Saturday, 17 March 2018

Jacob Joppe Vink

Jacob Joppe (Jacobse)  Vinck  was born in Noordwijk 10 februari 1771.
His father was Job ( Jacob) Crijne Vink and his mother was Aagtje Dirks Hoogduin.
He died Brugge Belgium 9 April 1832 He was 61 years of age 
  • his baptismcertificate

    He married Maartje Jeroens Vlieland daughter of Jeroen Vlieland
    In 1796 Jerome Vlieland master had to give permission to his daughter Maartje to get married to Jacob Vink.
    Her father is not able to go to Noordwijk but goes to a clerck Beijerman in Rotterdam to give his permission.
    The husband of Maartje is seacaptain and she is housekeeper. 
  • Their family.
  • There last son is born in 1816 Bruges Belgium .The others are born in Noordwijk.
    There is no reason known so far why the family left for Bruges.
    Their whole family is then living in Belgium.
    And the children get Belgium spouses and are settling there.


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  • There is more to tell about Jacob Vink.
    He was captain on the Young Peter (de jonge Pieter) a Pink.
    owned by Pierre and Antoine Sinave .
    With this ship he even sailed to Suriname and Batavia and back .
    It was built in Stettin in 1800 and from then on the ship can be found at Lloyds .
    Several Capitains sail before Jacob Vinck on the young Peter.
    And Jacob sailed on other ships as well and was taken by a French Privateer in 1800.
    In 1816 the family moved from Noordwijk to Bruges.

      • In 1827 the ship was so badly damaged that it had be almost completely rebuild
        Finally the ship was wrecked in 1834 with captain N.Nannings.
        All this information can be found in the historical maritime databank. 
      De plaats van bouwen, Stettin, en het bouwjaar 1800 staan door diverse rapportages in Lloyd’s Register en Bureau Veritas wel vast.
      Op 12 juli 1816 werd een eerste Nederlandse zeebrief verstrekt voor de JEUNE PIERRE, aangevraagd door Sinave Frères, Brugge, voor Jacob Vinck als kapitein.

      Welke de eerste scheepsnaam was en wie tot 1816 de reders waren kon niet worden
      achterhaald.
      Er zijn aanwijzingen dat de pink (door LR als bark aangeduid) in 1812 een aanzienlijke reparatie onderging, mogelijk in Hamburg of in Altona, toentertijd Deens grondgebied. Mogelijk geschiedde die reparatie in opdracht van de Firma Weduwe Frans van Aken & Zonen te Gent. Of zij daarvóór reeds eigenaar waren is onbekend. Het is zeker dat de JONGE PIETER in 1812 korte tijd onder Pruisische vlag heeft gevaren. Kapt. Luytjes, mogelijk Luytje Jansz Luytjes, bracht de JONGE PIETER in augustus 1812 van Londen naar Nantes.
      Daar moet de JEUNE PIERRE zijn gefranciseerd, onder Franse vlag gebracht, waarbij een schijnconstructie werd opgetuigd dat de feitelijke eigenaars, de Firma Weduwe Frans van Aken & Zonen te Gent, het schip hadden verhuurd aan de Firma Bertrand & Faideau te Nantes.
      In 1812-1813 werd het schip gevoerd door kapt. Luytjes, die in 1814 werd opgevolgd door kapitein Jacobson. Ongetwijfeld werd het schip toen teruggebracht onder Nederlandse vlag.
      Waarschijnlijk in 1816 werd de pink aangekocht door Gebrs. Sinave en kreeg het schip Jacob Vinck als kapitein.

      1812

      Voordat de JONGE PIETER in Londen haar lading voor Nantes mocht innemen werd het schip in augustus door Lloyd’s gekeurd.

      ABL 310812
      Nantes, 21 augustus. Van beneden op de rivier zijn ingekomen de driemastschepen de JONGE PIETER, kapt. Luytjens, van Londen, met suiker en koffie geladen, en de VROUW LUCILA, kapt. Langerville, ook van Londen komende, met suiker koffie en indigo; de eerste aan de consignatie van de heeren Bertrand en Feydeau, de andere aan die van den heer Carmichael.

      In het havenregister van Nantes van 21 juni 1812 staat (vrij vertaald) het volgende vermeld:
      Le JEUNE PIERRE, 3 masten, 2 dekken, 279 ton laadvermogen, …. (onleesbaar) buitenslands gebouwd, diepgang beladen 3,87, ledigscheeps 2,27 meter. Toebehorende aan de heren Bertrand en Faydeau, handelend namens de firma Wed. Frans van Aken & Zonen te Gent.
      In een notitie in datzelfde register:
      Op 10 januari (1818) aan de rederij geschreven en om inlichtingen gevraagd.
      Op 9 februari 1818 heeft de Firma Bertrand & Faideau herhaald dat het schip toebehoorde aan de Firma de Weduwe Frans van Aken en Zonen te Gent; dan Frans geworden, en dat dit schip in handen is gebleven van de eigenaar, die het geheel in beheer heeft gehad.
      Boven de notitie staat in een ander handschrift de later aangebrachte zin Loué á l’armateur, gehuurd van de rederij.

      1814

      PLDA 190414
      Advertentie. Rechtstreeks naar Bilbao: het bijzonder mooie en snelzeilende schip JONGE PIETER, kapt. J.P. Jacobsen, 220 ton laadvermogen, liggende aan de Union Stairs.
      Adres voor vracht of passagiers William Barry, beëdigd makelaar, George Street, Great Tower Hill, London.
      (opm: de aanvankelijke bestemming was Bordeaux, later Bilbao; de JONGE PIETER vertrok begin mei)

      1816

      Op 17 mei 1816 werd door Sinave Frères, PIERRE met Jacob Vinck als kapitein. Mogelijk was dit een West-Indische zeebrief, omdat op 12 juli een Nederlandse werd verstrekt. Daarop boden de Gebr. Sinave op 1 juli 1816 hun pinkschip JONGE PIETER, groot 220 lasten, aan bij Zijne Excellentie de Staatsraad Directeur Generaal van Koophandel en de Koloniën voor een reis naar Suriname, voor het gehele schip of voor 1/8e gedeelte. Op 16 juli ontving Sinave wel een certificaat voor Suriname, maar van de offerte zou geen gebruik worden gemaakt. Daarop zal de rederij het schip met ballast, mogelijk met enige lading en misschien een enkele passagier, ‘op avontuur’ naar Suriname hebben afgezonden.
    1817

    OHC 180117
    Te Suriname is gearriveerd J. Vinck (opm: pink JONGE PIETER), van Ostende.
    OHC 270517
    Amsterdam, 26 mei. Den 25 dezer is in Texel binnengekomen J. Vink (opm: pink JONGE PIETER, thuishaven Brugge), van Suriname.

    Op 27 juli 1817 werd een nieuwe zeebrief verstrekt voor de JEUNE PIERRE, aangevraagd door Sinave Frères, Brugge, voor Jacob Vinck als kapitein.

