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Kent / Re: FAGG - Elmstone
« on: Tuesday 13 August 24 13:57 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for the delving. Her last entry in the book is 1956. She started writing it in Jan 6 1941 when she was 70.
Hopefully, Mark Stephens is united with the book if it works for him.
I gather I have to post a few times to be able to reply 'generally' to people.
Ps the book was donated to Oxfam in Petersfield and I have no idea who donated it or why - which is a real shame but that is what it is like when you are sorting through bags and boxes of books.
Thanks for the help and contacts

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Kent / Re: FAGG - Elmstone
« on: Saturday 10 August 24 16:29 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I work in an Oxfam bookshop and someone donated a book which turns out to be a family history of Edith Chadwick Horner b 1871 who was from the Fagg family.
It is a proper bound book with a spine title of The Place Names of Warwickshire, but when you open it, there is just her handwritten life story on blank pages. I have no idea how that would have worked - maybe she got bookbinder to create it. But why would you do that with that book? 
She started  Jan 6 1941 going back through her family history. In the back is an attached in 'envelope' which, I think has some diary papers.
I have not read through all of her story but I have discovered Frank and Jane Fagg from Canterbury were her parents. She had a sister called Emma Fagg who married (apparently 'awful') Ted/Edward Skinner.
I would love to know how this book came to be created - to just her story - but why Warwickshire Place Names?
Her last entry is 1956 and her first entry if 'to her grandchildren Jan 6 1941 writing of the back history of her family.
So I am happy to send this book to anyone researching this family. Would also love to know whether there is a story here of who she was. Many thanks

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