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Some Special Interests => Travelling People => Topic started by: e.livingstone on Thursday 17 November 11 14:04 GMT (UK)
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Hi I am trying to trace my grandfathers ancestors but havent got much to go on! i hope someone can help!!!
Heres what i know
Jimmy, shirley, sylvia, walter, benjamin (my grandfather b:maidstone 1933 d: hastings 1988) and annie. Parents Benjamin Eastwood and Elizabeth Emmitt.
benjamin eastwood senior parents are James R Eastwood (b: approx 1882) living gypsy encampment Chatham Kent James Eastwood - Head of House, 19yrs, Clothes Peg Maker, born Blackwater Surrey. Betsy Eastwood - Wife, 19yrs, born Hastings.
they had the following children Benjamin, jack, noah,obe, walter and james who i believe married Fanny Arnold.
Sorry very basic
hope someone can help!!!
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Hi and welcome
It will be worth looking at www.freebmd.org.uk to see if you can find births for any of the children you mention and then you will get the mother's maiden name for all those born after 1911.
Andrea
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Hi and welcome to Rootschat
Parents Benjamin Eastwood and Elizabeth Emmitt
Your late fathers birth reg shows the spelling as Emmett. However - although your father was born 1933 - his parents didn't marry until 1941
Marriages June qtr 1941
Benjamin Eastwood/Betsy Emmett Chatham 2a 3723
Re: James R Eastwood - have you checked the 1911 census for the family?
Births December qtr 1917
Noah Eastwood mothers maiden name Jones Maidstone 2a 1214
A possible birth for Betsy Emmett
Births December qtr 1909 Betsy Emmett Brentford 3a 72
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you may have found what you have been looking for but there was a family of Emmetts/Hemmet/Emmit who originated from Essex but changed their surname to Lee around the early 1900's if it's any help
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Fantastic! Thanks for both your replies I can start the search again now!
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I used to go to the same school as noah and my girlfreinds sister used to go out with jimmy..eastwoods are from white road estate chatham
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I used to go to the same school as noah
Noah was born in 1917 so cannot be the same person - must be a later generation
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I may be able to help my husband is noah eastwood his father was noah eastwood off darling banks his fathers brbtothers were ben walter jimmy sisters lena annie genty his gran was bettsy also had brother obie and sister fanny and ada he is in his late 70s now was known as ponky
Hope this might put you on right track he knows more than me
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Having worked things out your grandad and my husband were 1st cousins there parents were brothers
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Hi Franflower,
Welcome to RootsChat :) I am very sorry but e.livingstone's email address has stopped working and we have been unable to notify him of your new reply :'(
Sarah
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Hi my mother ada lived on darling bank with her mother ,her name was Ada Eastwood , then she married George beaney, James and Betsy were my mother's grand parents , hope this helps , my name is Hodger Hilden
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Hello all. Now am I to be correct in believing Betsy Eastwood is Elizabeth Emmet/Hilden/Lee, my 2nd grandfather Moses sister? 1864-1946
It would be helpful is so as I've little to no family info on her as a grt aunt.