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| December 2006 |
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No Guest-Book messages received during December 2006
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27.11.2006
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Carl Rijmen
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UK(?)
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"I found your website on the internet and found the
information you gave about Raymond Vernon Powditch
of interest. I'm a historian doing research into the
6th Airborne Division and I was wondering if you have a
picture of this gentleman. On the other hand I'm willing
to share the information I have on him relating his time in
6th AD, which I hope to include in a list of officers I've
compiled relating that division. Best wishes."
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23.11.2006
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Libby
Shade
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Australia
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"Hello folks
Just to let you know that I have finished a grand rehash
of the Southon [family] tree and it now contains large
amounts of census information.
All the best
Libby
See Website: http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lshade "
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25.10.2006
08.36
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Sue
Palin
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UK
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"Many thanks for very interesting and useful info" [about
the Clemerson family].
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13.10.2006
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C. Cook
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UK
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"I have just been to Southwold , trying to find gravestones
for my mother's family. I stumbled on your website and it
is wonderful."
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| September 2006 |
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7.09.2006
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Doris Blackman
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UK
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"I have been looking at your wonderful web-site, must
have taken ages to set up but I suspect you enjoyed
every minute."
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| August 2006 |
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31.08.2006
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Macarena Lara Powditch
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France
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"It was really amazing to find all the familly history. Congratulations, you have donne a really good job !!!!"
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21.08.2006
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Barbara
Spall
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UK
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"I would like to thank you for making it possible with the
hard work you have put into researching the Powditch
history and without which it would have been really quite
impossible to know all the details etc."
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18.08.2006
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Petra
Ackroyd
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UK
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"I've just remembered that my cousin, Bridget Hunter,
gave me your email address because she remembered
that one of my family names is Algar. I haven't done any
research for several years and didn't actually get very
far, but wondered if you were in contact with Anthony
Elgar who is doing a one name group and has a vast
amount of information.
My paternal grandfather's mother came from an Algar
family.
Good hunting!
I've had a quick look at your very comprehensive site,
John - no wonder you have no spare time."
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25.07.2006
12.10
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Herbert
Williams
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Wales
(UK)
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"I'm AMAZED by your websites. How on earth have you
managed to put so much together in such an
extraordinarily vivid way? It must have taken you ages
to research so much and devise a method of getting
across so much information in such a cogent and
pictorial way. You certainly make the most of your talents."
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18.07.2006
04.01
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John
Page
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USA
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"I am enjoying exploring the Chilean section of your Powditch website. I appreciate all the work you have done to put it together."
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| June 2006 |
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No Guest-Book messages received during June 2006
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| May 2006 |
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27.05.2006
13.57
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Maureen
O'dea
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USA
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"I came across your site I don't quite know how . You
know how one can stumble acroos things on the 'net."
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07.05.2006
09.38
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Carina
Powditch
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Australia
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"I think it is fantastic that you have been such a great
investigator & pieced together a very hard puzzle.
If there is anything that you need to know & think I may
be able to help you with please don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks again."
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22.04.2006
05.49
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Josie
Accetta
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Australia
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"Dear John I have noticed some information on you website of the Jouvelet's that needs updating."
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21.04.2006
09.53
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Mike
Powles
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UK
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"Many thanks for your web site and for putting us in
contact. Best of luck with your continuing research."
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05.04.2006
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Dean
Hoey
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Australia
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"I have just been checking out your web site, and it's
great."
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04.04.2006
08.46
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Ted & Maggie Broadbent
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Australia
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"whilst visiting my son [mark] for his birthday last week,
we got on the computer and found his name on the
powditch web site. it was great to see our family there.
Now that I can see the powditch site, I will visit it often."
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01.04.2006
11.38
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Dorothy
Gunnersen
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UK
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"I am amazed & impressed by what you have done with your web site etc."
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30.03.2006
14.43
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Charlotte
Powditch
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UK
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"Thank you for keeping the details of the family alive."
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03.03.2006
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Mark
Tunaley
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UK
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"I came across your website whilst researching my own name Tunaley."
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| February 2006 |
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14.02.2006
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Ann
Boyd
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UK
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"Just on the off chance, I put Morston into a search
engine, and your web site, which mentions a family
called Wood appears, came up. Could you tell me if the
Woods owned Morston Hall Farm please? I see that
there is a Morston Hall Hotel - is that the same place?"
