Friday 23 November 2018

Mary Grimmer


Mary Grimmer marries John Vlieland .
They have a son John Nicolls Vlieland born 18 Jan 1826 drowns in 1840 son of John Vlieland and Mary Grimmer   who sadly dies falling of a ship.
After John's death widow Mary Vlieland marries In 1842 Mary Vlieland widow marries Robert Denny .
She was a servant .


Head
Male
54
Earl Borne, Sussex
Mary Denny
Wife
Female
49
Raydon, Suffolk
Daughter
Female
6
Wrentham, Suffolk
Daughter
Female
3
Wrentham, Suffolk
Mother-In-Law
Female
79
Southwold, Suffolk
Servant
Female
14
Crislingham, Suffolk
Servant
Male
80
Whenaston, Suffolk



Saturday 10 November 2018

John Vlieland and Jane Waters

From bathing machine to an early entry in the blog  is easy enough .

But then it will take some time to find something out.
The auction of a bathhouse and a bathing machine in 1816 by a mister Seaman( no first name) led me to another man with the name Seaman.

The name of John Seaman pops-up  is much later in 1838 as a witness at the marriage of John Vlieland to Jane Frances Waters.

Jane Francis Water is the daughter of William Waters and Ann Covell.
She is born in 1802 in Great Yarmouth
.
She marries Michael Martin .



They have a son Michael  Covell Martin.He is named at the marriage of Jane and John Vlieland




Michael Martin dies and Jane marries John Vlieland .


John is a bachelor of full age and sailor and she is a widow and dressmaker.
We still do not know who this John Vlieland is .although he states that his father is Yarhan Vlieland.
Which could well be Jerome Vlieland.

Witnesses are John Seaman and Margaret Wright.So we go and try to find out more about them.

We do not find much about John Vlieland .Where he is born is still a guess.


On 28 Feb 1842 above John dies aged 45 years Mariner resident "on the Walls" @ Gt Yarmouth. (death certificate)

Burial at dissenters graveyard, Market Street, Great Yarmouth, Grave 609, 8th March 1842 aged 45 years.

census of 1841

In the census of 1841 he lives with, regarding  their age , his sisters Susan and Mary Vlieland  in Chapelstreet later Kings Street 

Jane Vlieland however had to go to prison.






So we have to search the witnesses and John Vlieland 

Thursday 8 November 2018

Jan Kemp bathing machine under the hammer

In general there is a lot written about bathing machines .
But about manufactering and the making of the cart and the special hood is not much to be found in archives or newspapers or museums.
Although there must have been thousands of them and every seaside resort has postcards to show them.

It must have been on his trips to London  that our Jan Kemp bought a bathing machine and shipped it back to Holland 





From the Norfolk chronicle and Norwich Gazette of 3 August 1816 we learn (thanks to Peter for this information.)that these  bathing machines were sold in Great Yarmouth. It could well be the bathing machine Jan Kemp picked up at this auction.

He did very well with his bathing machines as in 1823 he sold his three ships in auction.



And he was appointed as the official beachcomber.



Sunday 4 November 2018

Jan Kemp


Jan Kemp was born in Noordwijk aan Zee.

he married 17-08-1794  Aryaantje Maartens Plug
 she died


he died

this family tree is made by Hans Montanus .

Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1770, overl. Noordwijk 29‑12‑1849 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Cornelis Jansz KEMP en Gerritje Arendsdr van der VALK.
Tr. op 23-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 17‑08‑1794 Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG, 22 jaar oud, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 09‑02‑1772, overl. Noordwijk 18‑10‑1846 op 74-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Maarten JanszPLUG en Maartje Jansdr KAAK.

Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1770, overl. Noordwijk29‑12‑1849 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Cornelis Jansz KEMP en Gerritje Arendsdr van der VALK, ca. 1810: Noordwijk a/Zee / ca. 1830/1840: Hoofdstraat z90.
Tr. op 23-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 17‑08‑1794 Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG, 22 jaar oud, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk09‑02‑1772, overl. Noordwijk 18‑10‑1846 op 74-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Maarten Jansz PLUG en Maartje JansdrKAAK.
Uit dit huwelijk:
1.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 28‑12‑1794, overl. Noordwijk 07‑02‑1795, 41 dagen oud, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
2.Marijtje Jansdr KEMP, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 15‑11‑1795, overl. Noordwijk 02‑09‑1797 op 1-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje MaartensdrPLUG.
3.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 09‑02‑1798, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 25‑02‑1798, overl. Noordwijk 02‑02‑1801 op 2-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
4.Marijtje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 14‑12‑1800, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 14‑12‑1800, overl. Noordwijk 11‑05‑1865 op 64-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 19-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 29‑12‑1819 Willem Gijsbertsz MEEUWENOORD, 21 jaar oud, visser, geb. Noordwijk 08‑10‑1798, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 14‑10‑1798, overl. Noordwijk 09‑05‑1855 op 56-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Gijsbert Cornelisz MEEUWENOORD, zeeman, arbeider, en Trijntje Cornelisdr WAASDORP, winkelierster.
5.Gerritje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 27‑11‑1802, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 05‑12‑1802, overl. Noordwijk 06‑10‑1842 op 39-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 22-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 27‑11‑1824 Leendert Dirksz MAASDIJK, 21 jaar oud, zeeman, geb. Noordwijk 27‑10‑1803, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 30‑10‑1803, overl. na 1841, zn. van Dirk Leendertsz MAASDIJK en Immetje Jansdr van der PLAS.
6.Maartje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 03‑08‑1805, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 04‑08‑1805, overl. Noordwijk 02‑01‑1881 op 75-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 20-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 21‑09‑1825 Pieter Leendertsz van der DEIJL, 20 jaar oud, viskoper, schippersknecht, geb. Noordwijk 28‑08‑1805, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijk 01‑09‑1805, overl. Noordwijk 11‑05‑1861 op 55-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Leendert Leendertsz van der DEIJL, viskoper, reder, koopman, gemeenteraadslid, en Trijntje Klaasdr van den OEVER.
7.Jannetje Jansdr KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 18‑01‑1808, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 24‑01‑1808, overl. Noordwijk 03‑12‑1810 op 2-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
8.Cornelis Jansz KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 19‑12‑1809, ged. (Ger.) Noordwijk 24‑12‑1809, overl. Noordwijk 29‑01‑1810, 41 dagen oud, zn. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
9.Jannetje KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 04‑08‑1811 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 02‑11‑1851 op 40-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 18-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 15‑04‑1830 Jacob KONING, 28 jaar oud, onderwijzer, geb. Noordwijkerhout 19‑09‑1801, ged. (Herv.) Noordwijkerhout 20‑09‑1801, overl. Noordwijk 09‑03‑1873op 71-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jacob KONING, onderwijzer, en Cornelia van der MEIJ.
10.Adriana KEMP, geb. Noordwijk 14‑05‑1814 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 03‑03‑1881 op 66-jarige leeftijd, dr. van Jan Cornelisz KEMP, koopvaardijschipper, reder-winkelier, en Ariaantje Maartensdr PLUG.
Tr. op 18-jarige leeftijd Noordwijk 30‑11‑1832 Huig PLUG, 21 jaar oud, visser, geb. Noordwijk25‑05‑1811 (gezindte: Herv.), overl. Noordwijk 03‑12‑1890 op 79-jarige leeftijd, zn. van Jan HuigszPLUG, barbier, en Neeltje Danielsdr van BEVEREN, werkster.

Thursday 1 November 2018

Bathing in the sea at Margate




 The popularity of sea bathing  began in about 1730. In the early days, it was a quick total submersion in the water and was intended as a medical treatment rather than a pleasant experience. 
The bather took off all his or her clothes in the bathing machine and was then plunged into the sea by attendants.  
Margate's enhancement to the Bathing machine came in around 1750, when Benjamin Beale, a Margate glove and breeches maker, invented a canvas hood which could be pulled down to protect the naked sea-bather from prying eyes.
The Royal Sea Bathing Hospital was opened in 1791, when it was believed that sea bathing and sea air were the best cures for tuberculosis.  
Patients in their beds would be pushed into the fresh air and the hospital had a sea-water reservoir so that patients could be bathed in sea water.  
Soon sea bathing became more of a pleasurable thing to do.  
Margate had medicinal baths by 1890; as ‘taking salt waters’ became a well known, healthy, alternative to the spa - and was known as a ‘resort’ by 1800. 
The promenade at Margate was designed for ladies and gentlemen to stroll along showing off their fine clothes and conspicuous wealth.
The bathers of the early years entered their machines by stairs from the backs of the bathing houses situated on the West side at the bottom of the High Street. 
These buildings, perched precariously on timber piles on the cliff face, before the building of Marine Drive, were known as Hazardous Row due to the regular damage they suffered from storms. 
The bathing machines in use at Margate were described in 1805 as "four-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, and having at one end of them an umbrella of the same materials which is let down to the surface of the water, so that the bather descending from the machine by a few steps is concealed from the public view, whereby the most refined female is enabled to enjoy the advantages of the sea with the strictest delicacy." 
The Kentish Gazette notes in 1797 that “By some neglect on the driver, a bathing machine in which were two ladies, got afloat and it being the ebb of the tide, was drifting fast to sea. Their cries attracted the attention of three gentlemen, who were amusing themselves in swimming. 
They got into a boat, and pushed off to the succour of the afflicted fair ones, to whom they presented themselves literally in puris naturalibus. 
Life is sweet and the damsels were happy to be rowed to shore without once daring to look at their brave deliverers.”
The Dunn Family, from Thomas, grandfatherof ‘the SS Atlantic’ Thomas and his wife Annie Perkins (Edward’s sister) lived from about 1830 at Parade House, a prestigious corner plot facing the sea, and next to the early site of sea bathing, later Ruby Lounge Public House.  
Her brother, Edward Austin Perkins, was later to be a ‘bathing Machine Proprietor’ there.

Edward Austin Perkins

Margate had been a major seaside resort for many years.
  
During the early 1800s Margate became the first seaside resort in which donkey rides became a popular amusement.  
The ‘holiday and leisure’ industry in Margate was a good way for an entrepreneur to work – particularly one with a new (and very popular) idea. 
Though Perkins was by no means the first person to place bathing machines on the sands (the pamphlet ‘An excursion to Margate: in the month of June, 1786’ notes (chapter X)  the sands had now been crouded with machines’) or to provide a  ‘Perkins jetty’ for bathers, Edward Perkins was the first to place chairs on Marine Sands in 1880.  
The privilege cost him £100 – an enormous sum, now equivalent to high five figures.  
His wife is shown in both the 1893 and 1899/1900 Directories as: “Mrs Perkins, Fancy Repository”.
Edward is Owner of a business which has bathing machines




 (a late nineteenth century postcard shows the Perkins slipway leading to the Perkins machines) but, as you can see from another 1904 card, the beach is full of deckchairs emblazoned with the name Perkins.  The ‘Perkins slipway’ is in the background and there is a 1910 picture of a ‘Perkins Diving Board’ with a couple of dozen bathers on the Margate Local History website.
Edward’s youngest child, Walter James Perkins was also in Margate, Kent with his family.  (Walter James was, of course, the name of Annie’s brother, and also Thomas and Annie Dunn’s first born in Liverpool and his son in Margate). 


 During the summer months Walter Perkins would regularly stay away from school and help his father by collecting a penny from holiday makers for use of the Perkins deckchairs and later assisted him in operating the Perkins bathing machines on Marine Terrace sands.  (The corporation subsequently took over both operations).
Walter was elected Mayor of Margate in 1947 and served until 1949.  
He died on 26 June 1959 in a Margate nursing home.  
Known as ‘father’ of the Council, he was an honorary freeman of the borough.

Thanks Ray !