Sorry Lou, but not having Martyn Mills address, I must reply through your good-self, I do have some connection to the Patchett Family from both my own family name of WILSON and my mothers family name of ROBERTS, and most definitely in the Date frame of the early 1800's, do you have a full address for Martyn Mills, to which this could be sent Please. Regards Bazza On 3 January 2014 14:42, Barry Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there Martyn, Karen, for what it is worth, I have a James Patchett > circa 1825, who married one of my relatives namesMary Ann Wilson in > Langtoft Lincolnshire in 1848, the grooms father's name was Thomas > Patchett. The brides father was named Robert Wilson D.o.b. 1801 Langtoft > Lincolnhire. There was a birth for James & Mary Ann Parchett, named, mary > Ann Patchett christened 28 th Dec.1851 in Langtoft. > I do not know if there is a connection in all of this, but it might seem > that the Patchett family put themselves about in Lincolnshire at least. If > anyone can advance this information, I would grate fully ask for a copy > PLEASE. Bazza > > > On 2 January 2014 18:01, Louis Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Martyn, >> >> Here is John Marius Wilson's 1870 Gazetteer entry on Holland Fen: >> >> HOLLAND-FEN, a fen and a chapelry in Boston district, Lincoln. The >> fen lies averagely on the North Forty foot drain, near the Boston and >> Lincoln railway, 8 miles NW by W of Boston; comprises about 22, 000 acres; >> and is divided, in allotments, among eleven parishes, called the >> Holland-Fen towns. The reclamation of it was effected considerably in the >> time of Charles I.; was carried on afterwards to a state of profitable >> cultivation; and resulted in material benefit, not only to the parishes >> immediately interested in it, but to the town and port of Boston.--The >> chapelry was constituted in 1812; has >> been said to include the entire fen, with upwards of 10,000 inhabitants; >> has been said also to be a mere appendage of the >> curacy of Fosdyke, or of the rectory of Algarkirk; but is really a >> separate charge with a pop. of about 1,223. Its church stands in the >> Fosdyke allotment, close to the North Forty-foot drain, 4 miles WNW of >> Langrick r. station, and 8 NW by W of Boston; but is 12 miles NNW of >> Fosdyke. Its post town is Boston. The living is a vicarage in the diocese >> of Lincoln. Value. £150. Patron, the Rev. B. Berridge. The church was built >> in 1812. There is a national school. >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > >