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Right,
I have a much better mental picture of how the churchyard looks now, and the next to no possibility of finding legible GUILFORD headstone at St Nicholas.  Many thanks Little Nell and jonw65 for that vital information.  And it will therefore be to The Keep that I direct my attention from now on.
The freereg.org.uk link supplied by Emelton yielded 30 GUILFORD burials there, but at the moment I only have the bare bones of just the one male GUILFORD direct ancestor in each generation, and need to flesh out with baptismal dates to find who all the siblings were in each generation.  Before I can more precisely say whom I'm looking for with those burial entries, Little Nell.
Or to know if there are any connections to your Thakeham GUILFORDS, Elliott...
Keith

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Pheno,
That's very good to know too, thank you for that.  Might see how much they charge for an annual subscription!
Keith

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Oh, good, those'll do just fine.
And they don't sound too long ago that the inscriptions are sure to be worn away by the elements.  Must get down to Brighton soon again and have a tramp around the churchyard armed with those details.
Many thanks again,
Keith

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Emelton,
Thanks so much for taking the trouble to look for me!
Generations of the Guilford family definitely got married there, but whether individual members lie in that graveyard I still have to discover...
Keith

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Hi, Everyone,
Could someone tell me whether there are transcriptions kept anywhere of the MI's in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Brighton.  Might there possibly be some at the Lewes County Record Office, or The Keep in Brighton?  Last time I was down in Brighton in October 2023 when I tried to visit The Keep there had been some kind of a flood and the place was firmly closed...I had been hoping to look for GUILFORD headstones.
Keith

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The Common Room / Re: Year of death of Janice Veciana (nee Young)
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
Kay,
Oh, gosh, that was quick!  Don’t quite know why I missed it.  Many thanks…
Keith

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The Common Room / Year of death of Janice Veciana (nee Young)
« on: Saturday 02 March 24 12:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Everyone,
I've been struggling to find the death registration of my second cousin.  She was born Janice Young in 1938 in the Sevenoaks reg. district.  She married a Roberto Veciana in Bromley in 1962.  I believe she only lived into her forties or fifties.  I see also that her widowed husband Roberto's own death registration in June q. 2003 in Portsmouth has him as Roberto Gallardo-Veciana.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Keith

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Fascinating stuff, Spelk,
I've since spotted an article on the internet about a group of Longsword dancers performing a dance particular to the area in Greatham near Hartlepool last Boxing Day...
Many thanks for your response,  I only ever represented our school in our B team, with those wooden swords.  Not nearly so exciting when we bashed them together as the noise the A team made with their metal ones!
Keith

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Hi, Everyone,
Another query from me about Wiltshire in the 1950's, and indeed before or after, with regard to what used to be a Devizes Country Dance Festival that our school used to participate in when I was there between 1955 and 1960.  And perhaps today has become the Devizes Eisteddfod.
Are there any publications out there about this Festival which I think I read somewhere has existed in one form or another for 70 years.
I am also particularly interested in the Longsword Dancing, for which we always entered a Team A with metal swords, and a Team B with wooden swords.  And won prizes.  I have read too that this unusual form of Dance originated in certain parts of Yorkshire, though apparently there is a 1771 local reference to it by Gilbert White when he was writing his famous diary at that time in Hampshire.
Keith

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