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Haywards From Loders Dorset

From The River 1893
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John Hayward (1813) came from Loders in Dorset and settled in this area  of Wallingford, of Benson, Bradfield, Englefield and married local girl Mary Anne Kitchen.  His son Robert James eventually farmed Uxmore Farm at Ipsden, near Stoke Row in Berks/Oxon.  I am collecting a photographic record of the Hayward family in these areas for a family tree.

Ingrid Wilson

From The River 1893
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Hi Ingrid Wilson,

Apologise reply to your query - windows - Francis Frith site got problems connecting, my reply cancelled several times. If I can contact you direct I can give you info about the Hayward family tree free, so far as I have got. You are welcome to assist with further research.
yoga-prakash saraswati
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Wallingford During The Second World War

I arrived in Wallingford as a 10 year old boy with my sister and mother on a cold winter February night. We had been bombed out from our house in Dagenham just a few days before and my brother, who was stationed at Benson with the army, had arranged for us to take a room in The Lamb, I believe it was, to get us out of London and away from the bombs. It did not take mother long to get us some rooms in a house in St Mary's Street, number 18, where we stayed with a lovely old lady named Mrs Naish. Her son was the local signwriter. Next door to her little cottage was the chemist shop and a garage car showroom where I used to peer in the window at the lovely old cars.

I started at St John's School and vividly remember walking to school down the lane by the post office, and at the end was a large recreation area like a small... Read more

Ingrid Wilson

Hi Ingrid Wilson, pleased this site put us in contact re Hayward family tree.
Contact me at  lunarorange2002@yahoo.com.au and I can send info for free. I have brother George in the UK who is up-to-date with UIK cousins more than me, and be pleased to help. He knows some of your relies etc.
yoga prakash saraswati

Ingrid Wilson - Memories of Wallingford

Hi Ingrid Wilson again,

You can find more info on the Hayward family tree if you visit LODERS in Dorset on this site.  Thanks for contact via this site. I have yet to visit Wallingford - it is on my list to visit if I ever get back to the UK again.

yoga-prakash saraswati lunarorange20022@yahoo.com.au--new email
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27 10 09 hi ingrid wilson again-think you met my brother george in uk we are 2nd cousins i think--like hear from you sometime

In Memory of My Grandparents

Mr Gran and Grandad had their home in North Stoke, a Mr and Mrs Sallis (Elizabeth and Arthur). They lived in Calendula Cottage, as it was called then. My mother had three sons, Ray the oldest, Tony, and me, Nick, the youngest. For some reason our mother decided to have us live there; our grandparents were in their seventies and still working. As you can imagine, it must have been traumatic for them and the worry and more hardship to cope with. From what I have gathered they couldn't have tried any more than they did and found it too much to cope with. Eventually we were taken into care; I was only two years old then, Tony was four and Ray was six.

It was only a two-bedroom cottage, leading down the stairs straight into a very small kitchen and into the front room and that's all. The toilet was at the back down the garden.

Gran and Grandad over the years never forgot us and used... Read more

Dad Evacuated to Cholsey WW2

Wallingford Road c1960
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I recently found your site and was excited to show it to Dad. He was evacuated out of central London during WW2. He was sent to live with the Bumpass Family from Cholsey. Andrew and Mary were their names and they had two children Eileen and Dennis. Dad told us lots of happy memories that he had of his time in Cholsey. He remembers the old school and Bunkers hill, tha old pavillion in the centre of the village where tramps slept. He went to Sunday School and speaks very fondly of a Mrs Kelson who ran the mission .
He never returned to visit the Bumpass family, because even though he was happy with them he had memories of a much harder time with a lady who first took him in,who lived in the same area.
I have shown the photos to Dad to jog his memory and he says it would be lovely to see his old school again .He tells me there was a brook that... Read more

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