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From: "Stan Weeks" <>
Subject: Re: RAFFELL/REFFELLA/REFFELLE/RIFFELE/REFFELL
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 20:38:23 -0000


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From: Edwin Reffell <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:05 PM
Subject: RAFFELL/REFFELLA/REFFELLE/RIFFELE/REFFELL

Hi Edwin,

I've got some people called 'RAFEREL' linked with my Devonshire, England, UK
ancestors, should they be of interest to you? A derivative perhaps? (Mid
19th century).

Stan Weeks (Glamorgan, Wales, UK)


> Hello,
> In the 1881 census my family is entered under the above names. A Kent
> branch was discovered -which no-one in the family knew about- at 90
> Camden Road, TONBRIDGE. His name is Percy A. REFFELLA and he was born in
> HYTHE, Kent in 1878 or 1879 and his mother was Ellen born 1834 or 1835
> (all according to the census). We knew of his father Albert, 1834 or
> 1835-1886 but did not know that Albert had a family nor that he had an
> unmarried sister Mary Ann born 1813 or 1814. Does anyone know if Percy
> A. REFFELLA or some variant of that name survived and has descendents?
> My grandfather Herbert William REFFELL (1867 or 1868-1953) was born in
> WEST PECKHAM, Kent according to the 1881 census. We had always believed
> he was born either in HORTON, Bucks or in STREATHAM, London. All the
> time we lived in the same house he never said anything about his
> childhood. He went to sea as a youth to Argentina and to New Zealand at
> least.
> Thank you for any information you can email me.
> With best wishes,
> Edwin Reffell, formerly Downton, Wilts., now Stockholm, Sweden
>

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