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All Hot Air...or is It?
It was a beautiful hot summer's day, and we took our three children on a bike ride. We biked along the old railway track from Sudbury to Rodbridge. We saw a combine harvester in a nearby field and stopped for a while, eventually making our way up Borely Hill. As we ascended up the hill the strangest thing happened! The air suddenly went icy cold. We all felt it. The nearer to the church we got, the colder we got. It was a strange experience. We joked about the haunted church, but in the end we just put it down to natural climate change...or was it?!
My Ancestors James Waters And Letty Waters (nee Cant)
James and Letty Waters, both born about 1811, are my great, great, great grandparents. In the 1841 census Letty is recorded as living in Wickham St Paul with 5 children, one of whom was Daniel, my great, great grandafther. James at the time of the census was in the Halstead House of Correction for, I think, a minor infringement though I am investigating that further. Letty Cant was born in Wickham St Paul I believe. I think James Waters was too but I am not sure about that. I think they may have married in Wickham St Paul. Letty was a straw plaiter who lived at Shellard's in Wick St Paul in 1841. My line of the family moved into London, presumably for work. I would like to track down James and Letty's parents and wonder if there are any Waters and Cants still living in Wickham St Paul who may have family connections with James and Letty. Thanks, Jo Waters
'Threeways Cafe', Bures
My dad and mum owned the Threeways Cafe in Bures for a while in the late 1950s, they where Eddie and Margaret Morris. If anyone remembers them I would like to see their memories.
Mary
Roots
My Grandfather William Hazell came from Pentlow and was a legend in our family. the rest of his family spelled their name Hasell and there seem to be many in Pentlow going back to the 1700s.
Grandfather William found himself in Pentlow and Foxearth area where he was born and had no work to provide a living for himself.
He decided to leave Pentlow Hills area and walked all the way from there down to the village of Hazeleigh in Essex in order to find employment and a wife. He lived in the Dengie Hundred for most of his life and my family look back to Pentlow and Foxearth as the place of our roots.
Always happy to hear from anyone who might be related to us
Land Army Girls
I am looking for any Land Army Girls who were billeted in the Hostel at Plough Lane, Leavenheath.
Would like to hear from you as I am compiling a history of the site.
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