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LYNSTED-SOCIETY.CO.UK
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Issue No. 24
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Lynsted with Kingsdown Society
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e news
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January 2010
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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Keeping you updated
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Thank you for your continued support.
Please note membership renewal is due from 1st January. The Committee have held the price for another year. £12 single membership; £20 for joint membership. Membership gives free entrance to talks throughout the year (and includes our popular Christmas Party) and supports our researches.
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CAN YOU HELP?
Questions sent to us through the web site:
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Recent additions to our website
Dates for Your Diary
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1. Bessie Newton, 83 & living in Yorkshire, has asked if anyone knows anything of the Pope Family (once of Greenstreet/Cellar Hill). She found our churchyard records very helpful (John Pope died 1800 - son of John and Sara Pope).Can you help?
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2. From the USA, Diana Mellen asks if anyone knows of Francis Brown (mother to Elizabeth Brown, who married Christopher Roper). We have already directed her to the Roper Society. She also tells us that there was a Sittingbourne Parish in Virginia - suggesting migrant movements.
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3. Aymer Vallance - Son of Lynsted. New Research by Bob Baxter. See also, other research on Aymer Vallance.
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4. UPDATED: A couple of snippets regarding Henry Eve DD and family links with Norton (thanks to Pat Blackford)
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Parish News Letter UPDATES:
(1) The entrance for members is free for the “Wings Over Sheppey” Talk. The template used for that printed advert was an old one - We are sorry for any confusion.
(2) The enquiry about Goldsmith Family at Laundress Farm has now been resolved. The enquirer confused Linstead in Suffolk (and nearby Greenstead!) with Lynsted in Kent (and nearby Greenstreet!). We were also able to point to “Laundry Farm” in Suffolk. Another relatively common error is to confuse the Kingsdown in Dover with our own one. So far, we have not been confused with Linstead in Jamaica!
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UPCOMING EVENTS:
20th January 2010: Colin Harvey will give an illustrated talk - “Wings over Sheppey” and the “SS Richard Montgomery”. Members: free. Venue: Greenstreet Methodist Chapel.
17 February: Illustrated talk on Traditional Orchards. Bob Baxter
10th March: 8pm: Talk about archaeology in Perry Wood.
24th April: The Thomas Clark Quire group - a Georgian music performance based on Kentish composers or music associated with Kent churches.
1st May: First Society Archiving Day: We plan to host an open day to invite anyone with records of the Parish and surrounding area (photos and documents) to share those records with us and to copy those records into our archive. More details to follow.
End of May/Early June (tbc): Walk in managed coppice woodland to learn about dormice sites and game bird management.
Late June/Early July (tbc): Visit to unspoilt chalk-land flower meadow.
Future events under active consideration
* Geoff Coates - Bumblebees
* Peter Derby - National Hop Collection, focussing on Harbledown and Ospringe Collections.
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There are other events run by the Kent History Federation - noted on the events page. Our Society is affiliated, so Members of our Society can take part.
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If you have photographs, illustrations or documents from around the Parish even in its most recent past, please let us record them on this web-site for others to enjoy.
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- “Lynstedians and Kingsdowners”
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