    1818

    Rapport inspecteur Goldberg
    Nota der thans in lading aangeslagen, en naar de onderscheidenen Koloniën van den Staat gedestineerde schepen over de maanden januari, februari (onleesbaar) van maart 1818.
    Naar Suriname: JONGE PIETER
    Kapitein Jacob Vinck.
    Rederij: Niet genoemd. (Sinave)
    Cargadoors: Zurmuhlen, Zwaneburg & Bovy.
    Te Amsterdam
    Note des Navires appartenants au Port de Bruges.
    Sinave Frères
    LE JEUNE PIERRE, 425 tonnen, kapt. Jacob Vinck.
    (opm: bekort)

    LCO 200418
    Amsterdam, 16 april. Uitgezeild J. Vinck (opm: pink JONGE PIETER) en A.C. Hazewinkel, beide naar Liverpool.
    LCO 110618
    Te Ostende zijn gearriveerd Nannings (opm: kapt. Adriaan Nannings, TRITON) en J. Vinck (opm: JONGE PIETER) van Liverpool.

    1819


    GHC 170919
    Brugge, 14 september. Sedert enige dagen ziet men hier ene menigte schepen binnen onze haven aankomen, waarvan men geen denkbeeld gezien heeft sedert den Amerikaanse oorlog, waaronder enige voor rekening van de heeren broeders Synave (opm: Sinave), De Lescluze en zoon, Saney, Moke, Craene, Belpaire, en een groot gedeelte voor rekening of aan de consignatie van Mr. De Baere, nieuw koophandelhuis, dat zich alhier kortelings geplaatst heeft; dit geeft een levendig uitzicht en trekt veel wandelaars langs den kant waar die liggen, om de werkzaamheden van het lossen na te zien. Het schip de DIANA, zal in 't kort gereed zijn om ene tweede reis naar Batavia aan te nemen, en men verzekert dat het schip de JONGE PIETER daarna zal opgetakeld (opm: de tuigage gereed gemaakt) worden, waarna men met de HARMONIE ook enen aanvang zal nemen om op te timmeren en op Batavia te varen; dus met de ZELIMA, die zich thans te Batavia moet bevinden of reeds op de terugreis is, ene ongemene uitrusting van vier Oost-lndiënvaarders zal uitmaken voor rekening van de achtingswaardige heeren broeders Synave. Men verwacht met genoegen het pink-schip LA JEUNE ANNETTE, kapitein van den Broeke, van Batavia, aan de heren de Lescluze en Zoon, welk reeds te Ostende binnen gekomen is.

    1820

    Om onverklaarbare reden ontbreken de Turkse Passen (1820, 1822, 1824) en de vereiste zeebrieven vanaf 1819 tot 1826.

    RC 160920
    Londen, 12 september. Den 1 augustus is gepraaid het schip YOUNG PETER, Bruges (opm: pink JONGE PIETER, thuishaven Brugge, kapt. Jacob Vinck), van Ostende naar Batavia; hebbende 35 dagen reis.
    BC 251120
    Batavia, aangekomen den 20 november de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Brugge den 28 juni.
    Schepen liggende ter rede van Batavia: Zr.Ms. schip TROMP, kanonneerboot No. 2.
    Schepen (opm: driemasters) CHRISTINA BERNARDINA, CONCORDIA, ELIZABETH JOHANNA, HET SCHOON VERBOND, JACOBA, ANTOINETTA JACOBA, ELIZABETH, GRAAF BULOW, L’ÉCLAIR, JAVA, DE GEZUSTERS, WILHEMINA, ARIUS MARINUS, EMERENTIA, PAMALANG, JOHANNA FREDERIKA, JADUL KARIM, GENERAAL DEKOCK, CONCORDIA, HABSOEN, PEKIN, JACOBA, MASTORA, JONGE PIETER.

    1821

    BC 030221
    Advertentie: Postkantoor te Samarang. Wordt bij deze aan het publiek bekend gemaakt, dat de volgende schepen en mindere vaartuigen in lading om naar Europa en naar havens in Indië te vertrekken (opm: bekort):
    Naar Nederland het Nederlands schip (opm: pink) JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, vertrek in de loop van februari.
    Samarang, 27 januari 1821.
    De postmeester, H.W. Gezelschap
    RC 210421
    Uittreksel van de Lloydslijst van den 17 april 1821:
    Te Batavia is den 20 november 1820 gearriveerd het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Brugge.
    RC 150621
    Uittreksel van de Lloydslijst van den 12 juni 1821:
    Den 5 februari is van Samarang en den 12 dito van Sourabaija gezeild het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, naar Ostende.
    OHC 260721
    Amsterdam, 24 juli. Te Ostende is gearriveerd J. Vinck (opm: JONGE PIETER), van Batavia.
    MCO 151121
    Vlissingen, 13 oktober. Van den 11 dezer tot heden is van onze reede naar zee gezeild: de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Ostende naar Batavia gedestineerd, met stukgoederen.
    MCO 221121
    Vlissingen, 20 november. De JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Ostende, ligt nog alhier ter rede (opm: zie MCO 151121 en 080122).

    1822

    MCO 080122
    Vlissingen, 5 januari. Heden is van onze rede naar Batavia vertrokken de JONGE PIETER (opm: pink), kapt. J. Vinck, van Ostende, met stukgoederen.
    BC 010622
    Batavia. Aangekomen den 30 mei het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. Jacob Vinck, van Ostende den 5de januari.
    BC 261022
    Batavia. Vertrokken den 24 oktober het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, naar Brugge.
    BC 021122
    Batavia, 25 oktober. Straat Sunda doorgezeild schip de JONGE PIETER, J. Vinck, van Batavia den 24ste oktober, naar Ostende.

    1823

    RC 060323
    Rotterdam, 5 maart. De 1 dezer is te Antwerpen aangekomen de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Batavia.

    1824

    BC 070824
    Batavia. Aangekomen: den 5 augustus de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Ostende den 20ste maart, passagiers: de heer Parie en Zr.Ms. troepen.
    BC 140824
    Advertentie. Passage naar Nederland met het snelzeilend schip (opm: pink) de JONGE PIETER, kapitein Jacob Vinck, welke tegen medio september zal zeilen. Adres bij Kruijt en Van Dasten.
    BC 140824
    Advertentie. Passage naar Nederland met het snelzeilend schip (opm: pink) de JONGE PIETER, kapitein Jacob Vinck, welke tegen medio september zal zeilen. Adres bij Kruijt en Van Dasten.
    BC 021024
    Doorgezeild Straat Sunda 29 september: Het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Batavia den 27ste september naar Oostende.

    1825

    OHC 190225
    Amsterdam, 17 februari. Te Ostende is gearriveerd het schip (opm: pink) de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, van Batavia.

    1826

    Op 10 januari 1826 werd een nieuwe zeebrief verstrekt voor de JONGE PIETER, aangevraagd door A. Sinave, Brugge, voor Jacob Vinck als kapitein.

