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GENERATION A
The earliest record we have of John is in 1508 (probably born in the 1490s) when he was listed in the Presentments of the Warden in the Worshipful Company of Butchers of the City of London as an apprentice "John Muce from Lowstoff."
GENERATION B
Child of John and unknown
William paid £2.2.0 for goods in the 1524 Suffolk subsidy. William is also known of indirectly, through a muster roll of 1535 which records "William Mewse's servant" as an able billman in Lowestoft. (Muster rolls were periodic assessments of the availability of local militia to act as a defence force when needed) . It is probable that William was the son of 01 John above. GENERATION C
Children of William and unknown
GENERATION 1 His father or more probably his grandfather) may have been the John MUSE who was a butchers apprentice in 1508 - see details here. John married (a) Ann RUSSELL 1556 at Framingham Pigot and (b) ....COKOE, also at Framingham Pigot in 1561
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INDEX OF SURNAMES
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Adams 1861...Adams 1867...Adams abt 1988...Albrow...Alderson...Allan...Allden...Allen, Euan 1957...Allen, George 1939...Aldred 1705...Aldred abt 1950
Allerton 1792...Allerton 1797...Amiss...Andike...Applewhite
Archer...Ashby 1588...Ashby 1934...Asher...Atkin...Atkins...Ayres 1850...Ayres 1924
Bagshaw...Bales...Bailey 1907...Bailey 1965...Ballantyne...Ballard...Balls...Barafar...Barber 1797...Barber 1864...Bardwell 1649
Bardwell 1725...Barnard...Barnaby 1859...Barnaby 1869...Barnett...Barrett 1827...Barrett 1880...Barron...Bateman
Baxter...Beavers...Beck...Bell...Bellamy...Bessey...Betts 1888...Betts abt 1980...Bingley...Bird 1861...Bird 1896
Bishop...Blowers 1910...Blowers 1958...Boardley...Bollard 1625...Bollard 1673...Bollchen...Bolton
Bothwell...Bower...Bowyer 1923...Boyce...Bradle...Bradshaw...Brame...Breach
Brethett...Brighton...Brittain...Brook...Brooks...Bristow...Brown 1880...Brown 1942...Brugnoli...Bryant 1908...Bryant 1912...Bryant abt 1915
Bull...Burgess 1820...Burgess 1914...Burgess 1934...Bury...Bushell...Butcher 1927...Butcher 1889...Butcher 1910...Butteson
Cady...Canham 1705...Canham 1706...Carr...Carter 1737...Carter 1940...Catchpole...Cawthorne...Chambers...Chapman ...Chapple...Chatten 1846
Chatten 1859...Church...Clarke 1838...Clarke 1876...Clarke 1878...Clerke...Clohesy...Coby
Cock...Coe 1654...Coe 1676 1705...Cokoe...Coleman 1827...Coleman 1878...Coleman 1891...Coleman 1916
Connor...Connell...Coe 1654...Cooe...Cook 1868...Cook 1864...Coote...Corey...Cossey...Coward
Creswell...Crickmore 1867...Crickmore abt 1901...Crickmore 1919...Crisp...Crispe...Cross 1764...Cross 1802
Cross abt 1950...Curtis...Cuthbert...
Darling...Davis...Deacons...Dent...Dodman...Doe...Downs...Dudman...Duncan...Dutson...Dutton
Eache...Easter...Eastland...Eade...Eaves...Edmonds 1854...Edmonds 1924...Edmonds abt 1930...Edwards...Ellis...Evans...Ewart...Eves...Exton
Faulkener...Farrer...Fayerchild...Felton...Ferney...ffarabe...Fisher 1714
Fisher 1864...Firman...Fisher abt 1918...Fisher 1934...Foulds...Fowle...Fox...Frary 1627...Frary 1734...Freeman
French...Friend...Friston
Galo...Garner...Gates ...Gibson...Gifford...Gillingwater...Girling...Gislingham...Glasspool
Gobbett...Goddard...Goden...Godin...Goldsmith...Goldsmithe...Goodwin
Gordon...Gough...Gowen...Gray...Green 1620...Green 1899...Grocock...Groom 1664...Groves...Grudgefield...Gryme
Hall 1598...Hall 1869...Hall 1898...Haltaway abt 1725...Haltaway 1754...Hammond...Harding...Hardy...Harper
Hartley...Harris...Harvey...Harwood 1679...Harwood 1902...Haslam...Hasler...Hastie...Hawes
Haylett 1864...Haylett 1900...Heal...Hecht...Healey...Hellawell...Herris...Hewson...Hickleton
Hinton...Hodgett...Hollamby...Hook...Hope...Hovell...Howes...Howie...Howard 1651...Howard 1768...Hoyle...Hulbert...Hunt...Hurley...Hurst
Ingles
Jackson...Jarvis...Jenkenson...Jentleman...Johnson...Jones...Joyce...Julings abt 1916
Kersey...Kingsbury...Killet 1671...Killet 1721...Knights ...Knowles
Lake 1710...Lake 1946...Lamb 1915...Lamb 1945...Langley...Lark...Last...Lawton 1894...Leach...Leeder...Leeman...Leesingham
Liffen 1850...Liffen 1873...Ling...Lingwood...Little...Long...Lott...Love
Loveday...Lowe 1861...Lull...
McDermont...McDonald...McGregor...Mann...Manning...Marjoram...Mantripp 1876...Manning 1715...Manning 1725
Mantripp abt 1900...Marjoram...Marr...Marshall-Nicholls...Martin 1896...Martin 1927...Martin 1965...Mason 1802...Mason 1939...May...Mayes...Mickleborough
Mighells...Mileham...Miles...Miller...Milsom...Milligan...Mitchell 1644...Mitchell abt 1940
Mizen...Moates...Monk...Moody...Moore...Mouse...Mower...Munns
Muse 1481...Muse 1508
Nelson...Neslen 1766...Neslen 1820...Newson 1812 and 1827...Newton...Neudagg...Nicolls...Nichols
Noble...Nunn
Ogden...Osborn...Opie...Overall...Owen
Pacy...Page 1893...Page 1893...Pake...Palmer 1880...Palmer 1952...Parker...Parr...Pattinson...Payne, Mary Ann 1877
Payne, Charles Frederick 1877 ...Peach...Peak 1695...Peak 1837...Peake...Pearce...Peart...Pearson...Pennington
Perkins...Perney...Perret...Perrit...Petty...Phillips...Pickavance...Pinsent...Platt...Porter...Pope
Postle...Prentig(c)e...Pullen...Pullin...
Pye 1838...Pye 1911
Randall...Raven...Ray...Raymer...Read...Reynolds 1867...Reynolds 1948...Reynolds 1951...Richardson
Rickets...Ridley...Rising...Rix...Robking...Robson 1915...Robson 1922...Rochel...Roe...Roper...Ross...Rumsby...Russel...Russell...Ruthan...Rutter
Sadler...Sallows...Salkeld...Sands...Sargent...Saunders...Sawyer...Sayer...Seaman...Schofield...Seppens
Sharman...Sharpe...Shaw 1891...Shaw 1926...Shelton...Shenfield...Sherlock...Shirris...Shonakan ...Skotson...Siers
Smith 1681...Smith 1684...Smith 1746...Smith 1877...Smith 2008...Smithson...Smyth...Soames...Solomon...Sowell...Speciall
Spratt...Spurding...Squire...Starling...Stephens ab 1919...Sterry 1798...Sterry 1804
Sterry 1823...Sterry 1858...Sterry 1869...Stevens...Stock...Stone 1844...Stone 1861...Stone 1906...Sture...Sturgeon
Susman...Symonds 1692...Symonds bef 1729
Taylor 1792...Taylor abt 1900...Taylor 1923...Taylor abt 1996...Thompson...Thomson...Thurling...Thurston...Tingay...Todd...Toomey...Toppany...Treleven
Trundle...Tucker...Turner 1874...Turner 1972...Turrell 1823...Turrell 1847...Turrell 1860...Tuttle...Tyler...
Unsworth...Urquhart
Veevers...Vine...Vingoe
Wailton...Wall...Waller...Warren...Watson 1889...Watson 1955...Weldrake...Welham...Wells...White...White 1906 ...Wickenden...Wight
Wilcox...Williamson...Wills 1877...Wills 2008...Wilkin...Williams...Wilson 1684
Wilson abt 1986...Wilson 1902...Wilson abt 1992...Wisbich...Wood...Woodcock...Woodhouse...Wood 2008...Woods
Woods 1881...Woods 1884...Woods 1889...Woodthorpe ...Wright 1709...Wright 1880...Wright 1882...Wright abt 1963...Wright 1984...Wroth
There are a few earlier references to the name MEWSE.
An Adrian MUSE was a "denizen" and London merchant and is recorded as having one bale with 12 cloths 6 yards in a barge belonging to Henry SMYTH going to Gravesend on 20 Feb 1481 and one bale with 12 cloths in the ship of Richard LULL on 25 Aug 1481.
There is also a record of George MUSE who was warden of the church of the Grey Friars of Dunwich in 1505
The Suffolk Lay Subsidy return of 1524 lists Jaffrey MEWSE in South Elmham St George (value in goods: £4. paying 2s.0) and William MEWSE at Flixton in Elmham.
In 1537 an Adrian MEWSE was a witness to a fight in a drinking house, when one of the participants, being told to keep the King's Peace said "A turde for the king" [Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 12 Part 1: January-May 1537 ]
Bartholomew and Audrey MEWSE had Silvester MEWSE b 1559 Catfield, Edward MEWSE b 1568 in Catfield then John MEWSE bap 23 May 1574 in Norwich and then back in Catfield Thomas MEWSE bap 14 Feb 1587. It is thought that Silvester and Edward at least of the Mewse family moved to Souldrop, Bedfordshire. You can see the descendants of Bartholomew and Audrey here
A Vance MEWSE was a servant with Roger JAMES in London, Tower Ward in 1582 and paid £4 in poll tax
Customs records for Sept. 1567-Sept. 1568 show Richard MOUSE to have been dealing in the following imports: ling, staplefish [good-quality, salted cod], eels, Scottish salmon and herrings.
An Adryan MEWSE married William ROLIFF 14 Apr 1569 in Sr Botolph, Aldgate
He then appears to get into some trouble. He was trading as a butcher in St John's Street, London when he was accused in 1518 that he "daily useth to blowe the kydneyes to make them swell and seem much greater than they would be"
(It is interesting that a much later 84 William Mewse (b 1657) was fined 6d for "inflating his veal with wind")
He was bound over with two sureties, Edward Langhorn and Robert Dunne, two other butchers of St Johns Street, to appear and answer before the Mayor and Aldermen
The result of the action is not known.
Each member of the Company, a trades guild, had to make an annual subscription, and in 1522 John was being looked for to pay, but apparently he had left London, to disappear for ever!
It seems likely, but not certain, that he went back home and practiced his skills in Lowestoft, and was probably (not proved, however) the grandfather of Wyllyam Mewse, who was a butcher with two houses and was buried in 1582. Certainly butchery was in the Mewse family in Lowestoft continuously until the late 1700's.
02......William b abt 1505
02a....Jaffry dob unknown
Jaffry paid £4.2. 0 in the Suffolk subsidy of 1524
03......Bartholomew b abt 1535
see the tree for Mewse in Bedfordhire and USA here
04......Wyllyam b abt 1538
Note: This is the first recorded butcher in Lowestoft
05......John m (a) Ann RUSSELL 1556 Framingham Pigot (b) .....COKOE 1561 Framingham Pigot
From this point all entries in the UK are confirmed by parish records
Note: Wyllyam, my 10 x great grandfather, was a butcher and owned two houses, one in High Street, Lowestoft and the other in West Lane (which became Swan Lane, now Mariner's Street. The house stood on the south side of Swan Lane at its junction with High Street). In 1568 he paid subsidy (a tax on land valued at £1) at the rate of 1s.. 4d. There is a record in the Manor book of 1581 showing William (with Mewse spelt Mease) as a juror.
The Muster Roll of 1535 shows "William Mewse's servant" as an able billman - this William is almost certainly father to Wyllyam above. [Proc Suff Inst Arch & Hist XVI]
Muster Rolls were periodic assessments of the availability of local militia to act as a defence force when needed.
Children of Wyllyam and Elizabeth
2......Elizabeth bur 6 Oct 1568
3......Thomas b abt 1562 Lowestoft Lowestoft bur 18 Oct 1620
Thomas Mewse was recorded in the 1584 muster list as having a byll and salet (weapon similar to a halberd and a steel cap or helmet)
4......Margaret date unknown m Edward LEESINGHAM 15 Apr 1574
5......Alice bap 25 May 1589
6......Joanne b abt 1561
7......Willyam bap 20 Jul 1561 butcher bur 15 Apr 1592 Lowestoft
Note: William Mewsse was recorded in the 1584 muster list but no weapons were mentioned
8......Ann bap 12 Jun 1563 Lowestoft
9......Agnes m (a) Henry PRENTICE 21 Apr 1595 (issue:William d 1601) (b) Richard HALL 1598 [see Prentice branch]
Note: Edward may have been a son of Bartholomew and Audrey MEWSE, mentioned in the green header above
Children of Edward and Margaret
11......Edward bap 28 Mar 1592 Catfield
11a....Christopher bap 23 Jul 1594 Catfield
12......Elizabeth bap 23 Mar 1596 Catfield
13......Margaret bap 16 Apr 1600 Catfield

GENERATION 2
You can see the house which was the Bell Inn or alehouse, now a private house but with alcohol adverts all over it, here It has now (2007) been modernised and the old adverts have gone.
The house in West Lane left him by his father passed to one "GOLDSMITHE" and then to Richard BURY. It was described in the Manor Roll of 1618 [NRO 194/A10/73] as being "Situated south of West Street and abutting onto the High Street to the east, and on to the house of Gilbert BATEMAN (formerly held by Nicholas HEWSON) to the West". Presumably it was surplus to Thomas' requirements when he inherited it.
Although the house in West Street seems to have passed on his father's death to Mr Goldsmithe, Thomas did own two other properties. The first of these was passed on to Alice BURY widow who paid 4d Lord's rent, and stood on the corner of Swan Lane (now Mariner's Street) and High Street (now under the Town Hall). The second one belonged to George SEPPENS who may have been a butcher and paid 4d Lord's rent, and stood on the south side of Swan Lane, again under the modern town hall complex.
On 25 Feb 1582, a Ralph FAYERCHILD was fined 3s 4d for "making an affray upon Thomas MEWSE"
(The name Phillipp was in the 16th and 17th centuries a girl's name - Phillipa does not appear until the mid 19th century.)
Thomas was in trouble with the law on a number of occassions and was fined in the Leet Court [NRO 194/A10/73]:
7 Mar 1584 fined 3d for obstructing the roadway with "neets scalpis" (cattle heads) (with six other butchers)
7 Mar 1618 fined 6d for selling beer by unlawful measure (with 10 others)
2 Mar 1620 fined 3d for the same offence (with 8 others)
16 Feb 1621 fined 12d for selling beer by unlawful measure. Since he was buried on 18 Oct 1620 this was a posthumus fine!)
These were my 9 x great grandparents.
Children of Thomas and Phillipp
14......Willyam bap 20 Jun 1585 Lowestoft bur 17 Jul 1656 Lowestoft
15......Margaret bap 22 Feb 1590 Lowestoft bur 15 Jun 1590
16...... John bap 20 Aug 1592 Lowestoft bur 29 May 1667 Lowestoft
17.....Ann bap 1594 Lowestoft bur 12 Jan 1678 m Thomas FELTON 1 Mar 1635 Lowestoft
Note: see Felton branch here
Children of Robert and Joan
18......Christian (female) bap 28 Apr 1582 Lowestoft
19......Daniell bap 27 Jul 1585 Lowestoft
20......Wyllyam bap 6 Aug 1587 Lowestoft
Children of Willyam and Elizabeth
23 Mark PACY (d 1596) m (a) unknown (b) Elizabeth WIGHT (d 1620 Lowestoft)
Note: Mark was a sailor at first but gave up the seafaring life after buying property sand fishing boats and became a prosperous businessman. After Mark's death, Elizabeth continued to expand the family interests. See Elizabeth's will here Child of Mark and Elizabeth
24......Nicholas bap 9 Jul 1581 Lowestoft d 1652
25......Margaret bap 18 Aug 1583 bur 8 Mar 1585
26......Elizabeth bap 9 May 1585 bur 9 Jun 1590
27......Barbara bap 22 Jun 1589 bur 20 Oct 1589
28......John bap 16 Aug 1590
29......Samuel bap 9 Jul 1592 bur 2 Aug 1611
30......Thomas bap 7 Apr 1594
Note: William paid 13s 4d in ship money in 1636 - one of the highest in Lowestoft! [NRO 589/178] and again in 1640 he paid 3s 4d
William lost £150 of goods in the fire of 10 Mar 1645 which were stored in the yard of the Bell Inn, where they were probably hiring premises or outbuildings from Simon HAMMOND he having bought the messuage from Phillipa MEWSE and her sons in Oct 1627.
The Leet Court records that he was elected constable and ale-taster on 2 Mar 1620 and ale taster again on 1 Mar 1623
William was admitted to the west end of a tenement at Lord's rent of 2d on 6 Aug 1645. The following year he mortgaged the dwelling to Thomas LEEMAN for £22..8s It was then sold by William and Thomas LEEMAN to Robert RIX The same place was occupied by 33 Simon Mewse below
| Ale Tasters, who were appointed by the court-leet were sworn "to examine and assay the beer and ale, and to take care that they were good and wholesome, and sold at proper prices according to the assize; that proper measures were used and also to present all defaults of brewers to the next court-leet." Manorial in origin the constable had been the link between the Lord of the Manor and his tenants, and was also the keeper of law and order. He was appointed from the better off members of the parish by the jury of the leet court. The post was unpaid and no expenses were given. The constable raised taxes and kept accounts. It seems that the appointee had no say in the matter - his appointment was for one year, when he was replaced with a new ale taster or constable |
Children of Willyam and Emme
31......Ann dob unknown
32......William bap 28 Nov 1619 Lowestoft d 1699 Lowestoft
Note: In 1680 he was churchwarden
33......Thomas bap 24 Oct 1621 Lowestoft (lost £20 goods in the fire) bur 6 May 1688 Lowestoft
34......Mary bap 26 Sep 1624 Lowestoft bur 16 Mar 1626
35......Simond bap 2 Nov 1623 Lowestoft d 13 Nov 1623
36......Marye b 30 May 1626 Lowestoft bap 26 Dec 1626 m Matthew WOODS 20 Nov 1645
37......Phillip b 2 Feb 1629 bap 14 Jun 1629 Lowestoft
38......Simon bap 25 Mar 1632 Lowestoft bur 15 Nov 1708 Lowestoft "an ancient man"
Note: Simon was a signatory to the Fisherman's petition of 1670 which may be seen here
39......Elizabeth bap 7 Apr 1634 Lowestoft bur 17 Apr 1637 Lowestoft
40......Alice bap 23 Jan 1637 Lowestoft bur 2 May 1639 Lowestoft
41...... Samuel bap 24 Mar 1639 Lowestoft bur 4 Sep 1641 Lowestoft
Note: John lost £100 worth of goods in the great fire of March 10th 1644/5, and his son (25) John lost £50 worth of goods. John paid 2s in ship money in 1636 [NRO 589/178]
John was elected ale taster in the Leet Court of 16 Feb 1621 and on 26 Feb 1653 he was elected hog reeve (the person responsible for seeing that all pigs' snouts were ringed)
In the same Leet Court he was fined on 10 Feb 1649 for not maintaining the footway next to his house (3d), and a further 3d for not scouring out his ditch
These were my 8 x great grandparents
| Lowestoft was a royalist town, but not particularly strongly so - its defences consisted of a rope across High Street and a cannon which was unloaded. Not very frightening for Oliver Cromwell! He arrested the official defence |
52 William FRARY m (a) Alice BOLLARD 12 Sep 1625 Lowestoft (b) Elizabeth BARAFAR 18 May 1627 Lowestoft (See Frary branch here)
Note:These were my eight times great grandparents
A Margaret BARAFAR is recorded as marrying William RAILTON in Lowestoft in 1615 - probably a sister to Elizabeth
When Oliver Cromwell went to Lowestoft in March 1643 to thwart a royalist arms shipment he stayed overnight at the Swan Inn - next door to William Frary, separated only by Swan Score entrance.. Cromwell's troops may well have been requisitioning various things and William as taking no chances - he hid his horse in the parlour of his house!
Child of William and Alice
53......Alice b 1626 Lowestoft d 1626 Lowestoft
Children of William and Elizabeth
54......Ralfe bap 26 Feb 1628 Lowestoft bur 27 Mar 1628 Lowestoft
55......Elizabeth bap 6 Dec 1629 Lowestoft
56......Margaret bap 12 May 1632 Lowestoft bur 12 May 1632 Lowestoft
57......Ann bap 14 Jul 1633 Lowestoft
58......Margaret bap 11 Oct 1635 Lowestoft
59......William bap 11 Feb 1638 Lowestoft
60......Susan bap 20 Feb 1643 Lowestoft m John PEAKE 21 Apr 1664 Lowestoft
61......Rebecca bap 20 Feb 1643 Lowestoft
Note: Nycolas was a mariner, known locally as "Captain Pacy" and became a succesful fish merchant. In his will of 1652 he left everything to his wife, but specified that his son Samuel should assist his mother in her role as executrix.
Children of Nycolas and Margaret
62......Nicholas b abt 1614 Lowestoft d 5 Nov 1680 Lowestoft aged 66 m Katherine MOORE 1638 Wrentham
Note: Nicholas emigrated soon after his marriage to Katherine who came from Corton, and was granted 10 acres of land in Salem, Massachusetts on 21 Nov 1638, and was granted a further 30 acres in 1639. Katherine died, perhaps in childbirth in March 1640. The Salem witchcraft trials took place some 50 years later. He returned to Lowestoft at some unknown date.
63......Elizabeth dob unknown
64......Thomas dob unknown m Elz SKOTSON 1647 Holy Trinity Minories London [Boyd]
Note: In 1674 Thomas was assessed as having 2 hearths for the Hearth Tax. He was described as a brewer in the will of Henry Ward of Stepney, but called himself a yeoman.
65......John dob unknown
66......Samuel b 1624 d 17 Sept 1680 aged 56
67 ......Margaret dob unknown

