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From: "colleen morrison" <>
Subject: Re: White roothing
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 00:20:10 +0100
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Hello Dave,

Can't find any sign of your King's on my 1902 Trade Directory CD, perhaps
they'd moved out of the area by then?

Don't know of Blatches Farm, either, but I do have this description in
Arthur Mee's Essex of a part of White Roothing that your Kings would have
known:

'It has something form every century since the conqueror; all of them have
given something of interest or beauty to the simple church by the mill. It
has something indeed much older than the conqueror, for a walk under
a bower of trees with their roots beneath the rectory moat brings us to
walls with Roman bricks in them.; they are at the corners of the nave.'
In the 16th century ' the villagers realised that they had a splendid
chance for a tower, and up it went, three stages of it with battlements
from which a lead spire rises. 17th. The old men gathered for a chat in
their handsome new porch, listening to the five bells at the time of the
fire of London, the bells that ring today.'

Colleen


----- Original Message -----
From: "DAVE GRIGGS" <>
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Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:06 PM
Subject: White roothing


> Hi all,
> Can anyone help with any information about BLATCHS FARM WHITE ROOTHING
> please?
> History of , and location etc.
> I believe a King family were there in 1901.
>
> Regards
> Dave
>
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