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From: "Patricia Bridges" <>
Subject: Re: [SFK-UK] Re: Richard VYSE -
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:20:43 +0100
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Co-incidence! I have been helping the Parish Council at Stoke Poges, they
are checking through all the names on their War Memorial and writing about
each person named. One of them was a Suffolk born lad.

I had and Aunt and Uncle and cousins living in Stoke Poges when I was a
child, I loved visiting and chasing their hens - well I was very little at
the time.

Pat ...


> David & Peter,
> Please be advised that many landlords were often absent from the land or
> property that they owned.
> For instance, Col Richard Howard Vyse lived at Stoke (Poges sic?), Bucks.
> Adrian
>
>
> >
> >
> > > On 2/8/04 12:28 PM, "David & Jan Didwell" <> wrote
in
> > > part:
> > >
> > > > Also could someone tell me please, what may have been the local 18th
> > and/or
> > > > 19th century landholder/manor where agricultural workers may have
been
> > > > employed or farmed the land.
> > >
> > > White's Directory for 1855 lists the following land owners of the 1851
> > acres
> > > in Friston parish (population then 500) ...
> > >
> > > R.H.W Vyse (Lord of the Manor), Mrs Whitaker, Rev G.A. Whitaker, Mrs
> > Bignold
> > > and the Wentworth family.
> > >
> > > It also lists the following farmers ...
> > >
> > > Charles Cooper, Benjamin Edwards, Robert Hammond (Friston Hall),
Robert
> > > Porter (Street Farm), Robert Watson (Decoy), Bridget Orford, James
> Pettit
> > &
> > > John Moss

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