Weekends with the Jones

Year: 1995

Weekends with the Jones

We used to vist Kim and Dave jones in Mappowder every weekend after we met them in Barbados in 1995. Great friends and good fun. Very special times.

Year: 2006

RE: Weekends with the Jones

I had just been diagnosed with breast cancer but had already booked a holiday in Weymouth in June 2006. The doctor told me to go away and enjoy myself and when I returned home I would have the op. at Margate, Kent. Well, I certainly did enjoy myself. My partner and me had a wonderful day in Sturminster where I found Church Street where many of my ancestors had lived in the 1800s and in the churchyard I found the grave of my ggg grandmother Hannah Fudge born 1804 in Sturminster and died in 1864. While walking down to the churchyard we came across a terraced house being re-thatched. Although we have thatched cottages in Kent I had never seen a re-thatch before. As well as having many of my ancestors in Sturminster Newton I also had many in Sherborne where my gg grandparents ran a bakery and pub. I also had a gg grandmother Mary Young nee Percy who had about 6 houses built with the help of her son Caleb and had her initials M.A.Y. marked on a plaque on each house in Sherborne. I hope to return in the near future to this lovely county. Oh yes, by the way. My op. went well and I am still here to tell the tale!!!
With best wishes, Pam Steward