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From: John Smith
Message: Great Site! Check out my East Kent Railway Web Site:
eastkentrailway.members.easyspace.com
From: charles hampson
Message: Well done John,I like it. I think your site is very good and
well worth a visit.
OK I am a resident of Staple and perhaps a little biased,
but nevertheless, excellent, well done.
Next time I see you in the Pig,the first pint is on me.
PS the next pint is on you of course.Cheers
From: [email protected]
Message: was informed of your website by a member of the KFHS Global
Branch
of which we are members. Ivor comes from the area, so we are finding this website
of great interest. Have not yet looked at everything, but have put it in our "bookmarks"
and will
definitely be coming back to it. Well done and best wishes from New Zealand.
From: John Marshall
Message: A very interesting and enjoyable site, well done.
From: [email protected]
Message: Recommended by KFHS.
My 7g grandfather left Staple for
Mass. in 1635 or thereabouts.
From: Mrs Worwood ([email protected])
Message: May I congratulate you on an excellent web-site,
beautifully and carefully presented, it is a delight to
browse.
From: Christopher Formaggia/[email protected]
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/2750/index.html
Message: I was delighted to find the photo of Whitegate [Church
Farm].
My Grandparents Ernsesto Tomaso Giuseppe [Tom] and Dorothy Formaggia
owned Whitegate in the 1960s and 1970s - They lived there with my Grandmother's
two sisters Olive and Enid Engall [Enid is still alive]. I lived at Whitegate, as a baby,
in 1967 and stayed there frequently afterwards. I still think of the house as home
I would love to hear from any people who remember my family
Well done on a fabulous web-site.
From: Andrew
URL: http://www.daytripper.org.uk
Message: Wonderful site. It was a great pleasure stopping by.
From: john robert newing ([email protected]
Message: Found this website fascinating, especially the Black Pig
Harry Newing was my grandfather. The views inside brought back many memories.
The restaurant used to be my grandmother's living room. We used to visit our relatives
at the Black Pig on Sundays by bus from Great Mongeham and then walked down the
road to the pub. There used to be a barn out the back and my sister and I used to play in
and around the old engine that was kept in the barn . My auntie May (Richards) used to
take us in the sweet shop which was on the side of the pub. My mother told me of a priest
hole upstairs where they had opened it and discovered a fire back that had obviously been used
as a fire grate and had been there for many years. She also said there was a well under the floor
of the function ;room. I remember the black pigs out the front of the pub ;in the area which is now
the car park. My father was born at the pub (Henry Jefford Newing). He worked for the local
blacksmith in the village before he joined the army in 1933.A real trip down memory lane.
From: Sarah
URL: http://
Message: Well cool... Thanks again for the lift to uni... Nice website must have taken forever!
Hope you actually got round to making dinner and aren't living off of cornish ;pasties and weetabix
in front of your computer... :)... Sarah ( [email protected] )
From: Rebecca Joy
Message: I found it really helped me on my homework and it was ;really easy to use.
From: Pat James [email protected]
Message: Staple sounds like the kind of place I'd like to visit on
my next trip to Kent. Thank you for this interesting site.
From: john brookes
URL: http://[email protected].
Message: this is a very interesting site
From: john brookes
URL: http://[email protected].
Message: does anyone out there know the brookes family from around that area?
From: Peter Burtenshaw ([email protected])
Message: Almost 37 years ago I was born in the Black Pig at Staple.
Before you get the wrong idea my late grandparents Albert (Bert) and Gladys (May) Richards.
They were the licensees and the pub was not open at the time.
(I was very inconsiderate and ;decided to arrive early in the morning).
I spent many happy weekends at the Pig or up at what was then East View
(next to the village hall) where my uncle and his family lived. Thank you for putting
Staple on the map, the photo's brought back many memories.
Should the Or Dee family who had a weekend home in the area happen to visit this site perhaps
they would get in touch as it is many many years since we saw them.
They have a
daughter, Rebecca who is about my age...
From: Trish Burtenshaw
Message: What a fabulous site, May and Albert Richards of the Black
Pig were my Grandparents, so I am very familiar with the area. I have just enjoyed a trip
down memory
lane, many thanks.Trish Burtenshaw
From: Angela Leith ([email protected])
Message: I was born at 'East View' Mill Road.some years ago, from the garden
I could just see the Black Pig, where my Nan and Grandad lived,, May & Bert Richards.
