The History Of Ramsey and it's people.
Ramsey, probably ‘island where wild garlic grows’, OE hramsa + ēg: Ramsey Cambs. Hramesege c.1000. Ramsey Essex. Rameseia 1086 (DB).
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White's Directory of Essex 1848 - list of inhabitants.
John Ames, carpenter
James Barker, gentleman, Roydon Hall
James Barker jun., gentleman, Roydon Hall
Samuel Billingley
Robert Brooks, baker and miller
Rev. William Bull M.A., curate, Vicarage
Benjamin Clarke
Stephen Ellis, blacksmith
Edgar Garland Esq., Michaelstow Hall
Nathaniel Hempson, schoolmaster
Samuel King, blacksmith
William Malpas, Marshes
George Morley, butcher and victualler, Castle
Hannah Radford, schoolmistress
William Orford Ward, victualler, Nelson
Farmers.
Edward Balls
Joseph Clark
Joseph Girling
George Hempson
John Hempson, Hill House
Thomas Howard
Peter Palmer
William Keer, South Hall
Daniel Lucas
Isabella Lucas
Joseph Malpas
William Pyman
Elizabeth Rayner, South House
James Rayner, South House
George Rutland
John Salmon
John South, Foulton Hall
Leonard Wrinch, White House
Shoemakers.
George Allsop
Joseph Rutland
James Smith
Shopkeepers.
Robert Deex
Shadrach Skeet
Mary Ward
Edward Young
Post Office Directory of Essex 1874 - list of inhabitants.
Amis Hempson, Hill House
Rev. W. Guise Tucker, M.A., Vicarage
William Abbott, boot and shoe maker
Mrs. John Allsop, farmer
Edmond Blowers, grocer and draper
John Brampton, farmer, Poplar House, Brick Kiln and Bowl Farms
Robert Brooks, miller and baker
John Button, shopkeeper
William Clark, farmer
Alfred Charles Cooley, farmer, South Hall
Richard Deex, beer retailer
Richard Deex, baker
Stephen Ellis, blacksmith
Stephen Ellis, jun., Castle Inn PH
George Francis, relieving officer
Joseph Girling, farmer and landowner, Primrose Hall
Richard Good, shopkeeper
George Simpson Hardy, farmer, Ramsey Hall
Amis Hempson, landowner, farmer and maltster, Hill House
Samuel King, blacksmith
George Lucas, carpenter and wheelwright
Lewis Lucas, farmer, East New Hall
William Malpas, farmer
Mrs. Adelaide Elizabeth Newman, shopkeeper
George Norman, farm bailiff to Amis Hempson, esq
Peter Palmer, farmer, Burnt House
James Rayner, farmer, South House
Edward Rowles, bailiff to Edgar Walter Garland, esq
Joseph Saxby, shopkeeper
John South, farmer, Foulton Hall
David Taylor, veterinary surgeon
James Thompson, farm bailiff to George Hardy
William Nathaniel Tomkins, farmer, Rey Farm
William Orford Ward, Lord Nelson Inn PH
Alfred Woodard, shopkeeper
William Henry Wrinch, farmer, Roydon Hall
Edward Young, bricklayer
White's Directory of Essex 1848
RAMSEY parish has a large village, called Ramsey Street, on the eastern side of a small navigable creek, 3 miles West South West of Harwich; and contains 649 inhabitants, and 3603 acres of land, extending northward to the south bank of the estuary of the Stour, where a small projecting point of land, called Ray Island, jots into the estuary, at the mouth of the creek, and forms the western side of Harwich harbour. A fair is held in the village on the 16th of June. The parish has generally a fertile soil, and extends eastward to the ocean, including many scattered farm houses, etc. It belonged to Ralph Baynard, at the Norman Survey, and is now in seven manors, viz., Michaelslow, East New Hall, Stroudland, and Ray, belonging to E.W. Garland, Esq.; Ramsey Hall, belonging to James Hardy, Esq.; Roydon Hall, held by James Barker, jun., Esq., of Slour Hall, a large and handsome mansion; and Foulton Hall and Hill House, belonging to W. Caldecott and John Hempson, Esqrs. About 42 years ago, nearly 1500 acres were added to Mr.Garland's estate by embankments in the estuary of the Stour.
The Church (St. Michael,) is an ancient Gothic structure, with a square embattled tower, containing five bells. The chancel was rebuilt in 1597, and has an inscription in memory of Sir Thomas Davall, Kt., who was one of the representative of Harwich in all the parliaments of King William, and the two first of Queen Anne. The church was appropriated to St. Osyth Priory. The discharged vicarage, valued in K.B. at £15, and in 1831 at £240, is in the patronage of the Lord Chancellor, and incumbency of the Rev. S.N. Bull, M.A., of Dovercourt, for whom the Rev. William Bull, M.A., officiates, and occupies the Vicarage House and 11A. of glebe. The great tithes belong to the landowners, and the vicarial tithes were commuted in 1847 for £300 per annum. Here is a small Wesleyan Chapel built in 1825. The poor parishioners have about £16 yearly, in clothing, from Henry Smith's Charities, distributed by the churchwardens. They have also the dividends of £166.l3s.4d. three per cent. Consols, left by Major General Burr, in 1807; and a yearly rent-charge of 52s., left by Robert Hurlock, in 1650, out of a farm belonging to the Mason family. For teacbing 12 poor boys, the schoolmaster has the dividends of £469.18s. New South Sea Annuities, left by Thomas Davall, in 1771. A Girl's School is supported by Mrs. Gurney, with the aid of 1d. each per week from the scholars.
Ramsey Court Cases
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This family started in the village of Roydon in Suffolk, continued at Royden Hall, near Ramsey, Essex and ended at Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Kent. In each case the senior male line died out but a junior line was found to be carrying on elsewhere. The first line ended totally extinct in both males and females but with the last descendant being the young Humphrey, earl of Lincoln who died aged 10 in 1438. He was related to the earls of Wiltshire and to some Staffords who managed, incorrectly, to get hold of the Suffolk Royden property. However it seems that some junior and distant Bures relatives, but not Roydons, managed to recover this property after some forty years, in about 1500.
The second Roydon line struggled to survive at Roydon Hall, Ramsey, Essex but they seemed to get into debt too much and around 1450 the last male died, so that estate passed out of Roydon hands though into the new family of the Roydon heiress.
The final line started with some mystery in that this junior Roydon appeared in Kent from Essex, but as a very rich man. He called his East Peckham, Kent house Fortune to reflect his good fortune but how he came by it we have no idea. He appeared to be founding a dynasty with two sons and five daughters; but his eldest son was convicted of murder and hanged, his second son had no children and the estates were divided among his five daughters and their children. The middle daughter Elizabeth then made it her business to buy out her sisters and bequeathed a very handsome estate to her only son, William Twysden, or Twysenden as some documents called him. She also provided for her only surviving daughter Margaret, some of whose descendants emigrated to the New World.
(Royden Hall can be viewed from the front of 'Farm Cottage' in the fields opposite.)
A famous painting done 100 years ago of Ramsey Village, painted from the field to the left of Farm Cottage before the A120 was a major By-pass for the village.
A John Constable painting along the front at Harwich of the Lighthouse.
http://www.basildonrecorder.co.uk/li/member_of_parliament.in.Ramsey,%20Harwich,%20Essex/ Ramsey member of Parliament.
http://www.ukpubfinder.com/pub/24167 The Castle Public House Ramsey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Windmill,_Essex Ramsey Windmill.
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/194612 Ramsey Church.
http://www.francisfrith.com/ramsey,essex/ Local Books.