Alice Edith Millen

Alice Edith Vlieland née Millen

Alice Edith Millen was born 31 Mar 1861 Stalisfield Kent and died September  1944 in Surrey N.E.
She was the daughter of William Millen and Phoebe Millen née Coulson.
Wiliam Millen was a well to do farmer and land owner of Syndale Valley Stalisfield,Faversham .

Alice Edith Millen was the wife of Charles James Vlieland.
She and Charles James Vlieland had 4 children.
Francis Maude Vlieland born Sept 1884 ST.Thomas Devon and who married Reginald Peel in June 1906 ST.Thomas Devon.
Dorothy Vlieland born March 1886 ST.Thomas and who died June 1917 Exeter.
Phoebe Mary VlielandChristening: 05 FEB 1888 Ospringe, Kent, England who married Dudley Eugene Batty in June 1912.
Charles Archibald Vlieland

In the London Archives we find.
spinster Alice Edith, wife of Charles James Vlieland of , doctor Premises: 1 Friars Walk Consideration: £400 Date: 20 January 1920 With schedule of deeds, 1869-1911. [Devon Record Office, Devon Record Office...] Date: 1920.
Source: Access to Archives (A2A): not kept at The National Archives.
Mortgage
1. Elsie McLaren
Mary Penelope Barnes
Alice Edith Vlieland
2. National Provincial Bank Ltd.
Premises: 1 Friars Walk, Exeter
Date: 17 June 1927
With schedule of deeds, 1831-1927
Endorsed: Reconveyance, 17 August 1928
To be Commanders of the Civil Division of
the said Most Excellent Order

We know she known in the family as `Lally`

Alice Edith. Mrs. .Vlieland. For political and
public services in Exeter gazette 4 january 1927

brothers of Alice are
Name: James George Millen
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 17 Jul 1862
Baptism/Christening Place: Stalisfield, Kent, England
Baptism/Christening Place: St.James, Croydon, Surrey, England
Name: Frank Millen
Gender: Male
Baptism/Christening Date: 18 Jul 1869
Baptism/Christening Place: Stalisfield, Kent, England

As the wife of the mayor ,the mayoress , she was involved in all kind of social functions.

She was a great in attending  Bazars and shows and concerts

Alice Edith's Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) was at least partly awarded for her work looking after new and expectant mothers in the lying-in (maternity) wards of what were then the inner-city Exeter slums of Heavitree. Mothers from poor homes were often badly nourished so that their children were born underweight and child mortality was very high; puerperal fever (child-bed fever) was also endemic in the crowded wards: it was only after the First World War that it was fully realised that doctors and midwives themselves could spread the usually fatal disease from mother to mother.

Alice Vlieland Health Centre in Exeter is named after her.

But it is sad there is no photograph or sign to explain her importance for Exeter.

The existence of local entrepreneurs in the field of public health who were independent of the council was indeed possible at this period. Mrs Vlieland, who created what was dubbed the ‘Society of Worrying Women’ and through them a network of Infant Welfare Centres for Exeter (Browne, E&E 30 Oct 1929)

was one such individual.
Saturday 01 January 1927 Exeter and Plymouth Gazette (extract)

No honour in the list is more thoroughly deserved than that. of the Commander of the Order of the British Empire which has been bestowed on Mrs. C. J. Vlieland, of Southernhay, Exeter, and it will give genuine satisfaction to her large circle of friends and those among whom he has worked so hard. The honour has undoubtedly to a great extent been given to Mrs. Vlieland in recognition of her untiring and unselfish work among the mothers and children of Exeter.

It is now 21 years since Mrs. Vlieland and a number of other’ enthusiastic members of the National Union of Women Workers embarked upon their infant welfare work in the city. The work was that of pioneers, for Exeter’s first infant Welfare Centre was started in the same year that the first similar organisation in London-St. Pancras -was established. ...

Mrs. Vlieland was one of the first lady Governors of the Royal Devon. and Exeter Hospital, for which her husband has done valuable work. She is also President of the Exeter Blanket Charity and a member of the Exeter Lying in Charity. In another phase of public work Mrs. Vlieland has done yeoman work. We refer to her work for the Conservative Party in Exeter. Up to quite recently she has been Chairman for a good many years of the women’s branch of the Conservative and Unionist Association.


