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  I had to follow up Diana's tale about Brydges, as it is a fairly well known name round here. The man who was Lieutenant of the Tower was later Baron Chandos, and when the title became extinct in the late 18th century, a rather eccentric man called Egerton Brydges tried to claim the title. After much litigation the claim was rejected as groundless, although he never seems to have accepted the result.
  The Brydges were a large and rather complicated part of the local gentry of East Kent.

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  I believe that there were 3 copies made of the maps, but the one I am dealing with was subject to a dispute. This was dealt with about 2 years later. Would new copies have been made, and if so how many? The one in the National Archive has a note on it saying it was deposited in the parish and produced at the appeal meeting.

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  A slightly happier story about one of my mother's sisters, born 1915. When I knew her in the 1950s she was to some extent part of the family, but she was nervy and a little odd. Piecing the story together since, a cousin confirmed that she was quite intelligent and I suspect she was autistic. She had an illegitimate child about 1940, which may be when she first went into a mental hospital. I don't know how the adoption of the child happened, but another aunt kept in close touch with her and her adoptive parents.
   My grandfather must have been shocked when this happened, but she was never put away and forgotten. She was in and out of mental care, but also visited us quite often (I lived with my mother and grandfather) We even had a visit once from the now grown-up child, at which point mum had to tell me who she was!