Many happy hours playing
with the pigs, oh! and Trish & Pete.Smashing site.
From: Val Fleming @[email protected]
Message: Staple website was walking down memory lane. My brother Tony and I were borne
at the Black Pig in the 1940's, the Newing's were our Grandparents, and I lived there till 1942
then we moved to a cottage next door for a while but moved back to the Pig 'till my father
returned from the war. Then we came to Canterbury. Both our parent's are buried in Staple <
churchyard.
Excellent website. Well done.
From: [email protected]
Message: Does anybody know how to get in contact with a natreopath
for allergy testing by using a hair sample? Ben
From: [email protected]
Message: Hi - I just found your site and was fascinated as my surname is Staple.
I am orginally from Birmingham but am ;now living in Sydney, Australia - and wonder
if any of my ancestors are actually from the village. I believe that of them was Bishop
Thomas Staple who was something to do with Barnstaple. There never seem to
be many of us ;without an 's' on the end of the Staple. Your site is terrific - I've bookmarked
it to take a real tour later...
From: Rachael Joy/[email protected]
Message: Thank you, this has helped me in my homework, and I have managed
to get very high standard pieces of work
From: Ralph Couzens
Message: Very Interesting Site
From: Andycabs Taxis
Message: Pleased to see such a good web site, also nice to see the <br> villages advertising equally as strong as the big boys!
From: [email protected]
Message: I am a student studying in Manchester, it's great to have a taste of home at the click
of a button! I live just outside Staple during the holidays, and you may have seen
me behind the bar at the Black Pig during the summer!
From: mark summerfield/ [email protected]
Message: Do you have any relatives in Canada that you know of??
From: James Driscoll - [email protected]
Message: Excellent site - glad to see the village is still going strong. The tour is very
good
I certainly miss that view across to Ash/Shatterling from Lower Road - maybe that's
living in London for the last 13 years!
From: [email protected]
Message: Just visiting from Australia,Melbourne to be exact. Used to
live in nearby Betteshanger village.
From: Hayden Waring
URL: http://users.tinyworld.co.uk/moomin_troll/
Message: Very impressive. I can see you have enjoyed making this site !
I don't think anyone could create a more
comprehensive web site. Great stuff !
From: Jim Bradley-- [email protected]
Message: Lived in Staple 1949 to 1963. Fourth from left, back row, school photograph
in old pictures section. Can name just about all the other kids. Now living in Selkirk, Scotland.
Any contact from Staple natives of that era welcome. Glad
;to assist with memories of my time in the village.
From: Deborah Hayward Eaton
URL: http://seh.ox.ac.uk/library/DHECV.htm
Message: Finally I am able to find out about the village my family
left some 365 years ago to go to Massachusetts. The site
is excellent in every way. Thank you.
From: Stephanie Miller , [email protected]
Message: Wow! What a jewel of a site. It's been 22 years since I was last in Kent
(graduated from UKC in '80) but my roots go deeper than that. My Dad was
at Barnsole cottages. If anyone has any information, or knows of someone who might
know anything about Albert ;Henry Cooper, known as "Bob", his young wife
Dorothy "Minnie" and their infant son David who lived in the village c.1930-1932
PLEASE contact me.Stephanie Miller nee Cooper,
Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA
From: [email protected]
Message: Just discovered this site. Lived in Staple until 1953.
Pleased to find my article in Bygone Kent included.
Hope present occupiers of "Fancy's Folly" (formerly "The;Nursery") are happy there. I am the last of my family alas!
From: Paul Spencer
URL: http://www.action4brickhill.co.uk
Message: Great site. It was a pleasure stopping by.
From: Phil Martin [email protected]
Message: I visited Staple in the seventies and early eighties.
A most delightful place. This site has inspired me to visit on my next trip.
Phil in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.
From: Anne Jolin
Message: Brilliant website, although once again, Shatterling seems the Cinderella in terms
of information, pictures etc. Would really be interested to know more about the history of
our house, Shatterling House, or it's former owners. Will put your website onto "favourites"
and show the rest
of the family
From: [email protected]
Message: I see the Black Pig want to extend and build a 6 bedroom
hotel. If this goes ahead, this will enable expats to come back to the village.
