« Reply #9 on: Sunday 02 September 07 20:50 BST (UK) »
Thanet is a notional island containing most of East Kent and including Canterbury, Sandwich, Ramsgate, Margate etc.
Not quite accurate!
The Isle of Thanet was once an island, separated from East Kent by the Wantsum - a 2-mile wide strait from Reculver in the north to Richborough in the south (now silted up). It included Ramsgate, Margate and the surrounding area, but not Sandwich or Canterbury.
Thanet District includes the parishes of Acol, Birchington, Broadstairs and St.Peters, Cliffsend, Manston, Minster, Monkton, and St. Nicholas-at-Wade with Sarre.
For a more detailed explanation, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanet_(district) Regards, Bill
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA