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Gloucestershire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Hickes from Stone lookup
« on: Tuesday 27 September 11 23:45 BST (UK) »
HI Kath,
Where are you based. Are you in UK or OZ? I would be happy to send picture and will arrange for it but do you have direct email. I acquired the powder horn from a retired and elderly schoolmaster who lived in Pacific Harbour area and who was a collector of seashells as was I. I visited him one day many years back to exchange shells as one does and he produced the horn with the name F Hickes 1883 etched into it. He told me he had previously lived in Lautoka, presumably when he was active in education, and said he had found it beneath the floor boards of his then home during a major renovation. Could that have been his original home I wonder? I later looked his name up in the Colonial resdency records held at the High Commission and discovered one F Hickes was registered as a European national in Western Fiji, (not sure where exactly now as it was a while ago) I kept it but was considering to give it to the Fiji Museum which was run by an acquaintance of mine. They had some settlers horn objects and in any case it would not have been displayed so I kept it. I researched his name on the internet recently. I often wondered about its history and about the person whom I assumed because of his name was some sort of settler maybe in the copra industry or sugar farming. I note his descendants are related to the Pickerings and Simpsons I believe and possibly Whippys. If it could only talk. A good tale in it and a book I guess. Regards Guntop....
Where are you based. Are you in UK or OZ? I would be happy to send picture and will arrange for it but do you have direct email. I acquired the powder horn from a retired and elderly schoolmaster who lived in Pacific Harbour area and who was a collector of seashells as was I. I visited him one day many years back to exchange shells as one does and he produced the horn with the name F Hickes 1883 etched into it. He told me he had previously lived in Lautoka, presumably when he was active in education, and said he had found it beneath the floor boards of his then home during a major renovation. Could that have been his original home I wonder? I later looked his name up in the Colonial resdency records held at the High Commission and discovered one F Hickes was registered as a European national in Western Fiji, (not sure where exactly now as it was a while ago) I kept it but was considering to give it to the Fiji Museum which was run by an acquaintance of mine. They had some settlers horn objects and in any case it would not have been displayed so I kept it. I researched his name on the internet recently. I often wondered about its history and about the person whom I assumed because of his name was some sort of settler maybe in the copra industry or sugar farming. I note his descendants are related to the Pickerings and Simpsons I believe and possibly Whippys. If it could only talk. A good tale in it and a book I guess. Regards Guntop....