I cannot answer that one Graham as I have no idea, the tree was not done by me but by the aunt of my wifes ex who recently died so cannot even check for you. But most of the Purkiss family lived in Minstead and there are a few graves at the churchyard to them Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 4:04 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 Hello again Chris, Can you advise if I am correct in assuming that Moses and Ruth Purkiss lived all their lives in Minstead ? Just filling in birth & death locations. Best wishes, Graham. ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Chris & Caroline Sent: Sun 6/24/2007 2:27 PM To: [shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 Soffe is a popular name in the New Forest area Jack. My wifes ex husband was a PURKISS and there are one or two SOFFEs in his tree one is Moses PURKISS (1720-1794) m. Ruth SOFFE 25.12 1746 Ruth died in 1816. DENNIS BROOMFIELD (IVAN ALBERT, EMILY PURKESS, MOSES), MOSES was born 05 March 1934 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England. He married MARILYN SHEILA JOY SOFFE 31 March 1956 in Cadnam, Hampshire, England, daughter of EDWARD SOFFE and PHYLLIS HUTCHINS. She was born 30 November 1934 in Minstead, Hampshire, England. Minstead is also in the New Forest Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk <http://southernlife.org.uk/> History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches ----- Original Message ----- From: "[shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching]" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:22 AM Subject: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 I wonder if anyone has access to the Bramshaw PRs. My local LDS library has closed until September. Abraham PRINCE married Ursula Soffe, 27 Jan 1777, Bramshaw. I wonder if there is any indication of the age of the bride or groom, possibly name of parents or witnesses. Were they both from Bramshaw? Thanks, Jack ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk <http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk/> ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk <http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk/> ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you Chris for the information regarding Army units on the Southampton Common 1944-45. It is most helpful. Regards, Syd

