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Travelling People / Re: REED, HUNT, BROOKS, DEACON
« on: Sunday 19 July 09 17:58 BST (UK)  »
Your rapid reply has sent us to search through our old books etc for the original sources and so far no luck.  We have the reference to Aaron somewhere, please bear with us.  It is a most wandering route through Sussex and Kent that the family tread and we think we have them all.  But some may need a further shake of a branch elsewhere! It is not helped with changes of surnames within a marriage.

We have the witness as Adolphus Nast or Hast.  Florid writing is the death of all searches!

Have not dug out a Bridget Reed that we can remember and your response has sent us through notebooks and other papers of thirty years of searching.  I unfortunately have no-one to talk to now as they have all passed on.

We do know that the surnames Fuggle, Bugden, Finnis, Tree, Dunster, Link, Millen, Ottaway and Smith are joined into this one family.

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Travelling People / Re: REED, HUNT, BROOKS, DEACON
« on: Saturday 18 July 09 19:52 BST (UK)  »
At last someone else researching our line.  Aaron & Eliza are brother and sister, two of the children of Benjamin Baker and Hannah Haffenden or Ovendean, depending on the birth cerificate you look at.  Eliza was born on 20 Oct 1851 & Margarer on 24 Jul 1854, both registered in Sellinge Kent.

John Wilson first appears on 1851 census in Mrs Fulbrooks barn in Dallingtion Sx, with Sarah Wilson, his mother, and Richard Reed, his father?.  He is said to have been born in Westfield Sx and is in the registers there.

Eliza and John marry in 1872 in Tenterden, but in the 1871 census they state they are married (surname Reed) and have a daughter Lydia and three neices surname Baker with them as well. Boarsisle & Birdsisle are what is now known as St Michaels.

John died 3 Feb 1907 and is buried in St Michaels churchyard as John Wilson Reed, also in the grave are Eliza and their daughter Kate (Bugden)

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