Dorothy RISING brought to their marriage one small house and a fish house at Lords rent of 7p as a result of her husband William RISINGs will - she was admitted 27 Feb 1658 Dorothy's will left it to husband Thomas who was admitted on 23 Aug 1671. Thomas, with the release of William RISING, jnr, surrendered the property to Mary PORTER on 14 May 1673. This property stood at the bottom of Gallows Score/Cart Score. The site is now part of the Sparrow's Nest garden area.
Children of Thomas and Elizabeth
68......William 12 Dec 1647 Lowestoft bur 19 Nov 1688 Somerleyton
69......Sarah bap 14 Oct 1649 Lowestoft bur 26 Feb 1658 Lowestoft
38......Elizabeth bap 14 Oct 1649 Lowestoft bur 28 Feb 1658 Lowestoft
70......Mary bap 20 Jul 1655 Lowestoft bur 10 Nov 1684 Lowestoft m (a) James MAYES 30 Aug 1675 [see Mayes branch]
71......Ann dob unknown
Note: This is the Samuel Pacy whose daughters were claimed as bewitched and whose evidence led to the execution of two Lowestoft witches: you can read all about it here
Samuel Pacy was one of the richest and most influential men in Lowestoft of his time and was well known as a dissenter. In 1664 with others he was indicted for attending conventicles and summoned to appear at the next summer assizes. [David Butcher in Lowestoft 1550 - 1750]
He owned two fishing boats (handling 750000 fish in the autumn of 1662 and his own merchant vessel called "the Red Lyon". He also had shares in two other ships - the "Black Lyon" and the "Baltic Trader" as well as smaller shares in the "Riga Merchant" and the "Neptune"; both merchantmen. He lent money on mortgage and his principal house was rated as having 8 hearths, one of the largest in Lowestoft. When he died he left £2387 in cash, and his wife Elizabeth was a good enough businesswoman to have increased it to over £2849 when she died two years later.
In 1647 he became a trustee of the Lowestoft Townlands, was many times a juryman and twice served as churchwarden; in 1662 he was an Overseer of the Poor". The Calendar of Treasury Books records that Samuel Pacey of Lowestoft was Receiver General of assessments in 1658 - 9 for the county of Suffolk.
In his will of 1680 Samuel left property in Denton and Topcroft as well as in Lowestoft to his wife for her natural life, and then to Samuel, as well as £600 each to Samuel, William and John.William also had the house in High Street with fish houses while John had a meadow and a house in Blue Anchor Lane.
Children of Samuel and Elizabeth
72......Susan bap 12 Apr 1647 Lowestoft bur 22 Mar 1707 m Mr CHURCH [Will]
73......Elizabeth bap 29 Jan 1650 Lowestoft d 14 Oct 1657 Lowestoft
74......Deborah b 1653 bap 12 Apr 1654 Lowestoft d 23 Jan 1695
75......William bap 5 Mar 1656 Lowestoft bur 26 Oct 1656 Lowestoft
76......Mary bap 24 Aug 1657 Lowestoft
77......Samuel b 1660 Lowestoft [Will]
78......William b 1662 Lowestoft [Will]
79......John bap 10 Oct 1664 Lowestoft [Will] m Margaret" (b 1862 d 13 Jan 1729 aged 67)
Note: John was master of the "Mariner"

CHildren of Philip and Ann
80......Mary bap 2 Jul 1652 Lowestoft m Mr BOLLARD
81......Ann bap 22 Feb 1655 Lowestoft bur 17 Jun 1728 m Mr COE abt 1676
82......Phill(ippa) bap 13 Apr 1657
Note: Simon was assessed as having 2 hearths for the hearth tax of 1674 Simon was elected constable at the Leet Court of 27 Feb 1669 Children of Simon and Judith
Child of John and Elizabeth
He was elected ale-taster on both 11 Mar 1761 and 15 Feb 1673
He was fined 3d for not maintaining the footpath next to his house on 24 Feb 1672
These Leet Court records probably refer to this Simon but may refer to 33 Simon
He was elected constable on 13 Feb 1692 at the Leet Court. Judith's surname was revealed in her grandmother's (Phama KNIGHTS) will of 20 Aug 1656
83......Ann bap 7 Aug 1654 Lowestoft bur 14 Aug 1737 Lowestoft
84......William bap 6 Jan 1657 bur 20 Mar 1716 aged 60
85......Mary dob unknown, bur 2 Apr 1734 Lowestoft
86...... Simon bap 4 Dec 1664 Lowestoft bur 30 Oct 1736 Lowestoft
87......Judith bap 17 Nov 1667 Lowestoft bur 4 May 1669 Lowestoft
88......John bap 26 Mar 1669 Lowestoft bur 8 Apr 1690 Lowestoft
89......Judith bap 8 Jan 1673 Lowestoft bur 9 Feb 1675 Lowestoft
90......Hovell bap 21 Sep 1675 Lowestoft
91......Havel bap 18 Dec 1679 Lowestoft bur 5 Jan 1680 Lowestoft
92......Elisabeth bap 13 Dec 1677 Lowestoft bur 22 Dec 1758 Lowestoft
93......Mary bap 2 Apr 1685 bur 4 Oct 1685 Somerleyton
94......Jane bap 6 Sep 1646 Lowestoft
94a....John d.o.b. unknown bur 1 Apr 1664 Somerleyton
Francis was admitted to property at 1d Lords rent (now 138 High Street) on 6 Jan 1686. It passed to his grandchildren by the terms of his will
Children of Francis and Elezbeth
Note: These were my 7 x great grandparents. William (a butcher) and Rebecca lived for a while in Wapping, returning to Lowestoft, perhaps, to escape the plague. At some stage William was living in Gt Yarmouth, for he was the joint guarantor on 27th Oct 1691 with Robert SEAMAN, a shipwright, of a settlement bond for a Robert SPECIALL, woolcomber previously of Norwich and his wife and family: William is recorded (YC/35/155) as a pulley maker.
The tithe accounts book of 1698 to 1767 recorded that he "had not held any cattle for three year"
William was fined in the Leet Court [NRO194/A10/4 - 16] 3d for not maintaining Lyons Score (now Crown Score) on 27 Feb 1669, and again on 11 Apr 1671. On 9 Mar 1709 along with four others he was fined 3d for failing to maintain the footpath alongside his property adjacent to the Denes (now 34 High Street)
Their house passed to 70 William on hos mothers death, but occupied by Simon and Ruth Canham in 1720
William also owned copyhold three tenements witha slaughterhouse at 5d Lords rent for the tenements and 1d for the slaughterhouse from 12 Mar 1673. It had previously been owned by Mary ROBKING and was clearly used to raise mortgages, and presumably to let to tenants. It was mortgaged on 3 Mar 1688 to Richard JENKENSON for £106, on 27 Jul 1692 to Susan FERNEY for £105 (cleared 31 May 1704), again to Samuel WRIGHT and Robert PAKE for £105 (cleared 7 Dec 1709) and promptly on 7 Dec 1709 mortgaged again to Samuel WRIGHT for £105. The tenements passed to 119 William by the terms of his father's will. The property stood on the south side of Swan Lane (now Mariner's Street) and is beneath the Town Hall.
William was elected fen reeve (Supervisor of hedge and fence maintenance) together with his son William (119 below) on 9 Feb 1706
Children of William and Rebecca
See a summary of his will here
He was assessed as having 2 hearths in 1674. The Tithe accounts book for 1798 to 1867 show that he "held" one cattle, but the Tithe book (NRO 589/90) of 1707 claims 2 cattle due to the minister but that Simon had none. In 1708 this claim was made zero.
Children of Simon and Ann
Note: William was a parish overseer of Hopton in 1673; Amphillis m (as widow) Augustin MILEHAM 17 May 1692 Somerleyton
Children of William and Amphillis
136......Elizabeth bap 11 Dec 1673 Hopton bur 25 Oct 1710 Somerleyton
137......John bap 4 Dec 1675 Hopton m Eliza KED..Y.ER 10 Jan 1695 Somerleyton
Note: John was described in the register as "gent"
138......Mary bap 4 Oct 1683 Somerleyton bur 4 Oct 1685
139......Mary bap 2 Apr 1685 Somerleyton
140......Ann bap 3 Jan 1685/6 Somerleyton
141......Frances bur 28 May 1691 Somerleyton
Children of John and Sarah
Note: See William's will here
Wiliam was elected ale-taster on 8 Mar 1690 at the Leet court, but on 28 Feb 1691 was fined 10s 0d for not carrying out his duties . He and 12 others were fined 3d at the same sitting of the Leet Court for not maintaining the footway adjacent to his house.
William, a butcher, is recorded in 1686 in the manor rolls as buying the copyhold of no 71 High Street This was on the corner of High St and Rants Score - in later years some tenement houses were built in the rear of the garden and became 1 - 5 Rants Score, dwelt in by William's descendants.
William also had 2 tenements at 3d Lords rent previously held by Ann ARNOLD to which he was admitted on 29 Nov 1710. In the year before he died he mortgaged the property to Robert GRAVE for an unknown sum, and his widow Mary was admitted to it on 16 May 1716. The poperty lies in the St Margaret Plain area, but was on the north side of Fairstead/Almshouse Lane, now Dove St.
In 1692 and in 1693 William was fined 3d each time for blocking a drain (presumably a ditch) with sheeps' heads! Archaeological digging in the garden behind no 71 High St revealed huge amounts of bones, all showing the usual signs of butchery
But the piece de resistance was his being fined 6d for "inflating his veal with wind"!!! (shades of John Mewse of 1508 fame - see above)
The Lowestoft Tithe book entry for 12 Jun 1707 shows that the Minister was claiming 6 cows of William Mewse Score Head [probably his address to differentiate from 32 William from whom the minister was also claiming]. The following year on Apr 29 the minister was also claiming 6 cows, and the comment at the side says "he has more to reccon with you for".
On 15 Sep 1686 William and Mary were admitted to property described as "several tenements with yard" at 7d Lord's rent (now 70 - 71 High Street) previously occupied by John and Mary PORTER. Mary stayed there after William's death. The property was mortgaged to Sarah ALEXANDER in the sum of £105 and cleared on 1 Apr 1691 but was remortgaged on 12 Aug 1713 to John SMITH. It was later forfeited to Joshua SMITH, heir to John.
Children of William and Mary
153......Mary bap 17 Mar 1682 bur 9 Jun 1682 Lowestoft
154......Mary dob unknown m James KINGSBURY
Note: Their first child 100a-1......James was bap 3 Oct 1708 Lowestoft
155......Margaret bur 29 Aug 1694 Lowestoft
156......William bur 6 Jan 1688 Lowestoft
157......Simon bur 16 Jan 1691 Lowestoft
158......Thomas bap 21 Oct 1702
159......Elizabeth dob unknown [source: will] m Thomas COREY
160......Rebecca dob unknown [source: will]
NOTE: Mary Peach re-married after Simon's death to Richard SALLOWS 21 May 1738
Simon (described as junior) was elected ale-taster on 13 Feb 1692 (his father was elected Constable at the same court sitting)
A memorial inscription in St Margaret's Lowestoft reads:- Simon became churchwarden of St Margaret's Church, and his initials are on the inner face of the plain wooden door and was elected constable at the Leet Court on 17 Feb 1689
"Here resteth the body of Simon Mewse who departed this life the 27th October 1736"
Children of Simon and Elizabeth
161......Simon bap 24 Sep 1716 Lowestoft d 27 Jan 1716/7
162......Alice b 1717 Lowestoft
163......Elizabeth bap 6 Apr 1718 Lowestoft bur 3 Aug 1719 Lowestoft
164...... Margaret bap 7 Aug 1719 Lowestoft d 20 Aug 1719
165......Ann bap 26 Feb 1720/1 Lowestoft bur 7 Apr 1721
166......Mary bap 22 Apr 1722 Lowestoft bur 26 Apr 1722 Lowestoft
167......Simon bap 2 May 1723 Lowestoft bur 5 Jul 1723 Lowestoft
168......Margaret bap 3 Jun 1726 Lowestoft bur 17 Nov 1726 Lowestoft
169......Mary bap 24 Nov 1727 Lowestoft m James CURTIS (bur 9 Jan 1797) 29 Jul 1748 by licence
Note: James was a decorator at Lowestoft Porcelain. You can see an article about the subject here
Children of Simon and Mary
170......Simon bap 1 Jun 1733 Lowestoft bur 19 Aug 1734 Lowestoft
171......John bap 26 Oct 1734 Lowestoft bur 2 Nov 1734 Lowestoft
Children of Henry and Elizabeth
172......John dob unknown
173......Rebecca dob unknown
Samuel Smith was Ann's father and his memorial stone in Lowestoft states 'Also his daughter Ann ye wife of Mr William Mewse of St John, Wapping who departed November ye 17th 1727 aged 64 years.'
William was fined 3d for not maintaning the footway next to his house on 4 Mar 1693, and was elected ale-taster at the same Leet Court sitting
On 25 May 1692 they were admitted to property (now 59 - 60 High Street) described as one messuage with yard and fish houses at 6d Lord's rent. On 29 Jul 1702 the property was mortgaged to John STROUD for £84, which was cleared on 9 Apr 1718. In 1711, the Rev Tanner records that "The Bell at Church lately cast being not approved of for Sound etc. It was new cast in Willm Mewse's Fish House by Thomas Newman in May 1711 and weighed 17cwt 0qr 14lbs".
In 1717 the property was affected by the fire which swept through part of Lowestoft.
| "On the 12th of November 1717, about four in the morning another sudden and terrible fire broke out in this town, in the fish-houses belonging to the co-heirs of Captain Josiah MIGHELLS. then in the occupation of Joseph SMITHSON which, in a short space of time, entirely consumed the said houses, together with part of those houses belonging to William MEWSE which laid to the south.... The wind blew pretty fresh at south east so that the sparks flew over the town and once actually fired the thatch of a house in Swan Lane, but men and water being ready for that purpose it was immediately stopped" - an account of the fire by Edmund Gillingwater, local historian |
Children of William and Ann
174......Rebecka bap 9 Jan 1685 m John OSBORN 16 Nov 1718 Lowestoft
175......Samuel bap 14 Jan 1688 Lowestoft
176......Simon bur as infant, 16 Jan 1690/1 Lowestoft
177......Judith bur 4 Feb 1690 Lowestoft
178......John bur 27 Feb 1693 Lowestoft
179......Mary bap 7 Dec 1694 Lowestoft
180......Elizabeth bap 20 May 1697 bur 22 Dec 1758, spinster in Wapping
Note: Elizabeth witnessed a wedding bond for William BULL and Margaret FRARY in 1734. You can see the bond and the mark made by Elizabeth here
181......John bap 25 Jun 1700 m Mary RANDALL 26 May 1730
182......Susannah bap 2 Aug 1702 Lowestoft d 27 May 1742 spinster
183......Ruth bap 2 Aug 1702 Lowestoft d 5 Oct 1702 interred in same plot with her mother, Lowestoft
184......Thomas d o b unknown
185......Margaret dob unknown d abt 1748 Wapping as spinster - see will here
Note: He and Elizabeth were jointly admitted to copyhold in the Manor of Carlton 4 Apr 1722 and Thomas alone to one in Broomholme at the same date. Elizabeth was the daughter of Simon CANHAM, a mariner, and Sarah PHILBY Thomas and Elizabeth were non-conformists.
Children of Thomas and Elizabeth
He was admitted to copyhold ownership of what is now 34 High Street on 8 Dec 1714 and promptly mortgaged it to James KINGSBOROUGH for £36..15s and again to Simon CANHAM on 7 Jan 1719. Simon and Ruth CANHAM were in possession of the property in 1720 - did William renege on his mortgage?
Children of William and Judith
Children of Simon and Margaret
Note: A William MEWSE of Bergh Apton married a Mary KILLETT (of Brook, Nfk) Norwich St Stephen 2 Oct 1722
Samuel MEWSE and Martha SQUIRE completed a licence allegation 28 Jul 1720 and married in St Paul's Cathedral in 1720. Samuel and Martha lived in Wapping where he was described in 1721 as a Master and Mariner, and he wrote his will at this time, (see it here) although it was not proved until 1759. He was asked in a letter from Admiral Lestock on 23 July 1746 to undertake a survey of a ship, the Hare Transport, which had been deemed unfit for sea , along with Nicholas TRELEVEN, Michael GODEN, Thomas SMITH, Thomas LOVE and Simon COWARD
Benjamin MEWSE, an infant was buried 12 Aug 1697 Lowestoft without having parents recorded
There was a William MEWSE baker in Terrington St Clements [will of 1747]
There is a gaol delivery record in London, 1707, of a Mary MEWSE (Mdx sessions of the Peace) for throwing away books and MSS of William CAWTHORNE while cleaning his room in his absences. [ref MJ/SP/1707]
Sarah MEWSE d 3 Sep 1711, clearly not a Sarah above in this generation,
Boyd's records the marriage of Arth MEWSE to Anne TUNKS in 1690 at Clerkenwell St James

Note - Anne Haltaway, who was the daughter of Thomas HALTAWAYof Belton and Susan GRYME of Burgh Castle ( and who married in Somerleyton 28 Sep 1654) married 134 Simon MEWSE 8 Apr 1754 by licence after Samuel's death: also there is a record of John HALTAWAY [Anne's brother?] bur Corton 1711 aged 40 as well as a Susannah MEWSE bur Corton 2 Apr 1775
Samuel became landlord of the White Horse Inn at Corton and left it to his son William. A hundred years later Thomas Sales was the landlord - see here. You can see the pub as it is today here
Note: James was dissenting minister at Lowestoft from 1738 to 1760 - the longest serving of all such clergy. Gillingwater says that he was held in high esteem in the town.
Children of James and Judith
229......James b 1742 d 1825 m Amelia BRIGGS 3 Jan 1769 St George Colegate, Norwich
Note.James was said to be the second son of Judith and James Alderson. James junior, a physician in Norwich, had a child,
228......Amelia ALDERSON (born 12 Nov 1769 Norwich bap 26 Nov 1769 Octogan-Presbyterian, Norwich d 22 Nov 1853 Norwich) who married John OPIE (b 1761) d 1807) 8 May 1798 Norwich, a painter, in 1798 and wrote extensively. Page 589 of "The collected poems of Amelia Alderson Opie" addressed the poem (and the succeeding one) to her father, James. Amelia remained close to her father throughout her life, and in 1825 became a quaker. You can read more of Amelia here
229......Judith b abt 1747 m Robert WOODHOUSE 7 Feb 1769 St George Colegate, Norwich
230......Robert dob unknown
231......Elizabeth dob unknown
232......John dob unknown
233......Thomas dob unknown m Margaret HAWYS 15 Mar 1763 Norwich
Children of Mr APPLEWHITE and Elizabeth
234......Henry bap 28 Jun 1747 Old Meeting Gaol Street Gt Yarmouth
235......Elizabeth dob unknown
Note:William was recruited into the Customs service and worked in Cromer, Yarmouth and finally in Southwold. There is a Lowestoft Porcelain tankyard in Bristol Museum which you can see here, marked "Willm Mewse Southwould 1771". And you can also see the website of the new Lowestoft Porcelain which tells you about him here.
My brother has a 1754 book with William's nameplate about Dunwich, Blythburgh and Southwold by Thomas Gardner, which he annotated. William was a subscriber as you can see here
Sarah his widow died intestate, and letters of administration were granted to Cornelius BARNETT of Southwold, mariner, Sarah's brother, on 25 Apr 1807 by the Archdeaconry of Suffolk. Her effects were declared as "under £200"
Child of William and Sarah Clerke
236......Sarah bur Southwold
Note: There exists a Lowestoft Porcelain bowl, painted in underglaze blue, nine and a half inches diameter, inscribed "John & Ann Glasspool Blundstone 1772" showing a sportsman with a gun in a landscape. It is likely, from other entries in the Somerleyton register, that John had siblings: Henry, William and Sarah Glaspoole.
See Glasspoole branch here
Children of John and Ann
237......William bap 17 Sep 1759 Blundeston
238......Sarah bap 12 Feb 1760 Blundeston
239......John bap 25 Jun 1761 Blundeston m Elizabeth COOTE 25 Oct 1787 Somerleyton
Note: John was said to be of Burgh at marriage and Elizabeth lived in Burgh Castle and raised a family there
240......William bap 19 Aug 1765 Blundeston
241......Henry bap 24 Apr 1767 Blundeston
242......Mary bap 13 Oct 1771 Blundeston bur 30 Jul 1772 Blundeston
Child of Simon and Mary
243......Simon bap 1 Jun 1733 Lowestoft bur 19 Aug 1734 Lowestoft
244......John bap 2 Sep 1734 bur 2 Nov 1734 Lowestoft

Note: William lived in Corton and kept the White Horse. He was admitted to the tenancy (previously of Samuel MEWSE) on 17 Jun 1747 according to the list of tenants in the Lowestoft Manor Rolls. His will shows him as a mariner, which may explain why Catherine was baptised in Gt Yarmouth
Children of William and Catherine
246......William b after 1750
247......Catherine bap 8 Oct 1758 Old Meeting House, Goal St Presbytarian, Gt Yarmouth
Note: William was the son of Richard NESLEN and Elizabeth WOODTHORPE and was a plumber and glazier
Children of William and Mary
257......Mary bap 25 Mar 1768 Lowestoft bur 3 Jun 1768
258......William bap 2 Sep 1769 Lowestoft bur 16 Feb 1830
Note: This was the William was witness to the marriage of 265 Hannah MEWSE bap 27 Mar 1797
259......Samuel bap 24 Dec 1770 Lowestoft bur 9 May 1771
260......John bap 3 Feb 1772 Lowestoft bur 12 Apr 1774
261......Elizabeth bap 11 Apr 1773 Lowestoft d 25 Aug 1822
262......Ann bap 11 May 1775 Lowestoft bur 11 May 1775
263......Samuel bap 28 Nov 1778 Lowestoft

Children of John and Hannah
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were William NESLEN and Ann RAVEN
266...... Samuel b 25 Dec 1798 bap 29 Dec 1798 Lowestoft
267......William bap 20 Sep 1801 Lowestoft bur 15 Nov 1810
268......Will b 1803 d Sep 1813
269......Daniel b 29 Feb 1804 bap 6 Mar 1804 Lowestoft bur 16 Sep 1806 Lowestoft
270......Daniel b 25 Nov bap 27 Nov 1807 Lowestoft
271......Bartholomew b 1 Sep 1809 bap 7 Sep 1809 bur 18 Feb 1828
Note: At the inquest on Bartholomew, the Bury and Norwich Post of 27 Feb 1828 reported that a cask of whisky had come ashore and was consumed by a number of people including Bartholomew, who became insensible and was taken home where he died. Verdict: "death from intoxication"
272......William b 26 Jan 1812 bap 2 Feb 1812 Lowestoft m Hannah PORTER 5 Dec 1832 Lowestoft Witnesses Martha PORTER and Hobt NEWSON
Note: William was a fisherman in 1841 living at Beach. Hobt NEWSON was the Parish clerk. You can see monumental inscriptions for Newson at Lound here
Also in this generation: a Mary MEWSE and Joseph SAILE made a marriage licence allegation

You can read about Lowestoft as it was in 1848 here
276 John Henry MEWSE bap 29 May 1812 Chatham, Kent m Charlotte FOX (b abt 1801Leiston (or Aldringham in 1861 census) d 3rd qr 1871 aged 60 [Mutford 4a 481]) abt 1835 [IGI]Note: In 1841 the family lived at Pound Street, South Side,Lowestoft, but John was not present. Living with them were James aged 26 and Eliza BOYCE aged 24 and their son James aged 1. James BOYCE was a twinespinner. In 1851 the family was at Church Road, Lowestoft.John was a twinespinner in 1861 living at 177 Church Road Lowestoft, when Mary A STONE (b Nfk) was a visitor. John and Charlotte were Wesley Street, Infirmary Plain in 1871 with their son James. John was bur at Lowestoft Cemetery on 13 Dec 1887 in plot L/3/63 (Fisherman, age stated as 77) and died at Fishermen's Hospital, Beach. Mary A, his second wife was a net mender in 1881
Suffolk County Assizes records that John was tried at the County Assizes on 26 Jul 1845 and found not guilty
Children of John and Charlotte
288......Elizabeth b 1836 Lowestoft d 1842 Lowestoft

Fro the Ipswich Journal of 1 Aug 1842
The connection with the Dent family is reinforced by the presence in 1851 of 4 of the children of Aaron Dent and Mary Ann nee Mewse: Mary A, 14, (stepdaughter to Mary Ann), Maria aged 12 (stepdaughter to Mary Ann),Harriet, 6 and Susannah aged 3, all lodging
Children of Daniel and Mary Ann
293......Mary Ann b 1838 d 1st qr 1906 aged 66 Lowestoft
294.......Henry b 1839 d 1st qr 1922 aged 83 [Mutford 4a 1632]
Note: Henry was a seaman
295.......Daniel b 4th qr 1841Lowestoft [Mutford 13 441
296.......Elizabeth Ann b 2nd qr 1847 bap 4 Jul 1847 Lowestoft m William READ, (b 1844 Lowestoft ) 4th qr 1867 [Mutford 4a 1611]
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were Daniel and Maria Rumsby MEWSE. Daniel was a fisherman
296a....Martha Ann b 1845 bap 5 Apr 1846 Lowestoft
297.......William b 27 Jun 1850 Lowestoft, bap 4 Aug 1850 bur 23 Jul 1923 Lowestoft plot L/P/448
Note: A William was an unmarried basketmaker in 1871 and 1881 living with parents. In 1891 he was at 19 Wyvil Rd Lambeth, a boarder with John REEVES and his wife, and was a basketmaker. In 1901 he was a lodger at 7 Coleman Street, Wandsworth. In 1911 he was boarding with a T E Smith at 24 Brook Street, Twyford, Berkshire. When he died he was still a basketmaker living at 73 Lothingland House, Oulton
Note John was a carman In 1861. In 1851 the family was living at 1, Augustus Street, St.Pancras, London and in 1861 at 27 Queens Crescent, St Pancras, London
Children of John and Susannah
305......Susannah b 1846
305a....Joseph b 1848 d 1849
305b....Charles b 4th qr 1850 [St Pancras 1 345] d 1912
306......Mary Ann b 2nd qr 1853 [St Pancras 16 2]
307......Daniel William b 2nd qr 1855 [St Pancras 1b 11]
308......Eliza b 1st qr 1858 [St Pancras 1b 131]
Note: Witnesses Samuel MEWSE and Ann STERRY (see Sterry branch here)
Note: the family was living at Shuckford Loke, Lowestoft in 1851, and Ann was living at 3 Shuckford Loke in 1871 when she was widow and a netmaker, and 1 Spark Building Lowestoft in 1881
You can see the full STERRY family history here
Children of John and Ann
309......James bap 26 Dec 1824 Southwold m Elizabeth CHATTEN 6 Aug 1846 Lowestoft
310....Timothy b 1826
311......Virtue bap 8 Jul 1831 Lowestoft m Edward EDMONDS 25 Dec 1854 Lowestoft [see Edmonds branch here]
312......Frederick William b 19 Jan 1835 bap 10 May 1835 d (drowned) 4 Nov 1864 m Ann COOK
313......Naomi b 1839 d 2nd qr 1874 [West Ham 4a 36]
314......Charlotte b 1841 m Charles John TURRELL 20 Dec 1860 Lowestoft
315......John b 1846
282 Samuel Barber MEWSE bap 1803 d May 1860 at sea m Maria Rumsby GIRLING (b Pakefield 1802 d Mutford last qr 1882) 6 May 1827 Lowestoft Witnesses Hobt NEWSON and J BARRETTNote: The family lived at 110 Beach in 1851, but in 1861 MarÄia was a nurse and widow at 3 Upper Woodland Terrace, Plumstead, Charlton, Kent. She was living at 10 Alms Houses, Thurston Rd, Lowestoft in 1881, a parish dependant
Samuel was in the Merchant Navy in 1845 and was an able seaman.
He is the first entry on the fishermen's Memorial in St Margarets Church, Lowestoft
You can see the Girling branch here
Children of Samuel Barber and Maria
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Alfred was awarded a silver medal by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute for his part in the rescue of fourteen people from the steamer SHAMROCK of Dublin. The story appeared in the Illustrated London News of 26 Nov 1859: "When the lifeboat reached the steamer the sea was breaking over the masthead, but she was providentially able to anchor in a most advantageous position ahead of her, and although the seas broke over her and repeatedly filled her, this excellent lifeboat as often, in her bouyancy, clearing herself of the seas, was at length, with difficulty, enabled to approach the steamer. A communication was then by ropes established with the wreck and the whole crew of fourteen were hauled by the lines through the sea to the lifeboat and brought safely to the shore" Another account of the rescue was made by W H Kingston in his book "Our Sailors" On the 1st of November, the screw steamer "Shamrock" of Dublin ran on shore on the Holme Sand during a heavy gale from the SW. As soon as the position of the unfortunate vessel was discovered, the lifeboat was launched and proceeded under sail to the spot. The sea was breaking fearfully over the mast head of the steamer, repeatedly filling the lifeboat. To increase the danger, an expanse of shoal-water lay close to leeward of the wreck, so that had the lifeboat's cable parted, her destruction and that of her crew might have followed. Fully aware of the risk they ran, they persevered as brave men will, in spite of danger to themselves, and sending lines on board the wreck, the whole crew, not without considerable difficulty were hauled on board.On this occasion the men who especially distinguished themselves were Richard HOOK, coxswain, Frances SMITH, Richard BUTCHER, Alfred MEWSE, Thomas LIFFEN and WIlliam ROSE
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319......Susannah b 29 Dec 1836 bap 1 Mar 1837 Lowestoft bur 16 Jul 1840
320......William b 16 Jul 1837 [Mutford 13 318] bap 11 Aug 1837 Lowestoft d 7 Jun 1838
321......Isabella b 1st qr 1839 Lowestoft [Mutford 13 437] m Sidney ALLERTON 3rd qr 1859 Lewisham [Mutford 1d 947] (see Allerton branch)
Note: Isabella embroidered a sampler which you can see here. She was also a witness to the marriage of Naomi STERRY and JamesTheodore FRIEND 2 Nov 1858
322...... William Robert bap 1843
323......George A b 1851 Lowestoft
Children of James Barber and Susan
Eliza was living at Palmer Square, East St, Beach when she died. When he died, James lived at Coleman's Square, Beach
Note: Mary Ann was recorded at home on the night of the 1841 census but John was not present. Mary Ann, John, Elizabeth and William were also present as was a Phebe HOLMES. In 1851 the family was at Barratt's Yard, High Street, Lowestoft.
John was a seaman and started by being a fisherman at the age of 14.. Ticket no 112046, 35 yrs old when ticketed, height 53, fresh complexion, eyes grey hair brown, first went to sea as a mariner 1820, ticket issued at Gt Yarmouth 20 Mar 1845. He was recorded as a fisherman in 1841 and 1861 living at 119 Beach, next door to brother James Barber MEWSE. The Ipswich Journal of 22 oct 1871 reported that Samuel was charged by Charles GOOCH "with threatening to knock out complainant's brains". Gooch had superceded Samuel as master of one of Mr R B Capp's luggers - hence the threat". Samuel was bound over to keep the peace and fined £10 His problem with staff is shown here.
Mary Ann was a beatster (a netmender) in 1861, living at Beach, and 1881. The 1871 census shows them at Whapload Road, Fishermans Shop and having Grandson Frank ADAMS staying with them and John is described as a beachman. In September 1866 he was fined 15 shillings for using obscene language in the High Street. In 1881, when John was described as a Fisherman (Late) they both lived at 4 Hospital House, Whapload Rd Lowestoft with their son William who was a fisherman. In 1891 Mary Ann is shown as a widow aged 79 living at Alms Houses, Thurston Rd Lowestoft. When she died, Mary Ann lived at 155 St Peter's St.
John Barber and Mary Ann were my great great grandparents.
Children of John Barber and Mary Ann
330......Mary Ann bap 14 Sep 1832 Lowestoft d 24 Sep 1832
331......John bap 1832 d 1832
332......John bap 7 Sep 1833 bur 10 Sep 1833
333......William bap 17 Sep 1834 d 6 Nov 1845
334......John ("Crawney") b 16 Nov 1836 bap 1 Mar 1837 d 27 Mar 1918 bur 3 Apr 1918 Lowestoft
Note: In 1841 John is recorded with his mother at Beach, Lowestoft. John died of senile decay and apoplexy (a stroke) at Fishermen's Hospital Cottages, Lowestoft. The informant was daughter Alice Catchpole of Loddon Rd Broome, near Bungay who was present at the death. You can see a picture of the Fishermen's Hospital entrance here
335.... James b 3rd qr 1838 [Mutford 13 404] d 14 Oct 1879 [ Ipswich Journal] m Elizabeth Ann MARJORAM 4th qr 1878 [Mutford 4a 1656]
In the 1861 census James was listed as a cripple. In the "Norfolk News" of 4 Apr 1864 an advertisement states "For sale by auction: A shoemakers shop in the occupation of James Mewse at £2.12s per year."
336......Mary Ann b 21 Mar 1839 Lowestoft bap 2 Jun 1839 Lowestoft m William PARR 1864 Newington, Surrey
Note: Mary Ann was a servant at 22 Nelson Street in 1861
337......Elizabeth b 26 Feb 1841 bap 24 Aug 1843 m Francis ADAMS (b 1835 seaman) 25 Nov 1861 Lowestoft (See Adams branch here) [Mutford 4a 1491]
Note: Francis' father was James ADAMS, baker. Witnesses to the marriage were Daniel NICHOLS, Hannah ADAMS and Mary Ann MEWSE: Elizabeth was recorded as a dressmaker in 1861 and was 2 weeks old at the 1841 census
338......Samuel ("Snotty Sam") b and bap 24 Aug 1843 Lowestoft bur 8 Aug 1936 Lowestoft plot L/B/307 aged 93
Note: Samuel was a mariner - he is recorded as a fisherman in 1861; as well as serving on the "Volante" with his brother 196 William, under the mastership of his older brother John in 1864 and 1865, he was also with John on the "Sophia" and served as seaman on the "Antelope" in 1866, "Morning Star in 1866 and 1867 first as seaman then as Mate. In 1880 and he was "Part Owner and Master" of the "Twilight" and in ,1885 and 1886 he seems to have been the sole owner of the "Twilight". Read his complaint to Customs and Excise here
339......William b 15 Apr 1846 Lowestoft bap 3 Jul 1847 Lowestoft
Note: William was a visitor on board the Volant with brother John as the master on 7 Apr 1861. The 1871 census shows him aboard the "Little Polly" William was single and a fisherman, living with parents in 1881
He was a seaman on the "Volante" with his brother Samuel in 1863 and 1864 with brother John as Master. In 1874 he was seaman on the "Morning Light".
340......Susannah b last qr 1848 bap 1848 d 1848
341......Alfred b 8 Apr 1850 Lowestoft d 1850
342......Alfred b 3rd qr 1852 Lowestoft bap 31 Jul 1852 Lowestoft d 16 Sep 1852
The 1841 census also shows a Hannah MEWSE at South End, Lowestoft a servant to Sarah FARRER
There was also a Charlotte MEWSE aged 20 in 1841 who lived in Denney's Score with her illegitimate child Maria b Jan 1841
There was a Martha Ann MEWSE d 2nd qr 1846 [Mutford 13 336]
A George MEWSE aged 34, widower, stated to have been born in Lowestoft, was working as a "Clerk Kenny Fishers" and boarding at 94 St Georges Road, Yarmouth in the 1911 census
Samuel MEWSE, b bef 1841 was retired boat owner and executor of his wife Martha Agnes' will (who died on 30 Feb 1921 and lived at 23 Beresford Road, Lowestoft) in which she left £275 in personal effects. He was a boat owner
John MEWSE died 1st qr of 1838 [Mutford 13 337]

