
Take a quart of rum'd gruelle
When in bed as a dose
With a number four dippe
Well tallow your nose
AN UNDATED NURSERY RHYME: -
Owen Moore has run away
Owing more than he can pay
2. PARISH REGISTER EXTRACTS - miscellanea
a) As seen in the East Meon parish registers before the start of 1655:
Zealous of good works were the good men of old
Good men of old
Thomas BABIN is my name and England is my nation
And ??? is my jowling plato
And church is my salutation
b) A recent baptism we noticed was for a child called "George SQUARE". The details that followed said that he had been found, abandoned as a baby in a place called George Square.
c) Durley Snippets
From the Vestry Accounts pounds shillings pence
1795 a
blanket and night gown
0 7 0
flitch of bacon 3 6 3
sack of potatoes 0 12 0
a paupers funeral 1 6 0
1818 5 sackes of perteaters (sic)
1 2 6
Medical:
1754 Dr BLUNDELL for bleeding F ABRAM 0 6 0
1796 Dr BLUNDELL for bleeding a woman 0 2 0
1800 Paid Dockter Seymour for attending the poor 11 16 6
1624: Paid ye Beadle for repairs to ye Butts
0
0 8
bread & wyne for
Christmas
0 1 1
for fifty tyles
0
0
6
1716: bread & wine at Christmas
0
7
1
lime & lathes for ye
chancel
0
9
0
5 fox
heads 0 5 0
1793 bread & wine for sacremant 0 12 0
a bason for the faunt 0 0 6
2 hegghogs,2 weasells, 1 polecatt 0 1 10
1807 new iron for the whipping stocks 0 2 0
1834 Sarah Pavey for washing the church (one year) 0 3 0
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3. SCHOOL LOG BOOK EXTRACTS
ELSON JUNIOR SCHOOL, GOSPORT
(1862-1909) 67M71/LB1
09 October 1862 John SHUTLER (Junior Teacher) absent with sore chest
13 November 1862 Commenced having fires in school for winter
01 December 1862 John SHUTLER
(Junior Teacher) showed great carelessness in his home exercises
15 December 1862 James STONE
(Senior Teacher) having completed his apprenticeship leaves for St Marks College
London to sit for a scholarship
20
January 1863 Jno SHUTLER (Junior Teacher) sent home
in the afternoon for neglecting his class
04 February 1863 Took a sea biscuit from a boy who was
eating it in school
06 February 1863 Punished two girls for eating turnips during lessons
03 March 1863 In the forefront of
the morning the classroom could not be used owing to the smoke from the stove
which was accountable for by the teachers (Junior) negligence in not removing
the ashes
01 April 1863 Changed time of pupil teachers lessons from noon to 7am
02 April 1863 Inkwells cleaned
12 May 1863 Certain children
questioned by the churchwardens relative to the breaking of a gravestone
13 May 1863 A stranger makes a
complaint against one of the boys of interferring with him on the road. The boy
is punished and the school cautioned on this point
12 June 1863 Cautioned the teachers
on their neglect of duty
17 July 1863 A woman makes a complaint of two boys gathering fruit in her garden
16 September 1863 J SHUTLER
(Junior Teacher) 10 minutes late in the afternoon
09 October 1863 John SHUTLER
cautioned on his home studies
17
December 1863 John SHUTLER sent home for his
insubordination
18 December 1863
The clothing club tickets were given out
14 January 1864 Certain children being in the
habit of bringing oak-apples to school, rotting them on the floor, make a rule
that all so doing shall be severely punished; In the afternoon a 1st class boy
is so andacious as to break this rule, he gets three cuts with the cane
25 April 1864 Smallpox bad in the
adjoining parishes. The Doctor paid a visit to see that all children had been
vaccinated
04 April 1864 Charles MOULDING became Master in the place of William R FLOWERS
and Betsey THORNE (ex pupil teacher), Assistant Mistress in the place of
Miss FLOWERS
13 July 1864 Expelled a boy for grossly misbehaving himself
27 September 1865 Admitted Eliza
PINK from Forton School
20
October 1865 Engagement with the incumbent for some time
investigating the cause of the wholescle of breaking of school windows the night
before
23 October 1865 Inflicted punishment on an offender for breaking school windows. Expelled Thomas
BUNN from the school
24 October
1865 Jno TAYLOR readmitted after being
absent
15 November 1865
Schoolwork disturbed by workmen putting gas into the school
06 December 1865 Stood a boy in the
middle of the room for ridiculing a poor man in the village
06 March 1866 Admitted Caroline
HOLLOWAY
08 May 1866 The boy
Charles MOUNTIFIELD having been repeatedly insubordinate the case was
reported by myself to the incumbent. The boy was expelled after being flogged by
the Reverend Gentleman himself.Subsequently I heard a report that the family of
MOUNTIFIELDS consisting of 5 children was withdrawn from the school
16 July 1866 Admitted Rose
BESSANT
20 July 1866 George
BRADLEY re-admitted
26 July 1866 Joseph O'DONNELL admitted from Gosport school
08 October 1866 Three boys name of
MOUNTIFIELD permitted to return to the school after being dismissed for
insubordination to the Master
26
November 1866 Readmitted James GLASSPOLE after long
absence
LEESLAND C OF E INFANT SCHOOL, GOSPORT: -
(1930-62)
1.ALPHABETICAL LIST OF STAFF
Mrs May Edith TAYLOR 5 Bury Close, Gosport
Supplementary Temporary supply staff
DOB 28 April 1907
08 July 1931 Nurse visited school this afternoon and examined
the heads of the children. 7 children were excluded from school owing to dirty
heads
09 December 1932
Victor DOREY fell in the playground and hurt his arm. The same evening he
was taken to the hospital and found that he fractured his humerus
02 August 1933 At 3pm the Reverend
WILLIAMS presented Miss YEATS after nearly 39 years service in
this school with a gold wristlet watch from the Staffs and Scholars of the
Departments
31 August 1936
Miss LEWIS retires today after 32 years service in this school. The
reason is ill-health
03 September 1936
Albert WARDELL fell over Violet PARDEY'S foot in the playground
yesterday am and sprained his foot
02
November 1936 George JEFFS climbed on the railings
at playtime this am. A spike entered his chin. His mother took him to the
hospital Doctor saw him and three stitches were inserted
26 September 1946 Mr LAWRENCE
visited the school to photograph the children
ITCHEN SCHOOL: - Extracted from data at the Hampshire record office. 1700 - Sept 29 - John MOUNSHER - Mayor 1701- Sept 29 - John VINNING - Mayor 1702 - June 19 - Great Expedition ,destined for Cadiz, sailed from Spithead,
under Sir George ROOKE. June 19 - Sir William GIFFERD appointed to the command of Portsmouth
Dockyard. Sept 29 - William BRANDON - Mayor 1703 - Sept 29 - George DEACON - Mayor February 12 - King Charles of Spain sailed from Portsmouth to Lisbon Sept 29 - John VINNING - Mayor. Sept 29 - Edward HARMAN - Mayor 1706 Sept 29 - Nathaniel HARFORD - Mayor Sept 29 - John VINNING - Mayor Sept 29 - Edward HARMAN - Mayor Sept 29 - Henry SEAGER elected Mayor - he was removed by MANDAMUS
on Feb 14 1711 & Henry MAYDMAN elected in his stead.A great political struggle
was raging at this time. Oct 7 - Sir Charles WAGER and Sir John JENNINGS elected member
of parliament but both were unseated on petition and Sir James WISEHART & Sir
William GIFFORD declared duly elected. Feb 21 - Sir James WISEHART re-elected on appointment as a
Lord of the Admiralty. Sept 29 - Charles BISSELL - Mayor Oct 9 - an expedition to Canada under Sir Horenden WALKER &
Brigadier HILL shattered by a storm, returned to Portsmouth. 1712 June 2 - Prince George of Denmark reviewed the navy at
Portsmouth Sept 29 - William SMITH - Mayor 1713 William SMITH MD Mayor. This gentleman was the founder of Portsmouth Grammar
School - not related to the previous man.Captain William LEE appointed to the
command of Portsmouth Dockyard. Lt General Thomas EILE appointed Governor of Portsmouth. Captain Sir Israel
TOWNSEND appointed to the command of Portsmouth Dockyard. Sept 29 - Robert REYNOLDS - Mayor. Feb 27 1781 a dreadful gale of wind which did much damage
and blew a 5. HASLAR HOSPITAL,GOSPORT Notes from "A walk around Haslar" ( at Hampshire record office). The burial grounds of the hospital are vast. 6. PRISONS Prior to 1850 the prison accommodation in Portsmouth was
mainly by way of the hulks in Portsmouth and Langstone Harbours where the
prisoners were held pending transportation.
7. THE TRAITOR It happened 320 years ago on 7 August 1782............. 8. LIST OF PASSENGERS R.M.S. MAURETANIA FIRST CLASS From New York To COBH, Havre and Southampton Saturday May 17 1958 Twin-Screw Turbine............ Gross Tonnage 35,677 LIST OF OFFICERS Captain - J.D. ARMSTRONG, D.S.C; R.D.; R.N.R. Staff Captain - P.A. READ, D.S.C; R.D;
R.N.R. Chief Engineer T.E. WILLIAMS
Chief Officer P.W. WILSON Surgeon P.F.X.
O'NEILL, M.B; B.ch; B.A.O; D.R.C.O.G. Purser
C.G. BELLAMY Chief Steward A MANN Staff Purser T.S. HAMILTON LIST OF PASSENGERS Mr Charles B ABBOTT Mrs ABBOTT Mr S.C.J. ADDISON Mr W.N.V. ALMOND Mr Phillip ANREAE Mrs ANREAE Mrs Sybil ARON Mr Ralph E BACHMAN Mrs George E BARTOL III Mr Peter BATH Mrs BATH Mstr Philip BATH Miss Alice BEARDWOOD Mrs Edward W BEATTIE Mrs Lea BECKINGTON Lady Pamela G BIRD Miss Gertrude E BOOTH Mr Lester BRADLEY Mrs BRADLEY Mr Arthur BURGESS Miss Ruth CAMERON Mr Patrick CARROLL Mrs CARROLL Mr Peter CLIVE Mrs CLIVE Mr J.W.G. COLLINS Mr W.C. CONNEL Mrs CONNEL Dr Thomas F CONROY Mrs CONROY Mstr Thomas CONROY Mr Anthony CRAMP Mr M.E. DALLAS Mrs DALLAS Miss Brenda De BANZI Miss Anna K DE LASHMUTT Brig Gen Daniel Wray DE PREZ Mrs DE PREZ Mr Harry S DICKEY Miss I DORFLINGER Mr E.J.C. DRABBLE Miss M.C. EDWARDS Mrs Gabriella EICKHOFF Miss Clara EICKHOFF Mr D.G. ELLIOTT Mr T EVANS Miss Sally FANNING Mr H Barton FARR Dr Werner FEILCHENFELD Mrs FEILCHENFELD Mr Alexander FERGUSON Mrs FERGUSON Mr James A FIOTT Mrs FIOTT Mr Arthur FLANAGAN Mrs FLANAGAN Mr Louis H FLERON Mrs FLERON Mr Tassos FONDARAS Mr C.S. FORESTER Mrs C.S.FORESTER Mr Dwight FOSTER Mrs FOSTER Mr Bernard W FOX Mrs FOX Mr Frank FRANKEL Mrs FRANKEL Mr John A FRANKLIN Mrs FRANKLIN Mrs J.J. GARMANY Mr Arthur David GEORGE Mr George S GIBBS Mrs GIBBS Mrs M Hopkins GILBERT Miss E.D. GILLESPIE Mr Gilman GIST Mrs GIST Mr Thomas F GRASSELLI Mrs GRASSELLI Mr R.P.GRENFELL Mrs GRENFELL Mr J.E.A.R. GUINNESS Mrs GUINNESS Mr A.W. HAHN Mrs HAHN Mr Simon HARTOG Miss Eleanor HATCH Mr Edmund S HAWLEY Mrs HAWLEY Mr C HAYWARD Mr Edward HEATHCOTE Mrs HEATHCOTE Mr T HONEYBOURNE Mrs HONEYBOURNE Mr R.A. HOPKINSON Mrs HOPKINSON Mstr Nicholas HOPKINSON Mr C.R.W.HOWES Mrs George M HUEY Mrs Mary HUTTRER
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1872 May 06 Lydia GARNEY left school for service
Ellen KEMP left school for service
May 20 Bertha MILLER left school the walk of six miles per day being too much for her
June 17 Attendance not quite so good some of the older children obliged to study at home as their mothers having gone to work in the fields
September 23 Edward PINNOCK punished before the whole school for absenting himself from school and church the Sunday before
December 01 Emily & John HEBERDEN admitted into the school. They are rather backward for their age
1873 January 24 Some of the first class boys punished for idleness and inattention
March 13 The arithmetic standard II greatly improved with the exception of Eliza Ann MUNDAY
April 04 I have had to reprove the first class boys for idleness and inattention especially Walter WISCON
April 16 Albert CROSS in standard I did both his writing and sums very badly
May 26 Louisa ROBINSON very ill behaved and refused to do as I bid her
May 31 The managers of this school think it right to record the fact that in the last six months the tenants of all the three farms in this parish have been changed and in consequence many old cottage residents have been replaced by new families whose children have received scarce any education. Thus carefully trained scholars have been withdrawn and seventeen fresh children, all very ignorant and uncivilised have had to be licked into shape.
October 22 The second, third and fourth classes received a lesson on the "manufacture of a pin" from the pupil teacher Sarah SMITH. The lesson was pretty well given but in the order of the children was not at all good.
1874 February 23 William MUNDAY punished for bad behaviour in church
March 17 Mary OCKFORD punished for disobedience.