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| January 2006 |
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05.01.2006
08.17
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Anne Willoughby
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Tokyo
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"My Powditch descent is through Margaret Powditch (1758-1830), daughter of Margaret Bell (1733-1790) and Thomas Powditch (1727(?) -1774). She was also grand daughter of Thomas Powditch and Grace Kitteridge (christened 1697). Grace came from the Lowestoft area of Suffolk and her husband (whom she married in 1725 in Lowestoft, after the baptism of a son, Thomas Kitteredge, earlier that year) and moved to North Shields in Northumberland. My ancestor Margaret Powditch was thus an aunt of William Powditch (1795-1872)."
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03.01.2006
09.47
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Susan
Hawes
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Victoria,
Australia
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"I am interested in tracing my fathers family who migrated to Chile around 1859. I have always wanted to find information about my great great grandmother, who migrated to Chile with her children after her husband died in 1859. I don't know of a connection between my family and the Powditch family but as I know very little and am not sure how to go about researching this, I am also interested in other British migrants in the 1800s. I know my Grandfather was born in Tarapaca and have been searching a number of geneology websites."
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| December 2005 |
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31.12.2005
23.08
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Eddie
Moore
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UK
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"Firstly a big thank you for your web site. I had seen your
site a couple of years ago but only given it a brief
perusal. I'm kicking myself now, had I read more than
chapter 5 (e.g. chapter 4), I would have seen the
confirmation of Victoria's birth in the US."
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23.12.2005
05.07
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Linda
Hudson
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Australia
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"....congrats on a great job!"
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22.12.2005
18.15
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Chris
Worpole
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UK
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"Thanks for the newsletters. I really enjoy reading them."
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18.12.2005
09.21
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Pamela
Wainman
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UK
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"You are such a busy person! So much energy and so
committed that you put others in the shade!"
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06.12.2005
14.03
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Jonathan Powditch Palmer
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Chile
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"Once again, keep up the good work."
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| November 2005 |
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24.11.2005
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John
Woodland
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Australia
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"My interest in John Diston Powles goes back some
years now! I was a geologist before my early
(involuntary) retirement in 1999 . For about 20 years
prior to this, I was involved in exploration and gold
mining in Victoria - including work at the town of Clunes.
This was the site of the Port Phillip and Colonial Gold
Mining Company's highly successful gold mine between
1857-91. The Port Phillip Company was the only
success story out of about 70 London-based
companies floated during the 'gold bubble' of the early
1850s.
After retiring I decided to put some of my knowledge to
use, so I wrote a book on the company, published in
mid-2001 to coincide with the 150th anniversary of gold
discovery in Victoria. At the same time I completed an
M.A. in history at La Trobe University - this is
accessible online at www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/thesis/ public/adt-LTU20041222.162756/.
I am now doing my PhD at La Trobe, on the first phase
of company gold mining in Australia, looking at all the
London-based 'gold bubble' companies plus a number
formed in Australia.
The Powles connection is that J.D.Powles promoted the
Port Phillip Company, and became its chairman and a
major shareholder until his death in 1867. He was the
uncle of Rivett Henry Bland, who was the Australian
director of the company, and directly responsible for its
success here. Powles promoted/chaired/directed and
was a major shareholder in at least 15 other companies,
(I'm still coming across them!) many in Latin America,
between 1824 and about 1860. They included the
English and Australian Copper Company, formerly
[Low's] Patent Copper Company which operated the
Spitty smelters before moving to Burra, South Australia;
and the St. John d'el Rey Mining Company, which
developed one of the world's biggest gold mines at
Morro Velho, Brazil. I keep coming across links between
him and other companies, and fellow directors such as
Henry William Schneider [Barrow-in -Furness] and
James Vetch [Real del Monte, Mexico].
My present references to the Mexican and South
American Company are largely letters written to The
Times and the [London] Mining Journal by one of
Powles critics, Christopher Richardson.
I intend to use J. D. Powles to illustrate the role played
by 19th century company promoters and directors. To
this end, I am seeking any information I can get on him,
especially anything that will give me a feel for him as a
person. I came across the 'John Wiston Poles - Mexican
and South American Company' connection by Googling;
the particular web address that led me to you was
Sorry about the length of this email, but there is a lot to
try to explain! I would be grateful for any help you can
give me.
