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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Sussex => Topic started by: magswatkins1 on Saturday 25 October 25 20:04 BST (UK)
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GOOD EVENING. Trying to find ancestors who lived in Keynor Lane 1930 - 1944 ( possibly longer) My brother in law’s father grew up here on a farm where his father William Richard Harding was a farm Manager or worked on a farm in Sidlesham and his wife Winifred Ruth Harding ( nee Carey) . 2 other children Shirley E Harding ( married Richard Billingshurst) born May 1938 and Arthur F Harding born 1940. Bert believes all his family were killed in a bombing around 1944 but there is no evidence to suggest this was the case….quite the contrary…although his mother did die in 1945. I wonder if anyone knows anything here of the bombing, family names or otherwise. Many thanks
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Mags, welcome to Rootschat. This "The Lighter Side" board is for incidental chit chat of no consequence.
You might get a better response if you put your query on either the Beginners Board or whatever county board is relevant. I've no idea what county or country the places you mentioned are in.
I don't think you could moved the thread rather than doing another query but a Moderator could so .You could ask.
And you might want to explain who "Bert" is.
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Welcome to RootsChat, Mags :)
Is this Sidlesham?
Sidlesham is a small village and civil parish, on the Manhood Peninsula, five kilometres south of Chichester, West Sussex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidlesham
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Welcome to RootsChat.
In the 1939 register, the HARDING family are at "No 5 Council house Keynor Lane". There seem to be 6 Council houses. William is a farm carter.
I tried to ask a moderator to move this thread to the Sussex board, however the request timed out. I'll try again later.
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Googling Sidlesham, I found this link:
https://www.thenovium.org.uk/sidleshamlsa
It tells of the Land Settlement Associations in the 1930s, a very interesting bit of history. There is photo of some of the men who came to work the smallholdings.
I've seen another link which features a Hardings Lane.
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In 1939 the six council houses on Keynor Lane appear in the order 6-1 following 'Happy Days".
It seems likely that they are the six houses on this large scale map from 1964 with the mysterious label “Cymens Ora”, and with "Happy Days" lying just to the west.
https://maps.nls.uk/view/188737308#zoom=6.1&lat=7237&lon=5764&layers=BT
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Cymenshore was a place in Southern England where, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Ælle of Sussex landed in AD 477 and battled the Britons with his three sons Cymen, Wlencing and Cissa, after the first of whom Cymenshore was held to have been named. The spelling Cymenshore is a scholarly modernisation of the Old English Cȳmenes ōra, which is now lost. Its location is unclear but was probably near Selsey. Wikipedia
I had a look in newspapers for surname Harding and keyword Keynor Lane. Just got someone called Harding of 5 Keynor Lane selling a cwt of seed shallots about 1941.
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None of those Harding names appear in the WW2 Civilian Deaths database on ancestry.
Martin
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Perhaps the family who died in a bombing were more distant relations, who may not have been in Sidlesham?