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Hi again
just finding my way round this site-- it appears I can only use the Personal message facility if, as a new member, I have posted 3 times .. so this is the third time so guess I can do it now. All a bit new to me .. I don't even do facebook! think I would get addicted and waste too much precious time.. I'll save that til I am completely immobile.
looked at your link in your first post re the headstones but am surprised no ref to William or Bertha my great grandparents who must have died before the nineteen fifties as I am certain of my memories of tending headstones with my great aunts in St Clements.. I remember the inside of the church very well too.The fact that some of the Doctor Syn movie had been made in the church and the area was high on the excitement list!
I'll try to see how I can PM you later tonight.

HI
Randomly came across your message( and this site) when trying to find my great aunts' bungalow in Old Romney... the bungalow was called BERWIL named after the parents of my two unmarried great Aunts ( sisters) Amelia and Florence Dowle.-- ie Bertha and William Dowle.
 Amelia and Florence's sister was Elsie May Dowle married David Ernest Moore of Brenzett ( very near Old Romney)  their middle child, Avis, was my mother.  I was very close to my maiden Aunts and spent much time as a child and teenager staying with them in the holidays at Berwil.
Bertha and William Dowle are buried in St Clements churchyard ( not sure about Amelia and Florence .. they may have been cremated) I spent quite a lot of time helping Aunt Flo and Aunt Millie in the church and helping to keep the gravestones of William and Bertha ( and possibly other relatives)
 Amelia died in her sixties and Florence continued to live at Berwil until she had a stroke ( I think in her eighties)  She went into a nursing home where the owners persuaded her to sign over her home, contents ( and a large field) to them on condition they stayed in it to look after her until she died! She did come home but didn't live long and that was the last my mother as her only Godchild saw of the house, land and contents.  Long story.. I have been unable to find Berwil .. but that is because it has at some time, perhaps quite a long time ago, been sold along with the land and houses have been built on the site.. it is at least called Dowle Close.
I have some info re dates of birth etc of these Dowles ( as they only had three girls the Dowle line there has stopped but there are a lot of relatives through Elsie May( my beloved Grandma)
William and Bertha lived in the Manor House in Old Romney which I have found sold, I think, in the last year or two so there are photos about on Zoopla etc of this house as it is now etc. I used to think it was their house but recently have begun to think that they probably rented it- it may have been a tied rental as I believe William was in agriculture. When they died Berwil was built for Amelia and Florence- it was a modest three bedroom bungalow.
I'll not say more now as this may not be of interest to you as am not sure .. if these are the Dowles that you are interested in.
it would be good to hear that I have other Dowle relations?
Best Wishes