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Hartley
Quite a few Duke's being found in Hartley, and I would think that they
are all related in some way or other, but I just haven't found the
connection yet, hence the different pages for the all. The other two being
the "Duke of
Kent," and the "Duke's
Head." There is also a "Duke
of York" in Cranbrook.
Just to confuse matters even further, there is another "Hartley"
near Gravesend, and I think there is a pub there called the "Duke
of Cumberland."
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From the Kent Herald, 30 May 1833
Death
On Thursday morning at Hartley in the parish of Cranbrook, Thomas
Sharpe, age 79 years. He was one of a party which accidentally met at
the "Duke William" Public House, Hartley, about two years ago in the
forenoon, there were six in number and all neighbours; their age united
amounted to 476 years. About 18 or 20 years ago, a singular event took
place with regard to this person. He was ill, and he was supposed to be
dead; the body was laid out and covered with a sheet, the windows and
door set open and every preparation on foot for his intended burial. He
was conscious of all that was said and done; and something was said
which he did not forget; but he had no power to move or to speak. If we
are not mistaken in our recollection a young woman went up to look at
him and thought she perceived a finger move. Shortly after he faintly
whispered, Cold, Cold. The windows were closed, he was probably healed
over with the bed clothes and by degrees regained his health and
strength.
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Kent Herald, 31 July 1845.
Cranbrook.
Early on Sunday morning last the premises occupied by Mr. John Underdown, "Duke
William" Public House, at Hartley, in Cranbrook, were feloniously entered by
some person or persons unknown, who stole some bottles containing several
gallons of spirits, a leg of mutton, nearly a whole cheese, some bread, and a
little money from a drawer, with which they decamped, and have hitherto evaded
detection. Several deprecations have been committed in the neighbourhood recently
without a discovery of the delinquent.
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Kentish Gazette. Tuesday 2 August 1864.
Child born under a tent in a lane without assistance.
On Tuesday, and inquest was held at the "Duke William Inn," Hartley,
before W. T. Neve, Esq, coroner, and a respectable jury, of whom Mr.
William Unicume was chosen foreman, touching the death of the female
infant child, aged five days, of Celia Turrent, the wife of Henry
Turrent, a travelling tinman, which was supposed to have died from
suffocation. Judith Kemp, the wife of William Kemp, of Hartley, labourer, deposed
that on the afternoon of the 15th instant, Henry Turrent came to her and
said his wife was in labour up the lane, and asked her to come and see
her; on going she found the mother under a tent by the side of a road;
she told her she had just been delivered; the child was lying at her
feet and exposed to the sun. She then covered the child up. The mother
said she had been delivered a month earlier than she expected; after
doing what was necessary she left the child with the mother. She visited
the mother again on Saturday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, and found the
child going on favourably. The child appeared to fret at times; it was
laid on some straw on the ground. On Thursday morning Turrent came for
her again about six o'clock, and told her the child was dead. She went
to the mother immediately, and found the child lying at the side of its
mother, quite dead. Turrent stated to her that the child died of
convulsions. The parents said they were asleep at the time it died,
there did not appear to have been sufficient straw for the child to have
been smothered, as there was a sheet over the straw. Dr. Jobson depose that on Thursday afternoon, he, with Mr. Easby, made a
post mortem examination of the child. They found no external marks of
violence; the child was very small and might have been a fortnight
before its time. On examining the brain they found the blood vessels
congested, and the brain itself very soft; there was a considerable
quantity of serum covering the brain, being the effect of previous
congestion; the lungs were healthy; in his opinion the congestion of the
brain and consequently effluxion upon the brain, nothing would be so
likely to cause it as the exposure to the sun soon after birth, and the
heat of the tent, and the fact of the birth having been premature, would
cause a child to be susceptible to heat. William Easby, of Cranbrook, assisted to Mr. Deans, corroborating. The jury Returned a verdict, "Died from natural causes." |
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Maidstone Telegraph. 5 June 1869.
Leaving horses on the highway.
William Merritt, wagoner to Mr. White, timber merchant, Maidstone, was
summoned by Superintendent Morgan for leaving a wagon and horses on the
highway, in front of the "Duke William," at Hartley, on the 3rd of May.
Defendant admitted the fact, and further stated that he had done the
same for the past 10 years. He was partaking of refreshments at the
"Duke," whilst his horses were also eating from their nose bags.
The magistrates thought defendant should have left someone in charge of
the horses as they might have run away.
A young man name Waghorn was summoned for a similar offence at the same
time and place.
The Bench fined defendants 2s. 6d. each and 11s costs.
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LICENSEE LIST
UNDERDOWN John 1845+
BRIGLAND Edward 1858+ (also poulterer)
TUFIN William 1862+
TUFFEN/PUFFEN George 1871-74+ (age 70 in 1871 )
MASKELL George 1881-82+ (age 32 in 1881)
VANE Thomas 1891+ (age 55 in 1891)
https://pubwiki.co.uk/DukeWilliam.shtml
Census
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