Hi I have added a page today to the Faded Genes website for the Lyminge War Memorial. See http://www.fadedgenes.co.uk/LymingeMemorial.html The page is still under construction in as much that I am in the process of identifying the men listed. All the best Dave Dixon BA (hons) - Economic & Social History - University of Kent - Canterbury 1997 www.fadedgenes.co.uk

Dear John Anderton Thanks for the tip about Mark D. Herber's Ancestral Trails, a copy of an older edition which I have. Yes, I have lots of reservations about using the internet as the SOLE source of information, but with failing eyesight, it helps not to have to squint all the time at microfilm! (If only the microfilm readers had search engines!!!). With the help of different County Record Offices personnel in England (when I was younger, had a steady source of income, etc) I have been able to find a good deal of my English grandmother's lineage. I have found the East Suffolk RO and the Bedfordshire ROs have been most helpful. As you can guess, my grandmother's family members were migratory. I have recently located with the help of the computer search engine some later family members in censuses in what are now the suburbs of London (Camberwell and Peckham, etc.) It also helped that until the last decade I was in contact with my grandmother's nieces who lived in Kent and Oxfordshire, but now they are deceased. Because of their personal history (left orphans at a tender age), they could not contribute a great deal to our mutual earlier family history, but they did show me places where their parents had lived, etc. Because it seems that Kent had two record offices, research becomes more difficult. In Southern California, we have an active British Family History Society, and in the past, when our treasury was a little fuller, we were able to import speakers from UK such as Colin Chapman and Michael Gandy and other experts from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. I have a goodly number of booklets from the Federation of Family History Societies and from Society of Genealogists. Thanks again for your tip. E.W.Wallace

>From The Morning Post ( London, England ), Wednesday, November 13, 1839; Issue 21468. DIED. At Gravesend, on the 31st of October, in the 46th year of his age, Major John PRATT , late of the 27th Regiment, son of the late General John PRATT , of Stoneville, county Dublin.

Hi Another page added today to the Faded Genes website http://www.fadedgenes.co.uk/RichardThomasCASTLE.html All the best Dave Dixon BA (hons) - Economic & Social History - University of Kent - Canterbury 1997 www.fadedgenes.co.uk

That's some claim to fame! Almost the equivalent of being the first man in space for those days. Thanks for that snippet. ----- Original Message ----- From: <MICHAELCOOMBER@aol.com> To: <KENT-ENG-L@rootsweb.com> Cc: <MIDDLESEX_COUNTY_UK@rootsweb.com>; <opcsubmissions@kent-opc.org> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:56 PM Subject: [KENT-ENG] Death of Joseph BELL first Engine-Driver. ( 1895 ) > >>From The Star ( Saint Peter Port, England ), Thursday, September 12, >>1895; > pg. [ 1 ] ; Issue 110. > > > DEATH OF THE FIRST ENGINE DRIVER. > At the age of eighty-four has died Joseph BELL , who was the first > engine-driver in the world, and whose first engine was that famous > Rocket, the > parent of the mighty monsters of these days. BELL was for twenty-three > years > the driver of the South-Eastern Dover mail, and for seventeen years was > in > the employ of the District Railway Company. Three weeks ago he fractured > his > hip by falling through the unprotected trap of a public-house at Fulham, > and never recovered from the accident. His death took place on Saturday > at > the Queen's Jubilee Hospital. > > >

I am a resident of USA but I have Kentish roots, as my maternal grandmother was born in Wye, Kent in 1872. She called England *the old country*. Anyway, genealogists have to learn how to use LOTS of newish tools on the internet [arm chair research, some of us call it] Use google.com a lot. [I now have to learn how to use more efficiently google.earth after attending lectures recently about this new tool] I entered the search terms on google: death duty - great britain Wikipedia [which is a volunteer encyclopedia, subject to revision, of course] has an article on death duty and I believe another on inheritance tax. I did not read it, as I have not bothered my head about this aspect of my tangled pedigree!!! This wikipedia article may not answer your question as precisely as you wish, but may lead you to a more reliable--but complex--authority. Good luck with some of these new-fangled tools for us curious ones!!! Be sure to check the Catalog of the Family History Library also. There is a new twist--a wiki for Familysearch, which I have not yet learned to use. Also, Familysearch.org has a pilot program also. Keep tuned. I am enjoying my newish subscription to this particular rootsweb. E.W.Wallace