    1827

    Op 24 december 1827 werd een nieuwe zeebrief verstrekt voor de JONGE PIETER, aangevraagd door A. Sinave, Brugge, voor Jacob Vinck als kapitein. De JONGE PIETER moest kort na vertrek uit Oostende terugkeren wegens schade aan de zeilen. Bij het hernieuwde vertrek op 1 februari 1828 bleek kapt. C.W. Hammar kapt. Vinck te zijn opgevolgd terwijl kapt. Vinck op 21 april tijdelijk op de JUNON van dezelfde rederij Sinave de vrijgekomen plaats van kapt Hammar innam.

    1828

    OHC 290128
    Amsterdam, 26 december. Te Ostende terug uit zee gekomen het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. J. Vinck, naar Batavia gedestineerd, na zeer zwaar weer uitgestaan en schade aan zeilen bekomen te hebben. (opm: de pink zeilde op 1 februari weer uit, nu onder kapitein C.W. Hammar)
    JC 240728
    Batavia aangekomen den 11de juli het schip de JONGE PIETER, kapt. A. Sinave (opm: kapt. C.W. Hammar, A. Sinave was een van de eigenaars), van Oostende den 8ste februari.
    JC 110928
    Batavia vertrokken den 9 september: De JONGE PIETER (opm: pink), kapt. C.W. Hammar, naar Brugge.

    1829

    RC 100229
    Uittreksel van de Lloydslijsten van den 3 februari:
    Ter hoogte van Portsmouth Hammer (opm: kapt. C.W. Hammar, JONGE PIETER), van Batavia naar Oostende.
    (opm: na lossing in Brugge begin maart 1829 is er geen zeetijding gevonden tot het vertrek in mei 1831).

    1830

    Nadat eind augustus 1830 in Brussel onlusten waren uitgebroken die de inleiding vormden tot de Afscheiding door België werd op 4 oktober eenzijdig de Belgische onafhankelijkheid afgekondigd. In een reactie hierop werden bij K.B. nr. 78 van 28 oktober 1830 de zeebrieven ingetrokken van alle (196) schepen welke in de Zuidelijke Provinciën van het Rijk te huis behoorden. Dat betrof dus ook de JONGE PIETER.

    1831

    Als gevolg van de afscheiding der Zuidelijke Provinciën van Nederland konden de – nu Belgische – schepen niet meer profiteren van de lucratieve voorwaarden van de Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij. Alternatief emplooi werd voor de JONGE PIETER gevonden in de zoutvaart van Liverpool op Oostende met bestemming Brugge. Tussen mei 1831 en februari 1832 maakte het schip onder kapt. Hammer vier rondreizen op Liverpool en tot september 1833 onder kapt. N. Nannings nog eens acht.
    Het schip kon uitsluitend onder Nederlandse vlag voor lading van de N.H.M. in aanmerking komen. De rederij was daarom wel genoodzaakt haar zetel naar Nederland te verplaatsen en koos voor Amsterdam. Nadat de verhuizing was voltooid restte nog de keuring van het schip in een Nederlandse haven. Op 10 januari 1834 verliet de JONGE PIETER Brugge onder Belgische vlag, zogenaamd op avontuur, maar wel met de bedoeling de keuring in de nieuwe thuishaven te doen plaatsvinden. Het schip verging echter op 11 januari op de Haaks Gronden, waarbij kapitein Nannings en de opperstuurman verdronken doordat zij weigerden het wrak tijdig te verlaten.

    AH 130831
    Liverpool, 5 augustus. Binnengekomen. JONGE PIETER (opm: Belg, ex-Zuid-Nederlander), kapt. niet vermeld, van Oostende.

    1834

    RC 140134
    Rotterdam, 13 januari. In de nacht van de 11e dezer is in de Gronden van de Haaks vervallen het schip JONGE PIETER, kapt. Nannings, van Ostende naar Amsterdam gedestineerd. De equipage is, behalve de kapitein en stuurman, gered en in het Nieuwe Diep aangebracht.
    (opm: zie ook UCO 270134; van de pink, gebouwd in Stettin in 1800, kapt. N. Nannings, thuishaven Brugge, was in oktober 1830 als gevolg van de Afscheiding der Belgen bij KB de haar Nederlandse zeebrief ingetrokken; nadat de zetel van de rederij naar Amsterdam was verplaatst [zie DC 120434], werd een Nederlandse zeebrief mogelijk, waardoor het schip weer in aanmerking zou komen om lading van de NHM te vervoeren; het schip moest daarvoor eerst onder Belgische vlag naar een Nederlandse haven om [opnieuw] te worden gekeurd, waarbij het reisje naar Amsterdam haar fataal werd)
    LPR 250134
    Men schrijft de 19e januari vanuit Oostende: Een brief, aangekomen uit Antwerpen en gepubliceerd in de beurs te Oostende, kondigde het totale verlies aan, ter hoogte van Texel, van de Belgische driemaster JEUNE PIERRE, kapt. Nannings, toebehorend aan de heer Sinave te Brugge. Het schip heeft onze haven de 10e op avontuur verlaten. De kapitein en de eerste stuurman waren halsstarrig aan boord gebleven en waren ten onder gegaan; de overige bemanning is met een van de boten aan de wal gekomen.
    UCO 270134
    Belgische dagbladen van 24 januari. Het Belgische vaartuig de JONGE PIETER, van 400 tonnen, kapitein Nannings, behorende aan het huis Sinave te Brugge, hetwelk den 10 januari uit Ostende is gezeild, is den 11 dezer op de hoogte van Texel geheel vergaan. De kapitein en de stuurman, die weigerden het vaartuig te verlaten, zijn verdronken doch de andere scheepslieden zijn gered (opm: zie RC 140134).
    DC 120434
    Dordrecht, 11 april. Van de 46 Belgische koopvaardijschepen, die, vanaf de uitbarsting der Belgische revolutie tot op heden, de stad Antwerpen voorgoed hebben verlaten, en thans de Nederlandse vlag voeren, varen deze 14 naar Amsterdam: de FELICITAS, de DILIGENCE, de ROSALIE, de SURINAME, de EUGENIE, de MATHILDE, de AUGUSTIN, de JOSEPH, de PRESIDENT SCHIMMELPENNINCK, de DIANA, de GRAAF BAILLET, de NATALIE, de JONGE PIETER, de STAD BRUGGE. (opm: 32 verkozen Rotterdam als domicilie)


Friday, 16 March 2018

Elisabeth taken by a French privateer


By a French Privateer is captured and in Bergen presented the ship Elisabeth captain W.Spence from Rotterdam to Norden

Thursday, 15 March 2018

H Vlieland


Captain H Vlieland from Rotterdam to Le Havre designated ,Chased  by a privateer fled to Boulogne

Monday, 12 March 2018

J.Vlieland broken mast

J.Vlieland from Embden 
The last has a broken mast due to strong wind 

Thursday, 8 March 2018

Cornelis Vlieland

After the cannonballs we do another post about  a prize . This time about Cornelis Vlieland
From Cornelis Vlieland nothing was heard of after 1798.
We know he was captured and ended up in a prisoner of war camp.
We heard of the ship Elisabeth also sailed by his brother Hendrik Vlieland.Who was taken as prize as well.







In Ostend the captured Prussian ship Elisabeth Master C.Vlieland from London to Antwerp .
Te Ostende is opgebragt het Pruissisch Schip de Elisabeth Capt. C. Vlieland van Londen naar Antwerpen

this anouncement was made in " nieuwe Nederlandsche courant of 18 July 1798.
And other newspapers.



Cornelis Friland




first name(s): Cornelius
Last name Friland
Year 1799
Nationality France
Service number -
Rank -
Ship name -
Prison camp or ship Yarmouth
Country of imprisonment England
Conflict Napoleonic Wars
Archive The National Archives
Archive reference ADM 103/463
Document details Register of POWs, Yarmouth, 1793-1798
Record set Prisoners of War 1715-1945
Category Military, armed forces & conflict
Regimental & service records
Collections from Great Britain


About the auction of the captured ship we find this anouncement.


The cargo contains of different kinds of pepper, different kinds of coffee, Cane sugar from Havana and other sugar, handkerchiefs .
When his daughter Grietje Vlieland wants to marry in 1819 she has to provide a certificate that her father approves the wedding,but is not able to give this declaration in person.
She goes to the judge with several witnesses , who claim to have known her father very well ,but after 1799 never heard of him.



the declaration.

So after 300 hundred years we still do not know what happened to Cornelis .Did he die ?
Was he imprisoned.?
Was he the prisoner of war we found in 1797  t in Chatham?



and was Ary Cornelis Vlieland who died in the hospital of Chatham in 1798 his son ?

We have a lot to find out ,
If you find anything please let us know.




Rotterdamsche Courant 17-04-1794
In Topsham waiting for cargo de Elizabeth master Cornelis Vlieland

10-05-1794 arrival from Topsham Cornelis Vlieland
more on the Elizabeth

The brothers Arie, Cornelis, Willem and Hendrik and Jeroen sometimes sailed each others ship or destination.

We find in Topsham sailed the Elisabeth by Cornelis.

Monday, 5 March 2018

Cannon balls,Harpy,Vlieland,Bazely

We already told in several post about the HMS Harpy under the command of Henry Bazely.
Hendrik Vlieland was captured with his ship The Young Elisabeth and his ship was taken as prize and the crew was captured and imprisoned
After many years we succeeded to have the original papers copied in the National Archiv es in Kew.

Bazely was very active during that time with his Harpy .He also attacked Flushing during that time .

Flushing (Vlissingen)

This cannonball , a 24 pounder was used in the attack  of 1809 and  was found  in Flushing and is now in the family.



A mine thrower was also used  and found.


So once again .
The story told in the family about a captain who was taken from his ship and saw his son drowned during this action.
There was an official complaint about in the prizepapers .
We think is about Hendrik and de Jonge Elizabeth.



Wednesday, 28 February 2018

War Cemetery Noordwijk and Reginald Blomfield

We already wrote some post  about the cemetery in Noordwijk.

There are graves of from the first and second world war .

History Information
The Commonwealth plot in Noordwijk General Cemetery contains 81 burials of the First World War, including 54 unidentified naval ratings.
Of the 52 Second World War burials, 19 are unidentified.
The plot also contains 2 Polish Airmen's graves, 1 is unidentified.
It also has a cross of Sacrifice .

Image result for The Cross of Sacrifice noordwijk

The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). 
He was the grandson of the Bishop of London .
It is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or more graves. Its shape is an elongated Latin cross with proportions more typical of the Celtic cross, with the shaft and crossarm octagonal in section. It ranges in height from 18 to 24 feet (5.5 to 7.3 m). A bronzelongsword, blade down, is affixed to the front of the cross (and sometimes to the back as well). It is usually mounted on an octagonal base. It may be freestanding or incorporated into other cemetery features. The Cross of Sacrifice is widely praised, widely imitated, and the archetypal British war memorial. It is the most imitated of Commonwealth war memorials, and duplicates and imitations have been used around the world.

Friday, 9 February 2018

skating in 1781


On the fifth of this month , in the morning at half past six , two Noordwijkers , by the name of Jan Vlieland  and Leendert Plug went on skates from Noordwijk to Scheveningen by sea.and arrived there at eight o'çlock.
This is so unique that even the oldest people never seen or heard of this before.
Because the ice is normally , even in the hardest of winters impossible .
And the beach so uneven and rough, but now smooth, as possibly never before ever happened.
10-01-1781

Saturday, 3 February 2018

Meeting the trains: casualties of war in Exeter 1914–19

Meeting the trains: casualties of war in Exeter 1914–19

On Thursday 8 October 1914, only a month into the First World War, a reporter from the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette saw a disembarkation that was to be repeated countless times in the next four years. 
Soon after 4 o’clock in the afternoon he saw ‘a couple of carriages’ and ‘some 25’ motor cars lent by Exeter residents ‘drawn up outside the entrance to ... Queen-Street [now Exeter Central] Station’ and the ‘special carriages attached to the express train’ that had just arrived. 
People were not allowed on the platform, but ‘huge crowds lined the vicinity of the station and the route’ as the cars and carriages hauled the ambulance trailers to one of the city’s War Hospitals; in 1917, the nurses meeting the trains would see a long file of gas-blinded men, each holding the clothes of the man in front, stumbling towards their transport. 35,000 such war wounded from Flanders and France passed through Exeter’s Red Cross five (eventually eight) Temporary War Hospitals, receiving surgery, treatment and rehabilitation; what had begun as a Devon Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) initiative became after 1916 an arm of the military campaign, under the 4th Southern General Hospital, Devonport. 
The original five hospitals were set up in the Eye Infirmary (Temporary, Hospital No. 1), 


Episcopal Modern School for Girls (No. 2), Workhouse Children’s Home (No. 3), Topsham Barracks (No. 4) and Bradninch Hall (No. 5). 
To back up the medical effort, the people of the city made cakes, grew fruit and vegetables, sewed clothing and prepared packs of wound dressings. 
Children gathered sphagnum moss from the marshland beside the river Exe, or helped make that foraged on Dartmoor into dressings that could absorb fluid from a wound and protect it from flies or other airborne infection, a surgical treatment officially approved by the War Office in 1916.

