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From: "Juanita Hadwin" <>
Subject: Fw: KING'S ENGLAND - ARTHUR MEE - Berkshire
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:05:07 -0700


-----Original Message-----
From: Dale and Margery Young <>
To: Juanita Hadwin <>;
<>
Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: KING'S ENGLAND - ARTHUR MEE - Berkshire

>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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