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Hello!

Yep we are related - my great grandad Cyril and your Great Grandma Irene were brother/sister! So that makes us... cousins of some kind? Really exciting to hear from you. Irene I believe was known as Reenie or Aunt Reenie and lived to a grand old age of a 100 or just over, in Northiam, Eas Sussex.

I still live locally, just down the road from Gibbet Oak.

I have your email address courtesy of Ivor Body, I'll drop you a line with my contact details, get in touch it would be great to hear from you.

Richard

Hi All,

I hope you don't mind me replying but after reading your topic, I think I might be looking for some of the same information you are all giving.

Basically, I am doing my family tree for my grandarents, my Great grandma was called Irene Joyce Packham, who was married to Leonard Fredrick Button. Her father was called Edward John Packham (Born 1863) worked as a cowman and mother Harriet Esther Packham nee Bean . I have been looking at the 1911 census (when Irene Joyce was 8 - as was her twin Albert Ernest) and their residence was Little Gibbert, Tenterden, Kent. Additional to this, Irene's older bother Alfred (born 1893) worked as farm labourer. Irene also had other siblings: Reginald (born 1904), Cycil (born 1899) and Florence (born 1895). Do you think this is the same Packham family in which you are all discussing. If so, I would be extremely grateful if you could help me   with whatever information or pictures you have, If you would like to email me my address is email address removed by moderator. Thank you so much.

And the winner is....

Of course I'm teasing. Thank you everyone for all your hard work, I'm amazed at your results! Bill how did you get the hop garden in there? It all goes to remind me how little I know about what my humble pc is capable of. My Mum is going to be over the moon.

So that we can let you all invest your time and effort in someone else's project I think we can consider this particular photo now 'fixed'.

Thank you!

Richard

This is my Nan and Grandad Mary and Dennis Packham. I think it is when they were courting and before they were married. They had quite a romantic story, she was an east end girl from London, he was a country boy who only ever left his small Kent farming town when he went to war in the navy. They met when she came down from London hop picking in the Kent hopfields, and the rest as they say is history... and that's why I'm here! My Mum (their daughter) loves this photo of her Mum and Dad. The damage was caused before we ever owned the photo and I would so like to get the tears filled in for my Mum.

Is it do-able? No colour required, just repair. I appreciate you can't fill in the missing corner but cropped slightly is just fine.

Thank you in advance.

Richard

PS - having just posted the photo and seen it all blown up I realise how bad the damage is. I'm not sure you can do much to disguise those big tears but I dare say it's a challenge if you're brave enough!

Hello

Are you related to Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson born 20 March 1896? Mr Wilson had a long and distinguished career in the British Army retiring as a Major General CB DSO and MC. I believe he had links to the Hampshire area.

In late 1918/early 1919 Mr Wilson was a Major in 57th Battalion, Machine Gun Corp as was my Great Grandfather. Handed down through our family I have a group photo from that time and I am trying to identify the senior officer in the photo who does appear to be wearing the DSO and MC ribbons, which would tie in nicely with Mr Wilson's record at that time.

Can anyone out there find me a photo of TNF Wilson that I can compare to my photo, or if you knew him do you recognise him here?

All responses/ideas/thoughts/suggestions most welcome.

Please also see my other post re John Frederic Roundel Hope (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,618278.0.html) who could also fit the criteria and be the person in the photo.

Best regards

Richard

Hello Mr Body

Thank you for that information it's very interesting. Have you ever seen Gibbet Farm or the Body names on the memorial or in the Graveyard? I'll happily take some and email them to you if you like. Just the other day I was i Ebony Church - tiny little church with a very interesting history (it was originally on a little island, and in the mid 1800's they moved it brick by brick so that it was nearer the congregation!). Anyway, inside the church is a lovely brass plaque commemorating the two Body boys that died in the first world war, and their sister who died in Switzerland in 1909. The church bible is there on the lectern, it's dated 1912, and inside is a little plaque saying it was presented to the Church by Mr and Mrs Body in memory of their daughter who died 1909.

If you send me a private message with your email address I will send you the photos I have and maybe you could send me the one you have of Gibbet Farm and the ploughing?

Thank you for your time. Isn't the internet a wonderful tool for this sort of thing?

Richard