GENERATION 10

Note: witnesses to the marriage were Daniel and Elizabeth MEWSE. Maria's parents were Benjamin RUMSBY, labourer and Amy STURGEON) In 1871 Henry and Maria lived at 4 Jacob Street, Lowestoft. In 1882 Henry was not present, but Maria was living with her mother,Amy RUMSBY and her grandmother Ann STURGEON as a boarder, with children Emma and Catherine. Also present in the 1881 census with Amy RUMSBY was Alice MEWSE b abt 1840 Lowestoft, a general domestic servant. In 1891 Henry was a general labourer. in 1902 the directory states that Henry was living at 73 Seago St
Children of Henry and Maria
348......George Henry b 1st qr 1864 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 742] bap 7 Feb 1864 Lowestoft
Note: In 1891 George was a general labourer
349......Alice Elizabeth b 1866/7
350......Emma Jane Rumsby
Note: in 1901 Charles was described as a "corporation labourer"
Child of Charles and Alice
354......George Clarence b 1st qr 1892 Newcastle on Tyne [S Shields 10a 766] m Lily HOPE 1st qr 1910 [Chesterfield 7b 1326]
Note:In 1911 George was a woodworking machinist living at 12 Brittania Buildings, Chesterfield
Child of Charles and Rachel
355......Charles b 14 Jun 1901 Newcastle on Tyne
356......Ewart b 10 Nov 1902 Newcastle on Tyne d Dec 1984 Newcastle on Tyne m Elsie CARR 3rd qr 1931 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 252]
Note: In 1881 Charles was a carman and the family was at 14 Marsden Terrace, St Pancras. In 1891 they were living at 6 Woolsey Grove, Islington and Charles was a railway carman. Still a railway carman in 1901 the family were at 5 King Henry St, Islington. By 1911 Charles had retired and Alice had died: James was living at 1 Woodland Road Stoke Newington with Daniel and Ethel
Children of Charles and Alice
305d......Alice Elizabeth b 5 Apr 1873 Kentish Town [Pancras 1b 155] d 21 Nov 1933 Hackney
Note: In 1891 Alice was a wholesale Confectioner's Agent and in 1901 she was a packer of Mantles
305e......Edith b 1st qr 1877 Kentish Town [Pancras 1b 142]
305f......Charles John b 1879 Edmonton [Edmonton 3a 260] d 5 Apr 1932 [West Ham 4a 344]
Note: In 1901 Charles was a mantle trimmer
305g......Charlotte Susannah b 1881 Kentish Town [Pancras 1b 206] d 3rd qr 1961 Edmonton
Note: In 1901 Charlotte was a mantle packer
305h......Daniel Alfred b 1st qr 1884 Mildmay [Islington 1b 443]
Note: In 1901 Daniel was a mercantile clerk and in 1911 he was a traveller
305i......Ethel Mary b 1st qr 1889 Mildmay [Islington 1b 442]
Note: In 1911 Ethel was an embroidery machinist
Note: In 1881 George was a sawyer (!) In 1891 the family was at 1 Royal Terrace, Newington and James was a steam wood sawyer
Children of James and Mary Ann
306b......James George b 4th qr 1876 Kensington [Lambeth 1d 438]
Note: In 1891 James was a Post Office boy
306c......Ada b 1879 Kensington
306d......Helen Elizabeth b 1880 Kensington
306e......Alice b 1882 Kensington
306f......William b 1884 Kensington
306g......Mary b 1886 Kensington
306h......Alfred b 1887 Kensington
306i......Albert b 1888 Kensington
306j......Henry b 1889 Kensington
Note: In 1871 Daniel was a railway book cleaner. In 1879 and 1881 the family was at 140 Bayham Street. Daniel was a Groom. In 1891 the family was at 35 Caroline Street, St Pancras and in 1901 they were at 21 Caroline Street, Pancras.
Children of Daniel and Sarah
307b......Louisa Jane b 3rd qr 1877 [St Pancras 1b 113]
307c......William Henry b 29 Sep 1879 140 Bayham St, Camden Town d 28 May 1973 Herne Bay
307d......Eleanor b 1883 St Pancras bap 1 Apr 1883 All Saints Church Camden Town
307e......Albert E b 1891 St Pancras
See the HAYLETT branch here
John was a tea dealer, Howard St Gt Yarmouth in 1841
Note: Elizabeth was the daughter of William HAYLETT, fisherman b 1808 and Mary STARKING (b 1803 d 3rd qr 1912 [Yarmouth 4b 9])
Both of them gave their address as Row 131 Gt Yarmouth at marriage. The witnesses were George and Elizabeth AMISS. John was listed as a fisherman on the vessel "Prince Albert" on 7 Apr 1861. He was listed as a mariner in North district , Gt Yarmouth in the 1871 census, living at 5 Blackfriars Road, Great Yarmouth and a trawler skipper and lived at 59 Blackfriars Road, Gt Yarmouth in 1881.
He was presented to Queen Victoria on her visit to Gt Yarmouth as a representative of Norfolk fishermen.
His portrait hangs in the National Gallery entitled "Fisherman of England".

A postcard showing the portrait


Children of John and Maria
357......William Warren b 1st qr 1838 Gt Yarmouth North District 07 [GY 13 323]
358......John b 1840 Gt Yarmouth North District 07 BR>
Children of John and Elizabeth
359......Ann Elizabeth dob unknown d 1869 Gt Yarmouth
360......Ann Elizabeth b 3rd qr 1869 Gt Yarmouth [G Yarmouth 4b 9] m Walter Lewis HAYLETT (b 1876 Winterton) 4th qr 1900 Gt Yarmouth
Note: Walter was a sea going fisherman in 1901 and 1911. They lived at the Loke, Winterton
361......Elizabeth b 1870 Gt Yarmouth m William READ
Note: In 1891 Elizabeth was a domestic servant at 67 Fellows Road Hampstead with a solicitor, Patrick SHAW and his family
362......William John b 18 Sep 1875 Gt Yarmouth d 13 Dec 1956 Middlesborough
Note: In 1891 William John was a rope maker living with his widowed mother who was working as a charwoman and was living at 14 Highfield Road Gorleston
363......Florence Kate b 1st qr 1876 Gt Yarmouth [GY 4b 5] d Gorleston 17 Jan 1955 bur Gorleston cemetery
Note: Florence was a general domestic servant in South Lynn with George W GOWEN in 1891 at 15 Whitefriars Terrace South Lynn, Kings Lynn.. Sheila Alderson sent me the following: "George Gowen is something of a colourful figure on my side of the family tree. Sometime after 1891 he moved to Cardiff with his family, where he was a journalist. Around 1909 he left his wife and family and moved to London with his mistress, who was only a few years older than my grandmother; ie his eldest daughter!"
364.......Minnie Edith b 3rd qr 1878 Gt Yarmouth [Yarmouth 4b 6] (see SLAPP branch here)
365.......James Arthur b 4th qr 1880 Gorleston [Yarmouth 4b 10] d 2 Sep 1953 Fleetwood
Note: James was living at Gorleston in 1891. The "London Gazette" of 24 Sep 1930 records: "Ch Skipper J A Mewse placed on retired list with rank of Skipper Lieut (September 22nd"
Note: In 1881 the family were living in 5 Raglan Terrace, Elswick, Northumberland and in 1891 at 20 Shumac Street, Newcastle where Frederick was a port night watchman . Also boarding with the family in 1891 was Frederick COLEMAN a 29 year old general labourer born Lowestoft. In 1901 and 1911 Frederick was a nightwatchman in a leather factory
Children of Frederick and Amelia
366......Florence Amelia T b 1873 Lowestoft
367......Frederick William b 2nd qr 1875 Elswick [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 14] m Ada Elizabeth MILES 4th qr 1900 [Dartford 2a 987]
Note: in 1891 Frederick was an apprentice fitter, and in 1901 he was a Machine Maker Fitter living in Erith, Kent. During WW1 he was in the Durham Light Infantry and was awarded the Victory medal and the British medal. His army number was 219022
368......James b 2nd qr 1877 [Newcastle T 10b 33] d 3rd qr 1878 [Newcastle T 10b 3]
369......Ellen b 2nd qr 1879 Elswick [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 42] m William MONKS 4th qr 1906 [Newcastle T 10b 81]
Note: Ellen was a glue maker in 1901 living at Elswick
370......James b 3rd qr 1881 Newcastle [Newcastle 10b 57] d 14 Dec 1916 France in avtion m Jane A ROBSON 3rd qr 1915 Newcastle on Tyne
Note: In 1901 James was a general labourer living at Elswick and in 1911 he was still a labourer but living with his parents He was Private 5939 in 14th battalion Northumberland Fusiliers and was killed in action in France
371......Mary Ann b 1st qr 1884 Newcastle [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 39] m Edward Gray WILSON 4th qr 1902 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 90]
372......Charles b 2nd qr 1886 [Newcastle T 10b 7] d 4th qr 1888 [Newcastle T 10b 30] aged 2
373......Alfred b 1st qr 1889 Newcastle [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 40] m Phyllis LAMB 2nd qr 1915 Newcastle
Note: Alfred was a plumber in 1911
374......Agnes b 3rd qr 1891 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 1]
375......Ada b 1893 Newcastle on Tyne
376......Hannah Turner b 4th qr 1895 Newcastle [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 36] d 3rd qr 1896 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 19]
377......Margaret b 3rd qr 1897 Newcastle
378......Laura b 1900 Newcastle
Note: In 1871 the family was at Bell and Anchor Street, West Ham and James was a labourer. In 1881 James, a widower was a Dock Messenger and was living at 66 Ettrick Street, Bromley
Children of James and Naomi
378......John G b 1861 Kent
379.......Arthur J b 1863 Canning Town
380......James Theodore b 1865 Canning Town d 2nd qr 1877 [West Ham 4a 37]
Note: In 1871 James was described as a cripple
381......Clara E b 1867
382......Alice E b 1871 Poplar, Mdx