Cheers, John"
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23.11.2005
13.19
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Anna
Manucci
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Bologna,
Italy
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"Thank you very much for the prompt information you
send me, and happy to read that in some way I could
help you.
We didn't write articles about this tsunami, we just
prepared a presentation at University for high school
students, so we didn't find anything new about this
tsunami.
You can find some tsunami data in the web site
and others information on this article:
Wm. H. Berninghausen (1962), Tsunami reported from
the West coast of south America 1562-1960, BSSA
Vol 52, No 4, pp 915-921.
If you are interested in what we do this is our web site,
we have to complete it
but you can find some works.
if you need other information contact us."
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20.11.2005
13.01
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Barry
Cairns
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Australia
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"I do appreciate watching the progress of the website
and the connections that are developing. Naturally I am
ever hopeful that more may surface about William
Powditch in Australia, and about his descendants."
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19.11.2005
01.27
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John
Woodland
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Australia
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"I am researching John Diston Powles and his
entrepreneurial activities as part of my PhD thesis.
I am interested in any information about his promotion
and management of Latin American companies,
including the Mexican and South American Company.
I would be grateful for any help you could provide.
Thanks."
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16.11.2005
23.57
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Cathrynne
Powditch
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UK
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"I am the grand-daughter of Thomas Rees Powditch
who was born in Splott, Cardiff in 1919.
I was just wondering whether you had any information
on my Grand-father, for I never met him as he passed
away 4 years before I was born. Any information would
be greatly appreciated. Many thanks."
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16.11.2005
21.44
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Jack
Farley
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UK
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"I can not remember Powditch's first name, but he was
a member of Stan Weir's crew ,like myself - a wireless
operator / air gunner
We were part of the squadron detachment that flew
from Donna Nook, in Lincolnshire, to take part in the
1000 bomber raid in 1942 on Bremen."
N.B. 'Powditch's first name' was John, and he lived in
Cardiff (South Wales) up to his death
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13.11.2005
11.42
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Marjorie
Powditch
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Cardiff
(Wales)
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"Thank you so much for your last e-mail, so interesting,
I must say you work very hard on getting all the
information that you do."
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07.11.2005
12.47
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Sheila
Mughal
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UK
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"Hi John:
We have quite a few Morts from Wales on our website
www.mortfamily.net and we are now wondering if
there is a Welsh connection to this name.
Just to let you know we are here if anyone does have
an interest in this name.
Sheila"
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07.11.2005
09.51
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Alan
Powditch
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Narberth
(Wales)
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"Just to let you know that Robert asked me to tell you
that Leanne is expecting."
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06.11.2005
18.09
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Mitchell
Owens
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Sharon
Springs,
NY USA
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"I am trying to track down the archives of Millar & Harris,
in the hopes of searching through it for images required
for a forthcoming book about the English decorator
Syrie Maugham. I came across your website and
hoped that, as a former employee of M&H, you might
have an idea about the fate of M&H's collections."
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05.11.2005
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"I appriciate your project. It`s cool"
(This message was on a feedback form.but regrettably
no further details were provided!)
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03.11.2005
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Ian
LeHuray
Powditch
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UK
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"keep up the good work.
i find it all very interesting."
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03.11.2005
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Terry
Kirkman
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Dorset
(UK)
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"Many thanks for the latest (October) eNewsletter -
received all present and correct.
On reading through the newsletter, I realised that now
we have established my grandfather's connection to
the Powditch family, there is another batch of
descendants in Australia from a different source.
My Grandfather Kelly had four surviving children - two
sons and two daughters. The younger daughter,
Dorothy Minnie, married my father Frank Kirkman in
1919 in East Wretham, Norfolk. Her sister Olive
Winifred married Albert Lewin Miller also in East
Wretham in 1920. My Auntie Olive (Bobby) and Uncle
'Bert moved to North London where their only child,
Joy was born.
Joy eventually married Douglas Brailsford and they
moved with their three children to Rayleigh, Essex in
the 1960's. On retirement, my Auntie and Uncle moved
next door to them in Rayleigh. Joy and Douglas then
emigrated to Australia hoping that their parents would
follow but Uncle Bert died suddenly and so they built a
granny annexe in Australia for my Auntie.