Hello again Chris, Can you advise if I am correct in assuming that Moses and Ruth Purkiss lived all their lives in Minstead ? Just filling in birth & death locations. Best wishes, Graham. ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Chris & Caroline Sent: Sun 6/24/2007 2:27 PM To: [shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 Soffe is a popular name in the New Forest area Jack. My wifes ex husband was a PURKISS and there are one or two SOFFEs in his tree one is Moses PURKISS (1720-1794) m. Ruth SOFFE 25.12 1746 Ruth died in 1816. DENNIS BROOMFIELD (IVAN ALBERT, EMILY PURKESS, MOSES), MOSES was born 05 March 1934 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England. He married MARILYN SHEILA JOY SOFFE 31 March 1956 in Cadnam, Hampshire, England, daughter of EDWARD SOFFE and PHYLLIS HUTCHINS. She was born 30 November 1934 in Minstead, Hampshire, England. Minstead is also in the New Forest Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk <http://southernlife.org.uk/> History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches ----- Original Message ----- From: "[shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching]" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:22 AM Subject: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 I wonder if anyone has access to the Bramshaw PRs. My local LDS library has closed until September. Abraham PRINCE married Ursula Soffe, 27 Jan 1777, Bramshaw. I wonder if there is any indication of the age of the bride or groom, possibly name of parents or witnesses. Were they both from Bramshaw? Thanks, Jack ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk <http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk/> ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk <http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk/> ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Sadly Sid I cannot find out what units were on the Common at that time, but it was the gathering place for a lot of US units prior to D-Day and was one huge camp. This little piece is from a BBC People at War page "Our next move which came sometime in April 1944, was to Camp 21 on Southampton Common which had been transformed, like much of southern England, into a vast military camp holding thousands of troops and vehicles. It was surrounded by high coils of barbed wire and patrolled by police, both civil and military. Even before it was sealed in late May, access to and from the common was severely restricted with passes required to leave and enter -1 still have one permitting me to leave on signals duty, actually to operate a military switchboard located in a house adjacent to the common. As a highly trained wireless operator, my skills were put to good use riding about the common on a bicycle delivering weighty missives, marked "Overlord, Top Secret", to various unit commanders against signature. A military postman! In May, we took part in the last pre-invasion exercise codenamed "Fabius" providing line and radio communications for a monitoring team based on Hayling Island - a task not entirely dissimilar to that we later performed in the Normandy beachhead, albeit without the noise and fireworks! Here, for the first time we sampled 24 Hour Assault Ration Packs - small brown boxes containing 4,000 calories of concentrated food. We also had cans of self-heating soup, water sterilising tablets and a small "Tommy" cooker for brewing up in our mess-tins. A letter home , enclosing a press cutting about these packs, stating that I had sampled these rations was cut out - literally - by a base censor - by this time all our mail was censored, some by our unit officers, some by a base censor for greater privacy. During exercise "Fabius" we heard a rumour that a number of bodies of GIs had been washed up along the south coast - the story was that some GIs had disemberked from landing-craft in deep water and had drowned. Probably a deliberately leaked rumour for it was not until long after the war that the full truth emerged. A convoy of landing-craft containing thousands of GIs, sailing from Plymouth, had been attacked by German E-boats; two large LSTs (Landing Ship Tanks) had been sunk with the loss of some 700 lives and many more injured. Soon after "Fabius" all the embarkation camps were sealed with no one allowed in or out. Our advance party remained in Southampton, the rest of us were moved, in convoy under guard, to Camp R7 near Felixstowe" http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/69/a2001169.shtml Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches ----- Original Message ----- From: "SydHockey" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:22 AM Subject: [ENG-HANTS] ARMY Hello Everybody, I wonder if any one would know the name of the Regiment that was stationed on the SOUTHAMPTON COMMON 1944-45. Thank you, syd ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Soffe is a popular name in the New Forest area Jack. My wifes ex husband was a PURKISS and there are one or two SOFFEs in his tree one is Moses PURKISS (1720-1794) m. Ruth SOFFE 25.12 1746 Ruth died in 1816. DENNIS BROOMFIELD (IVAN ALBERT, EMILY PURKESS, MOSES), MOSES was born 05 March 1934 in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England. He married MARILYN SHEILA JOY SOFFE 31 March 1956 in Cadnam, Hampshire, England, daughter of EDWARD SOFFE and PHYLLIS HUTCHINS. She was born 30 November 1934 in Minstead, Hampshire, England. Minstead is also in the New Forest Chris SOUTHERN LIFE(UK) http://Southernlife.org.uk History of the Hampshire, Dorset and IOW Villages,Towns and Churches ----- Original Message ----- From: "[shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching]" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:22 AM Subject: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE / SOFFE marriage Bramshaw 1777 I wonder if anyone has access to the Bramshaw PRs. My local LDS library has closed until September. Abraham PRINCE married Ursula Soffe, 27 Jan 1777, Bramshaw. I wonder if there is any indication of the age of the bride or groom, possibly name of parents or witnesses. Were they both from Bramshaw? Thanks, Jack ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Everybody, I wonder if any one would know the name of the Regiment that was stationed on the SOUTHAMPTON COMMON 1944-45. Thank you, syd

I wonder if anyone has access to the Bramshaw PRs. My local LDS library has closed until September. Abraham PRINCE married Ursula Soffe, 27 Jan 1777, Bramshaw. I wonder if there is any indication of the age of the bride or groom, possibly name of parents or witnesses. Were they both from Bramshaw? Thanks, Jack

I know this may be a bit off topic but I'm hoping one of you may be to help with some RN knowledge or refer me on One of my ancestors joined the RN as a Boy Seaman at the age of 14 - would he have needed to have his parents' permission or another adult if his parents were dead ? Was enlistment as a Boy the same as becoming an apprentice? Hope someone may be able to help Thanks Beryl

I am looking for a baptism for a female OLIVER child born about 1833 to parents JOHN OLIVER and HARRIET MATTHEWS in the parish of Church Oakley. In the 1841 census it has the name Emmela aged 8 and a female. The name could be Emma or Emily or Amelia and she could have died prior to 1851. Any help would be very grateful. Thanks Kellie-ann No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.4/860 - Release Date: 21/06/2007 5:53 PM

