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Hersden maps
Historic maps of Hersden and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Hersden maps
Hersden photos
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Sturry| Upstreet| Fordwich| Wickhambreaux| Ickham| Littlebourne| Hawthorn| Herne Bay| Hillborough| Wingham| Bekesbourne| Canterbury| Reculver| Patrixbourne| St Nicholas At Wade| Bridge| Ash| Monkton| Swalecliffe| Tankerton| Bishopsbourne| Whitstable| Aylesham| Birchington| Chartham| Shalmsford Street
Hersden area books
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Kent memories
The Day The Pub Got Blown up
Does any one remember the local pub in Sturry, that got blown up in ww2, my dad saved a little boy, but through shock, the young lad later died. Does any one remember the ODELL family who lived in ROOKERY NOCK?
Would love to hear from any one who knew them, my sister was in the Land army, any one who can remember her, her name was HAZEL ODELL, she also worked in the backers in Sturry.
You can get me at ....pamelaodell2000@yahoo.co.uk
William Amos
In the 1851 census William Amos, believed to have been my Great Grandfather, lived with his wife Caroline and children in No.10 High Street, Sturry. He is recorded as being a schoolteacher. In the 1861 census he is recorded as being a Shipping Agent living in Whitsable, address unclear in the register. A rather strange change of occupation.
I would be very interested in learning more about him and his family and which school, possibly Kings, which is close by, that he taught at.
Peter Amos
Bomb Alley Kids, as we Were Known at That Time.
I have been writing all my memories of my life from 1940 up to the present day for my grand children in case they want to know what we had to contend with in our days. My blog is on facebook called Bomb Alley Kid. I have had many old friends getting in touch.
Family Connections
I understand my great grandfather worked in this forge. He was born Charles Holness around 1830 and married Ann Marsh in the 1850s. My father's mother Agnes Annie Holness was one of their children. She had an older sister Alice, brothers Fred and Bert and William Henry who died of smallpox in May 1902. He worked on boats at Fordwich. My father's father was Charles Albert Tucker who was a blacksmith in Jubilee Road, Littlebourne and later had his own forge and cottages (May 1913) at East Rangdon near Dover.
1901 Wickhambreux
Sarah Clayden Rudd nee Wacey and her daughters lived in Wickhambreux. They were listed there at the time of the 1891 census as living 'the green' and in 1901 she and her daughters, Sarah and Rebecca, are living there and recorded as 'lodging house keeper'. Sarah the mother lived there until she died in 1916.
They are distant relatives of mine.
Wickham Court
My grandfather, Byron Kelsey, lived and farmed here. My father, Hugh Edwin Byron Kelsey, was born in this house.
Baird
Apparently, The Willows was occupied in 1911 by Alexander Baird, a retired Bank Manager, his wife, Elizabeth, son Capt Henry Hume Chisholm Baird DSO and Capt Henry's wife. Alexander Baird was born in Alloa, Scotland, in 1841, the son of a shipowner. He and his family had lived previously at Robeston Hall, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, where four of his five children were born (1870 - 1879) and later in London before moving to Wickhambreaux. Alexander Baird and his wife (and other members of the Baird family) are buried in Wickhambreaux churchyard. They died in the 1920s. Does anyone have any more information about this family?
