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Family History Beginners Board / Thomas Matson Kent England
« on: Friday 31 July 09 16:57 BST (UK)  »
I am searching for Thomas Matson.He was my ancestor. He was the father(out of wedlock) of Thomas Sims( my great grandfather), born Brabourne Kent 1815, Alice Simms was the mother. The only piece of information I have found on a Thomas Matson is in the 1841 Westwell Kent census, his age is given as 50 so that makes his dob 1791. The common link is between Thomas Sims's marriage certificate, where he states Thomas Matson was his father and his employment was Brewer and Maltster, and  the 1841 census,  where the employment of the Thomas Matson entered there was also a Maltster. I have checked all the parish records at Brabourne and Westwell but have drawn a blank, no mention of Thomas Matson. I would appreciate help on this one please.

billygeorge

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Gloucestershire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Where is/was SPRING HILL Chipping Campden? COMPLETED
« on: Friday 17 April 09 15:34 BST (UK)  »
Cheers for getting back to me Suecee
I first went to find the lodge last year while on Holiday at Boughton on the Water. Surprising enough I bumped into a farmer in that area who's wife came from Seven Wells farm and remembered the lodge before it was pulled down. She said she would look to see if she had a photo of the old place but as I never heard from her I guess she couldn't find it. The owner of Spring hill House didn't have one ether. I was there again on Easter Monday and had a poke about in what is now a copse of trees. I found some brickwork that supported the idea that the lodge was indeed there.

Mmm if we didn't like a search we wouldn't do the ftree thingy would we!

BG

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Gloucestershire Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Where is/was SPRING HILL Chipping Campden? COMPLETED
« on: Friday 17 April 09 12:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi

My mothers family lived in Spring Hill Lodge in 1851. James Ivins his Wife Mary Ann Ivins. They had 10 children all born in the lodge.
 I live in Yorkshire but have made the journey to see the old lodge. I have an OS map ,1919 Stow on the Wold and District. It shows a small mark on the three lane junction, one of which is the road to Broadway Tower, at the end of the main drive to Spring Hill House. A short distance S/W from Seven Wells Farm.I take this to be the lodge.
The lodge is no longer there. I went to the Spring Hill House and was greeted cordially by the owner. He told me that the lodge was demolished in the 60's, I saw in one of the letters that they mention 1958 so it is quite possibly the same place. He said it was a very small place only a couple of rooms, flagstones on an earthen floor and no water and in his opinion not fit for habitation.
There is mention of dingle lodge in the mails, I wonder if this could be the same place.
There has been a picture uploaded on to a mail but my new membershire seems to exclude me from downloading it.
I would love to see the photo if it is possible to send it to me on

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Billygeorge

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