Topics this issue include;
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| 1. eNewsletter This month's issue is much shorter than May's mostly due to my having been sorting out all of the
Powditch folders etc (Ang can at last use some of the extra worktop space in the kitchen!)
Although I still have a lot of folders to complete, at least I'm now in a much better position for
accessing information required in order for me to research some new 'avenues' re Powditch
ancestry, especially relating to the Jordeson, Hubbard family connections, etc.
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| 2. Welcome I'd like to welcome to this edition of the eNewsletters, the following who have contacted me since the
last issue;-
a. Cilla Alexander, from Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire, whose great great great grandfather
(William Hubbard) married Grace Powditch, in 1806. Cilla has been researching the Hubbard
side of her family, and is very interested in discovering more about Grace's ancestry.
b. Isobel Reyenga and Beth Sherlock, from Melbourne, Australia, who are both descended
from Josephine Sherlock who married Adolphus Victor Willcox Powditch. Although they have
been able to research much about both Josephine and Adolphus, they are finding that the
descendants of both Henry Cooke Sherlock and Emily Bairds, are far more elusive! If you do
know anything about either of those names/families, if you'd email me, I'll let Isobel and Beth
know.
c. Maria Eugenia Arrieta Larrain, from Madrid, Spain, who is searching for her Mackay
ancestors in Chile. Although at one time during our emails to each other, there was a possibility
of her Mackay ancestor having married a Powditch in Chile - Maria having originally advised me
that she was descended from the Dr John Mackay's marriage to Caroline Powditch - she later
advised me that "The only real information that I have is that the first Mackay to arrive in Chile
about 1840, met the daughter of the chief mining engineer at Lota Schwager's Company,
Mr. Smith, whom he married". As I don't have any information to connect a Mackay to a Smith, I
am hoping that one of my Chilean Powditch contacts might know something about the former.
Any information will be forwarded to Maria Eugenia.
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| 3. Website update Since my last eNewsletter (No.22), changes to the website, have included;-
 Guest Book entries (www.powditch.plus.com/homepages/entries.htm ) The homepage (www.powditch.plus.com/ ) has had its background colour changed, and also, the photograph at the top of the page has been replaced by a lovely one taken of the roof and windows Norwich Cathedral, by Pat and Peter Powditch of Adelaide.Coming soon will be the return of the various Powditch family trees, although they will be gradually
returned to the website as the format has been completely changed (hopefully for the better!) -
more details about them will hopefully be in the next eNewsletter.
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| 4. Can you help? / Changed email addresses. Further to my requests in the last eNewsletter for information re several Powditch family members
who had changed their email addresses, I have only heard about that for Tamsin Powditch (of
Bristol) - thanks very much, but if you want to re refer to the original question, you can access the
previous eNewsletter (No 22) and its contents, from
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| 5. 'Statistics'. Over the next few issues of this eNewsletter, I'll be including various statistics which are provided to
me by both my ISP as well as from other links I use, to highlight which pages of the www.powditch.plus.com/ website are looked at, what 'keywords' are used by individuals in order
to find items of interest, and also what words are entered into the 'Search' facility on the site's
homepage.
For this month, I thought that you might like to see some of the "Queries" which have been entered
into the 'Search' box on the Powditch homepage since the beginning of 2005, and would point out
that each search is shown below in the format of Day, Month, Date, Time of Query, together with the
Query itself.
Although the information does help me to see what 'visitors' are looking for, regrettably I am not
provided with details of who is reading the pages, although in the main, I do usually receive emails
from most visitors, either requesting to be added to the eNewsletter list, or advising me of family
connections etc.
Mon May 30 13:00:08 2005 (dot powditch) AND (dot powditch)
Mon May 30 12:59:57 2005 dot powditch
Mon May 23 14:27:40 2005 Roger Jones
Mon May 23 13:45:37 2005 simon atkinson
Mon May 23 13:45:07 2005 helen jones
Mon May 16 16:37:09 2005 Hoppin
Mon May 16 02:53:31 2005 cutesitebuilder
Mon May 16 02:53:07 2005 form
Mon May 16 02:36:40 2005 forms
Thu May 12 07:47:52 2005 Us history
Thu May 12 07:43:14 2005 Us history between 1500-1930's
Tue May 10 03:47:30 2005 ruby rose gore
Tue May 03 01:34:14 2005 Thomas Powditch Jordeson
Tue May 03 01:33:46 2005 Thomas Powditch
Sun May 01 22:19:47 2005 tim powditch
Sat Apr 30 09:37:43 2005 hoppin
Tue Apr 26 05:57:15 2005 harris
Tue Apr 26 04:10:01 2005 Sir Clowdisley Shovel
Thu Apr 21 02:06:33 2005 francisco
Thu Apr 21 02:06:12 2005 francisco powditch
Tue Apr 19 19:01:05 2005 palmer
Fri Apr 15 13:39:51 2005 claerwen snell
Fri Apr 15 07:46:01 2005 hammack
Sat Apr 09 23:59:29 2005 jouvelet
