On Kentish Chalk: A Farming Family of the North DownsDavid Gore, 2006 - 108 pages John Gore, son of Thomas Gore (1716-1780) and Ann Court, was born in 1748. He married Martha Rogers in 1775 in Badlesmere, Kent, England. They had twelve children. He died in 1825. |
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... emigrated to Canada and elsewhere , was found for us by Linda Bowditch of the Kent Family History Society ( FHS ) through a web site with the unlikely name of ' Genes Reunited ' ! Linda , who is a descendant of the Hogbin family of ...
... emigrated to Canada and elsewhere , was found for us by Linda Bowditch of the Kent Family History Society ( FHS ) through a web site with the unlikely name of ' Genes Reunited ' ! Linda , who is a descendant of the Hogbin family of ...
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... emigrated from UK to the USA ( some of these from Ireland during the potato famine 1846-47 ) . 11⁄2 million went to Canada and one million to Australia and New Zealand . 1859 Henry Gore 1840-1909 ( Eldest son of Joseph & Eliza Gore of ...
... emigrated from UK to the USA ( some of these from Ireland during the potato famine 1846-47 ) . 11⁄2 million went to Canada and one million to Australia and New Zealand . 1859 Henry Gore 1840-1909 ( Eldest son of Joseph & Eliza Gore of ...
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... Emigrated 1888-1973 Teacher Civil Engr . dsp m.Gladys Price , Banker USA 1903 of Farnham Royal . dsp . The twins emigrated m.Lylian 1955 Ret . Ilfracombe , to Canada c.1913 Warren Olive Hall Joan Charles Elsie Hamilton Cranleigh dsp d ...
... Emigrated 1888-1973 Teacher Civil Engr . dsp m.Gladys Price , Banker USA 1903 of Farnham Royal . dsp . The twins emigrated m.Lylian 1955 Ret . Ilfracombe , to Canada c.1913 Warren Olive Hall Joan Charles Elsie Hamilton Cranleigh dsp d ...
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... emigrated to the New World , and the fourth , Harold , had found a lucrative career with the Westminster Bank in London . So , in 1914-15 , the business was sold to a James Woollard . Robert continued to live in Herne Bay , by Victoria ...
... emigrated to the New World , and the fourth , Harold , had found a lucrative career with the Westminster Bank in London . So , in 1914-15 , the business was sold to a James Woollard . Robert continued to live in Herne Bay , by Victoria ...
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... emigrated to Canada c.1913 The twins , Percy and William , both emigrated to Ontario , Canada in about 1913. Percy worked on various dairy farms there , as he had done on his father's at Herne Bay . Meanwhile , William journeyed south ...
... emigrated to Canada c.1913 The twins , Percy and William , both emigrated to Ontario , Canada in about 1913. Percy worked on various dairy farms there , as he had done on his father's at Herne Bay . Meanwhile , William journeyed south ...
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Page 77 - From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe.
Page 59 - Good morning; good morning!" the General said When we met him last week on our way to the line. Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead, And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine. "He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up- to Arras with rifle and pack.
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Page 54 - Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young.
Page 59 - He's a cheery old card,' grunted Harry to Jack As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack. But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
Page 24 - The Farmer will never be happy again ; He carries his heart in his boots ; For either the rain is destroying his grain Or the drought is destroying his roots.
Page 33 - ... some few of which they kill, they destroy numbers of hares, pheasants, partridges, and in short whatever comes in their way, breaking down the hedges, and doing much other mischief, and in the evening betaking themselves to the alehouses, finish their career there, as is usual with such sort of gentry.
Page 46 - The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk.
Page 25 - ... carry more stock and maintain it without falling off during the winter months. For the light sands of Norfolk turnips possessed a special value. Roots, fed on the ground by sheep, fertilised and consolidated the poorest soil. Another portion of the crop, drawn off and stored for winter keep, helped the farmer to keep more stock, to obtain more manure, to enrich the land, to increase its yield, to verify the truth of the proverb " A full bullock-yard and a full fold make a full granary.
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