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In this topic, you will find information about lots of people who are living in Wivenhoe at present or who have lived here and made the place what it is today.

50 Years of Playing the Organ at St Mary's
The celebration of Graham Wadley's achievement as Organist and Choirmaster over 50 years - 25th April 2015
About Emily Jane Chidwick
A VAD Nurse during WW1
About John Forsdick
Born 15th June 1929 - and died 20th January 2016
About Lt. Commander Leonard Cockrell DSO
Born 1874 at East Mersea Hall, came to Wivenhoe before 1914 and died December 1958
About the Mary Ann Sanford almshouses in Rebow Road
Wivenhoe's first almshouses were built in Rebow Road by Mary Ann Sanford in 1873. Who was she and who were the first residents?
About the Rebow Almshouses and Mary Ann Sanford
The building of the Almshouses in 1873
About the Sanford Family and their Legacy
They were a significant family in Wivenhoe from the mid 1700s to the late 1800s.
About the Wivenhoe Memories Exhibitions
Run by John Stewart for many years
About William Sanford b. 1749 -1830
Article written by John Leather - From the Essex County Standard. 28 April 1961
Alexander Kay Barlow
Taken inside Wivenhoe Hall
An early resident of the Mary Ann Sanford almshouses - Mary Ann COLE
About Mary Ann Cole who died in 1882 aged 78
Anna Maria Turner - An early resident of the Mary Ann Sanford Almshouses
About Anna Maria Turner (nee Ellis) who died in 1892
Arthur Shead
On board the Seamaid
Bawtree/Hawkins Family Connection
The family's connections to Wivenhoe
Benjamin Stacey
Warehouse on the Quay
Berkley Sainty
Berkley Sainty, grandson of Philip Sainty
Bill Sadler
Had the little second-hand shop in Station Road
Bill's Model Boats
Bill Ellis made replicas of boats built in the Wivenhoe yards
Births, Marriages and Deaths in Wivenhoe
Transcriptions of the registers from 1560 from Wivenhoe St. Mary the Virgin Parish Church
Brian Anderton
Lived the last years of his life in Wivenhoe
Cllr Bill Sparrow
The retirement of Cllr Bill Sparrow from Wivenhoe Town Council
Daryl Williamson: Childhood Memories - A Wivenhoe Lad in the 1960s
By Daryl Williamson of Queens Road
Dr Wiliam Dean, Doctor in Wivenhoe for nearly 50 years (died Feb 1996)
Dr Dean was the principal doctor in Wivenhoe from 1935, retired 1984
Elsie Emma Harlow
A Wivenhoe nurse in Malta in 1915
The Gooch Family (2)
The Havens Family (6)
People Interviewed for the Story of Wivenhoe (54)
People who served in WW1 (5)
Other People (66)
The Corsellis Family (10)
The de Veres (2)
The Rebows and the Martins (16)

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