How do the locals view the extension?
From: [email protected]
Message: what a comprehensive & beautifully designed website for
our village - congratulations to whoever contributed! Try searching a couple of my
local villages - Belbroughton
& Chaddesley Corbett (N.Worcs). Liz Harvey
From: Adeline Setterfield ([email protected])
Message: Very interesting and well constructed site. I am
researching the Setterfield family tree - it all started in
the 1600's in Wingham. If anybody has any information to
add to my database, please contact me.
From: Tony Goodman
URL: http://www.canterbury-district-pgl.co.uk
Message: Nice site
From: [email protected]
Message: My name is Jon Harvey I live at what was an old pub in Cop Street called
the Wheatsheaf, just outside Ash. Do you ;know anything about this pub? I am desperately
trying to find some old pictures and history of the pub, which I <;believe was built in 1925.
I think it shut somewhere around 28 years ago!
It was a Gardeners Brewery Pub, hence my viewing the web
site on the Black Pig. If you can help or point me in the right direction I would
be extremely grateful.
Best Regards, Jon Harvey
From: [email protected]
URL: http://www,faversham.org
Message: As one who has just started putting our Teynham News onto
the Faversham website I am rather encouraged and impressed ;by your site. It will spur me on
to possibly have a
separate Teynham village site for our historical records.
From: Irene Baldock
Message: Came across this site when looking for Summerfield Nurseries Staple.
Excellent, comprehensive information site of a piece of Kent that is very
interesting and pretty
and historic.
From: [email protected] (Sherry)
Message: If you know Charlotte Phillips or Ian Hylands please give
them my e-mail address and ask them to get in touch...just
want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!
From: [email protected]
Message: What a wonderful website! I lived in Staple at 3 Church Cottages from 1947 to 1954.
Our next-door neighbours were the Beer family - if anyone knows them I would love to hear
from them. I have just found one long-lost friend, Norah Cory, through a friend of hers whose
son was on Friends Reunited. I went to the Village School and my headmistress was Mrs
Waterhouse. If anyone has any information about her I would be most grateful.
I kept in touch until I received a ;letter from her son saying she had moved to a nursing home,
having gone blind. Unfortunately he neglected to give me an address. I don't suppose she
is still alive because it was some years ago. I found another girl I used to know at school,
Valerie Marsh, on Friends Reunited, saying she still lived in the village. I sent her an
e-mail some time ago but received no reply. It is possible she does not check her
e-mail very frequently or does not have her own computer but I would love to get in touch,
should she wish to. The other person I would love to hear from is Janet Cumberland - I saw
her many years ago at Mrs. Waterhouse's flat in Deal - I believe she went to the Guildhall
School of Music. I'm not sure if her parents still live in the village.
My husband, John & I do come down to Staple occasionally and could meet anyone
who would be interested - the Black Pig sounds lovely!
Patricia (Rosemary) Relle (nee Mount)
From: Patricia Relle
Message: Re Jon Harvey's request for information about the Wheatsheaf: I lived at Westmarsh
from 1942 to 1947 and can remember the old Wheatsheaf pub at Cop Street
It was a stop on the 74(?) bus route to Sandwich! Is there still a bus service and, if so,
is it still a stop on the timetable? I moved to Staple in 1947. I had a few spare
moments so had a look on the 'net for Kent pub history - I expect you have done some research
yourself but, if not, you might find these websites useful?
http://www.btinternet.com/~steven.williams1/pubpgintro.htm
http://www.breweryhistory.com/LINKSA.HTM
http://www.uk-history.co.uk/phs.htm
http://members2.boardhost.com/natpubbrew/
From: Peter Davies [email protected]
Message: My Ellender forebears populated the Staple/Wingham area in
;victorian times. Pleased to hear from anyone with an
interest in the name. Great site!!
From: [email protected]
Message: An excellent site, I have spent hours looking at all it contains, well done!
From: Chris White of [email protected]
Message: Anyone please with relations married to the White family Church Street
Woodnesborough - my Great Aunt, Jane
Martha White married Charles Fells Bayly in July 1897.
