The Miller family of the North Kent Coast.

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Kent, England, United Kingdom
Surnames/tags: miller England_coast_guard England_fisherman

Contents 1 Family notes 1.1 Mutrixs and Raucorn 2 Family notes, cont 2.1 Organisation of the fishing 3 Family notes, cont

Family notes

Thomas Miller Married Sarah,
Issue
John Miller
Portswood Hampshire
Occupation, Mariner.
Married Elizabeth Neal, 2/1/1827,
St Marys Church, Corner of St Marys Road and Fratton Road, Portsea.
Issue:
John Edward, Christened 24/10/1824
Henry William Miller
Occupation Mariner/Coast Guard
Residing Chatham 1859
Seasalter Main Street in 1861-4
Reculvers in 1866
Epple Bay Cottage Birchington in 1871
4 York Terrace Birchington in 1881
6 St Mildred’s Terrace Westgate in 1901
Occupation General Labourer by 1881
Coast Guard Pensioner by 1901
Married Amelia Broad, 4/Q 1859, B C1835 of Wadebridge, Cornwall, D 10/1908.
Daughter of Richard Broad, & Mary Beer.
Died: 3/1920

Henry William Miller in 1861, whilst in the Coastguard Service.
Seasalter Marsh Street, Coast Guard in 1861 until '64. There were two Seasalter Coastguard Stations To the east was Seasalter Cliff station on the seaward side of the railway opposite Seasalter Road (now Joy Road) on what is now Admiralty walk. The other was to the west of Seasalter village at Graveny marshes. The dwellings in Seasalter in the 19th C were very thinly distributed, however a review of the census transcript indicates that when the enumerator visited Henry William occupied the second to last of the last two dwellings on the end of coastguard station. This was the Seasalter station to the west of Seasalter. The enumerator continued walking east to the Blue Anchor public house (now the Oyster Pearl) on what is now Faversham Road and then continued along Faversham Road to the south. It is possible that one of the Coastguard station cottages still exists at 414 Faversham road, close by the Seasalter Sailing Club the other has been rebuilt as a bungalow at 416, they have given their name to the Coastguard Caravan Park.

Issue:
Walter Edward Miller Ref. 7 to 11
Occupation Plumbers Apprentice 1881
Fisherman 1901
8 Essex Road, Westgate in 1901
Residence Princess Terrace, Westgate 1911 Married Emily Eliza Hall, 4/Q 1890,
Bapt 17/05/1869, 8 Seymour St, Deptford London
Died: 12/1959
Issue:
William Walter, 28/01/1893, Mutrix Garlinge

Mutrixs and Raucorn

Mutrix Garlinge was a small hamlet attached to a farm to the north of the railway line north of the village of Garlinge. Both are about midway between Westgate and Margate, Thanet, Kent.
They appear on the OS 6inch survey of 1896 – 1899. https://maps.nls.uk/view/101428782 The hamlet is so small that there are only two groups of buildings, the farm complex, and one other warren of eight buildings around a yard off Westbrook Road at about current houses 137 to 139.
Raucorn Road is on the western extremity of Westbrook. It would appear to have taken its name from a farm on the corner of Raucorn Road facing east.

Family notes, cont

William Walter Miller
Able Seaman, H M Trawler Magnolia II, 1917
8 Essex Road, Westgate
Occupation Fisherman
Married Jennie Rose Robbins, at Willesden 25/12/1917, B 3/1/1894 Marylebone. D 1949
Died: 10/1987

Organisation of the fishing

The five boats were laid up on the Promenade at St Mildreds Bay, and were worked from the beach in the bay and from Margate harbour, Derek Coombe, writing in Fishermen from the Kentish Shore, Published by Meresborough Books, 17 Station Road, Rainham, Kent 1989. ISBN 0948193409, published several pages on the Margate-Westgate fishing with a description of the families herring punt Edith Mary with a photo, a photo of the family’s skiff Joken on her pole truck, discussion of the different uses that the boats were put to, and other relevant photos. In addition to Joken and Edith Mary the Jessamine was a big heavily built pitch pine clinker punt.
The fishing gear was stored in beach huts on the promenade at St Mildred’s Bay, in a row of huts towards the back of the prom. Jack Edward remembered the family, probably Walter Edward, keeping a billy goat to pull a small cart for deliveries around Wesgate. The billy did not like splashing through puddles, so would jump over them, cart and all. Jack also remembers William Walter taking the family of one of the big hoteliers on trips to France in Edith Mary. They were not averse to smuggling tobacco hidden behind the punts cieling on these trips.
The Westgate fishing community used to meet in the Tap Room of the Walmer Castle Hotel to divvy up the weeks profits, each family business taking their turn to transact their business.

Family notes, cont

Issue:
Jack Edward Miller
Cpl, RAFUR, 5/5/44 – 1/10/47 France & Germany
54 Weston Rd, Cliftonville, Kent
Occupation Pattern Cutter
26 Caldicote Rd, Eynesbury Hunts
Occupation Factory management
Married Audrey Dorothea Sparkes, nee Collins, at St Johns the Baptist, Margate 23/10/1948,
B 24/03/1922, D 4/6/2004.
Died 19/3/2005
Issue:
Nicholas Paul, B 30/05/1950, Margate
4 Lowther Cres, Barrow in Furness
Occupation Naval Architect
Married Shona Doreen Bankhead, B 11/11/1951'
Issue:
Duncan Ewan, B 05/04/1979
Gordon Edward, B 21/06/1982, D 21/12/1988
Kirsty Fiona, B 13/08/1990