Among the qualified nurses on the wards, originally at the Eye Infirmary and later at the Episcopal Modern School in Pennsylvania Road, was ‘Sister Vlieland’ – Dorothy, second daughter of Alice Edith and Charles James and younger sister of Frances Maude, who had qualified around 1907 (probably at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital across the road from 20 Southernhay West, at that time still the family home) and volunteered to serve in 1914. 
War Hospital No. 2 treated patients with bomb and gunshot wounds, so saw many sepsis cases, caused when an open wound sustained on the battlefield became infected and, left untreated, caused bacteria to leach into the bloodstream. 
Apart from battlefield injuries or neurasthenia (shell-shock), many soldiers would also have been suffering from phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis or TB), rampant in the slum housing in which many of the soldiers had grown up; after 1917, recruits were screened for the disease on enlistment, but before the advent of x-rays many cases were missed, and in cold and wet battlefield conditions, exhaustion from unceasing fighting and often poor food, a primary infection could quickly become a secondary and fatal one. 
Conditions at the front – mud, rats and, in theatres such as Egypt and Greece, insect bites such as the one that caused the poet Rupert Brooke’s death in April 1915 – were all inimical to efforts to improve hygiene and sanitation. Wound-cleaning agents such as carbolic or saline dressings, or the mixture of sodium hydrochlorate and boric acid known as Carrel-Dakin’s solution, could be of only limited use in the days before antibiotics. London chemist, Henry Dakin, and three doctors – Harry Platts and Frederick Escritt, who both survived the war, and Alfred Gould, a South Devon doctor from Holne, who was killed in France in May 1918 – were among those who experimented with ways to limit the transmission of disease, but most of it bore real fruit only after the war. 
The Exeter hospitals were among the first to routinely use Carrel-Dakin’s solution, and their stress on hygiene mirrored that of Alice Edith in her paediatric work in Heavitree. Dorothy died at home on 17 June 1917; we do not know how she died, but an infection contracted from one of those she was trying to heal seems the most likely cause. 
As Temporary Hospital No. 2 was in the parish of St David’s Church, Dorothy has her place on the Roll of Honour there.

Particular thanks are due to Julia Neville (j.f.neville@btinternet.com) and the Exeter War Hospitals Research Group; also to the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Exeter Memories and Legendary Dartmoor (www.legendarydartmoor.co.uk) for some of the material in this post,and to Barbara !
So far we have no picture of Dorothy Vlieland.
It could well be her on the picture of the opening of the Rougemond garden standing behind Nicholas  Vlieland.


Sunday, 14 January 2018

Dancing and deportment in Exeter

Dancing and deportment in Exeter

At the New Year’s Fancy Dress Ball in the Exeter Guildhall in 1895, the MC (master of ceremonies, who greeted the guests, announced which dances were to be performed and when dinner was to be served) was Giovanni Vinio.

Giovanni (probably b. 1868) was one of the members of the Italian Vinio family who were ‘kings’ of the dance community in the city at that time. Another was Charles William Ray Vinio (born Carlo Guglielmo Ray Vinio, probably in the 1840s, and naturalised as British in 1878). Charles was in partnership with Hubert Mason in ‘the business of Teachers of Dancing and Deportment at the city of Exeter and elsewhere in the county of Devon under the style of the firm of Mason and Vinio’, as the article of dissolution of the partnership in December 1885 stated. The formal name of the business was ‘The Exeter Academy of Dancing, Deportment and Calisthenics’, and an advertisement in the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette stated that it will be ‘OPEN for the term, at the Royal Public Rooms’ (we may remember similar advertisements for Jerome Nicholas Vlieland’s language tuition). Classes were also held at Mount Radford School, then in Regent’s Park in Heavitree in the east of the city. Mason (b. 1811) had been an MC at the Royal Exchange as early as 1842 and at a grand ball in Congdon’s Subscription Rooms ‘under distinguished patronage’ in 1845, so would have been 74 when the partnership ended. Charles Vinio carried on the firm alone at least for a time after the partnership ended.

Then there is a puzzle. By 1897 the Academy was offering classes in pianoforte, organ and singing as well as dancing on Saturdays at the Rougemont Hotel under a ‘Mlle Adele Schneider (successor to Giovanni Vinio)’, and by 1903 Adele’s Academy is established in Torquay as well as Exeter, giving an ‘entertainment for 300 of her pupils’ in the Public Halls in Exmouth in December 1903. So did Giovanni briefly succeed Charles as head of the Academy and then pass on the business? The 1895 Ball mentions a ‘Mr and Mrs Vinio’ as being in attendance, so is this Charles and his wife? Charles is listed as being married in 1875 in Bradford, which may be a second marriage, Giovanni being a son from an earlier one. There is also mention of a Leopold Vinio in Exeter in 1879, whose relation to Charles and Giovanni is unknown. Another Charles was married in London in 1820; if his son was the father of our Charles, born in the late 1840s, that would fit, but there is much more to find out!

An education in proper conduct, dance and deportment (how one stood, walked and sat when in company, in church, on the street or at a ball) was as vital to a young lady as that in mathematics or history if she wished to take her place in society, and good teachers were very sought-after, occupying a position something above ‘trade’ even though they worked for a living. Giovanni wrote a letter to the Dancing Times in May 1891 deploring the lack of a formal training or qualification for such teachers – it looks as if anyone could advertise themselves as ‘masters in deportment’ and take pupils for expensive fees. There had been since Georgian times, but particularly under Queen Victoria, a moral edge to this: good bearing was a mark of a good and decorous character, just as slovenly dress one of degeneracy. Manuals and pamphlets were written with titles like The Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness, Chapter XVI of which covered ‘Political Deportment and Good Habits’ (Florence Hartley, 1860, an American book but typical of the hundreds published in England from about 1840 to the First World War). Dancing was a similarly crucial social accomplishment, with its own rules of etiquette and decorum. Public balls could be held to support a charity or by subscription, and strict rules applied as to how the lady should be asked to dance by her partner, how many times she should dance with the same partner during the evening and how he should conduct her to the supper room.

Vinio and Mason, and later Adele Schneider, also taught Calisthenics (from the Greek words for beauty and strength, something more like modern gymnastics) as a small part of late Victorian dance education but towards 1900 it began to be more widely popular among the slightly more liberated young women of the pre-First World War society: movements such as Prunella Stack’s Women’s League of Health and Beauty flourished after 1918 (Barbara Vlieland Peel was an instructor in the 1930s), not least because, except among the more aristocratic families, the fashion for grand balls was declining and because many of the men who would have been dancing partners were dead in France

Thanks to Barbara!

Friday, 12 January 2018

Johannes Henricus Hollander

We find a Johannes Henricus Hollander in Rotterdam advertising as a teacher in 1822 and 1823
You think could this J.H. Hollander be J.N.Hollander.Later known as J.N.Vlieland .
No it is not 

But for the record we make a note of it ! And we can forget about it .

