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Seasalter
Only one reference found for this at present, and reference made to
Stephen Hunt.
Stephen Hunt was licensee of the "Red
Lion Inn" in Blean between 1841 and at least 1851, and eventually went
on by 1860 to be the first known licensee of the "Rose
in Bloom" also known as the "Cliff
Beerhouse." I am going to say that perhaps those two above mentioned
pubs could have been previously known as the "Ship," although no definite
evidence has yet been found to substantiate those thoughts.
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From the Kentish Gazette, 29 January 1856.
A Tipsy Customer.
Complaint was made of Stephen Hunt, of the "Ship," Seasalter, who was
stated by Mr. George Harrison, of Harrietsham, to be so drunk on the
16th inst., as scarcely to know what he did. Witness and another person
were coming from Whitstable to Canterbury in a light cart, and were
passed by defendant in another, who acted in so strange a way by
preventing their passing him as to occasion their horse to run twice
into the hedge. Defendant was fined 5s. for the offence, and costs £1
1s. 3d.; which having been paid, the bench were about to take the
information of Mr. Harrison for an obstruction of the highway, but the
penalty already inflicted being severe, they thought on reconsideration
that it would be too vindictive to proceed further, and more especially
as another case would be brought against him for injuries sustained by a
poor man on the same occasion. Mr. Harrison also stated that he had no
wish to press his complaints - he hoped that the penalty would be a
warning against a recurrence. It appears that when ahead of complainant,
the defendant ran over a poor man named Couter, and severely injured his
arm and back, for which an action is to be brought into the County
Court, unless the man be compensated.
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Kent Times, 3 May 1862.
St. Augustine’s Petty Sessions, Saturday. (Before William Delmar,
Esq., Capt. Slarke, G. Neame, Esq., and Wm. Plummer, Esq.)
Jemima Hopkins, a charwoman, was brought up in custody on a charge
of stealing half a sovereign from a bed room at the "Ship Inn,"
Seasalter, the property of George Whitnail, the landlord. It
appeared that on the 22nd April, ult., the prisoner was employed at
the "Ship," and taking advantage of her position she opened a drawer
in the bedroom and took the coin.
Thu prisoner pleaded "guilty," and Mr. Fielding, who appeared on her
behalf, addressed the Bench in mitigation of the offence. The Bench
sentenced the prisoner to a month's incarceration with hard labour.
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LICENSEE LIST
HUNT Stephen 1856+
WHITNAIL George 1862+
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