Southeastern Gazette, 23 August 1853.

Death.

On Wednesday last, at the "Fountain Inn," Seabrook, Cheriton, Mr. John Norwood, formerly of the paper mills, and for many years the respected landlord of the above inn, in his 77th year; the deceased attended to his business till within a few days of his death.

South Eastern Gazette, 27 March, 1860.

HYTHE. Stealing a Watch.

At the County Magistrates’ clerk’s office on Monday, James Glass, drummer in the 47th regiment, stationed at Shornciiffe, was charged with stealing a silver watch and chain, the property of Sergeant Keams, of the Antrim Artillery.

From the evidence it appeared that prosecutor went to the "Fountain Inn," at Seabrook, on Friday week, where he saw the prisoner and some other soldiers, whom he treated with some ale, and went to sleep. On waking up he missed his watch. On the morning of the 17th, the prisoner gave a watch to Patrick McGee, a private of the 47th regiment, telling him he had taken it from prosecutor on the previous night for safety, and he wished Gee to restore it to him. Prisoner now repeated this statement, but was committed for trial.

South Eastern Gazette, Tuesday 26 April 1864.

Coroner's inquest.

On Friday an inquest was held at the "Fountain Inn," Seabrook, before T. T. Delasaux, Esq., coroner, on the body of an infant which had been found in the clothes box of a servant of Lord Radstock, No. 1, Marine Villas. The cook, who has been in Lord Radstock's service about 5 months, had been taken into custody on a charge of concealment of birth. The child, it appears, was born on Monday, and found on Wednesday. The unfortunate mother's statement is that the child was born while she was in a fainting fit, and that when she recovered consciousness the child was dead. Mr. William Howard, surgeon, of Sandgate, who was called in to attend the female and age the child, stated that he could not positively assert that the infant was born alive, although he believed such to have been the case.

A verdict of "Found dead" was returned.

Kentish Gazette 15 June 1869.

HYTHE. Inquest.

An inquest was held at the "Fountain Inn," Seabrook, on Friday last, before T. T. Delasaux, Esq., coroner, on view of the body of a child named Elizabeth Young two years and a half old, whose parents reside at Sea-brook Terrace. From the evidence adduced at the inquest it appeared that on the previous Wednesday, the child’s mother was at home washing. About 4 o’clock in the afternoon, she missed the child, and, on looking where she had got to, found the body of the child in a small iron water tank at the side of the house with only six inches of water in it. Its legs were hanging out of the tank, and the child’s head was underneath the water. The poor child had evidently been amusing herself by playing with the water, and had so overbalanced herself, that she was suffocated. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidentally Drowned.”