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Lost!

Not Lost the TV show, I haven't actually thought about that since watching the fairly rubbish end of series four and writing that subject line. No, actually lost, some people I met yesterday who did not know where they were.My walk from work to the s...

mrs lesley dean

hello,
im interested in the surname cole from cheriton in hampshire. anyone have any conrctions?
cheers
lesley

Thanks for the message

I know there must be people stumbling across these pages, it's nice when they say hello.

The video was in Portchester in Hampshire actually, though we do live in Folkestone.

James Moore Clarke

Got an email from someone in the USA trying to trace Clarke ancestors from the UK. I don't think we have any Clarkes in the USA, and said that by email, but thought I'd republish some info here in case anyone else can help. Jim Clarke says:It is poss...

Thanks for chipping in on the site anyway

Not been to many gigs in this area myself, only The Darkness and Dirty Pretty Things I think, few more in Tunbridge Wells back in the day and squillions in London and Hampshire....

Weekend! Curry! Spazzy twitches! Everything!

Great weekend, bailed out of work slightly early and got the train to Mum and Dad's, for a nice long relaxing weekend. As previously mentioned, Clare was in London drinking and dancing with her friends, and definitely not lighting fires, and I was he...

Rated 7.47/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Drug-crazed arsonist feared alien attack

Best local newspaper headline ever, unfortunately the rest of the story isn't quite as interesting.Great day looking at houses in Canterbury, will report in with map and pictures in a bit....

Vice City: Fareham

Fareham man mown down by car wielding would-be assassin, possibly:A 34-year-old man was walking along Red Barn Lane in Fareham yesterday when a car mounted the pavement and struck him from behind. The vehicle responsible then left the scene.Anyone wi...

SAMWAYS Family of Dorset

My SAMWAYS ancestors are from Dorset, places such as Chaldon Herring, Dorchester, Wareham, Portesham, Little Bredy, Long Bredy, Fordington and Owermoigne.I have researched my SAMWAYS folk back to the early 1700s, most of my research is online on my w...

Did you know there was a Windebank on the Titanic?

From Alfred Windebank's biography on www.encyclopedia-titanica.org:Mr Alfred Edgar Windebank, was born in Southampton (?Arlesford), Hampshire on 18th July 1873, the son of Charles Windebank (cab driver) and his wife Georgina.He lived in Bevois Place,...

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hello i also googled my surname and found this website. it is interesrting to see a few samways's from the south, my family originate from havant in hampshire. my father is peter samways, my grandfather rene samways and there are many more.Steph samw...

Rugby, RESULT

What a great game and result on Saturday! we started off as usual with a trip to Canterbury, where there was a local food fair on, with stalls and demonstrations and things, and lots of local food producers in attendance. Got some bread and some plan...

Leaving finger prints behind at a burglary - BAD

Leaving a finger behind - VERY BAD A burglar has left behind a severed finger when he broke into a builder's yard, police said.The would-be thief is believed to have sliced off the digit on razor wire as he climbed into the Elliotts Builders Merchant...

Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...
Rated 4.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Fareham crack den

Fareham's first crack den has just been closed down, that's on the same road as my alma mater.In the interest of balance and fairness, I did search for crack houses in Folkestone, but I have found none....

Charles V. Clarke

Hi there ~I've been going through some of my Grandmother's items and have found a badly deteriorating copy of a page from the Hampshire Post, 19 April, 1912. On the outside of the envelope it has been stored in, is noted ,Titanic Disaster ~ Mother'...

RE: I knew that

hi allthis is for all those interested in the windebanks of wield. i was passed the info by susan knight and i have comfirmed it via the wield parish records.the following are in susans own words:***************************************Note: There are...

RE: Windibank

the following info is for all who are interested in the windebanks of wield.i was passed this info by susan knight and has been checked via the wield parish records.the following is in susans own words: **********************************************N...

I don't have a Matilda Windebank...

Maybe I'm not as up to date as you, I have a Matilda Samways (1888), Matilda Clarke (1851), and Matilda Grant (1853)... Do I have one of them saved under her married name? I see what you mean though:The History of the Jacobs Family From Havant and So...

Hambledon Marriages

a transcription of Hambledon marriage records, has a mention of William Tee marrying Lucy Windebank, they sound like ours. This is from the "other" time the Windebank family crosses with ours. Same page also has page 60 no 180 George EARWAKER of the ...

Obligatory world cup post

World cup, a bit of a tense game, we just about got there in the end. There are some bad people out there:An internet company which sold fake World Cup tickets to children may have made more than �60,000 in the scam.Nearly 400 schoolchildren from acr...

A very telling slip up from The Times

From the popbitch forum, The Times made a bit of a freudian in their reporting of "The Publicity Code" court case. Originally the article said"Brown, notoriously publicity-shy, travelled from his home in New Hampshire to give publicity on behalf of R...

Careful with that message board Eugene

The BBC reports that an Oldham woman libelled an MP from Portchester (where I am from) on Yahoo message boards:Ms Williams, of Oldham, Lancs, used a pseudonym to post claims that he was a sexual offender and a racist bigot.Ms Williams had also claime...

So, super weekend

After my little Down Street excursion, we had a great weekend. Technically it was extended by half a day, but it felt very quick indeed... Started off giving the twins their birthday presents round ours, they turned five already, and seemed mostly pl...

RE: The Windebanks from Wield Hampshire

Am searching for Thomas Windebank, born, supposedly, in Hampshire, in 1774. Think he could be connected with either the baby registered in Bighton in 1774 as "Windebank, son of Thomas Windebank", or the W family who came from Portsmouth to Fairoak.He...

George Richmand Samways

My grandfather, George born in England, grandmother Rose Freemantle, mother Edith Freemantle. Father George trampled to death by a horse, brothers Walter and Frederick placed in the care of two maiden aunts both schoolmistresses in the village of Lit...

RE: WHITMORE CLARKE

On the CWGC Site, Corporal Whitmore Clarke Service No 11788 of the 2nd Bn Hampshire Regiment is listed as age 25. He died on 13 Aug 1915 and his name is on the Helles Memorial in Turkey. His parents were Mr & Mrs W H W Clarke of Salford Rd Bidford-on...

Oof, a shooting in Folkestone

Only this week I was playfully mocking friends in Hampshire after reading a story about unsociable neighbours or some such, and now someone's been shot dead on our doorstep, and the gunman is still on the loose.OK, it's not actually on our doorstep, ...

Caroline CLARKE

gary windebank aldershot farnham bucks horn oak hampshire lets get to the bottom of the windebanks

They are drunk, abusive, underage and wreaking havoc in a Hampshire town

Hooray, Southampton or Winchester I think...Folkestone property update, there's a two bed flat next door to us in Tudor Court up for 172,000, that's good to know! There's been a flat next door for sale for a few weeks at 150,000 that needs work, don'...