My Auntie died there in Adelaide in 1988 and sadly my
cousin Joy died earlier this year. However the rest of
the family still reside in Adelaide and of course the
three children are now grown up with families of their
own. So yet another branch of the Powditch family can
be added to the tree. I hope my explanation of the
lineage is clear."
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02.11.2005
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Robin Ewbank
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Hampshire
(UK)
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"Thanks. I will contact Murray. I did a lot more work on
the tree since I sent it to you. So here it is again,
including the earlier generations (same file name as
before but updated; look for the Macdonald page).
Robin."
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02.11.2005
09.13
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Faye and Bob
Edwards
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Melbourne
(Australia)
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"Glenda rang to let me know about our long lost
ancestors. We are thrilled to have a connection at last.
We don't know where James born 1813 died but we
feel that from Grandma's family stories he was
probably was living in New Zealand at one stage. He
was a mystery man. He disappeared from the English
Census and then Pleasance remarried.
Lovely to receive our long awaited connection. I notice
that you have a question mark as to the husband of
Cassandra. Would his name be on the marriage
certificate which you have?"
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01.11.2005
03.16
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Barry
Cairns
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Australia
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"I do appreciate watching the progress of the website
and the connections that are developing. Naturally I am
ever hopeful that more may surface about William
Powditch in Australia, and about his descendants.
The recent references to Pennington Powditch interest
me. When William Powditch was in Newcastle there
was also a Joseph Pennington. He came to Australia
in 1822 on the “Heroine” with his wife Ann, his daughter
Julia, and Sarah his wife’s daughter by her first
marriage. Sarah married the Reverend George
Middleton of Newcastle and they were my gggparents.
Joseph was drowned in 1827 while working for the AA
Coy at Port Stephens.
I was not aware of any significant connection between
Willliam and Joseph although they would have met
through Powditch & Boucher.
So I am curious about the origin of the name and the
possible connection of this Pennington Powditch to
Joseph Pennington.
To explore this would you pass on my enquiry to one or all of the sisters of Julia Dawson?"
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30.10.2005
23.19
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Haydn Powditch
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UK
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"Did Mum ever show you a Picture of my father
(Thomas Rees Powditch)? I will have to see if I can
photograph some and send them to you. I think there
is one or two of him somewhere with his army buddies,
but I am not sure about that. Will have to ask Mum, see
if we can find them."
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20.10.2005
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Kathy
Noble
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Tasmania
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Kathy and I had already been in correspondence re
her forbears, although I had offered to add more of
what she was trying to discover, in one of my
eNewsletters. The followowing is a synopsis of what
she is hoping to discover;-
"Hello John, and great to hear from you, and for your
very kind offer to include my request in your newsletter.
That is very much appreciated, and hopefully it may
bring some results in the future.
I am looking for the Marriage, Death and Will of Philip
Edward Barnes [or any other useful information], in
case anyone can follow it up for [or provide it to] me.
Philip Edward Barnes died on 2nd October 1860 at
Copiapo, Chile. He was buried at the English
cemetery at Herradura.
On his grave it says 'Erected by his affectionate wife',
and a book inscription says (in French) Caroline
Barnes, given by her affectionate husband, P Edward
Barnes, October 1857. However there is no record of
any marriage of Philip Edward Barnes in the GRO
and overseas records.
Neither have I been able to find a death certificate, or
record of any will. I was told there was a fire in
Santiago at some time that may have destroyed some
records.
If anyone is able to assist me in finding a marriage or
death record, or a will, in Chile, for Philip Edward
Barnes, I would be most grateful.
Kind regards
Kathy Noble"
If anyone can help re the above, please email me at
and I will pass the details to Kathy. Thank you.
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19.10.2005
13.13
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Anna
Manucci
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Bologna,
Italy
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"Dear webmaster,
I'm a research grant holder at University of Bologna,
Italy, my research group deals with tsunamis.
I'm collecting material about the 1835 earthquake-
tsunami [i.e. the one which occurred in Chile] to popularize tsunami science for high school
students.
Thank you very much
Anna Manucci< |