>From: "Barry O'Donnell" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ENG-HANTS] new lister >Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:57:35 +1000 > >hi everyone > >I am new to this site and would like to list my interests :- >HICKS >DALE >BROWN >VICKARS/ERS > >These families are in the Ringwood, Holdenhurst,Throop and Christchurch >areas in Hampshire . > >If I am not on the right site please could SKS be able to guide me to the >correct mail address.Thanks. > >I have found a Charles Hicks born c1778 Ringwood married to a Jane [nee >Dale] on the 1851 census >,but I wondered if anyone has access to the 1841 census,and please would >you be able to look them up and forward the page to me.I will be so >grateful, Thanks. > >I also have not got a copy of the 1851 census and if it isn't too much >trouble, please could I have that image too. > >Also I have a Richard Dale Hicks[ also known as Dale Hicks] born in 1843 at >Throop. [grandson of Charles Hicks] he would be about 18/19 yrs. old on the >1861 census and on his own [???] would there be anyone who has this census >and could locate him for me?He was in Portsea in 1868. He was left behind >as >a 9 yr old child when his parents and siblings sailed to Australia. They >never saw him again.I would be so grateful for any help as I am really >exited about my tree. Thanks in anticipation > >regards Maureen. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Advertisement: Ministry of Sound's Sessions 4 has arrived. Have a listen! >http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=788&referral=hotmailtagline&URL=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/playlist.aspx?sectionid=2465&sectionname=artistfeature&subsectionid=9961&subsectionname=sessions4&categoryid=2602 > > >............................................. >Want to contact the local community? >Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings >http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk >............................................. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Win prizes worth over $250,000 in ninemsn's Gold Rush! http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=789&referral=HotmailTagline&URL=http://goldrushgame.ninemsn.com.au

I hope someone can point me in the right direction for an answer on this one - One of my ancient rellies signed on as a Boy Seaman in the RN in 1837 when he was 14 years old - would he have needed to get a parent's signature? - I imagine the rules might have beem similar to those for Apprentices but I'm not sure. If both his parents were dead would some other adult have been rquired to sign? I know this isn't really Hampshire but I am sure there is someone with some specialised Royal Navy knowledge that might be able to help - or at least refer me elsewhere Many thanks Beryl

hi everyone I am new to this site and would like to list my interests :- HICKS DALE BROWN VICKARS/ERS These families are in the Ringwood, Holdenhurst,Throop and Christchurch areas in Hampshire . If I am not on the right site please could SKS be able to guide me to the correct mail address.Thanks. I have found a Charles Hicks born c1778 Ringwood married to a Jane [nee Dale] on the 1851 census ,but I wondered if anyone has access to the 1841 census,and please would you be able to look them up and forward the page to me.I will be so grateful, Thanks. I also have not got a copy of the 1851 census and if it isn't too much trouble, please could I have that image too. Also I have a Richard Dale Hicks[ also known as Dale Hicks] born in 1843 at Throop. [grandson of Charles Hicks] he would be about 18/19 yrs. old on the 1861 census and on his own [???] would there be anyone who has this census and could locate him for me?He was in Portsea in 1868. He was left behind as a 9 yr old child when his parents and siblings sailed to Australia. They never saw him again.I would be so grateful for any help as I am really exited about my tree. Thanks in anticipation regards Maureen. _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Ministry of Sound's Sessions 4 has arrived. Have a listen! http://ninemsn.com.au/share/redir/adTrack.asp?mode=click&clientID=788&referral=hotmailtagline&URL=http://music.ninemsn.com.au/playlist.aspx?sectionid=2465&sectionname=artistfeature&subsectionid=9961&subsectionname=sessions4&categoryid=2602

Hi Maureen, Images for 1841, 1851, 1861 1871 and Death sent off list. Hope this helps Derek. ------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:57:35 +1000 From: "Barry O'Donnell" <[email protected]> Subject: [ENG-HANTS] new lister To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed hi everyone I am new to this site and would like to list my interests :- HICKS DALE BROWN VICKARS/ERS These families are in the Ringwood, Holdenhurst,Throop and Christchurch areas in Hampshire . If I am not on the right site please could SKS be able to guide me to the correct mail address.Thanks. I have found a Charles Hicks born c1778 Ringwood married to a Jane [nee Dale] on the 1851 census ,but I wondered if anyone has access to the 1841 census,and please would you be able to look them up and forward the page to me.I will be so grateful, Thanks. I also have not got a copy of the 1851 census and if it isn't too much trouble, please could I have that image too. Also I have a Richard Dale Hicks[ also known as Dale Hicks] born in 1843 at Throop. [grandson of Charles Hicks] he would be about 18/19 yrs. old on the 1861 census and on his own [???] would there be anyone who has this census and could locate him for me?He was in Portsea in 1868. He was left behind as a 9 yr old child when his parents and siblings sailed to Australia. They never saw him again.I would be so grateful for any help as I am really exited about my tree. Thanks in anticipation regards Maureen. -- Derek R. Smith.

Hello Jack, So far I have 6 Prince's in my tree - married to Dibden's and Hatch's : Joseph Prince m. Ann Dibden, 1804 John Prince m. Sarah Dibden, 18 October 1817, Whiteparish, Hants James Prince m. Jane Dibden, 14 December 1829, St.Peters Church, Bramshaw William Prince m. Henrietta Dibden, 2 July 1831, St.Peters Church, Bramshaw Ruth Prince m. George Hatch, 31 May 1862 Thirza Prince (b. 1842) m. Eli Dibden I have not explored the Prince's any further but have a greta interest in Bramshaw and would be happy to exchange details. Also for interest : Thomas Baily m. Martha Batt in Goodworth Clatford, 10 Nov. 1821 from a different branch. No Prince connection yet but worth a mention. Best wishes, Graham. ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of [shawmail.gv.shawcable.net]:[Jack Beeching] Sent: Wed 6/20/2007 8:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENG-HANTS] PRINCE Family New Forest area If anyone has an interest in the PRINCE family particularly in Bramshaw with possible connection to Upper Clatford, I would be happy to compare notes. Jack ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk <http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk/> ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If anyone has an interest in the PRINCE family particularly in Bramshaw with possible connection to Upper Clatford, I would be happy to compare notes. Jack

Hello Sandra, What a brilliant suggestion, I never thought of that! I will write a letter them tonight and see what they say. Thank you so much for your help. Best wishes Heather > Heather, > If the death notice was in the Echo and there is a mention of family > flowers only, this would suggest to me that the name of the the > Undertakers would be a part of the announcement. Perhaps contact with > them would enable you to get a letter passed on to the next of kin. > Sandra

Heather, If the death notice was in the Echo and there is a mention of family flowers only, this would suggest to me that the name of the the Undertakers would be a part of the announcement. Perhaps contact with them would enable you to get a letter passed on to the next of kin. Sandra Heather Brown wrote: >Hello List, > >I have been looking for Lilian Mary HOSKING (nee VINEY) who was the widow of my Kenneth HOSKING. > >I have come across a death notice via Google in the Daily Echo. - Lilian Mary MANNING - Formerly HOSKING - nee VINEY > >I now see that Lilian must have remarried after Kenneth's death in 1977 to a man called Charles MANNING. It seems that she was also the widow of Charles at the time of her death in March 2007. > >Can anyone suggest as to how I might find anything more, as I do not know if there were any children between Kenneth or Charles. The notice only mentions that she died at the New Forest Nursing Home, and Family flowers only. > >Any help and advice would be truly appreciated, no matter how small. > >Many Thanks & best wishes >Heather > > > > > >............................................. >Want to contact the local community? >Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings >http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk >............................................. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >

Hello List, I have been looking for Lilian Mary HOSKING (nee VINEY) who was the widow of my Kenneth HOSKING. I have come across a death notice via Google in the Daily Echo. - Lilian Mary MANNING - Formerly HOSKING - nee VINEY I now see that Lilian must have remarried after Kenneth's death in 1977 to a man called Charles MANNING. It seems that she was also the widow of Charles at the time of her death in March 2007. Can anyone suggest as to how I might find anything more, as I do not know if there were any children between Kenneth or Charles. The notice only mentions that she died at the New Forest Nursing Home, and Family flowers only. Any help and advice would be truly appreciated, no matter how small. Many Thanks & best wishes Heather

Many thanks to Caroline, Alan & Jennifer for their help with this query. Lesley -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lesley Sent: 17 June 2007 23:27 To: [email protected] Subject: [ENG-HANTS] Swetland in Ringwood - PR's Hi Listers, Can anyone tell me if there are any parish registers available to buy for Ringwood? It doesn't seem to be on the Phillmore CD I have. I'm looking for some of my Swetland family in the mid 1700's Many thanks Lesley Baxendale Colwyn Bay, N Wales ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Many thanks Jennifer, I'll check it out. Lesley -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 18 June 2007 08:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] Swetland in Ringwood - PR's In a message dated 17/06/2007 23:27:32 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Can anyone tell me if there are any parish registers available to buy for Ringwood? Hi Lesley, Parish Registers can be bought on microfiche from the Hampshire Record Office. _http://www.hants.gov.uk/record-office/services/copy.html_ (http://www.hants.gov.uk/record-office/services/copy.html) Jennifer ............................................. Want to contact the local community? Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk ............................................. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message