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  • Story: History Of Sittingbourne

    <p>History </p><p>In the Middle Ages, Sittingbourne was a popular place for pilgrims to Canterbury and offered a thriving market. Today, paper manufacture and fruit preserving and packing are the main industries. A settlement existed in the area as far back as 1086 when Norman records a village pond. Sittingbourne has over its long history developed significant links with the history of the river barge, still in evidence today. At the centre of the town&#39;s paved high street is the sculpture of a bronze bargeman.</p><p>The Dolphin shipyard was formerly the barge yard of cement works and brickmakers C Burley, and is on a tidal inlet running from Sittingbourne to the Swale.</p><p>North Kent is geologically rich in chalk, which is not found in many other places in Europe in such abundance. This naturally led cement manufacturers to settle in the area, and the modern industry still flourishes locally today. Barges were needed to move many other raw materials and finished goods into the Thames and to London and beyond; Sittingbourne was ideally suited for this purpose and a flourishing barge-building industry developed at Milton Creek and elsewhere along the coast. The earliest known barge was built in the area by John Huggens in 1803.</p><p>These industries flourished during the 19th century when, as a result of the industrial revolution, Sittingbourne developed into a port from which Kent produce was transported to the London markets. Paper mills and brickfields were fed by barges that brought in sand, mud and household waste such as cinders for brick making, and took away the bricks once made.</p><p>During this era over 500 types of barges are believed to have been built, but after World War II, these activities began to fall into a decline, so that only the Burley yard continued with the repair of barges until about 1965. This lack of activity led the creek to become silted and derelict, but the 200-year-old wooden sail loft and forge was later converted to the Dolphin Sailing Barge Museum by a local enthusiast. It has now closed.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><font size="3">&nbsp;<span>Shipbuilding</span></font> <p>One prominent local shipwright was the son of Alfred White who owned a yard at Sittingbourne, and had a barge yard at Blackwall in London during the 1880s where he built Swimhead barges for Goldsmith of Grays in Essex. Alfred Marconi White took over the Conyer yard from John Bird in 1890 after serving his apprenticeship at the Blackwall yard. Conyer, a hamlet of the village of Teynham, once inhabited by the Romans, is found at the head of a small creek between Sittingbourne and Faversham.</p><p>The shipwright John Bird (born 1832) is reputed to be the first of the barge builders to settle at Conyer and records exist for a sailing barge built there in 1866, the year he began his work at the yard. The White family prided themselves in the construction of the fastest barges available locally. Alfred Marconi at his Conyer yard, near brickfields, built many different types of barge. Some continued to exist as house barges well into the 1960s. The last of the many sailing barges was built at the Conyer yard in 1914, but repair works continued well into the 1930s, with several barge yachts built in the 1920s</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Teynham</strong> is a large village in Kent, England, in the district of Swale. It spans the A2 some three miles west of Faversham, and extends north to include the hamlet of Conyer, on an inlet of the Swale, a channel that separates the mainland of Kent from the Isle of Sheppey.</p><p>Origin of Name </p><p>Charters of 798 to 801 <sup><span style="white-space: nowrap">[<em>citation needed</em>]</span></sup> and <em>Domesday Monachorum</em> &mdash; a series of Domesday-related texts kept at Canterbury Cathedral &mdash; mention it as Teneham, Taenham, Tenaham and Tenham, and it is still pronounced &quot;ten-am&quot; with an accent on the first syllable. In Domesday Book the name occurs as &ldquo;Therham&rdquo; (probably a clerical error).</p><p>The historian JK Wallenberg suggests an Anglo-Saxon root, tynan, to enclose, followed by the Anglo-Saxon word &ldquo;Hamm&quot;, a land drained by dykes. Another historian, Eilert Ekwall, suggests an early owner named Teona, whose name is found in Teonan&shy;hyll in Berkshire.</p><p>J Harris, in his <em>History of Kent</em> (1719) calls it the &ldquo;place of ten houses&rdquo; (hams) but there must have been hundreds of places with 10 houses in Anglo-Saxon times.</p><p>It is also possibly &quot;homestead of a man called Tena&quot; or &quot;homestead near the stream called Tene&quot;. Several other etymologies have been suggested but this one appears to be the most correct.</p><p>The &quot;y&quot; in &quot;Teynham&quot; was apparently added by the Roper family, who have been Barons of Teynham from 1616.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

  • Story: Sattin Family Name

    <p>&lt;p&gt;The Sattin ancestory seems to come from a French / Irish heritage. A Frenchman from Brittany, ventured over to England to sell his wares when he met an Irish Lady who was in England picking potatoes. They married and stayed in England.</p><p>There is a a Blayon of Arms, a French Coat of Arms&amp;nbsp;which apparently has a number of reasonn why it shouldn&amp;#39;t be used in England.</p><p>&nbsp;<span>The Blazon of Arms</span></p><p><span>The official, written description of the coat of arms is called the &quot;blazon of arms.&quot; The blazon may seem like a foreign language, but it is simply a system of code words to denote colors, placement, and styling by using an economy of words</span></p>

 
 
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