Hi Bryan, Lots of links in Canada on these sites - http://www.howtofindyourroots.com/canada http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908.003-e.html http://canada.weblinker.nl/ http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-906.002-e.html Pier 21 - http://www.pier21.ca/ Quebec 1905-1910 - http://members.shaw.ca/nanaimo.fhs/#mozTocId46239 The Find My Past outgoing passenger list has a listing for R. COSHALL, born 1900, going to Fremantle, Australia. when I searched further though, it was for Richard COSHALL, departed 1921, married Western Australia in 1927 (Dorrie GRAY) and died 1958 aged 60. There was no departure for Rose COSHALL, or Frances/F COSHALL in the index - http://www.findmypast.co.uk/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action?redef=0 Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > Canyone with access to Canadian sources tell me if they can track down a > Rose May COSHALL born 1900 in Kent to mother Frances Alice COSHALL > arriving/marrying/dying in Canada. I can find her birth, her address in > 1901 but nothing after that time....family rumour suggests she migrated to > Canada > regards & TIA......Bryan

Canyone with access to Canadian sources tell me if they can track down a Rose May COSHALL born 1900 in Kent to mother Frances Alice COSHALL arriving/marrying/dying in Canada. I can find her birth, her address in 1901 but nothing after that time....family rumour suggests she migrated to Canada regards & TIA......Bryan

I see a George Wilson b Little Chart on Findmypast in 1851. He is living at 4 Thomas Street, Stepney, Middx and details are: George Wilson Head Marr 35 Servant b Little Chart (actually looks like Little Chard on census but transcribed correctly by Findmypast) Hannah Wilson Wife Marr 28 b Wargrave, Berks Hannah Wilson Dau 7 b Aldgate, Middx Elizabeth Wilson Dau 6 ditto Ellen Wilson Dau 4 ditto Rebecca Wilson Dau 2 ditto Esther Wilson Dau 2 mths ditto Don't know if this is your man June. Regards Sue -----Original Message----- From: kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:kent-eng-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Luned James Sent: 19 June 2010 05:02 To: june; KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] George Wilson Little Chart June, no sign of George WILSON b 1815 Little Chart in the 1851 census in Kent, Sussex or Mddx. Had a look at Park gate, Chart Court & Cale Hill in Little Chart. Maybe someone can look at 'other establishments', I have to go out right now.   ________________________________ From: june <Kandjhistory@live.co.uk> To: KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 3:07:26 AM Subject: [KENT-ENG] George Wilson Little Chart Hi List I'm new to your list but I'm on a few others, just wondered if someone can possibly help me I've been tracing my family tree for twelve years now and really struggling to find my gg granddad on my mothers side, I've checked several resources and had help from a professional genealogist who traced him to Little chart in Kent, i was left hanging for several years as i couldn't afford to carry on, i have a subscription to Ancestry  and other info, anyway please can someone help me. I'm looking for George Wilson born 1815 Little Chart Kent 1851 census, i have him on his second marriage in 1842 but no first. i also have him baptised in Rochester father Samuel mother Elizabeth though not sure on this. regards June ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