Wed Apr 06 14:36:51 2005 william powditch new zealand
Mon Apr 04 17:37:22 2005 jouvelet
Sat Apr 02 03:55:27 2005 James William Powditch
Wed Mar 30 10:52:56 2005 thomas powditch born 1837
Wed Mar 30 10:51:17 2005 thomas powditch
Sun Mar 27 06:21:33 2005 jennifer
Thu Mar 24 22:10:44 2005 kile
Tue Mar 22 11:38:35 2005 Coquimbo
Tue Mar 22 11:38:21 2005 Walkey
Tue Mar 22 11:22:04 2005 Carter
Sun Mar 20 10:44:18 2005 bond
Fri Mar 18 14:01:23 2005 george powditch
Fri Mar 18 14:01:00 2005 mancktelow
Thu Mar 17 06:43:32 2005 chile
Thu Mar 03 02:29:11 2005 Brig Bee
Thu Mar 03 02:18:45 2005 Bee
Tue Mar 01 16:27:35 2005 outram
Mon Feb 28 05:57:29 2005 acton
Sat Feb 26 03:09:18 2005 Dowman
Thu Feb 24 15:50:15 2005 10th field ambulance ramc 1944-45
Thu Feb 24 04:49:32 2005 figurehead carver
Mon Feb 21 17:16:57 2005 zealand
Sat Feb 19 08:51:40 2005 Caroline Powditch
Thu Feb 17 22:58:02 2005 hayhow
Thu Feb 17 06:03:57 2005 Collison
Mon Feb 14 00:35:37 2005 sowter
Mon Feb 14 00:22:39 2005 "robert sowter"
Mon Feb 14 00:21:58 2005 robert sowter
Sat Feb 12 1 1:06:43 2005 Jack Powditch
Fri Feb 11 16:51:35 2005 KOLYNOS
Fri Feb 11 16:41:56 2005 THOMAS POWDITCH, CHILE
Fri Feb 11 16:28:28 2005 Robert James Powditch Pila
Fri Feb 11 07:45:22 2005 walker
Wed Feb 09 17:46:52 2005 jewell
Thu Feb 03 22:51:06 2005 sydney gazette
Thu Feb 03 12:35:23 2005 map of were the battle was
Thu Feb 03 05:30:11 2005 summerwill
Mon Jan 31 13:03:38 2005 beach
Mon Jan 31 13:03:26 2005 vivian
Sat Jan 29 17:03:03 2005 Robert Powditch
Sat Jan 29 09:17:31 2005 haydn powditch
Sat Jan 29 09:15:22 2005 thomas powditch
Sat Jan 29 09:14:32 2005 thomas rees powditch
Fri Jan 21 16:20:13 2005 Betterton
Wed Jan 19 15:53:04 2005 Thysanotus
Wed Jan 19 15:50:07 2005 robert powditch
Wed Jan 19 15:47:14 2005 thomas powditch
Wed Jan 19 15:42:19 2005 family trees
Wed Jan 19 15:41:53 2005 robert powditch
Wed Jan 19 15:40:55 2005 carol stone
Mon Jan 17 17:44:04 2005 miss hg pritchard
Mon Jan 17 17:44:00 2005 ( miss hg pritchard) AND (Miss hg pritchard)
Mon Jan 17 17:30:25 2005 pritchard
Sun Jan 16 13:37:41 2005 valparaiso
Sat Jan 15 13:00:29 2005 howard
Fri Jan 14 04:01:22 2005 GRIMWOOD
Thu Jan 13 00:06:31 2005 croaker
Wed Jan 12 14:33:09 2005 rawson
Wed Jan 12 02:45:44 2005 thomas reese powditch
Tue Jan 11 23:37:29 2005 Emma Porrett
Tue Jan 11 19:37:26 2005 Rachael McNabb
Mon Jan 10 01:39:47 2005 Jones
Sun Jan 09 05:00:18 2005 Jordeson
Fri Jan 07 14:57:35 2005 linda murden
Thu Jan 06 14:39:07 2005 east lexham
Wed Jan 05 21:16:01 2005 murray
Tue Jan 04 14:05:50 2005 pennington powditch"
Tue Jan 04 14:03:32 2005 eve william
Well, I hope that you found the above to be of interest, especially if you had entered any of the
queries! At least you can see what many visitors are looking for.
In the next eNewsletter I will include the 'top keywords' that are used on search engines (such as
Google, AlltheWeb, Yahoo, etc) by individuals in order to find topics or people on the site
(incidentally, does anyone know what or who "Thysanotus" is? (see Jan 19 2005 above), whilst in
future eNewsletters, I'll include other details I get from my ISP (to see just the figures re 'visitors',
'hits', number of pages viewed, and much more besides, have a look at www.powditch.plus.com/Webstats/index.htm )
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| 6. 'Lost' family member. In or about the year 1959, Geoffrey Peter Powditch - who had been born in Wells-next-the-Sea,
Norfolk - emigrated to Australia, and in 1965, he was working in the area of Perth, Western Australia.
Many years ago, his step-brother, David John Powditch (who now lives in Spain) was in Australia,
and met up with Geoffrey, when they were both at a test site, but since then, neither David nor his
brother Philip (who lives in the UK) have heard anything more from or about him.
Geoffrey Peter Powditch would now be in his 70th year (his special birthday is on Christmas day),
but as to where he is living, or whether he has any family in Australia etc, has not, to date, been
discovered.
Any help that you can provide in finding him, and a contact address/telephone number etc would
be much appreciated, and I will pass on any details etc to his brothers.
Thank you.
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| 7. 'Stop Press' Having just mentioned Philip Powditch (see previous section) I thought that you would be interested
to discover that he has recently sent me copies of pages from the family bible in his possession,
together with some photos, certificates etc, for the family archive. The extracts from the bibles, in
particular, have been really helpful, especially for the family's 'side-shoots'. Are there any more
'family bibles' out there I wonder, with interesting and useful family information?
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| 8. .....and finally! If I owe you an email reply, or if I haven't telephoned you for a long while, I will do so in the near future,
and hopefully we can have a good old 'chin-wag' ! In the meantime, I do hope that you and your
family are all keeping well, and I look forward to hearing from you sometime, especially if you have
any news (either for the website or for the Powditch Archive).
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I hope that you and your family are all keeping well, and I look forward to hearing from you sometime,
especially re your thoughts and comments re the above topics.
John
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