From: peter staples - [email protected]
Message: I made a brief visit to Staple last year. My interest is the possibility that my
forebears came from there. In the 1650s they were settled in Knockholt
and lived in that
area until the 20th century.
From: henry whybourn
URL: http://[email protected]
Message: i delivered groceries in the nonington area from appox.1942
to 1946 for a l.J Bartlett who resided in the staple area. Does anybody remember him ?
If so would like to hear from
you.
From: Darlene Dove - [email protected]
Message: Hi, great site, I hope maybe you can help me find out info on the
Holy Innocents Church, Adisham. My mom was British and lived in what I believe
was called the Elm House. I understand that it was the old carriage house belonging
to the church. I have spent hours trying to find pictures of the old church and Elm House
I would appreciate any
help or references you could give me. Thanks Darlene USA
From: [email protected]
Message: My Great Grandfather William Bayly lived here and married Amelia Friend both
of the village around 1860. Are there any members of either family still living in the area?
I would be very pleased to hear of any further information.
Hoping to hear from you.
From: [email protected]
Message: researching Port and Bushell families from the Staple/Woodnesborough
area.
Dawn Hurst New Zealand
From: Tony Audley
Message: I entered Staple in the search engine, seeking to find the Garden
Centre.
I found it, Summerfield, and found this
site very easy and quick to use, and interesting.
From: Andy Markwick - [email protected]
Message: What a great site. Has anyone seen Alfie, (Bullows)???
Born around 1951.
From: Robert S Lawrence 1 Grasmere Tressace Apt 4 Massena NY 13662 USA
[email protected]
Message: I found your pages great notes of study. I enjoyed all that
you feature.
Canada is just North of us and I drive to Ottawa and Montreal Que. Thanks for the tour. Bob
From: [email protected]
Message: Viewing your site brings back many happy childhood
memories. Grandad was Richard Kemp-mill owner until 1954,
father Lewis(Link) and aunt Eva Joiner. Staple was second home to me in 1950/1960s.
I can still smell that delicious bread and cakes coming out of the mill ovens!!
My father would have enjoyed seeing all the old photos-sadly he
passed away in April this year. Mum (Joyce) played the organ for Sunday services
at St. James's Church during the 1930/1940s.
Good luck for your venture in the future. Best
wishes Mike Kemp (Nonington)
From: Jill Williams formerly Giles
Message: Great site! Well done .Bought back many memories of when I for Mr Vickers and Mr Jinx in the 60's.
From: Jim Bradley-- [email protected]
Message: Happy New Year to all in Staple. I was back for a look last summer.
Things have changed but the place is still much the same as in my time as a resident.
Pleased to hear from anyone who remembers the tall thin lad who kept
falling off his bike!
Jim Bradley
From: Mr Stephen Fagg
Message: Viewed your site and was very impressed with the pictures
and history content as my family line was established in this village and
exploded into South Kent.
http://www.faggfamily.co.uk
From: Wolfgang B�chner ([email protected])
URL: http://www.ockbert.de
Message: This is a marvellous website! I loved to klick through the
photo-tour,
the old postcards and all the useful ;information (maps, bus schedule...)
But best of all: It helped me find friends that I haven't seen for years.
Thank you so much!
From: Paul Deverson ([email protected])
URL: http://www.pauldeverson.com
Message: Great site. Well designed. I have traced my family back to the 1550s in Staple.
Then spelled Devison or Devyson, a number of children were
baptised at St James Church. Their father was a John Dubesses who died in 1584.
We have the will. Dubesses was often linked to Devison as an alias at the time
but the name diasppears altogether during the 1600s.
Does anyone out there have any information about the
Dubesses name?
From: Brian Kavanagh
URL: http://beekayvic.tripod.com
Message: Great site. I was in Canterbury a few years ago and nowwish that I'd been
able to visit Staple. Will make a point of it next time!
Cheers to
all. Brian
From: Deborah Forster
URL: http://[email protected]
Message: My brother lives in Staple. It's a wonderful village. He has sent me this web
site to keep in touch. I hope you will too.