From the Norfolk chronicle of 31st Aug 1867

Note: Sarah was the dau of James and Hannah AYERS . See the Ayers tree here Witnesses William MEWSE and Penelope AYRES They lived with parents at Beach in 1851 and still at Beach Lowestoft in 1861. Alfred was a fisherman. In 1881 Sarah Ann was a beatster (net mender) living at 2 Whapload Road, Lowestoft - and she was still there as a net mender in 1901
Children of Alfred and Sarah Ann
396......George Alfred b 29 Dec 1850 bap 2 Feb 1851 Lowestoft d 22 Nov 1858 Lowestoft
396a....Eleanor b 29 Aug 1852 Lowestoft bap 6 Feb 1853 Lowestoft
397......William Frederick b 1855
398......Charles Henry James Ayers b 1856, fisherman (boarding with Samuel COSSEY in 1881)
Note: Charles was a seaman on "Star of the East" and "Sapphire" in 1878 and 1879. The 1900 Kelly's directory shows him as living at 71 Albert Street, Lowestoft, a boat owner.
399......Eleanor Isabella b 1857 Lowestoft
Note: Eleanor was a dressmaker in 1881 living with mother.
400......Henry James Ayers b 1856 bap 1856 Lowestoft Lowestoft, Mariner d 30 Apr 1934 at 22 Lyndhurst Rd Lowestoft
401......Margaret Alice b 4th qr 1863 Lowestoft (blind) [Mutford 4a 674] bap 18 Feb 1864 Lowestoft
Note: Margaret was staying with sister georgiana in 1891 but in 1901 she was back with her mother at 2 Whapload Road.
402......Alonzo Shorten b 3rd qr 1870 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 696]
403......Georgiana b abt 1862 Lowestoft
404......Alfred George b 3rd qr 1868 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 687] bap 5 Jul 1868 Lowestoft d 1st qr 1914 Gt Yarmouth m Ada CORNWALL (b 1874 Southwark d 31 Mar 1907 aged 32{Camberwell 1d 463]) 11 Apr 1900 St Mary Newington [St Saviour 1d 2]
In 1901 Alfred and Ada were living at 147 Albany Road, Camberwell (St George's) and Alfred was a commercial clerk. The family story is that Ada died giving birth to their only son - Thanks, Jean!
Note: Benson and Mary Ann were living at 11 Lighthouse Hill in 1861, 5 Lighthouse Score in 1898 : Benson was a boatbuilder/shipwright - confirmed by Cook's Directory of Lowestoft in 1883, stll living at Lighthouse Hill. Benson, Mary Ann and Florence were living at 5 Lighthouse Score in 1901. In 1911 Benson, shown as a "late shipwright" was living with daughter Florence HARRIS at 32 Stevens Street, Lowestoft. Mary Ann died at 5 Lighthouse Score and Benson died aged 66 at Beccles Road, Oulton Broad. You can see a photograph of cottages in Lighthouse Score here
Children of Benson and Mary Ann
405......Susan b 1860 Lowestoft
406......Mary Elizabeth b 4th qr 1862 [Mutford 4a 622] m William WRIGHT 1st qr 1882 [Mutford 4a 1013]
407......Benson Georgeb 1st qr 1866 [Mutford 4a 745] bap 6 Oct 1867 d Nov 1917 bur 23 Nov 1917 Lowestoft [L/J/125] aged 52
Note: Benson was a "boy" aboard the vessel "Champion" in 1881 but at death is shown as a Fish Merchant, having been living at 6 Wesley Street, Lowestoft.
408......William Samuel b 4th qr 1870 [Mutford 4a 696] bap 1871 hairdresser m Annie Elizabeth PAGE (dau James PAGE, fish hawker) 21 May 1893
409......Alice Maud b 2nd qr 1874 [Mutford 4a 789]
410......Florence Martha b 2nd qr 1878 [Mutford 4a 831]
Note: In 1891 Florence was living with her married sister Mary Elizabeth Wright at 66 West Bevan Street, Lowestoft.
411......Clara Gertrude b 2 Feb 1881 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 843] d 6 Dec 1954 Lowestoft
Note: William was the sixth son of James PARR and Maria CHAPMAN b 1841 Kirkley. In 1881 he was a machine hand living at 110 Wickham Street, Lambeth and in 1891 he was a carpenter/joiner living at 8 Ingoldthorpe Grove, Camberwell
Children of William and Mary Ann
412......Elizabeth b 2nd qr 1862 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 709]
Note: Elizabeth's birth was registered as Mewse but in the census she appears as Parr. In 1881 her occupation was "General Servant"
413......William b 2nd qr 1865 Lambeth Surrey [Lambeth 1d 344]
Note: In 1881 William was a potter's labourer. In 1891 still at home he was a labourer
414......Alfred b 4th qr 1867 Lambeth Surrey [Lambeth 1d 361]
415......Samuel Mewse b 1871Lambeth Surrey [Lambeth 1d 415]
In 1891 Samuel was a labourer
416......John Mewse b 3rd qr 1873 Lambeth Surrey [Lambeth 1d 395]
In 1891 John was a labourer
417......George b 1874 Lambeth Surrey
418......Maria Chapman b 4th 1879 Lambeth Surrey [Lambeth 1d 410]
Frances was the daughter of William James GARNER and Frances CHATTEN - see Chatten branch and was a braider in 1861
[2] Elizabeth CRICKMORE (b 1847 d 14 May 1919) 12 Oct 1867 St John's Church, Lowestoft [see Crickmore branch] John and Elizabeth were my great grandparents Note: Witnesses William MEWSE and Elizabeth ADAMS The 1881 census shows John and Elizabeth living at 2 Rant Score (see a picture here), Lowestoft: John, fisherman aged 44, Elizabeth aged 33, Fanny 18, Eliza 7, John 3. In Kelly's of 1900 and 1902 directory John was shown at 2 Waveney Terrace, Whapload Road In the 1901 census John is described as a "Shrimper". The 1911 census shows John as a fisherman living at 12 Whapload Rd, Lowestoft.
There appear to have been two vessels of which he was master - one, the Volant is recorded in 1861, and the other was the Volante reg LT14 which was built in 1880. [the Volante can be seen here with a list of the 1861 crew].
In 1883 there was a great storm in which the Volante lost her boat and sails - an account in verse may be seen here At this time the Volante was owned by W SLACK of Denmark Road, Lowestoft according to the 1883 Cook's Directory of Lowestoft. Kelly's directory of 1900 shows John as second coxswain of the lifeboat.
He was also involved in the abortive rescue of the crew of the "Defender" in 1902 - for a description click here
Children of John and Elizabeth
The 1861 census shows John as master of the Volant, at sea.The 1871 census shows John and Elizabeth, my great grandparents, living "Next the Gas House": John is shown as a fisherman - he was Master of the "Volante" in 1863 and 4, with his brother Samuel as part of the crew, and of the "Sophia" in 1864 and 1865, and in both 1885 and 1888 he is recorded as Mate on the "Twilight", having previously served on the "John Smith KG". The London Gazette records proceedings for bankruptcy for John starting on 2nd Feb 1880 and describes John as a boat owner. A second hearing is recorded in August 1880, but the outcome is unclear.At the time his address is given as Pye's Buildings Rant Score.
John was a member of the "Old Company" - a group (there were three at Lowestoft) which had been formed to salvage wrecked vessels. There was plenty of opportunity involved - on one day in 1882 (28 Oct) no fewer than 13 ships were lost between Lowestoft and Covehithe, to three of which the two Lowestoft Lifeboats of the day went to the rescue, and there can be little doubt that John was amongst the crew.. Even in the mid 1800s when John was first a member, priority was given to saving lives over salvage, but when the alarm was raised there was a concerted rush by each company, since the first to get to the wreck got the salvage money. You can see some of the "Old Company" outside their "shod" here.and here is an account of one of the salvage exercises which was disputed and reported in the Ipswich Journal of 6 Dec 1884.
John, who had the nickname of "Crorney", inherited by his son John Samuel, was coxswain of the Lowestoft lifeboat from 1901 to 1911, but had been involved as a member of the lifeboat crew since the 1850's and had been second coxwain from 1896 to 1901. In 1905 he took the lifeboat "Samuel Plimsoll" to the Thames, where she was used for motor trials by the RNLI, and returned with the 46 foot "Kentwell" built at a cost of £2197 by Thames ironworks. See an account of all his launches here
In 1866 John helped in a courageous rescue of the crew of the Austrian ship "Osip" for which he was later awarded a medal, along with the rest of the crew. For a description of the event, click here.The medal shown below was issued to John, along with the others of the rescuers, and is now in the Maritime Museum, Lowestoft.
The 'Laetitia' was a 42'6" x 11'8" Norfolk and Suffolk class lifeboat built in Sparham's Yard which was on station from 1850 to 1876. In 47 launches her crew rescued 271 people. She was broken up in 1876. 
This medal was presented to the museum by 421 Russell Mewse, great grandson of John after being found in the effects of his deceased brother 419 Ray Alan Mewse.
and here is a picture of the Lifeboat Kentwell in 1910 of which John was cox from 1901 to 1911(He would be the man with his hand on the tIller.)

Also in the 1881 census Elizabeth Mary Ann lived at 1 Rant Score with Susan Crickmore (nee Shorten - see CRICKMORE branch) her grandmother and Susan's grandsons, William aged 5 and James aged 4. Also living at no 1 was James Pye who is recorded as Susans grandson. Elizabeth nee CRICKMORE died while living at Fishermens Hospital Cottages (6 almshouses for retired fishermen) Whapload Rd (between Rant's Score East and Wildes' St) of Cardiac failure and Bronchitis. John had died the year before at the same address. he is buried in plot L/K/36 in Lowestoft Cemetery
Children of John and Francis
419......John Samuel bap 1860 d 22 Nov 1870
420......Frances (Fanny) bap 1863, a net repairer in 1881 m John James CRICKMORE 4th qr 1881 St John's Church, Lowestoft. [Mutford 4a 1760] Witnesses were William Almond CRICKMORE and James Robert CRICKMORE (see Crickmore branch)
Note: At the time of his marriage John James was living at 52 Toning Street, Lowestoft and Frances Mewse was at 7 St John's St Lowestoft
421......Samuel John bap 7 Jun 1868 d 22 Nov 1870
423......Elizabeth Mary Ann b 4th qr 1870 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 692] bap 4 Dec 1870 d 27 Oct 1944 m Frank James GREEN to become my grandmother [see GREEN branch] 30 Nov 1899 - witnesses George TAYLOR and Alice Elizabeth GREEN
Note: In 1881 she was living next door at 1 Rants Score with her grandmother Susan Crickmore. Elizabeth Mary Ann was an assistant schoolteacher in 1891 at Hintlesham, Suffolk, boarding with Tom and Annette ATKIN at Hadleigh Road, Hintlesham. She was a teacher at Kirkley Infant School during its first year of operation in 1898, and was given a clock as a wedding present from staff and pupils, [still in my posession, 112 years on] when she left. See details here
424......Eliza Ann Alice b 4th qr 1873 [Mutford 4a 710] bap 5 Oct 1873 d Feb 1954 aged 79 bur 9 Feb 1954 plot L/R/376 m Walter William Harvey CATCHPOLE (b 3rd qr 1875 Alburgh, Norfolk d 4th qr 1957 [Lothingland 4b 972]) 2nd qr 1900. [Mutford 4a 1985]
Note: She registered and was present at her mothers death in 1919, at which time she lived at Loddon Rd Broome Bungay. Walter made himself a car about 1900 which can be seen here and was a mechanical engineer,. In 1901 they were staying with John and Elizabeth, but in 1911 they were at 69 Lorne Park Road, Lowestoft. Walter was at that time a marine engineer making engines for drift net fishing vessels. When Eliza died as a 79 year old widow, she was living at 7 Reeve Street, Lowestoft.
425......Alice Maud Susan bap 6 Dec 1874 bur 3 Aug 1875
426......John Samuel b 6 Apr 1877 d 31 Mar 1931 Ilford, Essex
427......Samuel John b 3 Nov 1878 bap 1 Dec 1878 bur 28 Jul 1879
428......Samuel Ernest b 10 Aug 1880 bap 6 Sep 1880 d 30 Apr 1881
429......Alice Maud Daisy b 16 Oct 1882 bap 26 Nov 1882 All Saints Church, Lowestoft d 27 Aug 1883 bur 3 Sep 1883 St Margarets, Lowestoft
430......Alice May bap 1887 bur 22 Aug 1827 aged 2 months
Note: Elizabeth was the daughter of James Garwood JONES, painter. Witnesses to the wedding were Edward COLEMAN and Eliza CLARKE.Also living with the family in 1891 were Mary A Marjoram, a 23 year old netmaker a daughter to Elizabeth and her daughter-in-law Matilda MARJORAM aged 20. At that time Elizabeth was a net maker. After James died Elizabeth Ann married again to William GREEN 1st qr 1884 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1033]
Child of James and Elizabeth
431......Mildred Susannah b 2nd qr 1879 Lowestoft
Note: Mildred was described as lame in the 1891 census, and was living with her mother who was again a widow. Very sadly she was committed to an asylum and the Ipswich Journal of 6 May 1893 reported that at the 34th annual meeting of the Eastern Counties Asylum for idiots and imbeciles 14 year old Mildred was amongst those elected for five years as "inmates of the institution"
Child of Samuel and Naomi
432....Beatrice b 1872 Lowestoft
Note: William was the son of Ambrose GOODWIN (bricklayer). Witnesses to the wedding were Ambrose GOODWIN and Mary WHELER (sic). In 1901 the family was at 85 Wollaston Road, Lowestoft
Child of Maria
Child of Charlotte and unknown (Poss. Atkin)
444......Alice Atkin MEWSE bap 7 June 1867 Lowestoft d 1869 Lowestoft bur 2 Feb 1869
Note: Age in burial record 1 yr
Note in 1881 Arthur was a coachman, and the family were at Half Moon Stables, Half Moon Lane, Camberwell
Children of Arthur and Charlotte
445......Arthur E b 1874 Dulwich
446......Charles H b 1877 Dulwich
Note: In 1891 Charles was a florist's assistant
447......Frederick W b 1880 Dulwich
Note Frederick was a sawyer in wood in 1901 living at 25 Whittington Rd Camberwell with his wife
448......Kate b 1883 Dulwich
Children of William and Emma
449......Edith Margaret (Maggie) MEWSE b last qr 1872 Lowestoft - poss illeg dau of William CLARKE - shown in Census as daughter.
450....William Thomas b 3rd qr 1876 Lowestoft m Eliza (b 1875 Halesworth)
Note: William was seaman then mate on the "Daffodil" in 1902/3 having previously been on the "Sunshine". He was seaman on the "Peace" after serving on the "Boy Jack" in 1903 and became fisherman on the "General White" in 1904. In 1901 he and Eliza were living at 3 Barcham Square, Lowestoft
451......Charlotte b 1st qr 1877 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 837] m either Thomas Samuel VINE 3rd qr 1897 [Mutford 4a 1782]
Note: Charlotte was a "nurse girl" in the 1891 census. Thomas was a fisherman in 1901 and they lived at 2 Bath Cottages, Whapload Rd Lowestoft
452......Emma b 2nd qr 1881 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 835]
453......Sidney b 1885 Lowestoft
453a....Florence b 2nd qr 1886 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 961] D 1966 Norfolk and Norwich Hospital
454......Elizabeth b 1888 Lowestoft
455......Charles b 1890 Lowestoft
456......Lilian b 2nd qr 1891 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1047]
Note: Charles was the son of Edward PAYNE, and grandson of William PAYNE, both of whom were cordwainers and lived in Whitechapel and Gravesend respectively. The 1871 census shows Charles living in a stable in Highbury, Islington, but unmarried. The 1881 census shows Charles and Margaret living at 64 Albert St, Islington and Charles was a carman. In 1891 the family was at 85 Wyke Road, Bow and Charles was a drayman. In 1901 Charles was general labourer and the family were at 60 Hardwick St, Barking and in 1911 they lived at 85 Waveney Road, Ipswich and Charles was a boot repairer. Charles was also listed in Kelly's directory in 1915 as a bootmaker. From 1920 to 1939 Margaret lived with her son Ernest Albert , but moved by choice to lodgings at 2 St Edmunds Rd, Southwold
Children of Charles and Margaret
346b......Margaret Louisa b 4th qr 1878 Islington [Islington 1b 292]
346c......Charles Arthur b 1st qr 1881 Islington [Islington 1b 214] m Rose ELLIS 3rd qr 1903 [West Ham 4a 312}
346d......Charlotte Emma b 2nd qr 1883 Islington [Islington 1b 301]
346e......William Edward b 4th qr 1885 Bermondsey [Bermondsey 1d 271]
346f......John (Jack) Henry S b 2nd qr 1888 Bermondsey [Bermondsey 1d 281]
346g......Florence Adelaide A b 1889 Old Ford, London [Poplar 1c 568]
346h......Ernest Albert b 1st qr 1895 Old Ford [Poplar 1c 592]
Note: In 1911 Ernest was a baker's assistant
346i......Grace Violet b 1898 Barking {Romford 4a 479]

Lowestoft harbour in 1887
Note: [1] witnesses to the marriage of William and Jane, the daughter of William BROWN and Mary Ann MANNING were Samuel BROWN and Emma CLARKE
[2] William was master of the vessel V-Boy Bob in 1881when they were living at 3 Nelson Score, Lowestoft. [ they lived at Christchurch Square, beach in 1891, but moved to Whapload Road by 1892 In 1901 and when Jane died they were living at 150 St Peter's Street, Lowestoft].
[3]At his marriage with Annie Crickmore in 1919 William Bartholomew (and she) both gave their address as 26 Union Rd, Lowestoft. Witnesses to their wedding were 464 Frederick Ernest MEWSE, William's son, and Edith CLARK
Annie Crickmore had been the wife of Henry, living in Hulver where the census called her "Ammy" in 1881 and Anna in 1891. She was born Anna MILLIGAN in 4th qr 1860 in Gislingham [Blything 4a 607] and married Henry 4th qr 1879 Blything [4a 1543].
[4]When William died he was at 79 Lothingland House, Oulton] [4] Lowestoft burial plot for Jane: L/18/17E
Children of William and Jane
457......Jane b 6 Aug 1880 Lowestoft
Note: Jane was a beatster in 1901, living with her parents
458......Alice Maud b 16 Sep 1882 Lowestoft d 21 Apr 1959 bur 27 Apr 1959 in Kirkley
Note: Alice was a beatster in 1901, living with her parents
459...... William Bartholomew b 17 Jun 1885 bap 29 Jul 1885 at Christ Church Lowestoft d 26 Apr 1963 Lowestoft [Lothingland 4b 981]
Note: William was seaman on the "Thrift" in 1903 and fisherman on the "Launch Out" in 1910 and 1911
460...... Charles Arthur b 28 Apr 1887 bap 18 May 1887 Christ Church Lowestoft,
Charles Arthur was a fisherman living at 12 Morton Rd Lowestoft d 1980 in Lowestoft bur 12 Aug 1980 Kirkley
461...... Annie Elizabeth b 14 Apr 1889 bap 8 May 1889 at Christ Church Lowestoft bur 29 Aug 1938 Kirkley
462......John Samuel b 1 Mar 1891 bap 25 Mar 1891 at Christ Church Lowestoft d after 1969 m Ethel M MOORE 4th qr 1913 Mutford [4a 257]
463...... Margaret Agnes b 7 Dec 1892 [or 1 Mar 1891] bap 4 Jan 1893 at Christ Church Lowestoft d in Barnsley
464...... Frederick Ernest (Freddie) b 28 Aug 1894 bap 7 Nov 1894 at Christ Church Lowestoft d 6 May 1975 Lowestoft bur 12 May 1975 aged 80
Note: Frederick was living at 2 Church Green, Lowestoft in 1975
465...... George Stanley b 28 Sep 1896 bap 2 Dec 1896 at Christ Church Lowestoft
466...... Valerie Gertrude b 14 Mar 1898 bap 8 Oct 1898 at St Margarets Church Lowestoft d 25 Oct 1989 d 25 Oct 1989 Pakefield
467...... Herbert Reginald b 21 Sep 1900 bap 8 Oct 1900 St Margarets Church Lowestoft d 12 Dec 1919 [Ipswich 4a 1049] Isolation Hospital, Ipswich
Note: Herbert left personal effects of £131.15s 5d and father William was the legatee
468...... Florence (Florrie) Grace b 8 Jan 1902 [Mutford 4a 1135] d Jun 1980
Child of Charles and Mary
469......Neville Ewart b 11 Jun 1935
Note: Neville is married with four children and ten grandchildren
Note: In 1911 the family was at 10 Cranbrook Park, Wood Green and William was a solicitor's managing clerk. In the middle part of their lives, William and Lilian lived at 38 Addington Drive Finchley. After Lilian died in 1963, William and his spinster daughter Gladys moved to an 'elderly peoples home' in Herne Bay, Kent, Uk where they shared 2 rooms. There were other public rooms availiable to them.
Children of William and Lilian
307f......William Albert b 13 Jul 1903 Hampstead [Pancras 1b 140] d 2nd qr 1980 Westminster
307g......Edith Lilian "Lilly" b 2nd qr 1905 St Pancras [Pancras 1b 72]
307h......Gladys Muriel b 3rd qr 1906 St Pancras [Pancras 1b 94] d 1972
307i......Elsie Gertrude b 1st qr 1909 Wood Green [Edmonton 3a 488] d 4 Feb 1944
Note: Cause of death for Elsie was a brain tumour
Note: In 1911 John was a coach painter and the family were at 102 Blackstock Rd, Finsbury Park.
Children of John and Eleanor
307j......Albert John b 2nd qr 1904 [Pancras 1b 73]
307k......Arthur William b 1906 [Pancras 1b 81]
307l......Kathleen Eleanor b 1908 [West Ham 4a 499]


The fleet sets out in the morning about 1900
Note: William John was at first a fisherman in Lowestoft, and in 1881 he lived at 59 Blackfriars Rd, and his mother, widow Elizabeth was a charwoman, living at Gorleston in 1891 at 14 Highfield Rd, He walked to Middlesborough about 1898 to find work in the steel industry before 1901. In the census of that year he is shown as a shipyard labourer, living with his wife and son at 25 Dinade St, Middlesborough. He had a dance band, according to family
Children of William and Florence
470......Albert G b 1897 d 4th qr 1912 Gorleston aged 15
471......William Harold b 4th qr 1898 Gorleston d 19 May 1918 in France m unknown Gt Yarmouth.
Note: William was a private soldier 24015 in the Teeside Battery of the 9th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment. He enlisted in Middlesborough. He died of wounds received and is buried in Saint Sever cemetery extension (Haute-Normandie) France
472......Florence Elizabeth b 4th qr 1901 [Middlesborough 9d 570] m Charles PLATTS 1st qr 1922 [Middlesborough 9d 830]
473......Alfred John b 4th qr 1903 [Middlesborough 9d 540]
474......Ida Winifred b 3rd qr 1906 [Middlesborough 9d 574] d March 1993 Cleveland, Arkansas USA m William Kemp WILCOX (b 3 Sep 1903 d 1st qr 1980 [C Cleveland 3 2698]) 3rd qr 1924 [Middlesborough 9d 1338]

Letitia 2 - on which Ida emigrated
475......Doris Emily b 1st qr 1909 [Middlesborough 9d 600] m Albert LEACH 4th qr 1932 [Middlesborough 9d 1232]
476......Hilda E b 1st qr 1914 [Middlesborough 9d 1099] m Stephen LOTT 3rd qr 1936 [Middlesborough 9d 1522]
477......Rena L b 1918 [Middlesborough 9d 905]
Note: Arthur and Ellen are said to have had 18/19 children. Those known are shown below, but there are others. In 1901 Arthur was a labourer in an "oil mill". In 1911 the family was at 3 Clive Place, Bell Street, Greenwich and Arthur was a general labourer In WW1 he served in a Kent regiment as a private no 213355 and was awarded the victory and British medals.
Children of Arthur and Ellen
478......Cyril Arthur Rumsby b 1st qr 1903 [Greenwich 1d 1130]
479......George Alfred b 3rd qr 1904 [Greenwich 1d 1091] m Grace E HASLER 1st qr 1940 [Edmonton 3a 2932]
480......Frederick b 1st qr 1906 [Greenwich 1d 1109] m Charlotte E HURLEY 4th qr 1925 [Greenwich 1d 1800]
481......Edward Alfred Rumsby b 24 Feb 1911 3, Clive Place Bell Street in Greenwich [Greenwich 1d 1008] d Dec 1986 Greenwich
482......Alice Hilda b 2nd qr 1908 [Greenwich 1d 1084] d bef 2003
483......Arthur H b 3rd qr 1913 [Greenwich 1d 1879] d 1st qr 1916 [Greenwich 1d 1134]
484......Ruby Irene b 1st qr 1917 [Greenwich 1d 1545] m George ALLEN (d bef 2003) abt 1939
485......unnamed male b 4th qr 1919 [Greenwich 1d 1961] d 4th qr 1919 [Greenwich 1d 1013]
486......Kathleen E b 1st qr 1929 [Greenwich 1d 1183]
See the Sharman branch here
Note: The birth certificate for William John shows that James was a trawlerman. On 22 May 1907 he obtained his Master's Certificate of Skipper for a trawler, and between 1907 and 1930 he served with the Royal Navy Reserve, retiring on 22 Sep 1930 as Skipper.
| James Arthur Mewse was awarded a long service medal for his 23 years during which he made 130 mine sweeping forays during world war 1. |
Children of James and Elspet
487......James Arthur b 1901 Aberdeen
488......William John b 13 May 1903 18 Gt Western Rd, Aberdeen d 28 Mar 1976
489......Margaret Bowie Wilson b 1907 Aberdeen d 1991 Port Lincoln, South Australia
489a....Nancy b 1907 Aberdeenshire d 1991 Port Lincoln, South Australia
Note: Nancy was living in Lytham St Annes in 1936
Children of James and Lily
490......James Nelson b 1914 Aberdeen d 1914 Aberdeeen
491......Horatio William Nelson b 7 May 1915 Clyde Street, Invergordon, Ross and Cromarty d 29 Apr 1984 m Helen JOYCE (b 24 May 1911 Turlough, Rosmuck, Galway Ireland d Aug 1985 Blackpool) 4 Sep 1943 Blackpool register office
Note: Horatio joined the Merchant Navy as assistant engineer in 1921 after sailing with his father from the age of 12. He won 5 medals for war service in the Merchant Navy - his military service was from 1938 to 1945. His discharge no was R 177001. He was 5'9" tall and had brown eyes and a dark complexion.
492......Lily Maud b 10 Feb 1920 Aberdeen
493......Alexander Simpson b 1920 ? Aberdeen d 17 Jun 1941 m Margaret A KNOWLES in the 2nd qr of 1940 [Wandsworth 1d 1351]
Alexander was a gunner (No 918001) in the Roayal Artillery in the Middle East
494......Arthur b 14 Dec 1923 5 Skene Place Aberdeen d 20 Dec 2001 Blackpool m Maureen CLOHESY (b 22 Dec 1913 Newcastle on Tyne d Jan 1990 Newcastle on Tyne) 22 Dec 1955 St Anthony's Catholic Church, Walker, Newcastle on Tyne
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were Jennifer CLOHESY and A Laurence PULLEN. Arthur was an executive officer at Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, Newcastle on Tyne and Maureen was an industrial nurse
495......Annie McLeod Duncan b 1921 Aberdeen m John Fiddes BROWN 1942 Aberdeen
496......Margaret b 1922 Aberdeen
497......Leonard b 1926 Aberdeen d 1975 Leeds
498......Angus b 4th qr 1932 [Fylde 8e 681]
Note: In 1911 Andrew was a coal miner and the family lived at 1 Laurel Walk, Gosforth
Children of Andrew and Florence
499......Andrew b 1899 Benwell, Newcastle on Tyne m Alice PATTINSON 2nd qr 1943 [Newcastle upon TYne 10b 312]
500......Robert William b 3rd qr 1905 Wallsend [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 16] m Irene MASON 4th qr 1939 [Newcastle upon TYne 10b 296]
501......Florence A b 1910 Gosforth Newcastle on Tyne
Note: William and family were at 10 Morse Terrace Erith in 1901 and a vistor was staying with them: Mary ROPER aged 14 b 1887 in Belvedere, Kent. In 1911 the family was back in Gateshead at 4 Watson Street, and William was a grocer
Child of William and Laura
502......Laura b 22nd March 1901 [Dartford 2a 534]
503......Edith Jane b 1903 Hammersmith [1911 census]
504......Frederick William b 1st qr 1911 [Gateshead 10a 978]
Note: Frederick became a musician at first, and travelled to New York on the "Queen Elizabeth" three times, on 2 Dec 1947, 1 Aug 1950 and 19 Mar 1951. Then on a 4th journey he gave his occupation as a single mechanical engineer emigrating to Canada. His address in the UK was 128 Hendon Way, London, NW2
Children of James and Jane
505......Joseph S b 2nd qr 1917 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 84] m Mary REYNOLDS 1st qr 1948 [Newcastle upon Tyne 1b 328]
506......Robert b 2nd qr 1919 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 55]
507......Jane b 1st qr 1921 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 103]
508......Emily b 2nd qr 1922 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 45]
Children of Afred and Phyllis
509......Doris b 4th qr 1915 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 63]
510......Elsie b 3rd qr 1928 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 303] m Leonard PEART 4th qr 1950 [Newcastle upon Tyne 1b 22]
510a....Alfred b 2nd qr 1932 [Newcastle upon Tyne 108 306] m Muriel DAVIS 2nd qr 1957 [Newcastle upon Tyne 1b 32]
Children of John and Ada
511......Frederick b 2nd qr 1918 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 282]
512......Rose b 3rd qr 1922 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 323]
513......Robert B b 1st qr 1925 [Newcastle on Tyne 10b 311]
Child of Joseph and Laura
514......Laura b 1st qr 1922 [Newcstle on Tyne 10b 261]
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were Samuel MEWSE and Lois SAUNDERS. Eliza Sarah remarried as a widow John MANTRIPP, twinespinner 16 Dec 1876, witnesses William CRISP and Ellen COOK
Note: In 1881 the family was at 4 Raglan Cottages, Lowestoft and William was a steamboat fireman, but by 1891 the family had moved to 24 Blacks Road, Hammersmith and William had become a gas engine fitter.In 1901 William was still in the same occupation, and the family was at 80 Glenparke Road, West Ham and by 1911 William had become Foreman at a gas engine pipe fitters, still at 80 Glenparke Rd,
Children of William and Susan
515......Frederick W A b 1st qr 1880 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 843] d 2nd qr 1897 aged 17 [W Ham 4a 76]
516......Florence Anne b 2nd qr 1882 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 873]
Note: In 1901 Florence was a dressmaker, and in 1911 she was a robe machinist
517......Grace Lilian b 3rd qr 1888 Fulham [Fulham 1a 271]
518......William Richard b 2nd qr 1892 Hammersmith [Fulham 1a 207]
Note: In 1911 William was an engineer's apprentice
519......Alice May b 3rd qr 1894 Hammersmith [Fulham 1a 177]
Note: Frederick was the son of John William WALLER and Bertha BAILEY (m 2nd qr 1882 [Hartlepool 10a 158])
Child of Frederick and Elizabeth
530......Elizabeth Gray 1st qr 1908 [Hartlepool 10a 156]
531......Bertha b 1st qr 1910 [Hartlepool 10a 151]
532......Frederick b 2nd qr 1911 [Hartlepool 10a 148]
Note: Mary Ann was the daughter of Sam Payne and Mary Ann Wills. (When Sam died, Mary Ann's mother married Thomas Ellis VINGOE). Witnesses at the wedding were Thomas Ellis VINGOE and William SIERS.John Henry's family were living at "near Rant Score East" in 1881, and in East Street in 1884 when John Henry was at sea. He was drowned off Plymouth when the vessel "Violet" of which he was Master sank with all hands on 3 March 1896 . In 1891 the family was at Eden Street, Lowestoft, and Mary was a dressmaker. (John Henry was not at home) . In the 1901 census, Mary Ann is shown back in Newlyn with her mother, together with with 349 Mary Ann Wills MEWSE and her step brother, Frank James VINGOE. In 1911 Mary was a draper living at Crowlas, Ludgvan, Penzance with daughter Mary Ann Wills MEWSEThere is a website about Thomas Ellis VINGOE here
Child of William and Mary
533......Hannah Maria b 15 Mar 1878 Newlyn d 29 Mar 1976 Gt Yarmouth
534......Samuel Barber b 18 Feb 1880 Lowestoft d 28 Oct 1895 (drowned) [Mutford 4a 588] bur 31 Oct 1895 Lowestoft plot L/10/236
Samuel was recorded as a shipwright, living at 33 Reeve St, Lowestoft when he died
535......John Henry b 1881 drowned 1899 aged 17 bur municipal cemetery, Paul, Cornwall 29 Jul 1899.
536......Mary Ann b11 Aug 1884 East St, Beach bap privately 3 Sep 1884 All Saints, Lowestoft d 28 May 1886
537......Mary Ann Wills b 4 Sep 1889 Lowestoft bap 2 Oct 1889 All Saints, Lowestoft d 1975 as spinster at Soberton, Hants
Note: In 1901 the family lived at 4 Strand Cottages, Lowestoft and in 1911 they were at 4 Anguish Street, Lowestoft
Children of Joshua and Hannah
538......Frederick Joshua b 1st qr 1885 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 957]
Note: Joshua F was a fisherman in 1901 and used his name in reverse at times
539......Edith Maria b 2nd qr 1886 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 946]
540......Charles Edwards b 3rd qr 1887 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 910]
541......Charles Edwards b 2nd qr 1889 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 961]
542......Charles Edwards b 3rd qr 1887 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 910]
543......Samuel George b 3rd qr 1890 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 920]
544......Benjamin Henry b 4th qr 1895 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 965]
545......John Murray b 1899 Lowestoft
Note: in 1901 Benjamin was a dock labourer working in West Derby, Liverpool. In 1911 the family was at 4 Sutherland Street, Liverpool - Benjamin was still a dock labourer
Children of Benjamin and Alice
546......Edith Elizabeth b 1897 Liverpool m Albert TAYLOR [West Derby 8b 475]
547......Dorothy Hannah b 3 Nov 1898 Liverpool d 11 Jul 1964 m William S STEVENS 1st qr 1922 [West Derby 8b 323]
548......Alice Winifred b 26 Nov 1900 Liverpool d 22 Oct 1972 Southport
549......Florence b 1906
550......Benjamin Henry J died 1st qr 1908 Lowestoft aged 0
551.....Ethel D b 4th qr 1913 [West Derby 8b 1078]
552......Doris J b 4th qr 1918 [West Derby 8b 851]
Note: Alonzo, a fish merchant, and Emma were living at 281 Raglan St Lowestoft in 1896 and 6 Wesley St in 1918 Alonzo was Master of the vessel "Boy Ben" in 1870 having previously been on the "Providence". From 1908 he was skipper (Cert no 1728A) of the "Brittania", then skipper of the "Good Hope" - 122751 steamship, then the "Alfred" and the last record we have is of his being skipper of the "Pleasance" in 1911
Children of Alonzo and Emma
564......Gladys Maisie b 4 Feb 1896 bur 21 Feb 1896 Lowestoft plot L/12/67W
565......Alonzo James b abt 1895
| Alonzo James appears in the London Gazette of 27 Dec 1914 as a seaman (RNPS LT JX 210621) being awarded the Distinguished Sevice Medal | ![]() |
Note: Florence MEWSE, Mary Elizabeths younger sister was staying with the family according to the census of 1891
Children of Mr Wright and Mary
571......Harrold G (fem) b 1883 Lowestoft
572......Bertie William b 2nd qr 1886 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 949]
573......Ethel Maud b 4th qr 1888 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 894]
574......Florence Ada b 1891 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1030]
Note: witnesses to the marriage were William and Alice MEWSE. Kate was daughter of James BISHOP. Benson was a fishmonger living at 2 Edinburgh Rd in 1891 and in 1901 and was living at 5 Lighthouse Score in 1902, but he also had a shop at 147a High Street where he was a fish merchant, and another one at 119 Bevan Street, Lowestoft. Kate brought her son, William C COCK (b 1887 Penryn) who was a fish cleaner in 1901 to the family. In the 1891 census there was a 2 year old nephew, Frederick WILLIAMS living with them. Benson and Kate were living iat 21 Chapel Street Lowestoft in 1911. His effects at death were valued at £288. 1s 3d. Probate was granted to widow Kate.
Child of Benson and Kate
575......Kate Winifred b 1899 Lowestoft
Note: witnesses to the marriage were Osgood Robert TRUNDLE and Florence Martha MEWSE. Daniel was a fisherman and in 1901 they lived at 89 Stanley Street, Lowestoft. In 1911 Daniel was a labourer in a net store and the family lived at 7 Walton Rd, Lowestoft
Child of Daniel and Alice
576......Alice b 1899 Lowestoft
577......Frederick b 1903 Lowestoft
578......Doris b 1910 Lowestoft
Children of Ernest and Clara
579.....Phyllis Mary b 6 Dec 1910 Lowestoft d Mar 1984 m Frank Winston EDMONDS (b 3 Mar 1909 Lowestoft d 7 Dec 1995 Norwich)
580......Dorothy Clara b 8 Mar 1913 Lowestoft d 14 Feb 1996 Lowestoft m Josef HECHT
Note: Eliza Bird was the daughter of Frederick BIRD from Beeston, Norfolk and Fanny MARTIN from Gillingham, Kent. John was a ship's fireman in 1911 and the family was at 23 Astley Street Camberwell
Children of John and Eliza
581......Florence Maud b 1898 Camberwell, Surrey
582......Mary Ann b 27 Sep 1903 Camberwell, Surrey d 1981 Byfleet, Surrey
Note: Terri Last writes - "Mary Ann Parr was a lovely lady - in her youth, she had jet black wavy hair and huge dark brown eyes. Despite being only four feet ten inches tall, she was the true family matriarch - tough and feisty, with an incredibly dry sense of humour and a life-long cockney accent.
583......Lily Violet b 1905 Camberwell, Surrey
584......Annie b 1910 Camberwell

