24th November, 2011
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Robin Lockhart
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Wheatbutts Cottage
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My father John Lockhart, known in the village as Jock lived in
Wheatbutts around 1936-1938 when he was batman {army servant} to a Captain
Douglas 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who was billeted there. He met and married
my mother Grace Harman and spent the rest of his life in the village. He
worked as a carpenter for Jimmy Ireland until he retired at 65yrs. He
frequented the Shepherds Hut and Greyhound pubs until he died in 1995 aged
88yrs. There is a brass plaque in his memory on the wall in the Greyhound
stating " Jock Lockhart a Gentleman ".
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23rd November 2011
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Edna McDilda
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Neville Reginald Howse
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I have deep roots in the Howse family born in Eton, Chalvey. I've just
found Neville R Howse, born in Somerset. He won the Victoria Cross in the
Boer War. He was a surgeon. I've been told that he met my relatives in
Australia, Neville went there in 1899. I'm told he is cousin to a Jesse Howse
born 1872 in Datchet Bucks. Can anyone help with pertinent info to confirm or
deny his relativity to me?
If you can help Edna with this enquiry, please send a message using
the link at the top of the page and we will forward it to her.
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16 November, 2011
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Peter Stanley
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War Memorials
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Have anyone seen Herbert and Frank Hawkins on any memorial in the
area. They are the sons of Thomas and Sarah Hawkins of Pigeon House farm
(Dorney) according to C.W.G.C site. They are related to George Hawkins of
Blacksmith/Pigeon House farm via one of his brothers.
If you can help Peter with this enquiry, please send a message using
the link at the top of the page and we will forward it to him.
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25th October, 2011
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Peter Stanley
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More family history
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A family will in 1794 has given us some new names to follow who are
connected to Webbs and Seddings of Dorney/Boveney. I wonder if anyone has
connections. The names are Chitty, Dell, Windsor, Buckland, Grantham. The
family may have been connected to the chairmaking industry.
If you can help Peter with his family history connections, please send
a message using the link at the top of the page and we will forward it to
him.
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4th October, 2011
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Robin Vincent
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Eton Wick School 1963 to 1969
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I just came across this site, and wanted to add to the comments
already posted. I remember two people who have posted so far, Martin Deebank
and James Moss from my happy days at the school between 1963 and 1969. I
share Martin's memory of the 10 yard swimming certificate under Mr Nash and
it seemed like swimming a mile in those days! I played goalkeeper in the
football team, and James Moss was No 6 centre forward as I recall? I
particularly remember our game against the Lee school in Slough where we
played really well but still lost! (they were No 1 in the league after
all)...
Some of the names here are familiar and I often wonder what happened
to some others from my class, namely Steven Cole, Beverly Ross (living in
Suffolk I believe), Angela Goldswain, Heather Talbot, Gillian Bowyer and many
others, so would like to hear if anyone knows of them.
I lived in Broken Furlong throughout my time at the school and
subsequently in Eton Wick in the late 1970s, now living in East Sussex as
well as spending a lot of time at our house in France with my wife Mary.
My father Arthur Vincent sadly died on December 8th 2002, and I often
visit his grave in the church yard next to the school in Eton Wick. Mum
Florrie, is still alive aged 89 and lives near Abingdon where I see her when
in the area.
Anyway, would love to re-live some old memories with anyone who
remembers me and please get in touch if you do.
If you would like to contact Robin, please use the link at the top of
the page to send an email, and we will forward it to him.
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29th September, 2011
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Sharon Paice
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Sharon Paice
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Hiya all ive just come across this website an omg does bring back alot
of memories,, im the daughter of Jennifer Paice an grandaughter of Betty
Paice sadly both passed now. i used to live opposite the sheppards hut then
moved down to sheepcote road which my brother Peter still lives.i moved to
burnham many years ago but remembering the old times at the wick is so great
such a perfect place to bring up children seing all the names on the website
an remembering alot of them more by name well if anyone has any pics that
they could share with any members of my family ide love to hear from you im
so glad this website has been put together :)thank you
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14th September, 2011
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Hazel Tester (Knightsbridge)
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Awakened memories
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I am amazed at the things I have read. The Wheatbutts, well, my mother
worked there in the 1950's and I well remember an American couple living
there in fact I received a dress from them when they returned to the States
and I was about 8 years old then.
My daughter recently showed me the book of the history of Eton Wick
and Eton, in it I found a photo of my father dressed as Aladin with my sister
at the front as some kind of flower! there is also a photo of my great Aunt
Mrs P. Dobson so as you can imagine its rather taken me by surprise.
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14th August, 2011
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Bill Paradise
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Evacuee in Eton Wick 1940-46
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Just came across this this website which I find most interesting.
I was evacuated from London to Eton Wick in 1940 and first stayed with
Mr and Mrs Parrot in Sheepcote Road,later moving to the Jillians family in
The Walk with whom I spent most of the war years. They were very kind to me.
I am still in touch with their elder daughter, Ellen.
I have so many great memories of my time in the village-being sent to
Chantler's shop at the top of The Walk for groceries, my best friend Johnny
Bond, Mrs Newall from The Greyhound saving beer bottle tops for us to float
in the stream down on the Common pretending they were racehorses, Pass's pigs
at the back of the house and helping to milk cows on one of the farms on the
other side of The Common.
I remember being in the class of Mrs Miles and then Miss Rooke at the
village school before my parents moved to temporary accommodation in Eton
which was on the first floor of an old pub, The Cricketers, at the back of
Eton High Street, overlooking The Brocas. I spent a year or two at Eton Porny
school where Mr Hardy was the Head and making good friends with Michael
Knight and Brian Clinch whose parents had the baker's shop in the high
street. The floods of 1947 are indelibly imprinted on my memory as the school
was closed for three weeks which we all thought was marvellous!
So many wonderful memories, I could write pages but will not for fear
of boring readers of this website. I would be very interested to hear from
anyone who has recollections of me or my parents during our time in Eton Wick
and Eton. I now live in Chalfont St. Peter.
If you would like to get in touch with Bill, send a message to the
website and we will forward it to her.
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12th August, 2011
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Revd Peter Jacobs
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Jacobs family history research
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I am interested in Jacobs' Family prior to 1800s. can you help at all?
If anyone can help Peter with his family history, please get in touch
using the link at the top of this page and we will forward your message to
him.
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26 July, 2011
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Peter Stanley
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Can anyone help?
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As my family tree grows it seems that we are fully rooted in the Eton
/ Burnham / Dorney area and it seems we are linked to blacksmiths and farming
primarily. This weekend we have found prove via wills that we are linked to
Richard Sedding and Thomas and Mary Webb. I wonder if anyone has info on any
of these families. Possible connection to the Neighbour family too.
If anyone can help Peter with his family history, please get in touch
using the link at the top of this page and we will forward your message to
him.
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21st July, 2011
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Richard Proctor
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Dennis Swain
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Elsewhere on the website there is a picture of the Eton Wick church
choir in the late 1940s (seewww.etonwickhistory.co.uk/church.html).
Richard Proctor would like to find out if there is any link between
the Dennis Swain pictured there, and a Dennis Swain listed in his
grandmother's birthday book, whose birthday was on 30 March.
Richard's grandmother was Laura Proctor (nee Williams) 1872- 1936, who
went out to South Africa in about 1900 from the Birmingham area.
If anyone has any information which would show whether Dennis Swain in
Eton Wick church choir had any connection with Laura Proctor in South Africa,
please get in touch and we will forward your message to Richard Proctor.
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12th July, 2011
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Helen Robson
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Robson/Eton Porny
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Hi and G'Day. I am travelling to Eton September to December 2011 and
would love to catch up with anyone from my old schools Eton Porny 1965/66
& Dorney Reach school prior to that.
I grew up in HARCOURT ROAD Dorney Reach. Would particularly like to
contact Chantler & Woodham families and Malcolm Ward my first love (age
11). Dad was Alex Robson, Mum Greta Robson (nee Charleton). They met at Eton
Wick Youth Club. Grandad Dennis Spike Robson played dominoes at pub.
Grandmother Hannabel Robson. I have a lovely Aunt Nancy and Uncle Alf
Wiltshire & would love to meet cousins. Dad was youth club leader Eton
Wick 1949 . I had an Uncle Dennis & Aunty Lynne and they had 2 sons who I
would love to meet also. Did meet angel Frank Bond in 2009 and he was
sensational. Please can someone contact me & make magic happen. Happy to
buy cuppas in exchange for chat. Helen ROBSON Australia
If you would like to get in touch with Helen, send a message to the
website and we will forward it to her.
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10 June 2011
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Debie Walker (nee Cook)
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Eton Wick memories
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I have just found your website - how wonderful - and have spent time
paging through information instead of cooking tea! I lived in Eton Wick from
1973 - 1979 on EWR. My paternal family (Bond)came from Eton Wick and still
have a strong presence. Frank Bond is a 'Great' Uncle of mine - followng in
my great grandfathers footsteps of Fruit & Veg. Laterly run by my Uncles
Tom & Bob Bond. My grandmother Ivy Bond, married Leonard Cook and
subsequently my father (Barry) had hs own wholesale Fruit & Veg business
with hs cousin Bran Maynard (Cook & Maynard).
I attended Eton Wick Youth Club for many years and have a photo of
Frank presenting our Certificates for the Boys 5 a side football team and
girls netball.
I read with interest the article on the great floods and was
particularly interested in Mad Jack, who was my maternal grandfather. Sadly
Mad Jack died 6 years ago - but he so often told the story of the Dorney
common flood. He also enjoyed telling the story of how he used to walk across
the common in front of the bus with a lamp when the fog came down.