Doopinschrijving Joannes Henricus Hollander
Doopplaats:Rotterdam
Doopdatum:19-07-1784
Dopeling:Joannes Henricus Hollander
Moeder:Joanna Maes
Vader:Hendrik Hollander
Getuige 1:Joannes Jorg
Getuige 2:Wilhelmina Francina Hollander
Bron of gezindte:
Doop rooms-katholiek Leeuwenstraat; Trouw rooms-katholiek
Inschrijvingsjaar:1784
Toegangsnummer:
1-02 Doopregisters, Trouwregisters, Begraafregisters Rotterdam (DTB)
Inventarisnummer:161




Hendrikus Hollander, geb. feb 1756 te Gorinchem, ged. 16 feb 1756 te Gorinchem, ovl. 27 mrt 1846 te Rotterdam, beroep(en): Tuinder, Meester tuinder in 1818, zoon van Johannes (Jan) de Hollander en Dingena Christina (Digna) van Doesburg
Gehuwd 3 nov 1782 te Gorinchem met:
Johanna Maes (Maas), geb. 27 mei 1754 te Kessel, ovl. 30 apr 1846 te Rotterdam, Bij haar overlijden was zij oud: een en negentig jaar, elf maanden en drie dagen., dochter van Henricus Maes en Helena Kempen
1) Joannes Henricus Hollander, geb. jul 1783 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 21 jul 1783 te Rotterdam, ovl. 20 dec 1783 te Rotterdam
2) Joannes Henricus Hollander, geb. jul 1784 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam.
Vogens JH was Joannes "Jong" samen met Wilhelmina Francina Hollander doopgetuigen bij Johannes Henricus.
Volgens de doopakte bij het digitale archief Rotterdam was echter Joannes "Jorg" doopgetuige.
, ged. 19 jul 1784 te Rotterdam, ovl. 12 feb 1868 te Delft, beroep(en): Schoolhouder, onderwijzer
Ondertrouwd 5 apr 1806 te Rotterdam
Gehuwd 20 apr 1806 te Rotterdam met:
Johanna Clementina Dekkers, geb. 23 nov 1775 te Rotterdam, ovl. 22 jul 1828 te Rotterdam, dochter van Joannes Dekkers en Anna van der Bijl
3) Margarita Hollander, geb. sep 1785 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam.; De naam van haar peetvader wordt gespeld als Beijnen., ged. 10 sep 1785 te Rotterdam, ovl. 5 aug 1789 te Rotterdam
4) Joanna Helena Hollander, geb. mrt 1787 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 8 mrt 1787 te Rotterdam, ovl. 11 aug 1870 te Rotterdam, beroep(en): Huishoudster
Gehuwd 9 apr 1818 te Goes met:
Engelbertus de Deken, geb. 29 apr 1762 te D'Huijsse, ovl. 18 mei 1828 te Rotterdam, beroep(en): Broodbakker, zoon van Jacobus de Deken en Maria Joanna de Weirdt 
Uit dit huwelijk:
1. Susanna Maria de Deken, geb ca.1824 te Deurne Borgerhout (Belgie).
. . Gehuwd op 01-09-1852 te Rotterdam met Cornelis van Rijn, geboren ca.1825 te Pijnacker,
. . zoon van Jacob van Rijn en Maria Schravemade.
2. Gerardus Hermanus de Deken, geb ca.1827 te Rotterdam.
. . Gehuwd op 25-03-1857 te Rotterdam met Maaike Vermeulen, geboren ca.1827 te Gorinchem,
. . dochter van Johannes Vermeulen en Maaike Stevensz.
5) Dijna Henrica Hollander, geb. mei 1788 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 6 mei 1788 te Rotterdam, beroep(en): Naaister
6) Henricus Joannes Hollander, geb. nov 1789 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 23 nov 1789 te Rotterdam, ovl. 6 jul 1867 te Megen (gem. Oss), Zijn overlijden is aangegeven door Henricus Hermanus Hoeben, oud 63 jaar, landbouwer, zwager van de overledene. Deze Henricus Hoeben is tuindergeweest in Rotterdam en heeft daar in vijf gevallen aangifte gedaan van het overlijden van een kind van Hendrikus Johannes Hollander en AllegondaMaria Hoeben., beroep(en): Tuinder, melkverkoper, winkelier.
Gehuwd 4 mei 1825 te Rotterdam met:
Allegonda Maria Hoeben (Houben), geb. 29 dec 1801 te Rotterdam, ovl. 18 aug 1857 te Rotterdam, dochter van Jan Hoeben (Houben) en Anna Maria Willemsen
7) Joannes Hollander, geb. dec 1790 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 28 dec 1790 te Rotterdam, ovl. 29 dec 1790 te Rotterdam
8) Petronella Johanna Hollander, geb. dec 1791 te Rotterdam, Petronella werd gedoopt bij de RC gemeente aan de Leeuwenstraat., ged. 21 dec 1791 te Rotterdam, ovl. 18 nov 1834 te Rotterdam, Volgens de overlijdens akte (nr 2242) in het digitale archief van Rotterdan werd Petronella 46 jr, 10 mnd, en 12 dgn oud. Dit klopt dus niet haar geboorte en overlijdensdatum. (Ref: Rotterdam 1834 b126v).
Gehuwd 6 nov 1822 te Rotterdam met:
Johannes (Jan) van der Spek, geb. 12 jan 1793 te Nieuwkoop, Jan van der Spek is volgens een uitreksel uit het doopreg d.d. 16 oct 1822 van Nieuwkoop, op 9 feb 1793 gedoopt.
Volgens zijn certificaat d.d. 21 oct 1822 van de Nationale Militie is hij op 12 januari 1793 geboren.
, ged. 9 feb 1793 te Nieuwkoop, ovl. 15 nov 1860 te Rotterdam, beroep(en): Tuinder, woonplaats(en): Hillegersberg, t.t.v. huwelijk, zoon van Jacobus van der Spek en Jannetje Jooste (Jannetje) Twaalfhoven
Volgens zijn certificaat d.d. 21 oct 1822 van de Nationale Militie was Jan van lichting 1816, had registratie nr. 3671; lot nr 70; en is nooit opgeroepen voor de dienst.
Hij was: 1 El, 7palm, 7 duim lang, ovaal aangezigt, rond gezicht, blauweogen, lange neus, ronde kin en hoogblonde wenkbrauwen; hij had geen "merkbaare teekenen".
 
