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From: "Hugh Woods" <>
Subject: [ENG-NOR-DOCKING] Fw: HISTORIC DOCKING
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:58:48 -0400


----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Woods
To: BACKWARD GLANCES
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:12 PM
Subject: Fw: HISTORIC DOCKING



----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh WoodS
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 1:14 PM
Subject: HISTORIC DOCKING


MY NAME IS HUGH WOODS FROM MISSISSAUGA CANADA AND I HAVE DONE EXTENSIVE RESEARCH ON MY ANCESTORS WHO ORIGINATED IN DOCKING,THE FIRST KNOWN BEING A JOHN WOODS WHO WAS BURIED IN 1645 POSSIBLY AT ST MARY'S.

SIX YEARS AGO I COMMISSIONED A CANADIAN AUTHOR TO VISIT DOCKING FOR A WEEK TO TRACE MY ANCESTORS AND THE HISTORY OF DOCKING,WE LATER PUBLISHED FOR OUR FAMILY A BOOK ON HIS FINDINGS WHICH I THINK ARE REASONABLY ACCURATE ON THE WOODS FAMILY AND HISTORIC DOCKING.

I HAVE VISITED DOCKING A NUMBER OF TIMES AND HAD MEETINGS WITH MAJOR HARE AND THE REVEREND HAMMOND,I HAVE TO TELL YOU THE VALUABLE RECORDS OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES GOING BACK TO THE 17TH CENTURY MUCH TO MY SHOCK WERE KEPT IN A TIN TRUNK IN THE VESTRY,WHEN I SUGGESTED THEY SHOULD BE MOVED TO A SAFER PLACE FOR POSTERITY THEY WERE TRANSFERED TO NORWICH MUSEUM AND DESTROYED IN A FIRE.

OUR FAMILY FEEL A STRONG LINK WITH DOCKING AND WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY BOOKS PUBLISHED ON DOCKING AND THE VIKING CONNECTION WITH DOKKUM HOLLAND,BEFORE I RETIRED I OWNED A HORSE FARM IN GEORGETOWN ONTARIO WHICH I NAMED "DOCKING FARMS"

I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU

HUGH WOODS



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