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16 April, 2011
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Jennifer Harmer
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Stephen Taffler
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Hello,
I am the Hardy Plant Society’s Historian and am researching the early
life of Stephen Taffler for a memorial lecture. Steve was a great plantsman.
There is a reference on your on your very interesting website to his father’s
shop – Taffler’s Antiques in Eton High Street – and I wondered if there are
any photos showing the shop or do you have any other information about it.
Any small crumbs that you have would be very much appreciated.
If you can help with Jennifer's enquiry, please get in touch using the
link at the top of the page.
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14th April, 2011
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Athene Tarrant
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Tarrant Family
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Hello,
We are a branch of the Tarrant family in the United States. My husband
is Bryan William Tarrant, son of Robert Valentine Tarrant and May Peck. We
have four children, Sophie, Tamara, Alexander and Natasha, and Bryan and I
are currently living in China where Bryan is working on hotels. Since the
recession of 2008 there is no work in the US for his profession.
Thanks to Monica Peck we have found this website which is bringing
back many memories to Bryan! I am working on the family tree, so if anyone
has any information please let us know!
Best regards to all, Athene Tarrant
If you have any information for Athene, please get in touch using the
link at the top of this page and we will forward your message.
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13th April, 2011
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Michael Palmer
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Amerden House, Taplow
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Hello, just found this web site and was wondering if anyone can help
us, we are looking into our family history and wondered if anyone could
recollect a caravan fire at Amerden Priory Caravan Site in February 1954 of
which a 9 month old baby sadly perished in this terrible accident. We have
been down to the existing caravan site and enquired but this has changed
hands, which we expected. In the death record we have it names Amerden Priory
but our question is would this existing caravan site be on the same site as
the one of 1954 or has it been relocated due to the motorway.
We would also like to find old newspaper information regarding this.
Can anyone point us in the right direction as we live in Derbyshire and find
it difficult to research from here. Also, was there a chocolate factory in
the Taplow, Windsor area in the 1950s. Any information would be greatly
appreciated. We hope to come back to visit the area once we have gained a
little more information. I myself was born at Old Windsor in 1952 and lived
at Datchet on a caravan site up until the age of 6/7 years of age but when we
came back last time I was surprised to see the particular site was under 20ft
of water! (Queen Mother's Resevoir). Could anyone point us in the right
direction to obtain a Ordnance Survey Map for 1953/54 for the area covering
Marsh Lane, Dorney Reach, Eton Wick, area. Thank you for reading this
letter.
If you can help with Michael's enquiries, please get in touch using
the link at the top of this page and we will forward your information to him.
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6th March, 2011
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Phil Reader
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Kathleen Triplet
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First a Hi to Sally Kramer I remember you and your family well.
My Gran died recently Kathleen Triplet aged 101 originally from
Donegal where they have printed an obituary in the Donegal paper which
mentions her living in Eton Wick. We moved into the village Princes Close when
they were first built late Fifty's. My gran lived with us and then had her
own place nest to the school so lived in the village best part 50
years. See link to
obituary. I lived in the village for 30 years and will have to put down some
memories some time later.
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6th March, 2011
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Arthur Mylam (Dick)
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Co-op Shop Alma Rd
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My cousin Mr Paintin worked in the shop he still lives in Eton
Wick
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2nd March, 2011
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Sally Dodd (nee Kreamer)
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Alma Rd Co-op
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My family moved to the village in Oct 1964, we (Peter, Pamela,Sally
and Beverley) lived at the end of Bell Lane. The co op was open at that time
and was close to a small factory, I think the shop closed soon after we moved
in. I lived in the village until I was 18 when I went to teacher training
college in south Wales.I now live in Nottingham and my mother, sister and her
husband (Mark Hall) live in New Zealand.
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1st March, 2011
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Sue Lincoln
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Alma Road Co-op
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I was wondering if anyone can remember when the co-op store in Alma
Road was converted to a bookmakers?
Sue later got in touch to say that the National Co-operative Archive
had searched through their directories and found that a store first existed in
3 & 4 Melbourne Place, Alma Road in 1900. From 1905 it was listed as
23 & 25 Alma Road and continued up until sometime
in 1965.
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15th January, 2011
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Peter Stanley
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Tarrant Family
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I am related to this family by Julia ( Tarrant ) who was married to James.
Julie was the daughter of George Hawkins, blacksmith of Dorney and Boveney
who died living with Julia and James (I have a copy of ther will) Julia is my
great grandmothers sister. I was very happy to see a report by Monica Peck?
And would love to get into a conservation with any living relative of either
family.
If any of the Tarrant family would like to contact Peter Stanley,
please get in touch using the email link at the top of the page, and we will
forward your message.
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