Kinderen van Petronella en Jan van der Spek:
01. Johanna van der Spek geb 14-12-1822 te Rotterdam
. . . Trouwt 15-10-1845 te Rotterdam met Jacob Seelbach; geb ca.1819 te Rotterdam
. . . Zoon van Matthijs Seelbach en Maria Aletta van Weenen
02. Hendrik van der Spek geb 13-02-1824 te Rotterdam; ovl 29-03-1889 te Rotterdam
. . . Trouwt 12-03-1856 te Rotterdam met Elizabeth Agatha Tas, geb 1823te Rotterdam
. . . Dochter van Joachim Tas en Maria Soetman.
03. Jacobus Lambertus van der Spek geb. 20-09-1825 te Rotterdam
04. Johannes Henricus van der Spek geb. 09-04-1827 te Rotterdam ovl 03-09-1834 te Rotterdam
9) Anna Margarita (Margaretha) Hollander, geb. 11 dec 1792 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 12 dec 1792 te Rotterdam, ovl. 17 jan 1793 te Rotterdam, Bij het aangeven van haar overlijden wordt zij Margaretha genoemd (oud 5weken).
10) Samuel Michael Hollander, geb. mrt 1795 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 6 mrt 1795 te Rotterdam, ovl. 1 nov 1800 te Rotterdam
11) Margarita Catharina Hollander, geb. mei 1796 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 14 mei 1796 te Rotterdam, ovl. 16 dec 1796 te Rotterdam
12) Gerardus Hermanus Hollander, geb. okt 1799 te Rotterdam, RK doop in de Leeuwenstraat, Rotterdam., ged. 13 okt 1799 te Rotterdam (religie: RK), ovl. 9 okt 1853 te Rotterdam
Gehuwd 3 mei 1826 te Rotterdam met:
Johanna Dorothea Smit, geb. 30 nov 1793 te Rotterdam, ovl. 22 jul 1838 te Kralingen, dochter van Franciscus Smit en Catharina Parin

Thursday, 11 January 2018

Charles William Ray Vinio

The man working at the 1895 Ball as MC (master of ceremonies, announcing the guests and the dances to be performed), Charles William Ray Vinio, was born Carlo Guglielmo Ray, and took British citizenship in September 1878. Vinio, with adverts (like those for Jerome) for lessons in all the local newspapers, was originally in partnership with Hubert Mason (b. 1811, so 74 when the partnership was dissolved in 1885 but a teacher of dance as far back as 1842) and Charles carried on alone ‘the profession of the teaching of Dance and Deportment’.
But there is also a Giovanni Vinio, running an Exeter 'Academy of Dancing, Deportment and Calisthenics’ at Mount Radford School (one of the main fee-paying establishments in the city), also advertising everywhere, who wrote to the Dancing Times in the late 1890s deploring the lack of a licensing system or formal programme of education for those who set up as teachers of dance.



Wednesday, 10 January 2018

John Veitch

John Veitch, the Plantsman of Exeter

The florists at the 1895 New Year Ball in the Exeter Guildhall were Messrs Veitch of the Veitch Nurseries, based in Exeter and Chelsea in London. The largest group of family-run plant nurseries in Europe before the First World War, the business was begun by John Veitch in around 1800 and employed the famous plant hunters Thomas and William Lobb from Bodmin and David Bowman from Edinburgh to stock their orchid, fern and shrub collections, including some of the earliest monkey puzzle and Wellingtonia redwood trees in England. By 1914, they had introduced 1,281 new plants into cultivation, particularly orchids. One pitcher plant species, N. veitchii, is named after them.

John Veitch is one of the many people who were not born in Exeter, but had great influence in the city. He walked to London from Jedburgh in the Scottish borders in order to find work with Mr James Lee of Hammersmith (a noted plantsman who set up business in 1760 after an apprenticeship at the estates of Syon and Whitton House outside London, and whose nursery was said to be ‘deservedly the best in the world’). While with Lee, Veitch caught the attention of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, owner of Killerton House in Broadclyst near Exeter, one of Devon’s greatest estates, which under John (and his son and grandson) became a trial ground for rearing seeds and specimens brought back to England through the port at Topsham, particularly fuchsias and orchids. As well as working as a landscape consultant and tree contractor – he bought £1,212 worth of trees for Humphrey Repton, who was landscaping Luscombe Castle in Dawlish – John established a nursery at Budlake near Killerton, and then at Mount Radford in St Leonard’s in Exeter, and opened a seed shop in Exeter High Street. After Acland’s death, he became established as a nurseryman, and many of the outstanding specimen trees still growing in Exeter were planted by the firm. Veitch’s also laid out the Heavitree Pleasure Ground that opened in 1906, and planted many new trees in 1911, while Charles James Vlieland was mayor, to mark the coronation of George V and Queen Mary.

Thanks are due to Exeter Memories and Sue Shephard, Seeds of Fortune: A Gardening Dynasty, Bloomsbury, 2003, for some material in this post and to Barbara!


Tuesday, 2 January 2018

Happy New Year

Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Friday 04 January 1895





THE MAYORESS OF EXETER'S JUVENILE FANCY DRESS BALL Last night the Exeter Guildhall looked very bright on the occasion of a Children's Fancy Dress Ball, given the Mayoress of Exeter (Miss Perkins). The first Ball of the kind was that of last year, given the then Mayoress (Mrs. Domville). was a great success, and the present Mayoress decided to inaugurate the New Year arranging a similar festivity. More space was given for last evening's Ball than was the case last year. The whole of the floor of the Guildhall was cleared for the occasion, and made a spacious ball-room. The arrangements were carried out under the supervision of the City Surveyor (Mr. D» Cameron). The bamboos and plants from the establishment of Messrs. Veitch were tastefully arranged, and considerably added to the appearance of the room. At the High-street end cf the Hall a refreshment stall was erected, and supplied by Messrs. Palmer and Edwards, of South-street, and here some of the most enticing products of the confectioner's art were- arranged. The handsome old Hail was brilliantly lighted, and when the little guests fancy oostumes had assembled the scene presented was an extremely pretty one. The arrival of the guests attracted a large number of the general public. The guests were met the eutrance and conducted to the old Council Chamber, which had been converted into a reception-room. On arriving here they were duly announced and introduced to the Mayoress. After this ceremony they marched to the ballroom couples. The company consisted of juveniles with the exception of a few personal and official friends of the and Mayoress, amongwhom were :—The Sheriff, Mrs Clapp, and Miss White, Shirley S Perkins, Councillor and Mrs Caunter, the City Surveyor, Mr Gratwicke. Mr and Miss Glanville, the Under-Sheriff and C Gidley. the Mayor's Chaplain, Mortimer, Mrs and Miss Milne-Home, and Miss Norman, Mr Sydney Pope, Mrs W Pope, Miss E Perkins, Councillor B S Perkins, Mrs Perkins, and Mis* Perkins, Petherick, the Rev C Ingles, Alderman and Mrs Roberts, Mrs Hunt Roberts, Miss Lobb, Mr T Simpson, Miss R Tremlett, the Town Clerk, Mr Venn, Mr and Mrs Vinio, Miss Relf, Mr Mrs Fenwicke, Sproat. Mr and Mrs J M Pope, Miss J Norrish, Dr S S Perkins, and Acland. After the third dance the children again assembled the Council Chamber and marched down the steps procession to the Hall, passing the Mayor and Mayoress. Then, wheeling, round, they went past stand on which ttvo of the Mayor's sons played the part of Father Christmas and handed a bon-bon to each guest. After this, dancing was resumed and kept with much vigour until 11 o'clock. Following is a list of Guests and the characters they assumed :— Miss Edith Perkins. Italian Peasant : Master Arthur S Perkins, Cambridge Undergraduate; Master Charles S Perkins, Shepherd ; Master Duncombe 8 Perkins, Knave of Hearts ; MissMarjorie S Perkins, Dutch Peasant; Master Horace Perkins, Dick Wittington: Miss Dorothy Perkins, Great Grandmother; W Budd, Budd, Jester : Miss Rose Budd, Mus. Bac.: Daisy, Budd, Cherry Ripe ; Harold Edmonds, American Cowboy; Roland Edmonds, Chef de. Cuisine; Miss Jessie Pope, Elsie Mavnard; Godfrey Edmonds, Spanish Envoy; Miss Edmonds, My Pretty Maid : Master W J Edmonds Queen's Counsel; Miss Hilda Clapp, Little Miss Muffet: Miss Gladys Drew, Mistletoe; Miss May Steele Perkins, Carmen; Miss Ellinor Battishill, Buttercup Miss Daisy Battishill, Fairy ; Miss Julia Battishill, Little 80-Peep; Acland Edmonds, Yeoman of the Guard ; Miss Winnie Daw, Elsie Maynard; Jack Fulfora, Naval Cadet; Master Edgar Gratwicke, Prince Charming ; Miss May Gratwicke, Red Riding Hood ; Leonard Tosswill, 8.A.; Maurice Tosswill, LL.D., Cantab. ; Olive Tosswill, Evangeline ; Rose Tosswill, Normandy Fishwife; Milly Roberts, Fatima ; Eddie Roberts, Turk ; Geoffrey Roberts, Turk ; Master Jack Brash, Page ; Miss Madeline Brash, Shepherdess; Miss Muriel Brash, Buy a Broom; Miss Norah Brash, Gipsy; Agnes Fortescue Reade, Her Great Great Grandmother; Frances Elizabeth Reade, Her Great Grandmother; Beatrice Birkett, Buttercup; Viva Birkett, Cherry Ripe; Christie Birkett, Daisy; Cyril Birkett, 18th Century Page Boy; Miss Pitkin, Daisy; Miss Smithett, Galatea; Miss Olive Smithett, Esmeralda; Master Smithett, Highlander; Miss Vlieland, Dancing Girl; Miss Dorothy Vlieland, Fairy; Miss Phoebe Vlieland, Red Riding Hood; Master Vlieland, Jester; Miss Beatrice Carr, a Puritan Maiden ; Master Carr. a Black Imp; Ivan Wallace Passmore, Little Boy Blue ; Master A C Milne-Home. Prince Ahmed; Miss Amy Milne-Home, Cotillon, or the Spirit of the Dance; Miss Sydney Milne-Home, Swiss Peasant Girl; Miss Sybil Bankayt. Music ; Master Norman. Hassan Talistina, Chief the Zeybecks ; Miss Elsie Baker, Dancing Girl; Cissy Drew, Esmeralda: Annie F Ham, Primrose ; Miss Hilda Mummery, Titania ; Miss Hani, Primrose Alice Marian Orchard, Elsie Maynard.; Samuel Thomas Orchard. Middy: Charles Orchard, Middy ; Miss Florence M Stockham. Madame de Pompadour ; Master John B Stockham, Naval Officer; Angus Cameron, Sir Walter Raleigh ; Ivan Cameron, Arminius Vambery ; Ursula Cameron, The Month of October; Hazel Cameron. Father Christmas ; Betty Cameron, Little Peep ; Mary {Lambert, Winter; Master Fred Williams, Jockey; Miss Ada Williams, Bo Peep; Miss Kathleen Fenwick, Buy a Broom: Master Arthur Fenwick, Little Boy Blue; Master^Cuthbert Fenwick. Jack and Jill; Miss Dorothy Fenwick, Jack and Jill; Ivan Reginald Peagelly, Cavalier ; Miss Ethel Murray, Forget-Me-Not; Blanche Piper, Italian Peasant; Lillie Piper, Red Riding Hood Miss O'Brien, Spanish Dancer ; Miss Gertrude Perham, French Flower Girl; Miss Evie Perham, Reaper James S M Matheson, Albanian ; Bosalihd Matheson, Queen of Hearts; Clairette Matheson, Red Riding Hood ; Miss Daisy Munro, Fairy Queen; Miss Clavden, Chrysanthemum ; Master Clayden, Haymaker ; Miss Evelyn Perry, Swiss Peasant ; Miss Ethel Burrows. Mother Hubbard MasterWillie Burrows, Pondre; Master Francis Burrows, Jester; Miss Norman, Chrysanthemum; Master H C Norman, Q.C.; George White, Cavalier ; Reggie White, Little Lord Fauntlerov; Elsie White, Daisy; Miss Ethel Wreford, Duchess of Devonshire; Miss Gwendoline Roberts, Summer; Master Arthur Roberts, Cricketer; Master Humfress, Sailor; Miss Norah Symes, Swiss Peasant; Miss Doris Symes, Little 80-Peep; J Symes, Barrister; J Symes, Sailor: Miss Ida Dyer, Folly; Miss Ivy Buckingham, Forget - Me-Not; Miss Edith Venu, My Pretty Maid; Master Spencer Lewis Venn, Monk: Miss Pope, Portia: Master Seymour Pope, The Times ; Master Philip Punch, Pope; Hilda Moone, Winter ; Miss Parkhouse. April; Miss Parkhouse, Forget-Me-Not; Tom Fulf ord, Troubadour; Master Robert Stanley Lang, ; Master Leslie William Lung, Yeoman the Guard ; Miss Winnifred Cole, Forget- Me-Not ; Master Charles Cole, Ralph Rackstraw, iun.; Dorothy Ackland, Snowdrop; May Loveband, Mv Great Grandmother ; Miss Whidbourne, Girl the 18th Century; Master Whidhourne, Boy of the 18th Century; Violet Stile, Violets Lily Stile, Lilies ; Violet Thompson, Queen of the May; Lilian Thompson, Little Miss Muffet ;C W Bennett, Clown ; Bennett, the Sun; Linford Brown. Knave of Hearts; Bessie Linford Brown, Buy Broom; Mattie Linford Brown, Elsie Maynard : Hamilton Linford Brown, Chef: Edward H Harding, Captain at the time of George 111-; Clarence J Harding, Cavalier at the time of Henry VIII. ; and D Stanley Harding, Cook. During the evening a sleight-of-hand performance was given by Mr. Ernest Rowe, who well entertained the company, and a bouquet was presented to the Mayoress by Miss May Gratwicke. The dance programme was a very pretty one. on one side being the City Arms, embossed in gold, and on the reverse the list of dances (is), follows:- Polka, Waltz. Swedish, March, Pas de Quatre, Lancers, Waltz, Polka, Waltz, Galop, Lancers, Swedish, Pas de Quatre, Polka, "Waltz, Sir Mr. G. Vinio acted as M.C. The music was supplied by Mr. Shobrook's String Band.