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From: "Dale and Margery Young" <>
Subject: Re: KING'S ENGLAND - ARTHUR MEE - Berkshire
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:30:58 +0400


I have a copy of Arthur Mee's "The Kings England" 1949 version for
Berkshire. I'd be happy to check up for anyone looking for a Berkshire
reference. Juanita is quite right that only specific reference is made to
individuals. For instance William Penn, Quaker founder of Pennsylvania is
listed as having died in the village of Ruscombe. This is the next village,
a very short distance from Hurst, where my Quaker PASSMORE ancestors
originated. Thus I found the fact interesting. The series is full of little
"snippets" of information, often describing monuments and local churches.

Dale
Amesbury MA, USA

Researching in

Norfolk - SKIPPER, FORKES, KIDDLE
Wiltshire - MARTIN, WALTER, SONGHURST / SAUGURST
Berkshire - PASSMORE
Cheshire - HEALD, FODEN

-----Original Message-----
From: Juanita Hadwin <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 10:58 AM
Subject: KING'S ENGLAND - ARTHUR MEE

>Re: Francesca's suggestion of the excellent King's England series by Arthur
>Mee. The local public library here has the Norfolk book from the series and
>I was able to buy several of the other books for various counties in the
>series at the same library's annual book sale, (they kept Norfolk!drat). I
>donated the ones I bought to our genealogical society here, to extend the
>series at our "Research Centre/Library" and there is an ongoing society
>project to extract names from them as well as other books which don't have
>indexes and enter them into a database. I believe we've ALMOST got a
>complete set. I borrowed the Norfolk volume from the public library and
>extracted surnames from it some time ago. The list is VERY long (partly
>because some names are repeated in several places - especially if there
were
>alot of different manors/estates owned by the same family) It is only a
>ROUGH list and NOT alphabetical except by town/village name, so will take a
>while to search through to collect all the references to one name. The
first
>go round was a number of years ago, and I haven't done a double check of
the
>notes since then (one thing and another getting in the way - like finally
>getting the final piece of confirmation this afternoon that I've finally
>found my mother's father's family in South Africa after about 15 years of
>searching! - just thought I'd throw that in). So, I CAN check for names
>(I'll live to regret this - I know it) but please keep in mind the majority
>of the surnames Mr. Mee mentions in his book are from monumental
>inscriptions, of famous "sons/daughters" of Norfolk, estate owners,
>aristocracy and the like, ie. there's no mention of Edmund Ducker,
>shoemaker/ag lab at Swanton Novers and also, NOT EVERY TOWN OR VILLAGE IS
>INCLUDED. It is NOT a gazetteer or a directory. Please contact me directly
>at:
>
>
>
>and please be patient - I have alot to catch up on in South Africa.
>
>Regards,
>Juanita
>
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