The guest book that came with the website software package has not proved satisfactory. It does not record e-mail addresses so questions cannot be answered. We are therefore changing to an e mail system - send us an e-mail & we will print it, although we reserved to right to censor unsuitable mail.
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| How nice it was to discover a web site featuring the village that my ancestors once lived in. The Hockings lived in West Down for about 80 years from about 1780 to 1860. My ggggf is listed on the 1851 census as living at Woodland Cottage. We have visited this lovely cottage and were delighted to be welcomed in by the current owners There are a number of memorial gravestone in the churchyard recording the Hocking residents who passed on I am writing my family history, and If anyone has any recollections or information regarding my family in West down, I would be ever so grateful for a communication Regards Mike Hocking Hocking,<Mike.Hocking@GEOSC.com> |
| Hi, I have very fond memories dating back to August 1977. We spent 2 weeks camping with the 1st Aylesbury Scout group. It was the same time that Elvis died and the summer was fantastic. It was also the time that I met Tina Delahay and her friend whose surname was Tucker. We were only 14 at the time and I just wondered if anyone remembers us or even knows the whereabouts of Tina? With fond memories,Martin Spayne ms@intersurgical.co |
Hi,
As we are visiting Devon soon and our road is called West Down, so I thought I would have a lookat your village website out of idle curiosity.
What an unexpected pleasure to see a vibrant thriving community and learn about the people in it.
We may pass by and visit on our travels.
Kind regards,
Ros Ebbrell
11-08-2011
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From: Tom Huxtable [mailto:tshux@cox.net]
To: email@westdown.org.uk Sent: Sat, 1 Jan 2011 17:51:25 -0500 Subject: Our visit to West Down Greetings from Wichita, Kansas, USA. My wife and I had a fasinating day in West Down in 2004. Unfortunately our trip was short, but what memories! We visited St. Calixtus Church because this is where my great-great grandparents were married on 27 March 1815. Their names were George Huxtable and Amy Rottenbury. He was from Stokes River Parish. Her parent's names were John Rottenbury and Joan Slocombe. I so much enjoyed walking around inside the church and thinking about what it must have been like almost 200 years prior on their wedding day. I wonder what the ceremony was like. Wouldn't I have liked to been able to peek through the curtain of time and watch while they committed themselves to one another. They had 8 children born to them in England and then they all emigrated to the U.S. Thank you for your hospitality, then and if this sounds familiar to anyone, please contact me via email: tshux@cox.net Tom Huxtable |
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From: Graham Phillips [mailto:gphillips92@comcast.net]
To: mail@westdown.org.uk Sent: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:38:52 -0500 Subject: New Visitor, Old Visitor Great to see you have a Web-Site for we Phillips's to visit. Our last visit in person was in 1995 with our son and his family. Before that we visited in 1952 shortly after we were married. My Father lived in West Down as a child of 6 yeas old. He lived in Surbiton Cottage*which my Grandfather and Grandmother built around 1900.. Most of our branch of the Phillips family now live in New Zealand but my family live in the USA, Charleston South Carolina and Omaha Nebraska. Several of the younger New Zealand Phillips's have visited West Down recently and all report being delighted to see the village still retains it's character. I do not know whether there are any Phillips's closely related to our family still living in West Down, we did have cousins there in 1952. Perhaps this letter will help us find out. Sarah and Graham Phillips Phillips Family Web-Site- http://family.grand-oaks.org/ Charleston SC Web-Site- http://grand-oaks.org/ *Editor's note - Surbiton Cottage is now Enderley and is in fact some 15- 20 years older than suggested above |