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I have found several HOLMDEN burials in Seal churchyard on this website https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/research/monumental-inscriptions/seal

60. Sarah wife of Michael HOLMDEN died 13 January 1791 aged 57 years. Michael Holmden late of the parish of Sevenoaks died 12 December 1779 aged 52 years.

61. Mr John HOLMDEN son of Michael and Sarah Holmden died 22 November 1791 aged 33 years. Also Sarah wife of Michael Holmden died 21 August 1807 aged 45 years.

62. Right half: John HOLMDEN died 12 September 1809 aged 25 years. (Left half blank)

Can anyone please help with more info - marriages, children etc

K


ps.  I have found two bpts John Holmden 1784 & Micheal Holmden 1785 parents John Holmden & Sarah - both bpt in Sevenoaks.

 

I was initially curious about Denys https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=807549.0 as I was unable to trace his family but thanks to the help of fellow RChatters his family seem rather more interesting.

The birth registrations for both Harold & Denys were seemingly in Brighton
Birth: Jun Qtr 1919 Brighton 2b/258 Harold A SIMS.  MMN: Anderson
Birth: Mar Qtr 1921 Brighton 2b/317 Wilfrid D G SIMS.  MMN: Anderson (aka Denys Guy Sims)
There is a marriage also in Brighton Sep Qtr 1918  2b/668 Arthur SIMS Doris ANDERSON

I know that Denys was killed in 1941 when the bomber he was in crashed in Scotland.  I also know he was an ARP warden in the village.

Their mother Doris seems to have ended up as Evelyn Guy Sims, living in Oakley Suffolk with a history of out of control German Shepard dogs.  Husband Arthur later referred to in newspaper reports as "Commander George Sims" Diss Express 17 November 1944 seems to have disappeared fairly early on.

Harold Arthur Sims is referred to in newspaper articles of the time as "the first American" to be awarded the MM in WWII.  31 July 1940 Newcastle Journal. The Lancashire Evening Post goes on to refer to him as the Grandson of Admiral W Sowden Sims who commanded the US Navy in European waters during the last war BUT Admiral Sims married in 1905 one Anne Hitchcock so any offspring from that marriage were unlikely to have fathered a son in 1919. 

Can anyone help by shedding any more light on Doris (aka Evelyn) , Arthur (aka George), or indeed Harold Arthur Sims 321186 Trooper/ L Corp Innisk Drag Guards. Evelyn Guy Sims died in 1969 age 77 Hartismere RD, Suffolk. 

K

I found the following on the familysearch website.  I would be very grateful for any further info that would help me identify this chap or were there two? - parents, spouse, pob etc. 

Name: Henry Harry Hubbard
Event Type: Military Service
Event Year: 1915
Residence Place: Diss, Norfolk, England
Age: 23
Military Company/Regiment: Essex Regiment
Military Regiment: 42481
Military Battalion: 11th Battalion
Birth Year (Estimated): 1892

Also
Name: Henry Harry Hubbard
Event Type: Military Service
Event Year: 1915
Residence Place: Diss, Norfolk, England
Age: 23
Military Company/Regiment: Suffolk Regiment
Military Regiment: 18243
Birth Year (Estimated): 1892

many thanks
K

I am fairly certain George (592495, 1st/18th Bn., London Regiment (London Irish Rifles).
Died on 26 March 1918) was the son of John & Eliza Ann Brown who lived in the nearby town of Eye according to the 1901CR George was born in Yaxley.  The anomaly I have is that he is mentioned on the Roll of Honour in the Memorial Hall but not on either of the two Rolls of Honour that hang in Mellis Church. 

Trying to ascertain whether his parents had moved to Mellis after 1901 or indeed he had been living/working there before enlisting. Do his military records give any clues?

Many thanks
K