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| − | [http://www.lewcock.net/index.php?option=com_magazine&func=show_edition&id=13&Itemid=84 Family Tree Forum Magazine]
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| − | The magazine team is always on the look out for interesting stories from your family history research, so if you have one I'll be pleased to hear from you!
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| − | I was born and brought up in Eastbourne Sussex and now live in Berkshire.
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| − | I was inspired to start researching my family history after watching the first series of WDYTYA? in the Autumn of 2004. I always was curious, but didn't know where to start.
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| − | http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q28/racheileanderson/MaudPackam_1_1_1.jpg
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| − | This my great grandmother, Maud Guilford, the mother of my maternal grandmother. She died of breast cancer in 1946. Out of all of my ancestors, she is the one I feel closest too.
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| − | Before I started my research all I knew of her was that she originated from London and by the time of my grandmother's birth in 1907 she was living in Fletching Sussex. I now know that her father's family originated from Brighton and were involved in the railways, and her mother's were from London, although originally from Suffolk and were hat makers.
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| − | Here's a photo of Maud's father, Charles Guilford
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| − | And her mother, Hannah Cousins, with Charles' mother Eliza Simmons
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| − | These photos were taken on Brighton seafront c1880.
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| − | I'm particularly interested in tracing my female line into Suffolk. So far I've traced it back to the village of Kettleburgh.
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| − | As for Maud's husband, my great grandfather, Abraham Packham, all I knew about him was that he was a blacksmith in Fletching Sussex. I have not only been able to trace his family back several generations, but have also been able to contact a cousin of my grandmother's, who has provided to me so much information which I wouldn't have obtained elsewhere.
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| − | The main names on my mum's side of the family are GUILFORD, PACKHAM, STAPLEHURST and PRATT from Sussex. COUSINS from London, and HOLBROW & AIREY from Suffolk.
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| − | My father died suddenly in 2003, here he is with my paternal grandmother in 1950 -
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| − | Dad's first cousin, Chalky, has been researching the family for 30 years and has been a great help to me.
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| − | The main families on my dad's side are WHITE & GUY from Sussex and DENNETT from Dorset.
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| − | In 2006 we discovered that the actor, David Jason, is related through our White family.
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| − | I'm also researching my husband's ANDERSON line from Bisham, Berkshire. Always suspecting that we would find a Scottish connection at some point, we have been told by a Genesreunited contact, who has a family bible, that the family came down to Gloucester from Scotland in 1732. We have yet to find whereabouts in Scotland they came from though.
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| − | My cousin has asked me to assist with her paternal line. I'm am researching for her, DODT from Koblenz in Germany, HOLMAN from Norwood London, MERRETT & MESSENGER from Kensington, London and COOMBES from Dorset.
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| − | Please pm me if you think that we may have a connection.
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