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Note: Henry was a private no 12694 in the 9th Suffolk Regiment. His record shows that he was awarded the Victory Medal, the British Medal and the 5 Star medal and that he went to France on 9 August 1915
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Note: Witnesses to the marriage were John W SMITH and Caroline BREACH
William was Master of the vessel "Princeps" in 1855 and 1856 having previously served on the "Bonnie John". He died at the Hospital 98 Beresford Rd. Jessie was running apartments at 40 Denmark Rd in 1900 and 1902. 365 William below was living there when he died.
In 1888 he was living at 158 High Street, was a boat owner and petitioned for bankruptcy. The public hearing was at Great Yarmouth Town Hall at 11am on 19th December 1888 and the final hearing was on 3 Jan 1889 at the Suffolk Hotel Lowestoft. His bankruptcy release was on 29 Jun 1889
William and Jessie lived at 3 Marine Cottages by Anguish St, Beach in 1881 and in 1891 were lodging with Caroline BREACH (witness at marriage) at 38 Denmark Road, Lowestoft and were at 31 May Rd Lowestoft in 1914.
The 1901 census shows Jessie as a lodging house keeper at 40 Denmark Rd Lowestoft but William Frederick is not present - however, Caroline BREACH was visiting and she too was a lodging house keeper. Jessie had a servant, Alice TODD aged 23, a widow. born in Norwich.
Child of William and Jessie
596......William Frederick b abt 1878 Lowestoft d 4th qr 1900 [Mutford 4a 587] bur 8 Oct 1900 Lowestoft aged 22
William was a ship's steward, buried in plot L/14/243 at Lowestoft
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were Henry James Ayers MEWSE and George and Hannah MEWSE William was a fisherman son of Henry POPE railway pilot
Children of William and Eleanor
597......Frederick William b 4th qr 1885 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 898]
598......Alonzo b 4th qr 1888 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 911]
599......Gladys Maud b 4th qr 1893 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 938]
Note: Pleasance was the daughter of Henry WOODS, labourer [dec] and had been an ag lab. At her death she was living at 49 Laurel Rd, Lowestoft
Witnesses to the marriage were William Frederick MEWSE and Louise Jane SADLER. Kelly's directory of 1900 shows Henry as a boat owner at 71 Albert Street, Lowestoft. In 1911 Henry was a boat owner living at 71 Park Road Lowestoft. Henry is the subject of a report in "The Times" of 3rd August 1934 as having been a retired boat owner, and leaving £11315. 5s 3d (net personalty £10236). Executors were Hilda Pleasance NEWSON, his daughter and William George CHAPMAN. At the time of his death he was living at 54 The Avenue South, Lowestoft.
Children of Henry and Pleasance
600......Hilda Pleasance b abt 1886 Lowestoft
Note: Hilda was a draper's apprentice in 1901
601......Alfred Alonzo b 3rd qr 1887 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 192] bur 27 Jun 1946 Lowestoft cemetery l/14/79 m Clarettina SPENDLER (d 16 Jan 1929 Lothingland House)1st qr 1913 [Mutford 4a 1885]
Note: Alfred was a superintendent of fishing boat engines in 1911, living with his parents. When he died he was living at 78 Sussex Rd Lowestoft and his occupation was given as motor mechanic. His wife Clarettina left £83.3s.6d with Alfred Alonzo, garage proprietor, as executor
602......Alfred A b abt 1898 Lowestoft
Note: At the 1911 census, Ellen HEAL , Agnes' mother and Charles HEAL, Agnes' brother was staying with the family at 7 Relf Road, Peckham
children of Frederick and Agnes
603......Clara Ellen b 1902 Camberwell
604......Agnes Florence b 1904 Camberwell
605......Frederick Charles b abt 1908 Camberwell
606......Herbert Thomas b abt 1910 Camberwell
Note: At marriage Percy as he was known lived at 19 Chapel St Lowestoft, and his father was Samuel BAGSHAW, Marine Store Dealer Witnesses to the marriage were Herbert Bagshaw and Emma Clark.
In 1901 the family was at 48 St Peters Street, Lowestoft and Percy was a coachman, and in 1911 the family was at 1 Eden Street, Lowesoft and Percy was a gas works labourer
Children of Percy and Maggie
607......Margaret Edith b 1897 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1005]
Note: In 1911 Margaret is described as a "day girl domestic" - presumably a maid but still living at home
608......Florence Beatrice b 4th qr 1899 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1050]
609.....Percy Oliver b 3rd qr 1901 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1144]
610......Frederick William b 4th qr 1903 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1147]
611......Ernest Leonard b 1st qr 1906 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1176]
612.......Emma b 4th qr 1907 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1104]
613.......Samuel George b 2nd qr 1910 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1142]
614......Lilan H b 3rd qr 1916 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2048]
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were William Bartholomew CLARKE and Gertrude MAY
Children of Samuel and Florence
615......John Henry b 1913 Lowestoft d 1929 aged 16
616......Leslie b 29 Jun 1915 Lowestoft d 2004 Beccles
617......Arthur b 13 Mar 1917 Lowestoft d 1919 aged 2 Lowestoft
618......Peter b 1923 Lowestoft d 1978
Note: the 1911 census shows William as a corporal in the Middlesex Regiment, and they were living at 13 Alexander Road, Aldershot
Children of William and Susan
346j......William Edward b 1909 Blackfriars
346k......Robert J b abt 1911
346l......Daisy E b 1912 Aldershot
Note: Muriel was the daughter of Annie Louise RAYMER
Children of Ernest and Muriel
346ma....Anthony Ernest b 12 Jun 1921 [Ipswich 4a 1838] d 2 Nov 1996 [Deben 20c 283/1196]
346m......Pamela b 3rd qr 1925 [Ipswich 4a 1690] d 3rd qr 1925 [Ipswich 4a 822]
346n......Michael J R b 3rd qr 1926 [Ipswich 4a 1660]
346o......Cynthia Margaret b 29 Oct 1928 [Ipswich 4a 1514]
346p......Jennifer Mary b 26 Apr 1931 [Samford 4a 1591]
346q......Marion Jose b 8 Mar 1935 1935 [Samford 4a 1500]
346r......Richard John 11 Jun 1939 [Samford 4a 1873]
Note: In 1911 the family was at 18 Norwich Rd Lowestoft and William was the son of the late Henry Alfred HULBERT and was a watch maker, repairer and working jeweller and was working from home. Witnesses to the marriage were Chas H Hulkbert, F C HULBERT and A E MEWSE
Children of William and Jane
619......Winnifred Grace (Winnie) b 4th qr 1907 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1099]
620......Henry Alfred b 1st qr 1909 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1112
621......Doreen F b 1st qr 1911 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1111]
622......Barbara b 1st qr 1913 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2138]
623......Paul b 3rd qr 1914 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2195]
624......Peggy b 3rd qr 1914 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2194]
Children of Edgar and Alice
625......Samuel George W b 1st qr 1901 Lowestoft] [Mutford 4a 1137]
626......Charles Edward C b 3rd qr 1903 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1202]
627.......Jessie Alice b 4th qr 1906 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1127]
628......George Stephen b 1910 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1128]
Children of Annie Elizabeth and Stephen Thomas
638.....Frederick George b 3rd qr 1898 Pakefield d 3rd qr 1899 aged 1
639......Laura Irene M b 2nd qr 1912 d Pakefield [Mutford 4a 2075] bur 16 May 1917 Kirkley plot K/C/98
640......Frederick George b 4th qr 1914 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 2029]
641......Rhoda Dorothy b Pakefield d 1980
642......Stephen Russell b 1st qr 1916 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 2978] d Pakefield bur 6 Oct 1926 Kirkley lived at 13 Coronation Terrace, Pakefield
643......Betty Maude b 2nd qr 1918 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 1643]
644......Annie Emily b Pakefield
645......John Hubert b 1st qr 1921 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 2086]
646......Ivy Edith b 4th qr 1919 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 2194]
647...... William Stephen Charles John b Pakefield d 1997
648......Thelma Doreen b 3rd qr 1922 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 1985]
649......Myrtle Thora b 4th qr 1923 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 1830]
650......Joan Nora b 2nd qr 1925 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 1857]
651......Beryl Meline b 3rd qr 1927 Pakefield [Mutford 4a 1753]
Children of Jack and Florence
670......Peter (issue: two living children)
671......John Alfred b 18 Apr 1925 Lowestoft m Iris EAVES 8 Dec 1944 Fleetwood
Note: John and Iris had two living children.
672......Joan Grace b 19 Sep 1926 Lowestoft m Edwin LAMB 15 Jan 1945 Fleetwood [Fylde 8e 1243](issue: 5 living children)
Children of Philip and Ellen
673......Bessie S b 4th qr 1914 [Mutford 4a 2084]
674......Hilda I b 3rd qr 1916 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2038] m Edward J MILSOM 2nd qr 1936 [Lothingland 4a 3565]
675......Gladys b 3rd qr 1926 [Mutford 4a 1812] m George M COLEMAN 2nd qr 1956 [Lothingland 4b 1771]
Children of Percival and Elsie
676......Peter W b 2nd qr 1937 [Nottingham 7b 343]
677......Patricia I b 4th qr 1941 [Nottingham 7b 414]
678......Cyril M b 1st qr 1945 [Nottingham 7b 469]
Children of William and Elsie
679......Gordon W J b 3rd qr 1928 [Mutford 4a 1742}
680......Betty G H b 3rd qr 1931 [Mutford 4a 1799]
Children of Ivan and Violet
681......Derrick I b 2nd qr 1928 [Mutford 4a 1776]
682......Pamela R b 3rd qr 1931 [Mutford 4a 1810]
Children of George and Hilda
683......Hilda R b 4th qr 1931 [Mutford 4a 1637]
684......Brenda R b 1st qr 1939 [Blackpool 8e 661]
685......Alan G b 4th qr 1942 [Fylde 8e 833]
Children of Robert and Ruby
686......Cynthia G b 3rd qr 1935 [Lothingland 4a 1723]
687......Yvonne I b 3rd qr 1939 [Lothingland 4a 2129]
688......Keith C b 3rd qr 1950 [Lothingland 4b 1106]
Note: In 1933 James was a fruit salesman living at 14 Jacks Brae, Aberdeen. Hannah was the daughter of Alexander (a cooper) and Maggie DUNCAN. In 1935 James was a general labourer living at 1 Seaton Gardens, Aberdeen
Children of James and Hannah
Children of James and Hannah
689......Stanley b Nov 1931 Aberdeen d 1932 Aberdeen
690......Ronald Arthur b Apr 1935 Aberdeen d 22 Nov 1933 Sick Childrens Hospital, Aberdeen
Note: Jemima has a sister still alive in 2005 aged 100 in October
Child of William and Jemima
691......Margaret Smith d 29 Nov 2002
692......William John b 5 Mar 1929 36 North Street Aberdeen
Note: Frederick was the son of Frederick HOYLE and Mary HARTLEY and like his father was a butcher until 1960 when he became a licenced victualler. Thomas was the son of Thomas UNSWORTH and Elsie GIFFORD
Children of Frederick and Lily
492b......Dorothy Ann b 3 Feb 1944 [Blackpool 8E 733]
492c......Pauline J b 7 Apr 1945 [Blackpool 8E 715]
Children of Leonard and Kathleen
497b......Trevor L b 21 Dec 1951 [Hull 2a 366]
497c......Susan K b 3rd qr 1957 [Hull 2a 450] d 1st qr 1958 [Holderness 2a 113]
497d......Julie I b 2nd qr 1959 [Holderness 2a 81]
Children of Angus and Jean
498b......Carol b 4th qr 1953 [Alton 6b 89]
498c......Kay F b 3rd qr 1954 [Blackpool 10b 552]
498d......Christine b 3rd qr 1955 [Andover 6b 134]
498e......Jacqueline b 3rd qr 1956 [Fylde 10c 139]
498f......Mark A b 1st qr 1960 [Salisbury 7c 654]
498g......David S b 2nd qr 1963 [Salisbury 7c 702]
Child of Leonard and Elsie
693......Doris b 4thqr 1952 [Newcastle upon Tyne 1b 282]
Children of Joseph and Mary
T15......Peter b 3rd qr 1948 [Durham NW 1a 741] m Eileen FRANCIS 4th qr 1965 {durham Western 1a 1753]
694......Joan b 4th qr 1951 [Durham NW 1a 641]
Child of Frederick and Alice
695......Frederick Geoffrey b 1940 Liverpool
Children of Herbert and Ethel
696......Sylvia E b 3rd qr 1945 [Liverpool South 8b 132]
697......Brian b 2nd qr 1949 [Liverpool South 10d 742]
Children of Donald and Doris
698......Maureen b 2nd qr 1940 [Liverpool South 8b 157]
699......Barbara b 3rd qr 1943 [Liverpool South 8b 364]
Children of Herbert and Lily
700......Lily M S b 2nd qr 1913 [Mutford 4a 2267]
701......Herbert G R b 3rd qr 1915 [St Olave, Southwark 1d 389]
702......John H b 1st qr 1918 [St Olave, Southwark 1d 283]
703......George S b 3rd qr 1920 [Mutford 4a 2282]
704......Doreen G b 2nd qr 1922 [Mutford 4a 1969]
Note: William was the son of John Ernest BESSEY (b 1879)
Children of William and Florence
705......William George b 1 May 1920 d 1996
706......Samuel John b 18 May 1921m Ethel L PETTY 4th qr 1944 [Birmingham 6d 140]
707......Florence Ruby b 28 Nov 1922 m Herbert A BALLS 4th qr 1946 [Lothingland 4b 2202]
708......Harold Edward b 16 Aug 1925 m Luisa BRUGNOLI 2nd qr 1959 [Lothingland 4b 1668], issue: Patricia M b 3rd qr 1960 [Westminster 5c 413]
709......Eileen Ida b 7 Oct, year uncertain
Children of Edward and Florence
712......Dorothy V b 3rd qr 1917 [Mutford 4a 1609]
713......Hazel F b 1st qr 1922 [Mutford 4a 2071]
Note: Francis was a general warehouseman in 1911 and the family was living at 36 Milton Rd, Lowestoft
Children of Francis and Hilda
714......Jack Frank Mewse b 3rd qr 1910 Lowestoft
715.....James C Mewse b 1st qr 1912 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 271]
716......Hilda Mewse b 2nd qr 1915 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 2092]
Note: Leslie was a printer and was Mayor of Beccles 3 times
Children of Leslie and Grace
717.....Mary Susan b 31 Mar 1949 Fakenham bap Lowestoft
718......Jane Anne b 1 Jun 1952
Children of Peter and Elizabeth
719......Brian b 1953 Lowestoft
720......David b 1957 Lowestoft
Children of George Henry and Mary
721......Mary Ann b 11 Aug 1884
722......Mary Ann Wells b 4 Sep 1889 bap 2 Oct 1889 Christ Church
723......Margaret A b aft 1866 "blind from birth"
349 Alice Elizabeth MEWSE m Edward William HARVEY 4th qr 1884 [Mutford 4a 1715]
Children of Edward and Alice
724......Maud b 1885 Lowestoft
725......William b 1885 Lowestoft
726......Grace b 1889 Lowestoft
Note: Alfred was a Packing Case Maker in 1891 and was living with Emma's parents at 34 Arnold Street, Lowestoft. Emma was not present in 1891. In 1901 Alfred was a lamplighter employed by the Gas Co and the family was living with Emma's parents at 73 Seago Street, Lowestoft. In 1911, still at the same address and in the same employment, and 264 George was staying there
Children of Alfred and Emma
727......Alfred T b 4th qr 1889 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 927]
728......Mabel Louisa b 1st qr 1891 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 973]
729......Hilda Lily M b 2nd qr 1897 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1005]
730......William James b 2nd qr 1899 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1085]
731......Ruby Irene b 4th qr 1901 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1142]
732......Kathleen Clara M b 4th qr 1904 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1139]
733......Edna Eliza J b 4th qr 1908 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1086]
734......Clifford A C b 1st qr 1911 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1119<
Note: In 1901 Albert was a cabinet maker and the family was at 6 Milton Rd Leiston Terrace, Lowestoft.
Children of Albert and Catherine
735......Albert Victor b 2nd qr 1897 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1009]
736......Catherine Dora b 3rd qr 1898 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1049]
737......Harold Edward b 2nd qr 1910 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1139]
Note: Herbert was a fishmonger, and in 1911 Florence was helping in the shop. Florence's father, Benson was staying with them at 32 Stevens Street, Lowestoft.
Children of Herbert and Florence
740......Herbert Richard b 3rd qr 1908 Lowestoft [Mutford 4a 1155]
741......Edith M b 4th qr 1911 [Mutford 4a2059]
Children of Albert and Lilly
s1......Beryl dob unknown
s2......Judy dob unknown
Note: Witnesses to the marriage were TB PERRIT (Best Man) Herbert and Helena FISHER and Lilian G BALLARD. In 1944 the family was at "Glenwood", Courthouse Rd North. Maidenhead.
Children of Kenneth and Elsie
307m.....Valerie M b 3rd qr 1936 [Hampstead 1a 782] d 2007
307n......Wendy H b 4th qr 1939 [Chichester 2b 1271]
307p......Derek dob unknown

Children of Alfred and Edna
742......Edna J b 2nd qr 1926 [Middlesborough 9d 1002]
743......John A b 3rd qr 1933 [Middlesborough 9d 865]
744......Ronald b 1st qr 1935 [Middlesborough 9d 770]
Note: Albert was a rigger
Children of Albert and Doris
745......Peter William b 8 May 1934 Middlesborough
746......Mary b 4 Jun 1937 Middlesborough
747......Alan b 9 Nov 1938 Middlesborough
748......David b 25 Mar 1940 Middlesborough
Child of Cyril and Charlotte
749......Arthur Edward Maurice b 30 Jan 1928 m Hazel Olive (b 5 May 1932)
481 Edward Alfred Rumsby MEWSE m Emily Elizabeth WICKENDEN (b 24 Feb 1913, Deptford d Nov 1986 Greenwich) 23 May 1936 at St Nicholas Church Deptford SE8.Note: He lived at 11, Crossfield Street, Deptford (with parents?)
Children of Edward and Emily
750......Edward (aka Brian) b 21 Apr 1937 St Olave's Hospital
751....Vivienne b 1940 Deptford issue: 1 son 1 daughter
752....Ellen Elizabeth b 1947 Deptford issue: 2 sons 1 daughter
Children of James and Alice
753......Cecelia E b 3rdqr 1931 [Deptford 1d 1082]
754......James A b 2nd qr 1933 [Deptford 1d 1002]
755......Shirley b 1st qr 1935 [Deptford 1d 921]
756......Helen b 2nd qr 1936 [Deptford 1d 949]
757......John D b 3rd qr 1940 [Deptford 1d 1112]
758......Jean I b 2nd qr 1944 [Deptford 1d 677]
759......Diane C b 1st qr 1947 [Deptford 5c 783]
760......Dierdre b 2nd qr 1950[Greenwich 5c 620]
Note: Ruby's daughter Connie wrote to me in August 2008 to say that "My mum is now living in a nursing home, but is bright as a button and is heading towards her 92nd birthday this December." She lives at Bexleyheath.
Children of George and Ruby
761......Maureen b 1st qr 1940 [Deptford 1d 1093]
762......Brenda R b 4th qr 1943 [Deptford 1d 570]
763......George D b 2nd qr 1945 [Deptford 1d 483]
764......Constance K b 1st qr 1948 [Deptford 5c 620]
765......Leslie J b 1st qr 1955 [Deptford 5c 412]
Note: Cathy and Leonard live at Chipping Norton. Cathy was in a Medical Journal for surviving a certain cancer a few decades ago.
Children of Leonard and Cathy
766......Barry J b 2nd qr 1953 [Camberwell 5C 194]
767......Terry L b 3rd qr 1954 [Greenwich 5C 523]
768......Kay B J b 1st qr 1959 [Eton 6a 660]
Note: At the time of his death John was living at 37 Love Rd Lowestoft and had been a fish worker
Children of John and Ellen
769......Ellen B b 4th qr 1920 [Mutford 4a 2040]
770......Violet b 1st qr 1923 [Mutford 4a 1953]
771......Jean E b 4th qr 1925 [Mutford 4a 1689]
772......John C b 1st qr 1927 [Mutford 4a 1726]
Note: Alonzo and Bertha had a grandchild, Karen WOOD. Bertha died of Cancer. Alonzo died of a heart attack.
Child of Alonzo and Bertha
773......Patricia E 1st qr 1939 [Lothingland 4a 1678]
Note: Patricia had blonde hair
Children of Charles and Hannah
774......Charles John b 27 Feb 1904 Harwich d 1935 at sea
Note: Charles John, who never married, received a posthumous citation for bravery from Marconi for staying at his post when his ship sank; he drowned in 1935
775......Jack b 8 Nov 1909 Harwich
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Jack was awarded the DSO in World War II by King George VI "For gallantry, skill and leadership in HMS Legion in a brilliant action against strong enemy forces, which were driven off and severely damaged. This action resulted in the safe passage to Malta of an important convoy. During this time he rescued 17 men from a sinking ship. Family report says that he was also on a vessel which sank in Scapa Flow; his daughter reports him as having said that it was in November, and it was warmer in the water than when he was pulled out! Thanks to Val Taylor for this information. Note: HMS Legion was built in 1940. In September 1941 she helped to sink the Italian submarine "Adua" whilst returning to Gibralta from Malta. On 13 Dec 1941 she was one of a group of four destroyers which sank the Italian cruisers "Di Guissano" and "Da Barbiano" off Cape Bon. She was irreparably damaged by German aircraft whilst at Grand Harbour, Valetta, Malta on 26 March 1942. |
Child of William and Alice
778......Joan b 12 Sep 1926 Isle of Man m John Kenneth PICKAVANCE (issue: two living children)
Note: Thomas was the son of William Charles NUNN of Drinkstone and Ethel SARGENT
Children of Thomas and Mary Ann
779......Irene (living)
780......Lilian (living)
Child of Leslie and Nellie
586......Donald Michael b 3rd qr 1928 [Romford 4a 833]d 1st qr 1934 [Romford 4a 684]
Note: Alice was the daughter of Edmund (a plumber) and Elizabeth Mantripp. In 1911 John Henry and John William were boarding with Amelia DAY at 43 Duke's Head Street, Lowestoft. Alice Elizabeth was not present.
Child of John and Alice
787......John William Charles b 2nd qr 1901 d 30 Sep 1940 in ship off Falmouth
Note: John was a Sea Steward aboard HMS Comet. His name is recorded on the Lowestoft Naval memorial

HMS Comet
Children of Evan and Marion
P1......Catherine Jane b 20 Jul 1959 [Sutton Coldfield 9c 1766]
P2......Jeremy Patrick b 1 Feb 1962 [Chatham 5b 621]
P3......Rosalind Stretton b 13 May 1970 [Bury St Eds 4b 4409]
Note: On leaving school, Fred became a fisherman, then worked in the Pascall sweet factory. He lived in the same street in Tooting as Bill - in the house his parents moved to in the 1920's
Children of Fred and Jean
792......Geoffrey J b 1st qr 1955 [Surrey NE 5G 647] m Diane DEACONS 4th qr 1986 [Merton 14 610]
793......Deborah b 3rd qr 1957 [Surrey NE 5G 692]
794......Stephen F b 4th qr 1958 [Surrey NE 5G 633]
Note: Bill was in the merchant Navy from 1921 to 1941, and his home was in the same street as Fred. His seaman's record shows he was of dark complexion and had brown hair and blue eyes. His first voyage was on the SS Almeda

The SS Almeda
Note: Jim lived in 1 Brixton and 2 Newhaven. On leaving school he was a fisherman, but became salesman for a water heating company.
Child of Jim and Pam
797......Vanessa J b 2nd qr 1950 [Sutton Coldfield 9C 618] [lives Gorleston near Gt Yarmouth] m Michael WALL
Note: Jerry lived upstairs from in-laws until 1960's, then Lowestoft until 1970's then Hythe, Kent. He worked for the Electricity Board in Lowestoft and London. Their daughter in law, Dierdre writes to me in January 2009: "Joyce is still doing well in a care home. She has alzheimers but loves the company of others all day and is really happy."
Child of Jerry and Joyce
798......Bryan F b 3rd qr 1959 [Willesden 5F 341] m Deirdre SMITH nee WILLS 24 May 2008
Note: Deidre brought two children to the marriage: Benjamin SMITH and Eleanor SMITH
Child of Jim and Edith
799......Richard F b 1st qr 1947 [Lothingland 4b 1709]
Note: Winifred was a nursery nurse of 5 Rochester Rd, Lowestoft (d 27 Jul 1988 Lowestoft.)
Nellie Louisa, Winifred's sister was a nurse during WW2 and was awarded a defence medal. |
Note this family went to Australia, but I can find no emigration record. Certainly Pauline and Eileen were having children in Lancashire in the 1970s.
Children of Richard and Eileen
h25......Marie b 3rd qr 1941 [Bolton 8c 583]
804......Pauline b 3rd qr 1942 [Bolton 8c 421] m Stanley VEEVERS 3rd qr 1961 [Darwen 10c 343]
805......Eileen b 1st qr 1945 [Bolton 8c 390] m Brian H CONNELL 1st qr 1968 [Heywood, Lancs 10c 1017]
806......Richard b 1st qr 1951 [Bolton 10b 667] m Lorraine T HURST 3rd qr 1970 [Bolton 10b 1667]
Children of Ronald and Doreen
807......Maureen A b 3rd qr 1940 [Bolton 8c 546]
808......David B b 3rd qr 1941 [Lothingland 4a 2321]
809......Margaret E b 1st qr 1943 [Lothingland 4a 1798]
810......John E b 2nd qr 1944 [Bury St Edmunds 4a 1750]
Children of Frank Arthur and Ena Jane
811......Hazel J b 2nd qr 1942 [Lothingland 4a 2224]
812......Janet M b 1948 London St Pancras
813......Carol E b 3rd qr 1944 [Ely 3b 1084] m Brian HEAD (d May 2007)
814......Emily
815......Mervyn Frank b 1st qr 1948 [Lothingland 4b 1421]
Children of Peter and Margaret
834......Kim J b 2nd qr 1961 [Nottingham 3c 680]
835......Phillip b 1st qr 1967 [Mansfield 3c 227]
Children of Ian and Patricia
836......Andrew b 1st qr 1966 [Basford 3c 37]
837......Melanie b 1st qr 1971 [Basford 3c 106]
838......Donna b 3rd qr 1981 [Nottingham 8 914]
Child of Cyril and Joan
839......Amanda Jane b 1st qr 1982 [Nottingham 8 1139]
Child of Gordon and Jean
840......Helen J b 2nd qr 1965 [Lothingland 4b 1735]
Child of Kenneth and Betty
841......Ian P b 3rd qr 1957 [Lothingland 4b 1280]
Child of Robert and Margaret
842......Aileen b 4 Nov 1956
Note: Thomas was the son of Thomas BALLANTYNE and Katherine BAILEY, and was manager in the heavy clay industry making pipes and bricks
Children of Thomas and Dorothy
492e......Thomas Paul b 19 Sep 1967 Burnley m Jane Maria WELDRAKE (b 20 Sep 1968 Huddersfield)20 Sep 1991Elland div 1993
Note: Thomas was a data analyst .
492f......Victoria Helen b 11 Jun 1969 Burnley
Children of Trevor and Katherine
497e......Emma Jane b 1st qr 1976 [Wandsworth 15 160S]
497f......Lucy Ann b 2nd qr 1978 [Wandsworth 15 1329]
Children of Andrew and Julie
497g......Samantha b 1982 Hull
497h......Simon Andrew b May 1984 [Hull 7 897 584]
497i......Michael Thomas b Jan 1987 [Beverly 7 29 187]
Children of Lawrence and Carol
498h......Adrian John b 25 Aug 1972 Germany [GRO births abroad 1503]
498i......Damien Angus b 22 Jul 1974 Hanover [GRO births abroad C 1945]
Note: Carol lives in Southwest France and has a gite which you can see here
Child of Christopher and Carol
498j......Andrew Ben b Nov 1989 [Barnstaple 21/609/1189]
Children of Kelvin and Kay
498k......Kathryn Elizabeth b Aug 1989 [Salisbury 23 1909 889]
498l......Henry John b Jul 1991 [Warrington 35 1544 791]
498m......Chantelle Gemma b 4th qr 1977 [Salisbury 23 1293]
498n......Tabitha Annabel b 4th qr 1979 [Salisbury 23 1383]
Child of Stephen and Jacqueline
498o......James Marcus b Dec 1985 [Salisbury 23 1584 1285]
Children of Mark and Karen
498p......Christian Michael H b 3rd qr 1983 [Norwich 10 2276]
498q......Alexandra Kate b Feb 1985 [Bradford 4 702 285]
Children of David and Louise
498r......Elliot David b Dec 1993 [Grantham 6161 64 182 1293]
498s......Abigail Anna b Aug 1995 [Grantham 6161 72 186 895]
498t......Thomas Elliot b Oct 2002 [Leicester 6001H H23D 228 1002]
498u......Samantha Abigail L b Oct 2005 [Leocester 6001G G33D 087 1005]
Child of Frederick and Lynda
843......Alison b 10 Feb 1972 Billinge m Neil WILSON (b 1971 Middlesborough)
Child of Stanley and Dorothy
844......Angela E b 4th qr 1946 [Lothingland 4b 1549] m Peter H TURNER 3rd qr 1972 [Hatfield 4b 352]
Children of James and Hazel
845......David R b 2nd qr 1949 [Lothingland 4b 1328] m Jennifer FRISTON 2nd qr 1976 [Waveney 10 2717]
846......Janice H b 2nd qr 1954 [Lothingland 4b 1272] m Richard MARJORAM 2nd qr 1977 [Waveney 10 2892]
Children of Dennis and Sue
847......Catherine b 19 Jan 1975 Frimley, Surrey bap Farnborough
Note: Catherine is a project manager
848......Elizabeth b 2 Jan 1977 Frimley, Surrey bap Farnborough
Note: Jane was a management consultant
Children of Nigel and Jane
849......Matthew b 1978 Norwich
850......Paul b 1980 Norwich
Children of Brian and Jane
851......Stephen b 1975 Lowestoft
852......Clare b 1979 Lowestoft
853......Mark b 1982 Lowestoft
Children of Peter and Sue
854......Victoria b 1987
855......Cheryl b 1989
Note: Raymond and Valerie went to Australia
Child of John and Valerie
307q......John dob unknown m Yuliani TANTO 2010 Indonesia
Children of Derek and Anne
307r......Maria dob unknown
307s......David dob unknown
307t......James William Templeman dob unknown
307u......Henry Derek William dob unknown

745b......Judith F b 1st qr 1961 [Middlesborough 1b 1215]
745c......Hilary J b 2nd qr 1962 [Durham 1a 1005]
Children of Barry and Mary
746b......Nicholas S b 1st qr 1960 [Middlesborough 1b 1105]
746c......Wendy b 1st qr 1963 [Middlesborough 1b 1257] d 1st qr 1963 [Middlesborough 1b 1001]
746d......Robin G b 1st qr 1965 [Middlesborough 1b 1275]
746e......Daniel Paul b 2nd qr 1967 [Middlesborough 1b 1182]
746f......Jacqueline Frances b 2nd qr 1976 [Cleveland 3 2076]
Children of Alan and Clare
747b......Imelda b 4th qr 1964 [Middlesborough 1b 1143]
747c......Sarah Helen b 1966 [Middlesborough 1b 1053]
Note: Sarah's birth was registered with mother's surname as TOONEY
Note: David was a lecturer and Maureen was a secretary
Child of David and Maureen
856......Alison Nghaire b 8 Nov 1966 Middlesborough
Note: Alison is a nursing sister
750 Edward (aka Brian) MEWSE m Grace Brenda DOWNS 21 Apr 1956 St James, Kidbrooke, SE3
Note: Grace was the daughter of John Goldsmith DOWNS and Grace DARLING The name DOWNS seems to have been taken on for some reason, since John's birth certificate gives his name as John GOLDSMITH, son of John Philip GOLDSMITH and Florence SHERLOCK
Children of Brian Edward and Grace
857......Teresa Ann
858......Dale Lee
859......Gary Edward b 19 Jun 1962
860......Paula Elaine b 31 Mar 1966
Note: the family emigrated to Canberra, Australia on assisted passage migration scheme on 8 Jun 1970 by aeroplane
Children of David and Barbara
861......Susan Alexandra b 20 Sep 1961 [Australian Immigration record]
862......Caroline Anne b 23 May 1965 [Australian Immigration record]
Children of Herbert and Ellen
863......Cynthia G b 3rd qr 1935 [Lothingland 4a 1723]
864......Yvonne I b 3rd qr 1939 [Lothingland 4a 2129]
865......Keith C b 3rd qr 1950 [Lothingland 4a 1106]
Children of Peter and Jean
866......Michael b 1st qr 1953 [Norwich 4b 865]
867......John C b 2nd qr 1963 [Oxford 6b 1750]
Children of Jack and Beatrice
868......boy, born 1937 Chatham (still living)
869......Janice A , born 1944 Ely (still living)
Note: Ivan was the son of Samuel LAST and Eliza DUTTON The Lasts were from Alderton and Butley, Suffolk, whilst the Duttons came from Lincolnshire where they were sea-faring people
There is living issue of this marriage

HMS Grampus, a minelaying submarine
Children of Christopher and Catherine
P4......Elizabeth Florence b 9 Dec 1985 [Bexley 11 1066 1285]
P5......Lawrence Gregory b 15 Jul 1988 [Bexley 11 977 788]
P6......Edward Christopher b 7 Aug 1990 [Bexley 11 1308 990]
P7......Richard Benedict b 25 Mar 1994 [Worcester A81E 219 494]
P8......Thomas Isaac b 23 Oct 1996 [Worcester B109E 165 1196]
Children of Jeremy and Lorna
P9......James Alexander b 9 Aug 1992 [Waltham Forest 15 958 992]
P10....Patrick Gregory b 24 Apr 1995 [Waltham Forest D70 067 595]
P11....Hannah Isobel b 1 Apr 2001 Havering HB63 273 501]
Children of John and Rosalind
P12......Emma Grace b 22 Dec 1997 [Mid Surrey MSB3 283 198]
P13......Daniel Albert b 18 Mar 2000 [Mid Surey MSB8 299 300]
P14......Rebecca Elizabeth b 26 Feb 2003 [East Surrey ESA7 100 303]
Children of John and Florence
875......John Henry b 1 Aug 1927 [Mutford 4a 1747]
876......Doris V b 1 4th qr 1935 [Lothingland 4a 1543]
Note: the family live in Gorleston
Child of Richard and Lynn
877......Matthew James b 4th qr 1979 [Gt Yarmouth 10 1440]
Child of Stephen and Mary
878......Hayley b 3rd qr 1980 [Gt Yarmouth 10 1543] (Issue with partner: 879......1 boy and 880......1 girl)
Children of Stewart Brian and Elizabeth
881......Lisa Jane b 1980
882......Gemma Louise b 1981
883......Claire Marie b 1983
884......Stewart James b 1985
885......Amy Elizabeth b 1986
Children of Christopher and Sharon
886......Stacey (twin)
887......Naomi (twin)
888......Jordan
Child of Elizabeth and unknown
889......Anthony (Tony) b 17 Feb 2002
Note: Tony is now adopted by Michael and is called Richardson
Child of Michael and Elizabeth
890......Chloe b 12 Sep 2007
Child of Paul and Sarah
891......Madison Rose b 18 Aug 2007 Norwich
Children of Steve and Maria
307v......Sophia dob unknown
307w......Olivia dob unknown

Child of Teresa and Stuart
892......Darryl (MEWSE)
Children of Teresa and John
893......Natalie b 26 Aug 1987
894......Jonathan b 16 Jul 1989
895......Matthew b 24 Mar 1991
896......Lauren b 6 Nov 1992
Child of Ann, now adopted by Dale
897......Nicholas (MEWSE)
Children of Dale and Ann
898......Elizabeth
899......April
Children of Gary and Wendy
900......Scott Edward b 9 Dec 1989
901......Gemma Carol b 8 Apr 1992
Note: Gemma has appeard on TV several times, including the Royal Variety Show, meeting Prince Charles
902......Shannon Alicia b 4 March 1995
903......Aaron Gary b 28 Jul 1996
Children of Paula and Frank
904......Rachel Kirsty b 25 Jul 1989
905......Joe Louis b 4 Oct 1991
906......Liberty (Libbie) Francesca b 11 Jul 1998
Child of Male and Female
907......boy
908......boy
909......girl
Child of Female and Male
910......boy
911......girl
Child of John and Barbara
912......William Robert b 16 Oct 1967 m Jane LEEDER Sep 1989 [Depwade 10/1741/989]
874 Lesley Dale MEWSE m Jean Charles GODIN (b 30 Nov 1974 Montreal, Canada) 4 May 2002
Note: Jean Charles' parents are Andre GODIN and Denise nee LAPERRIER
Child of Charles and Dale
918......Nicolas Reed b 11 Mar 2004 Oakville Ontario
919......Kyra Jeannine b 10 May 2006 Oakville Hospital, Ontario bap 8 Oct 2006
920......Robert Cole b 23 Sep 2008
Child of Scott and Amy
921......Alfie Jack b 7 Nov 2006
Children of Male and Female
922......boy
923......girl
Children of Male and Female
924......boy
925......girl
926......boy
Child of Female and Male
927......girl
Child of Female and Male 1
928......girl
Child of Female and Male 2
929......girl
Children of Robert and Aileen
930......Robert b 31 Aug 1977
Note: Robert is a fireman
931......Martin b 20 Aug 1982
Note: Martin is an electrician
Note: Michael is the san of Brian HELLAWELL and Dorothy CLAYTON
Children of Michael and Victoria
932......Chloe Ann b 11 Oct 1998 Huddersfield
933......Samuel Jack b 4 Sep 2004 Huddersfield
Children of Adrian and Miss Taylor
934......Jake b July 1996 [Barnstaple 4041A A30C 118 796]
935......Sarah b Feb 2001 [Hounslow 2371A 51A 234 201]
Special thanks go to local historian David Butcher (who has provided a great deal of information about the earlier individuals on this page and been able to correct some of my errors)
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