Family History, Setterfield Chart 0211 James Henry Setterfield and Kate Eleanor Keen

1881 8 Florence Cottages, Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Kent 1894 27 Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent 1901 Not at home with family 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent 1894 41 Queens Street, Ramsgate, Kent 1901 38 Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent Daughter of Alfred KEEN 1901 38 Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent 1901 38 Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent 1901 38 Alexandra Road, St Lawrence, Ramsgate, Kent 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent 1941 An Article where Charles SETTERFIELD Inspector of Police at Herne Bay was involved: DUTCH REFUGEES AT HERNE BAY By Harold Gough Just before 3 in the afternoon on Sunday 23rd November 1941, an unfamiliar small boat drifted towards the shore at Reculver, watched rather apprehensively by local coastguards, who had already alerted Inspector Charles Setterfield at Herne Bay Police Station, in charge of local security. The boat was flying three Dutch flags, but after two years of war suspicion of the unfamiliar and unexpected lay very close to the surface of everyone's mind. As the open boat approached, nine figures could be seen-one a woman of about thirty with dark hair. They, too, looked anxious, unsure of their welcome; uncertain even in what country they were about to make landfall. Finally, as the boat touched land, the nine exhausted voyagers stepped shakily ashore to learn with relief that they had reached a friendly destination. From the reception committee's point of view there were still doubts to be resolved, an the out-of-season tourists were searched and interrogated, and their few belongings removed for further inspection. The story They told was a strange one. The party comprised a young married couple. Abraham and Greta Levi, from Assen in Holland, six single men and a married man who had left his wife and five children behind; all had left occupied Holland to rejoin the war against the Nazis. Two of the men had been in the Royal Netherlands Navy, an three in the Army-one of these had brought hls uniform with him; one who had been born in the Dutch East Indies was anxious to go back here to join his parents who were already there. They were all members of an underground organisation, but were mostly strangers to each other until they received instructions for a rendezvous at the Hook of Holland. There they met one of the ex-soldiers actually a railway engine driver, who managed to steal a German ships lifeboat. ' The traditional destination for vessels from the hook has long been Harwich in Essex, but the journey was to be far from plain sailing. Even the seamen in the party found the navigation equipment rather scanty-a portable compass, and a small scale map of Europe. Before navigation in the open sea became a problem, however, came the matter of getting away from the land. At 8.30 on Thursday evening they were all aboard; then they pushed the boat away and rowed cautiously out of the harbor,fearful of the searchlight mounted at the entrance. Even more frightening must have been the time when two German S-boats swept by close at hand, and it was not until they were w out to sea that they dared to start the petrol engine and head west for England. The journey between the Hook and Harwich is little more than 100 miles, and the car ferries cross in six or eight hours in comfort. The Dutch party in their small open boat drove along trough. the night and all next day, and ran into fog. Than their fuel ran out. In the fog of the November night, no longer under power, the boat was adrift in the North Sea; The crew of anxious passengers rigged a sail, using a canvas hammock, and they drifted slowly on towards the daylight of Saturday, knowing only that they had lost any idea of where they were, just that they were now on a southerly heading. The chief worry was how far west had they gone before they lost their engine and their direction, and where would be their landfall be now. If they missed the English coast on this heading, the next land was France, occupied and unfriendly like their own. In nearly three days they saw no shipping, but not long before they sighted a low coastline an R.A.F,-plane passed overhead, and a report of an unidentifiable small boat was flashed to the authorities on the coast. So on Sunday afternoon their arrival was not altogether unexpected by the Reculver coastguards, although the eight men an one woman still had no way of knowing what reception they could expect-to be shot as escapers by Germans in occupied France-to be held as possible spies by suspicious British authorities perhaps even fired on as potential invaders in the heat of the moment. Finally, they hoisted three Dutch flags and hoped these would be recognised and accepted as indicating friendly arrivals. Inspector Setterfield was abie to reassure them as they stepped on to the beach at Reculver, and after a brief interrogation they were taken under police escort to the Herne Bay Rest Centre in Albany Drive, where they were first given a meal, and then provided with a bed for the night. Later Greta Levi, described by the Evening Standard as 'demure and dark-haired' , said "They gave us a wonderful tea. I shall never forget that tea. We ate so much!" The refugees did not stay long in Herne Bay. Next day they were passed onward to the Free Dutch authorities in England, where they were received by H.M. Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, and each was awarded the Dutch Bronze Cross, before dispersing to join the forces of their choice. A year later. Abraham Levi, who in civilian life had been a wholesale clothing merchant had reached Portmadoc in Wales, by way of the Midlands and Scotland. His wife, Greta, who had also wanted to join the Free Forces had been working with The Dutch Red Cross, was now pregnant, and living with a farming family at Matfield, near Tunbridge Wells, where, by coincidence, there was a maid who came from Herne Bay. Information about the following and details of Charles SETTERFIELD and also the PRICE family was given to me by Mavis BATH on 31st December 2006. The award was for the following: On 31st January 1953, before any warning was given by any authority, Inspector Setterfield, in charge of Herne Bay sub division, realised that there was danger of imminent localised flooding. He turned out all available men and issued door to door notices to vacate the ground floor of all premises. When heavy flooding took place there was no loss of life. This was considered due to Inspector Setterfield's actions. He worked tirelessly in assisting the public and authorities. The BEM was awarded for outstanding services rendered. 1911 45 Alexandra Road Ramsgate, Kent

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