4. HISTORICAL PORTSMOUTH -
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
November 26 - Great storm - the Newcastle foundered at Spithead, 193 lives
lost
December 26 - King Charles of Spain landed at Portsmouth
1704
January 5 - Combined English & Dutch fleets sailed from Portsmouth for
Portugal but were driven back by a storm and remained until mid February
1705
Captain Sir Isaac TOWNSEND appointed to the command of Portsmouth Dockyard
1707
Sept - The Queen of Portugal landed at Portsmouth and stayed some
days at the house of Thomas RIDGE
1708
July 29 - Fleet under command of Sir George Byng sailed for the coast
of France but were unable to effect a landing at La Hogue and returned August
28.
1709
September 29 - Nathanial HARFORD - Mayor - he died 9 December and Joseph
WHITEHORNE was elected in his stead.
1710
May 8 - an expedition sailed from Spithead against Port Royal which
was captured October 5.
1711
October 15 - HMS Edgar blown up at Spithead with 400 seamen on board
1714
August 3 - John CARTER brought news of the death of Queen Anne and
was threatened with imprisonment for doing so.
French Privatier into the harbour.
July 30 1781 the body of a Mr BRYAN who had been executed at Winchester for
murder was hung in chains at Blockhouse Beach near "Jack the painter". The body
was attired in a new suit of black, new shoes and ruffle.
Nov 1781 Gilkicker Fort completed.
Aug 29 1782 HMS Royal George sank at Spithead with the loss of 900
lives.
Oct 31 1782 severe fire on The Hard - several houses being destroyed.
Mar 10 1786 demolition of the Old Dockyard chapel.
Mar 24 1786 the convicts on board one of the prison ships at Portsmouth rose
upon their keepers and were not subdued until eight were shot dead and thirty
six wounded.
Feb 4 1787 opening of the New Dockyard church.
Dec 23 1787 The Bounty sailed from Portsmouth
1790 Colonel Thomas TRIGGE was appointed Lieutenant Governor of
Portsmouth
Nov 21 1790 Portsmouth was visited by an extraordinary storm of lightning,
thunder and hail. The lightning rolled along the ground like a body of liquid
fire & the hailstones were of immense size. The 74 gun ship "Elephant" was
struck by lightning and the main mast
shivered to splinters.
The whole of the land to the south west including the enclosed ground now known
as the paddock & the old cemetery to the north west of the terrace was used
indiscriminately as a burial ground in the early days of the hospital.
It is doubtful if there is any other spot where the dead, who died in their
countries service, are so closely packed many just in their hammocks.
When a trench was being dug across the paddock for laying pipes, numerous
skeletons came to light, some only 18" below the surface.
In the 18th century men died literally by hundreds.
Dr LIND records in 1780 that 909 died in the hospital & in addition there were
the bodies of those who died in the ships and in the harbour.
It has been stated that in three years at the end of the 18th century,3,600
bodies were buried in the paddock.
Many of the men who perished in the wreck of the Royal George (1782) are buried
in the paddock and it is possible that the remains of Admiral KEMPENFELT himself
lie here.
In 1809 the sick and wounded of Sir John MOORE's army who were accommodated in
Haslar perished from Typhus in enormous numbers and were interred in the
paddock.
In 1826 the north west of the paddock was enclosed by a wall and the ground
consecrated and used as a cemetery.
The tombstones scattered over the paddock were ordered to be removed and carried
inside & placed against the wall of the newly enclosed ground.
Among these stones is that of the first governor of the hospital Captain William
YEO.
The old cemetery was discontinued as a burial ground in 1859.
A lot of the convict workforce was employed for labour building and maintaining
the dockyard.
In 1850, it was decided to build a convict prison onshore and to discontinue the
use of the hulks except as hospital ships. therefore, a large building was
erected on the site of the old laboratory in the north eastern portion of the
dockyard.
As the need for labour on the public works in the dockyard reduced, the convicts
were removed in 1895 and in the following year the prison, which was able to
hold 1500 inmates was closed for good.
A traitor, David TYRIE, was found guilty of passing naval intelligence to the
French.
The judge at Winchester passed the following sentence "that he should be hanged
by the neck, but not until he was dead; that he should then be cut down & his
bowels taken out and burned before his face; and that his head should be taken
off, his body cut into four quarters and he be placed at his majesty's
disposal".
The barbarous sentence was carried out on Southsea Common 14 August 1782.
A large crowd had assembled and after the unhappy man had been hanging for some
time, he was cut down and immediately disembowelled and beheaded the blood
spurting over the spectators. This signalled the crowd to rush forward and a
scene of unprecedented brutality followed.
Men and woman fought with each other to get bits of the traitors body!
His fingers were cut off for tobacco stoppers; handkerchiefs were soaked in his
blood and it all finished in a general fight.
The military tried to restore order and were pelted with stones and things only
quietened down after several people had been grievously injured.
The head of TYRIE was secured by Buck ADAMS, the keeper of the Gosport bridewell
where it was exhibited for many years.
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