June, no sign of George WILSON b 1815 Little Chart in the 1851 census in Kent, Sussex or Mddx. Had a look at Park gate, Chart Court & Cale Hill in Little Chart. Maybe someone can look at 'other establishments', I have to go out right now.   ________________________________ From: june <Kandjhistory@live.co.uk> To: KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, June 19, 2010 3:07:26 AM Subject: [KENT-ENG] George Wilson Little Chart Hi List I'm new to your list but I'm on a few others, just wondered if someone can possibly help me I've been tracing my family tree for twelve years now and really struggling to find my gg granddad on my mothers side, I've checked several resources and had help from a professional genealogist who traced him to Little chart in Kent, i was left hanging for several years as i couldn't afford to carry on, i have a subscription to Ancestry  and other info, anyway please can someone help me. I'm looking for George Wilson born 1815 Little Chart Kent 1851 census, i have him on his second marriage in 1842 but no first. i also have him baptised in Rochester father Samuel mother Elizabeth though not sure on this. regards June ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi June, I've just had a quick look on Ancestry - don't know if this is him but there is a George Wilson born approx 1816 transcribed as born Little Chard Kent. He's shown with a wife Hannah and five children living in Mile End, Hope this helps, Sarah At 18:07 18/06/2010 +0100, june wrote: Hi List I'm new to your list but I'm on a few others, just wondered if someone can possibly help me I've been tracing my family tree for twelve years now and really struggling to find my gg granddad on my mothers side, I've checked several resources and had help from a professional genealogist who traced him to Little chart in Kent, i was left hanging for several years as i couldn't afford to carry on, i have a subscription to Ancestry and other info, anyway please can someone help me. I'm looking for George Wilson born 1815 Little Chart Kent 1851 census, i have him on his second marriage in 1842 but no first. i also have him baptised in Rochester father Samuel mother Elizabeth though not sure on this. regards June ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi List I'm new to your list but I'm on a few others, just wondered if someone can possibly help me I've been tracing my family tree for twelve years now and really struggling to find my gg granddad on my mothers side, I've checked several resources and had help from a professional genealogist who traced him to Little chart in Kent, i was left hanging for several years as i couldn't afford to carry on, i have a subscription to Ancestry and other info, anyway please can someone help me. I'm looking for George Wilson born 1815 Little Chart Kent 1851 census, i have him on his second marriage in 1842 but no first. i also have him baptised in Rochester father Samuel mother Elizabeth though not sure on this. regards June

>From The Star ( Saint Peter Port, England ), Thursday, September 12, 1895; pg. [ 1 ] ; Issue 110. DEATH OF THE FIRST ENGINE DRIVER. At the age of eighty-four has died Joseph BELL , who was the first engine-driver in the world, and whose first engine was that famous Rocket, the parent of the mighty monsters of these days. BELL was for twenty-three years the driver of the South-Eastern Dover mail, and for seventeen years was in the employ of the District Railway Company. Three weeks ago he fractured his hip by falling through the unprotected trap of a public-house at Fulham, and never recovered from the accident. His death took place on Saturday at the Queen's Jubilee Hospital.

There would have been death duties paid on any personal estate but not on real estate. Also they didn't apply to bequests to the spouse. Records are at TNA and the indexes are online at Findmypast.co.uk Maureen Rawson Kentgenealogy@yahoo.ca Web Site on genealogy sources for Kent, England: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Claxton" <familysearch@f2s.com> To: <KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 4:17 AM Subject: [KENT-ENG] Obtaining copy of a pre 1858 Will and Probate > Hello > > I posted previously with regards to the best way to obtain a copy of the > Will and Probate of Russell Whitbread Lavender who died in Canterbury in > 1844. > > I ordered the copy documents from the Centre for Kentish Studies on 10 June > and it arrived yesterday - all 22 pages plus the Probate! > > I won't bore you with the details save that the Executors where David > Browning Major a Surgeon of Canterbury and a James Delmar a Wine Merchant > also of Canterbury. > > I would be intrigued to establish what the family connection, if any, may be > of these parties to Russell Lavender. I have checked the obvious e.g. sons > in law, but there doesn't appear either married a Lavender. > > Would any lister happen to know where I could establish what, if any, death > duties or 'Inheritance Tax' might have applied back in the 1840s? > > Andy Claxton > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.560 / Virus Database: 270.12.36/2126 - Release Date: 5/21/2009 6:22 AM > >