Wednesday 11 December 1929 - Exeter and Plymouth Gazette (extract)

The Court having been opened, the Town Clerk read the resolution of the Council in regard to the freemanship. It recorded that Mrs. Alice Edith Vlieland, C.B.E., be admitted an honorary freeman of the City and County of the City of Exeter in recognition of the eminent services rendered by her to the city, and that a record of such admission be illuminated and suitably framed for presentation …

Mayoral Tribute “You, Mrs Vlieland, have devoted your life to the welfare of the city (Hear, Hear)…during the whole of the years that have passed you have devoted practically the whole of your life to those who have needed it most, to the helpless little children, especially the children of the poor, those who, without your help would not have bad half the chance of life your work has enabled them to have.”

Margaret Frances Morgan Vlieland

Margaret Frances is the daughter of Charles Archibald Vlieland and Dorothy Margaret Morgan.

The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1884-1942), 5 October 1917, Page 4



The forum club

She married Brigadier Edward John Clervaux Chaytor, son of Maj.-Gen. Sir Edward Walter Clervaux Chaytor and Louisa Jane Collins, on 12 November 1938.

She died on 19 March 1969.
From 12 November 1938, her married name became Chaytor.
Citations
[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 756.
Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

Cornelius Vlieland and the Wasp

Today we will present another Vlieland of which we like to know more .
his name is Cornelius Vlieland and he has everything to do with The Wasp and general Pulaski.
You can read the whole story of general Pulaski.

By the afternoon of October 15, 1779, Captain Bulfinch had no room to take any more passengers. When another wounded officer, Lt. Cornelius Van Vlieland, who had lost an arm in the siege of Savannah, asked him for passage to Charleston, Bulfinch arranged to send him on another ship. In the sequence of events, it looked as if the visit of Lt. Van Vlieland came before the death of Pulaski. Otherwise, Pulaski's death created a vacancy on the Wasp, and had the young lieutenant waited, Bulfinch would have had space for him.


Partly because of his occupation with the one-armed officer, Bulfinch was not entirely aware of the preparations on the Wasp to make a coffin out of pine boards either at hand or on the plantation for Pulaski's body. From the evidence of their work, as was seen in 1853 and 1996, the officers and crew of the Wasp prepared to bury Pulaski's body in his military uniform with a flag draped over it.

What happened next?
After reading all about general Pulaski we know there was a Cornelius Vlieland .
And this is about his death.


On the internet we found yet another Vlieland in the U.S.A. in 1779.
Cornelius van Hempstead Vlieland.
The  Hempstead  may have been standing  for either Hemel Hempstead, England or the Dutch city of Heemstede

we heard of the dead of Cornelius  together with General Pulaski  and the siege of Savannah
Unwaried Patience and Fortitude: Francis Marion's Orderly Book
Door Patrick O'Kelley

from general Pulaski 

By the afternoon of October 15, 1779, Captain Bulfinch had no room to take any more passengers. When another wounded officer, Lt. Cornelius Van Vlieland, who had lost an arm in the siege of Savannah, asked him for passage to Charleston, Bulfinch arranged to send him on another ship. In the sequence of events, it looked as if the visit of Lt. Van Vlieland came before the death of Pulaski, as Pulaski's death certainly created a vacancy aboard. Had the young lieutenant waited, Bulfinch would have had space for him. 

The day I found Bulfinch's letter to him from Thunderbolt, or "Tunder Bolt" as he spelled it, was especially important. On October 15, 1779, Bulfinch wrote: 

Sir, I beg leave to acquaint you that agreeable to your orders I took on board nine pieces of the artillery which was the most I possibly could take on. Mo'over, I even was obliged to put some of the carriages on board the Schooner that carry the French wounded. I likewise took on board the Americans that was sent down one of which died this day and I have brought him ashore and buried him. They have put only one lad on board to attend the sick. I should be glad your Excellency would order some others on Board to attend them. Capt. Vlyland (sic) came down this afternoon. There was no place to put him. The Eagle whom he was to have gone on board, went away this morning and left him. I made interest with the French Gentleman who has the directions of putting the wounded on board the other schooners for Charleston and got him on board one of them. I am with the highest esteem, Sir, your most Re Obdt Sevt Sam Bulfinch 5 Immediately after the Wasp left Thunderbolt Bluff at high tide the following morning, quite possibly the only remaining people who knew where Pulaski's body was buried were the denizens of Greenwich plantation, across the road from Bonaventure, home to Mrs. Jane Bowen, her four children, her brother, and their servants. At the time Bonaventure was not occupied by the plantation owners. During the British occupation of Savannah, the Tattnalls and the Mulrynes, who owned the plantation, fled to Savannah or one of the British islands in the Atlantic for safety

from
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. Volume II, K-Z

entered 1777

7/17/1779, a 2nd Lieutenant under Capt. Richard Bohun Baker. Transferred to Capt. Thomas Dunbar in August of 1779. Mortally wounded at Siege of Savannah 10/9/1779.

The foregoing were all of the Continental or Regular regiments which served 
during the struggle for independence. 

But there were other organizations of Militia which did much good service and aided our cause very considerably. The most celebrated of these was Marion's corps from South Carolina. 

When this body was first formed, Francis Marion received from the State of South Carolina the commission of 

Lieutenant-Colonel 
and subsequently became a Brigadier-General. 

The other field officer was Major Horry, 
and both of them have been rendered celebrated by the pen of Weems. 

This organization would in these days be considered as "mounted infantry," and in the unsuccessful attempt 
to storm Savannah, Ga., in the Autumn of 1779, it suffered very much. 

Captain Charles Motte, Lieutenants Alexander Hume, James Grey and Cornelius Van Vlieland were 
killed, as was the brave Sergeant William Jasper who fell while attempting to plant the 
American colors on the parapet of Spring Hill redoubt.

Many of the men were killed and wounded in this sanguinary affair. Here too fell Count Casimir Pulaski, 

of Poland Brigadier-General of cavalry in the American service. 
After this action Marion retreated to the interior, whence he was able to harass the British for a long time. 

The movements and actions of these troops were of a most romantic character, and the 

name of their leader is one of the most highly honored in our Nation. 

It was perhaps because of the Siege's reputation as a famous British victory that Charles Dickens chose the Siege of Savannah as the place for Joe Willet to be wounded (losing his arm) in the novel Barnaby Rudge.

Exeter school

In Wikipedia there is more about Charles Vlieland
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Image:Exeter School.jpgExeter School is an independent co-educational day school in Exeter, Devon. It was founded in 1633. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, but is not traditionally classed as a public school.

Notable alumni (Old Exonians) include Tristian Kelly, the artist Lionel Aggett, Sir Anthony Farrer-Hockley, Harry Pennell [1], Gary Lockton (who founded Deepend), Richard Reynolds (the founder of Guerrilla gardening in London), Charles Vlieland, and William Jane [2].

Before 1997 the school was single sex from ages 11-16, the abandonment of state assisted places by the newly elected Labour government meant that Exeter School lost a large number of pupils from impecunious families. Co-educational status was introduced to ameliorate this loss of income.

Current headmaster Bob Griffin, a linguist, has served the school since 2003, previous headmaster Neil Gamble, a keen sportsman, served from 1991 to 2003.

The main school is split into seven forms.

Third Form (Year 7)
Fourth Form (Year 8)
Lower Fifth Form (Year 9)
Middle Fifth Form (Year 10)
Upper Fifth Form (Year 11)
Lower Sixth Form (Year 12)
Upper Sixth Form (Year 13)
The School participates in the traditional sports of rugby, cricket and hockey, and in recent years it has been a dominant force in Squash also.

An annual fixture is Founders' Day which commemorates the founders of Exeter School and is held at Exeter Cathedral. A relic of the school's previous incarnation as a grammar school in the cathedral grounds is the Blue Boy statue in Exeter high street, a more pockmarked twin of this statue stands in Exeter School's grounds.

Theory and practice: J.N. Vlieland

Het lijkt een wonder dat het boek van Jerome Nicholas Vlieland, die wij ook kennen als Jeroen Nicolaas Hollander , nog altijd te koop is als een nieuwe uitgave in de boekhandel van vandaag. Het is te bestellen onder ISBN: 9780554472812.
In Engeland is het programma 'Who do you think you are', opnieuw van start gegaan. Misschien kunnen we nu eindelijk de oorsprong van de naamswisseling van Hollander naar Vlieland eens ontdekken!
Heeft u tips, graag een berichtje aan de schrijver van dit blog.

Who do you think they are ?

We are looking for some of our ancestors.
Their name is Vlieland.
Jerome Nicholas Vlieland born in Rotterdam.
He was the first to live in England.
And his descendants are still there.
With the Dutch name Vlieland it should be easy to find out more.

Jerome Nicholas Vlieland

He was born 27-06-1796 Rotterdam and baptised on 03-07-1796.
His name is then Jeroen Nicolaas Jansen de Hollander.
He died 13 June 1865 in England.

His father is Jan Jansen Hollander
(Who was born in 1756 and died we assume 12-07-1803 in Rotterdam.)
His mother is Katreina Fres also written as Catharina Trits, Catharina Fust, Caatje Frits, Katreina.
She was born 27-11-1756 Leiden.
She died on 13-03-1841 Great Yarmouth and was buried 28-03-1841 decentors graveyard Market street grave 300)

witnesses at his birth are: Georg de Wolff and Maria van den Berg.
His brothers and sisters are
Joannes Hollander baptised 30-05-1786 Rotterdam
Jan Jans Hollander (John Vlieland)was born on 27-01-1789 as son of Jan de Hollander and Catharina Trits.
Died 28-02-1842 Great Yarmouth
Seijke Hollander(Suzan Vlieland)born 25-10-1790 te Rotterdam .Baptised 31-10-1790 and Died 21-10-1849 Great Yarmouth.
Maria (Mary)born on 31-12-1792 and baptised 03-01-1793 daughter of Jan Hollander and Catrina Frits.
Jeroen Nicolaas Hollander(Jerome Nicholas Vlieland)
Here is the census of 1841


and of 1851



1851 Jerome and Sarah.



1861 Jerome and Sarah

Then we start our story again in Great Yarmouth:

First there is the name change from Jeroen Nicolaas Jansen de Hollander to Jerome Nicolas Jansen de Vlieland.

Why we do not know yet.

From Rotterdam to Great Yarmouth as a professor of languages must have been quite a step .

The whole family,mother,brother and sisters went with him as well.

The story in the family is that he hated the French ,but he was a profesor of French all his live.

In a add he even says he is from Paris .

In the Norfolk Chronicle Saturday 6 July 1822.

Maybe he was a prisoner of war during the Napoleontic war which happened quite a lot to the fisherman and was captured in France .

The prisoners were not kept in prison but were allowed to do some scrimsawwork, needlework or learning or teaching to read and write.

Maybe they already knew familymembers of the Heath family as a William Heath lived in the house of Gerrit Vlieland and received lessons in navigation and French.Although there are years in between.

First mentioned in Great Yarmouth 1822-1823 as a French teacher living in Kingstreet Great Yarmouth over the next fourthy years he taught French,German, Italian and dancing,wrote many books on languages.

He must have been an excellent teacher as he is mentioned in William Vernons memoires.

At marriage called Jerome Nicholas Jansen de Vlieland. Of the parish of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, bachelor an married Sarah Heath of the parish of Hemblington, (daughter of Large landowner and genter of the parish).

Jerome Nicholas was also the teacher of Sarah Heath.

They eloped and were allowed to marry.

His wife ,Sarah Heath

They had 10 children.

Their first daughter was named after his sisters.

Jerome Nicholas Vlieland

Susanna Maria Vlieland

Sarah Heath Vlieland

George Heath Vlieland

William Henry Vlieland

Catharine Veri Vlieland

Anna Maria Vlieland

William Heath Vlieland

Maria Heath Vlieland

Thomas Edward Heath

His son Jerome Nicholas Vlieland wasVicar in Stalisfield

Crockford's Clerical Directory Door Church House Publishing, Church of England. Church Commissioners, Church of England. Central Board of Finance

he married Frances Elizabeth Samworth,daugther of John.About the legacy On which site of the family this seal belongs is not known.It could be like the memorial plate with the stork belong to the Vlieland family.

They are buried "on the north side of the church and East of the path to the porch

Frances Elizabeth wife of the Rev. J. N. VLIELAND Vicar of this Parish. Died 20th August 1864 aged 38 and The Rev. Jerome Nicholas VLIELAND for 18 years Vicar of this Parish died 22nd January 1877 aged 51."

[from The Monumental Inscriptions in The Church and Churchyard of Stalisfield, Kent. Taken in September 1920 by Leland L. Duncan. Typed up by Christine Pantrey, checked by Zena Bamping]

Stalisfield Church

We received lots of information From Jan Wood .

We quote "I finally found the first Jerome Vlieland, wrongly indexed as Jerome Herland. He was living in Norwich, which is the main city in Norfolk, in a parish called St John Maddermarket. and was a teacher of languages. His age was given as 40as for that census, ages had to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years. He was living with his wife Sarah and five of their children, and also 2 servants. His son Jerome the Younger was not at home, so was probably studying away from home.

Jerome Vlieland the Elder (born 1796) and his wife Sarah must therefore have died after June 1841 when the census was taken".

Today you can read the book a complete course of study for Englismen to obtain the French language from 1827 at home of Jerome Nicholas Vlieland digital on your computer.

One of his books is inscribed to Colonel George Anson M.P.

In his book he has a review by the Norfolk newspaper.

Years ago we were asked to look for the roots of Jerome Nicholas Vlieland in Holland by his relatives in England

His great great grandson told a lot about him as he still did know him.

Jerome Nicholas told him he was a Hollander .His father was Jan and his father again a Jan .

So that made him Jan Janszoon(John John) Vlieland.

He hated the French because they killed his brother Jan .And he was born in 1796.

And so started our research.After years of searching ,we found him in Rotterdam .Jerome Nicholas Hollander born in 1796 and son of Jan Janssen .

So he was not only a Hollander, he was named like that as well

So that was it.We found him, his father and mother ,but why did he go to England, why was he called Vlieland and not Hollander. He married and had children.

His son was a vicar.

It is always on your mind if you are looking in Rotterdam in the archives in the Napoleontic time.

And today we found in Rotterdam a Jan Vlieland .Maybe the brother who was to be killed later.

He was captain on the ship Wilhelmina .Imprisoned by the French and escaped from the cachot by burning the wood of the prison with the hinges of his bed.

It is an even better story then Les Miserables we think.

So help make the puzzle of this man complete by giving us some pieces of information .

All we know you can find,here

More about his books.

During his teaching he placed many adds in the newspapers .

In the Norfolk Chronicle Saturday 6 July 1822.

In this add Jerome is a native of Paris and his mode of teaching is pursued from the university of Leiden

The search for Jerome Nicholas Vlieland started with this letter from his great grandson.

Otterden

Barnfieldroad

Exeter

June 11 1905

Dear Sir

In November 1902 you wrote me in answer of an advert, I put in a Dutch Newspaper

I have, owing to certain circumstances let the matter drop .for the time.

I am now desirious of getting certain information if possible.

A certificate of the birth of my grandfather which would I suppose give the name ,social position place of residence of his father also whether there was a family crest

Certain of my relatives think it was a stork with a snake in its bill.

The following details are all I can give you.

If you consider that with them it is useless to proceed please say so

I state you for giving such advice

If you think it is worthwhile kindly let me now what your charges will be ( inclusive)

I will tell you what I am prepared to do.

My Grandfather was born June 27 1796 his name was Jerome Nicholas Vlieland.

(like the island in the Zuijderzee) shown in maps of Holland

His ancestors supposed to have been de Vlielands

One of his grandchildren , a cousin of mine was christened Janson de Vlieland Vlieland

I do not know where in Holland he was born probably at or in near the Hague or Amsterdam

He came to this country with some other members of his family when probably about 25 years old.

He is said to have come as a “refuge” but why I do not know. personally he seems to have had some kind of hatred of the French

He is said to have had an uncle an officer in the Dutch Navy John Vlieland who was killed fighting by the French.

My Grandfather would have been a well educated man ,as he made his living as a professor of languages and wrote volumes in French German and Italian

I should say he was certainly not a Roman Catholic

I am

Yours faithfully

C.J.Vlieland

Norfolk Chronicle 11 January 1823