Deb Forster
From: Sandra
URL: http://www.johnofgaunt.de
Message: Hi John...I read your text about Katheryn of the Staples
It was Katheryne Swynford, who was meant. She lived mostly in
a house in Lincoln, near the staples/stable (depot) of John of Gaunt.
At the time, when ;the money-gifts where granted to her,
she wasn�t already married to John of Gaunt, he was still married with
Constance of Catile, so the Gifts had to be covered a bit
This stable still exists today, if you search google for John of Gaunt stable,
you may find some pictures.
;Lot of Greetings from Germany,
Sandra
From: [email protected]
Message: Hi i'm Derrick david-staple living in London England.
I'ts so nice to know my name is so popular in USA
ie The staples centre /Neville Staple from the band The Specials/Fun Boy Three.
Also The Staples singers and so on.
Keep up the good work - keep staple alive.
DD-staple 05/May/2004
From: Echion0203@yahoo
Message: My Friend claims he is related to John of Gaunt and he most
likley be an heir to the Lancaster Castle!
Is there any way
I could find out if this is true!
From: Jim Bradley
URL: http://[email protected]
Message: Re: Echion 0203`s message. Iif his pal is descended from
John of Gaunt he is more liekly to inherit Dunstanburgh Castle on the Northumberland
Coast. It is in ruins and currently operated by the National Trust.
He should maybe think about a house in Staple, the climate is much better
and it has the benefit of two good pubs within walking distance.
JB
From: Graham Robinson
URL: http://www.clicksandclicks.co.uk/sandwich-tour.htm
Message: I enjoyed the old photos and went for a short virtual tour of Staple. Thanks it was
fun
If you are agreeable I'd like to link to your site, Perhaps you might like to link
to my tour of Sandwich (link ;above).
;My email is graham[at]grahamandmarion[dot]co
(change [at] &
[dot] to @/.)
From: JosBayles'aol.com
URL: http://
Message: Hi, I'm still researching the Love family who were in the ;Staple area during the
1800's. My particularly branch (one Stephen Love) supposedly had 3 children
(illegitimately I'm ;surmising) as I have never found baptism records using his
his wife's names. He was transported for bigamy in 1833. But his parents remained
in Staple......does anyone know anything of the Love family 1800s?
Regards Ingrid.
P.S good Luck Matt with your project!
From: Terry
URL: http://www.businessbrainstorm.co.uk
Message: Hi, fascinating site - I'm looking forward to visiting
Staple in the very near future.
From: Julie Edwards
URL: http://[email protected],uk
Message: What a beautiful website. Very well presented and I have learnt
a lot about the history of The Black Pig.
From: [email protected]
Message: I did enjoy looking at the postcards of Staple as my
greatgrandfather
came from staple.I was very interested to see the parish church St. James,
as James Page my gt.grandfather was baptised there in 1833!
Many thanks and kind regards,
Gwyneth.
From: Nicky
URL: http://www.kentradio.co.uk
Message: Hi guys. Great to see a website like this.
Keep up good work
From: Terry Coleman [email protected]
Message: Very good site John. I remember you and your brother David
from Ash. My silence can be bought !!!!!!
I have a connection with Staple through my mother.
She was <br> born in 1922 in the cottages by Black Pond Farm at
Flemmings. Her mother was Edith Chandler, her father Cyril Chandler.
Her mothers brother was non other than Ted Rye,
;for she was one of the Rye tribe. There were dozens of them.
Apparently.As a child I used to spend some of the summer school holidays
hop picking (the gardens opposite the church) I can still smell them!
I`ve only to get a whiff of methalated spirits and condensed milk to be transported
back ! The mud, the nettles and those strange hairy bugs that we used to call Hop Dog
Message: Staple is great! I've stayed there loads of time and have some great memories.
We used to stay in Bassetts. I ;believe someone lives there now.
I really loved that
;house. Always dreamt of buying it.
From: Liz Shorter
Message: What a refeshing change from the typical village website.
Loved the pictorials and the layout. Award well deserved
From: Sheila MacKinnon nee Ashman. [email protected]
Message: Really enjoyed your picture tour. Brought back many memories.
I grew up in Staple, (Jubilee Cottages)we moved there in 1946/47 and
I left for Canada 1963. My Grandfather Edward Bean lived
at and ran Summerfield Farm ;for many years. My cousin Ron Sears
and his wife started Summerfield Nurseries. I emigrated to Canada in
1963 after;obtaining my S.R.N from Ramsgate and Margate Hospitals.
Would love to make contact if anyone out thiere remembers me.
E mail address: [email protected]
Keep up your work on Staple, really enjoy it.
Sheila MacKinnon nee ASHMAN.
From: N Sartain
Message: Your site gave me immense pleasure! Loved the virtual tour,
the history, and the photos and postcards
Really
exceptional site.
From: MEL HOLMES [email protected]
Message: Hi - I am planning to stay on holiday in Wingham and came
across your Website.
It is really excellent,. Thanks
From: terry Benson [email protected]
Message: Hi my name is terry benson,my wife Anne & I are finally
coming home to
England after 36 years thanks to my ;fantastic family, one of those being my
sister Jilly Johns who lives in Staple and looking forward to seeing this
beautiful town. My wife & I live in Newcastle, New South
Wales;
From: Merle Bodycomb, Edgewater, Maryland
Message: Mr K I would like to compliment you on your website:
htttp://www.staple-online.co.uk
I happened across it when I was doing an internet search for a "lynch gate"
... as I had no idea what it was. The first hit was your site showing the St. James Lynch Gate.
What a lovely collection of old photos you have, plus the many other links to your
village and surrounding areas (including maps!). You've done a marvelous job on this!
You may wonder why I was looking for a lynch gate... Our "Bodycomb" family is having a reunion
next month, here in Maryland and I've been making up some cards to put on the tables with info
on various Welsh customs. One of the cards is about Welsh funeral customs and they mention
that ;weddings and funerals alike pass through a "lynch gate". Our cousin in England who
is the guru of the Bodycomb genealogy happens to live in Bean, nr Dartford... and I'l
;have to ask her if she's ever been to your village. Many thanks for creating a wonderful website
for all to
enjoy.;
From: Dennis Gabb
Message: Congratulations on such a brilliant website. I found it very informative,
It is a pity that other Villages and Cities etc are not so organised.
We came to the Staple Fayre on Sunday. A lovely time was had by
my Wife,our elderly neighbour and myself. The organisers must have
worked hard and we hope they reached their target. They
must have exceeded their expectations as there were no programmes left
when we arrived, that is not a bad point if they reached their target.
If you can please thank all concerned for making it a lovely day,
and thank you for the great website which helped to make up our minds as
to 'where to go'. I look forward to the next time.
Yours, Dennis Gabb (Senior Citizen).;
From: Brian Kavanagh
URL: http://beekayvic.tripod.com
Message: Hopefully back in Kent soon to research a book and
will swing by Staple.
Cheers.
From: Brian Kavanagh
URL: http://beekayvic.tripod.com
Message: Hope to be in UK soon researching my new English village mystery novel and hope to get to Staple.
Cheers.
From: David Jenner
Message: I was born in Staple in March 1941. My mother, whose maiden name was Graves
had most of her family there, including two brothers, at least one sister,
and her parents. There are
still some relations living in or near Staple.
From: Michael Marsh
URL: http://www.marshtree.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Message: I am researching the Marsh Family Tree who lived in the following
areas:
Dudley, Birmingham, Wolstanton, Bromsgrove and New York, USA.
Please see my website for <br> further information
MARSH FAMILY
TREE
From: [email protected]
Message: We visited Staple as a result of viewing this website. We stayed at the 3 Tuns.
Food was excellent, accommodation good, and everyone very friendly.
We will come again and wish to thank the website compiler for bringing the villiage
to our attention.
Mark and Amanda Love
From: Neil & Joanne Bennett ([email protected])
Message: Does anyone have any old pictures of Yew Tree Cottage, Barnsole
Road,?
(The thatched cottage next to Gander Court)?
If so, we would love to see them.
Thanks!
From: Martin Tapsell [email protected]
Message: Hello - pleased to view new features on the site, including probably my
aunt Gwen in the 1918 school photo. Our family Tapsell owned the Nursery market garden in
Lower Road(Fancys Folly) until 1953, but mother found it a struggle.
We moved to Canterbury but I'm relieved the village retains much identity.
I wonder what happened to Angela Wells, the baker's daughter who played with
me and lived in Jubilee Cottages down the road? It is a long time ago now.
Martin Tapsell, Walmer, Deal
From: patti
Message: Would you be able to tell me if the Stanley Family still resides next to
The Frog and Orange Pub, in Shatterling?
Thank you.i
From: David STAPLE, [email protected]
URL: Message: Decided to Google my surname and found your website - loved
it.
I am 1st generation Australian living in Morwell,Victoria.
I have relatives living in Bristol. Hope to visit your lovely village one day
P.S I'm interested in any
;history or the origins of the name STAPLE.
From: Ian Hayler
Message: I wonder if anybody in Staple remembers my grandfather who lived in the village at the
beginning of the 20th century. We believe that he may have rented "The Nursery"
from "the Tapsell" family for a number of years before World War One.
His name was Walter Thomas and he was ;married twice. He had two daughters by his first wife,
Florence, whose names were Ivy and Lilly, I believe. Then, following Florence's death, he married my
grandmother and had three daughters and a son. Margaret ;(Molly) was the eldest,
followed by John, Phyllis and Dorothy (my mother). Molly, John and Phyllis were all
born at The Nursery (which later became "Fancy's Folly" ) but Dorothy was born at River,
near Dover, in September ;1909, as, by that time, Walter had emigrated to Canada to
start a new life for his family. When he had established ;himself there he was to have sent for
his wife and children. He found a position as a gardener in Vancouver
;from where he sent letters home for a while but then these ;ceased and nothing was ever heard from him again
My grandmother and the children moved back to Hastings to ;live with her parents as they had nowhere else to
go. My grandmother, whose maiden name was Annie Cuthbert, died in 1953; John passed away in
the 1970s and Molly and Dorothy n the 1990s. As I write, Phyllis is still alive and will
elebrate her hundredth birthday next year, 2008. For ;many years we have been trying to find out
hat happened
to Walter, and would love to hear from anybody who may know anything about him.
From: [email protected]
Message: I have just discovered that one of my ancester - Susanna ?
;Burton was born in Staple in 1799.
Sshe married William Hawkins from Wye. William was a baker. I don't know how to ;trace her.
Of anyone can who give me any help I would be
much obliged.
From: Suzannah ([email protected])
Message: I am quite stuck on my Staple line. I am looking for the ;baptism of a Rebecca STANNARD
1696 in the Parish. Would a kind soul be able to help or suggest where I could find a
researcher who has Parish Records.
From: [email protected]
Message: My ancestors, Thomas Pettit b. 1600 -1675 and his wife Margaret Dyer,
lived and acquired land in Staple, which ;was passed on to his son Thomas who
lived there his wife Jane Stoakes. His father John, b. 1572 lived in Chillenden.
Does anyone have any family history links with this family?
I would dearly like to know
Regards Pauline Willson
From: Joan Russell
Message: What a brilliant, interesting site! I am tracing my family tree and have grandparents
in my ;maternal ancestors born and living there in the 1800's. ;Does anyone have any links
or info on Jordan and Ann Simmons with a son Eli born in 1854.
A long shot I know
;but anything's worth a try.
From: GaryD
URL: http://garyd.widdington.googlepages.com/home
Message: I only wish that one day, our village web site is as good
as yours . ;Thank you
GaryD. Widdington Village
From: vivienne russell [email protected]
Message: I have just found out my great grandfather was born in staple in
1848.
I think the site is brilliant.and look
;forward to visiting. My grandfather's name was Thomas Ralph
From: Peter Lester [email protected]
Message: Thought you may enjoy watching this video of your wonderful
church.
;http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JrPmk_Q4Lnw
From: from jane day . [email protected]
Message: hello there, what a great little site.
Ii logged on to tryand find some information about our cottage, in ;shatterling,
which formed part of the great rusham;farmstead which some of was sold to the now
wingham wildlife park, back in the 1980s. Our cottage is 1850 and
we are planning to put a porch on it and we were hoping for some photos or clues
as to what it may have looked ;like back then.
From: Cherie Neale
Message: I lived in Staple for many years, we left in 1979
but still
;miss the village life.