Hello I posted previously with regards to the best way to obtain a copy of the Will and Probate of Russell Whitbread Lavender who died in Canterbury in 1844. I ordered the copy documents from the Centre for Kentish Studies on 10 June and it arrived yesterday - all 22 pages plus the Probate! I won't bore you with the details save that the Executors where David Browning Major a Surgeon of Canterbury and a James Delmar a Wine Merchant also of Canterbury. I would be intrigued to establish what the family connection, if any, may be of these parties to Russell Lavender. I have checked the obvious e.g. sons in law, but there doesn't appear either married a Lavender. Would any lister happen to know where I could establish what, if any, death duties or 'Inheritance Tax' might have applied back in the 1840s? Andy Claxton

Hi Carol, I had no luck finding him, but you may be able to search further in other directories - http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/b1.asp Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > Please could someone look for the above in Kelly's directory around 1890, > he may have been living at 2 Grove-terrace, New End, Hampstead, Mdx. > I can't find him in the census. He is said to be nephew or nephew-in-law > of Joseph Hill 1809-1890. > > Thanks, Carol

I received this email today, sent direct to me in error; I cannot remember who the original poster was with the LAMKIN query > From: LINDALEWIS763@aol.com > Message-ID: <3d22a.1eb02933.394a89a0@aol.com> > Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:10:08 EDT > Subject: lamkin Marden. > To: anne.chambers@bigpond.com > Hi. Just browsing and found My gt grandfather. John Lamkin. Son of Ambrose > Lamkin and Elizabeth Craddock He was born 1830 and married Ann Dobell in > Maidstone 1845. Any help? Alma. Anne South Australia

>From Glasgow Herald ( Glasgow, Scotland ), Friday, November 25, 1898; Issue 282. TWO NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS PUNISHED. At Kent Assizes yesterday two notorious burglars - Joseph WRIGHT ( 68 ) and William BROWN ( 35 ) - who had been convicted of a violent assault upon Constable SMITH at Gravesend, were brought up for sentence. It was stated that WRIGHT was a most dangerous criminal, and had spent nearly 40 years in prison, whilst BROWN had also undergone repeated terms of penal servitude for burglaries. Justice HAWKINS sentenced each of them to 12 years' penal servitude.

Please could someone look for the above in Kelly's directory around 1890, he may have been living at 2 Grove-terrace, New End, Hampstead, Mdx. I can't find him in the census. He is said to be nephew or nephew-in-law of Joseph Hill 1809-1890. Thanks, Carol

Thank you Beverley, it looks like I may have been adding 2 x 2 = 5 and all on the basis of a set of initials. the painting may have been a commission or something for a friend. I will keep looking for the Bensted family of 1910-1921 at Street Farm, Ulcombe, Kent. ________________________________ From: Beverley Brookes <bevb@ncf.ca> To: Luned James <lunedjames@yahoo.com> Cc: KENT-ENG@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, June 16, 2010 10:24:40 PM Subject: Re: [KENT-ENG] Bensted, Street Farm, Ulcombe Evelyn Leslie Redgrave 1849-1932 was an artist and the younger daughter of Richard Redgrave, RA. You can get her family tree by googling her full name.  She apparently died unmarried so she doesn't appear to be your E L S Bensted, but some of her works are listed on Google.  ----- Original Message ----- From: Luned James <lunedjames@yahoo.com> Date: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:06 am Subject: [KENT-ENG] Bensted, Street Farm, Ulcombe > Hi Fellow Listers, I am new to the Kent list but an old resident of > St Mary in the Marsh, Kingsnorth, Warehorne & Ashford, now living > in Tasmania. Yes, I get about. > I am interested in finding out more about an E. L.S.Bensted, who > later married, I believe, a Redgrave. > I have a small watercolour of Street Farm, Ulcombe, dated 1914 with > the initials E.L.S.B. and a later watercolour of the older building > (I believe 17th century) dated 1921 with the signature > E.L.Redgrave. On the back is the name M.Bensted. Also a photo of > the same building circa 1900. > I've done a little research and found a reference, by a Friend > Chapman born 1849 who wrote down his/her memories of the village > and its people in 1930, to a James Bensted and his son G. Bensted > and Street Farm. > I'd be very interested if anyone can shed any light on E. L > Bensted/Redgrave and her art. I believe she may have been a minor > watercolourist.kind regards > Luned in Tasmania > > >      > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to KENT-ENG- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >