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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: ELLIOTTs in Faversham area
« on: Monday 01 September 14 18:21 BST (UK)  »
What exactly do you want to know, and what do you know already?   We may be able to help
Arthur Percival   for the Faversham Society (please email ticfaversham [-- at --] btconnect.com, marking the email for my attention) 

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One Name Studies: N to S / Re: Saxby around london and down towards sussex
« on: Sunday 02 January 11 19:55 GMT (UK)  »
Just to intervene, I'm afraid probably in an unhelpful way, we in Faversham are interested in a William Saxby who in the 1860s seems to have been the town's first professional photographer.   The name isn't a local one, and I seem to recollect that indeed it's most an East Sussex one.

Having said this, a couple of Saxbys worked in the local gunpowder industry in the later C18 and early C19.   Maybe the first was poached from the Battle/Sedlescombe factory.   You can find a direct address for me if you go to www.faversham.org and look for the Tourist Information Centre.

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Susan

Yes, 'tis I, still with my nose to the grindstone.   You know how to get in touch direct, when you have time.

Paul

Another, much later, local-ish Cork, Frederick George, was fined £2 in 1916 for taking matches into one of the local explosives factories.    He was living at Shalmsford Street, Chartham, about 6 miles from Faversham.    More details if you get in touch direct via the Faversham TIC, as suggested.

Best wishes to both

Arthur Percival

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Paul

It may or may not be relevant, but a Richard Cork was killed in a gunpowder explosion in Faversham on 16 January 1810.   He was aged 39, his wife was Catherine, and he had had a daughter Deborah by her.

Susan

I see you are interested in Bodeker.   In the same vein, several of the family were involved in the Faversham explosives industry in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

If either of you want to know more, please contact me at the Faversham Tourist Information Centre for which addresses are available on the Faversham website www.faversham.org

Arthur

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Kent / Re: GILLHAM JOSEPH
« on: Tuesday 21 September 10 15:15 BST (UK)  »
As you may have discovered, there is a secluded Gilham's Cottage near Wingfield Farm, which lies partly in Eastling and partly in Stalisfield.   More generally, could I suggest you have a look at the Faversham website www.faversham.org. and see what is on offer.

Yasmar49

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Hampshire & IOW Lookup Requests / Re: Look up please! John cock newnham 1740ish??
« on: Monday 06 September 10 20:05 BST (UK)  »
Which Newnham?    There are several in the UK.

Yasmar 49

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Kent Lookup Requests / Re: Harper - Court in Maidstone or Doddington
« on: Tuesday 17 August 10 11:36 BST (UK)  »
We have names and addresses for other COURT sleuths, should these  be of interest.    If so, please contact me at email address removed by moderator - please use the secure Rootschat personal message system to exchange email addresses - thankyou

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Kent / Re: Susan RAYNOR ca. 1610 nr. Faversham..who was she?
« on: Sunday 15 August 10 17:44 BST (UK)  »
I can't answer your question, but a Thomas Sayer (sic), who died in 1539, owned - at his death - 3 houses in West Street, Faversham, 1 in Tanners Street, Faversham, and 1 in Sturry.   He was probably a tanner.    See "Thomas Arden in Faversham", by Patricia Hyde & Duncan Harrington, p 407.   There are other references to him in this book. 

Best wishes

Yasmar49

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Travelling People / Re: Stephen Hughes and Jane Swinyard from Faversham
« on: Thursday 29 July 10 09:51 BST (UK)  »
RRom

Many thanks for swift response and I look forward to hearing from you further.   If you have any other information, it might be helpful.   A Roma (Richard Boswell) has a shop in Faversham and I'm hoping to persuade him to write about our local legacy.   The Faversham Society belongs to one of the Roma family history societies, which publishes an excellent newsletter - which you may know?

Best wishes

Arthur

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