brewer and brewery proprietor
Richard Marsh
Brewer and brewery proprietor. Leased the brewery in 1678 and bought it in 1698. Bought The Three Tuns and The Castle as distribution outlets.
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brewer and business steward
Mary Marsh
Brewer and business steward. Used her own brewing knowledge to preserve the business after her first husband's death.
brewer and proprietor
Samuel Shepherd
Brewer and proprietor. Took over the brewery after marrying Mary in 1732. Retired to Great Mongeham in 1755.
brewer
Julius Shepherd
Brewer. Worked at the brewery for 65 years. Introduced steam power there in 1789.
brewer and successor
Henry Shepherd
Brewer and successor. Succeeded Julius and sold the business to Henry Jr and Charles Jones Hilton in 1844.
brewery partner
John Henry Mares
Brewery partner. Joined Henry Shepherd Jr as partner in 1848; partnership invested in brewery modernization before Mares died in 1864.
brewery partner and proprietor
Percy Beale Neame
Brewery partner and proprietor. Joined the business in 1864 and became sole proprietor in 1875. His ten children became shareholders when the company incorporated in 1914.
brewery managing director
Harry Neame
Brewery managing director. Joined with brothers Arthur and Alick around 1895; became sole managing director after their deaths in 1916.
brewery family member
Arthur Neame
Brewery family member. Joined the brewery with his brothers; died of pneumonia in 1916.
brewery family member
Alick Neame
Brewery family member. Joined the brewery with his brothers; died in 1916, three months after Arthur.
brewery chairman
Robert (Bobby) Neame
Brewery chairman. Joined in 1956, became chairman, and stepped down in 2005.
brewery production director and managing director
Colin Neame
Brewery production director and managing director. Joined in 1959, became production director in 1961 and managing director in 1971.
brewery chief executive
Jonathan Neame
Brewery chief executive. Joined in 1991 and became chief executive in 2003.
merchant and brewer in the earlier brewery-site history
William Castlock
Merchant and brewer in the earlier brewery-site history. Shepherd Neame's history describes him as a merchant and brewer.
brewer
John Castlock I
Brewer. Shepherd Neame's history calls him the first person to be named a beer brewer in Faversham.
brewer and mayor of Faversham
John Castlock II
Brewer and mayor of Faversham. Recorded in Shepherd Neame's account as brewing at 18 Court Street in 1573. The account says he was mayor in 1588 and helped equip a ship, The Hazard, for local defence.
Person in an independent source record
Ann Neame
Named in a Faversham tithe transcription as owner/occupier of Chalk Pit Cottage and occupier at Homestale Farm; record date undetermined.
Person in an independent source record
Charles Neame (Faversham tithe record)
Named as occupier of several agricultural parcels and Ewell House in the Faversham tithe transcription; record date undetermined.
Person in an independent source record
Mary Neame / Mary Gibbs
Daughter of Austin and Mary Neame of Garrington according to Ickham monument transcription; wife of Richard Gibbs; died 1812 aged 70.
Person in an independent source record
John Neame of Garrington (d. 1849)
Ickham memorial transcription records his wife Elizabeth and eight children; two sons died at Calcutta and son John was buried at St Dunstan's Canterbury.
Person in an independent source record
John Neame of Lower Gassington (d. 1817)
Memorial transcription says he was eldest son of Austin and Mary Neame and gives his Littlebourne association.
Person in an independent source record
Austin Neame, Major, 98th Regiment
Identified in Ickham inscription as third son of John Neame of Lower Gassington; died 1862 aged 73.
Person in an independent source record
John Neame of Selling
Named by Greenwood as resident at Selling Court; KAS church-plate article identifies him as father of Edward Neame and donor of Selling church plate.
Person in an independent source record
Edward Neame of Selling Court
Gave silver vessels for Boughton-under-Blean church’s 1871 reopening. The article identifies him as son of John Neame, donor of Selling church plate. Died in 1887.
Person in an independent source record
Thomas Neame
Greenwood's 1838 survey says the late Thomas Neame built Luton House in 1806; current heritage listing gives a different chronology.
Person in an independent source record
George Neame (Canterbury mayoral list)
A name in Canterbury’s official mayoral history. Identity across abbreviated and full entries remains unresolved.
Person in an independent source record
Sir Thomas Neame
Named as depositor of a substantial collection of Selling deeds at Kent Archives; relationship to other Neames not established by accession notice.
Person in an independent source record
Lieutenant Philip Neame, VC
Royal Engineers officer awarded the Victoria Cross for action near Neuve Chapelle in December 1914.
Person in an independent source record
Lt Col Philip Neame (Falklands)
Later British Army officer and D Company 2 PARA commander during the Falklands War; kept separate from the VC recipient absent kinship evidence.
Person in an independent source record
Ronald Neame
Film director whose oral histories identify filmmaker Elwin Neame and actress Ivy Close as his parents.
Person in an independent source record
John Neame (married Joane Mockett, 1543)
Earliest Neame bearer located in a Kent searchable transcript in this pass; original register not checked.
Member of a documented film family
Elwin Neame
Ronald Neame’s oral-history materials identify his father Elwin as a filmmaker.
Member of a documented film family
Ivy Close
Ronald Neame’s oral-history materials identify his mother Ivy Close as an actress.