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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Today at 11:48 »
Thank you Lizzie and Vance. William and wife Alice in Glos is a possible but without confirmation is difficult.
Agree the burial of James in Walmer but don't know who Mary is in Stockport with an illegitimate child. Sister of James perhaps? Anyway my records are confined to Deal and Walmer but those additions you kindly provided are a great help.
thanks again
AJ

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Yesterday at 13:02 »
Tank you Lizzie. Joseph and James are not listed in Walmer so maybe didn't survive or married elsewhere. Thanks for the information. The Axon's are a very interesting family, I find. I'm not related in any way but am interested in the families of Deal and Walmer.
Regards
AJ

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Yesterday at 12:42 »
Thanks for that Rosie. Can't get FindMyPast but the fact that James was a Bombardier puts him in the Royal Artillery so I think it must be the same family. Thanks again.
Regards
AJ

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Yesterday at 12:26 »
 That's interesting, Vance. I don't have the records for New Romney, but it's near enough to Hougham to be possible. If it's not the same James and Sarah, it's a remarkable coincidence, particularly as the date is just before they moved to Walmer. There doesn't appear to be a record of marriage for Joseph in Walmer but that doesn't mean he didn't survive and get married in another parish. Thanks for the information.
Regards
AJ

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Kent / Re: The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 10:53 BST (UK)  »
Carole, I am not seeking help, I am offering information.
Vance, I am well aware of the earlier Axon who died in 1638 but did not include him as he is almost certainly nothing to do with the later family.
AJ

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Kent / The Axon Family of Walmer and Deal
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 12:58 BST (UK)  »
The entire Axon family that lived in Walmer, a village next to Deal, originated from James and Sarah Axon. James Axon, an Artilleryman, married Sarah Bailey in Stockport and moved to Woolwich, the base of the Royal Artillery. From there he moved to Hougham, the other side of Dover, where their first child James was born. There is no record of marriage or burial in Deal or Walmer for James the younger so it might be supposed that he died at Hougham.
There is reputed to be a Susannah Axon born in Walmer in 1818 but no record of her exists.
James and Sarah's descendants remained in Walmer for some time, becoming mainly Mariners, also known as Boatmen or Watermen. A Mariner was engaged in supplying provisions to ships waiting off Deal, retrieving lost anchors and ferrying personnel. Some were also Pilots but none were Fishermen, a totally different trade altogether.
Many of the Axons were members of the Walmer lifeboat.
James and Sarah remained in Walmer and are buried in St Mary's churchyard along with many of their children and grandchildren.
They had five documented children, all baptised at St Mary's:
25 Dec 1800 Eliza Axon
24 Oct 1802 David Bailey Axon
  3 Feb 1805 John Axon     DOB 11/1/05
26 Jul  1807 Mary Ann Axon        1/7/07
18 Feb 1810 Samuel Henry Axon 31/1/10
I will list the marriages and their children later.
AJ

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Armed Forces / Re: My Mother - a WAAF
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 12:40 BST (UK)  »
Thank you bbart, that's a terrific help. If my mother was in the Black Building, then one of your pictures shows where she would have sat. Shame the place was so vandalised prior to demolition. Shows the mentality of the people our parents fought a war for.
Thank you so much again, it means a lot to me.
Kind Regards
AJ

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Armed Forces / Re: My Mother - a WAAF
« on: Monday 25 March 24 12:22 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Andy. As far as I know, my mother wasn't on a radar station, she was plotting air traffic. There was a regular high-level German plane that flew over that they nicknamed 'Weather Willie' as he was monitoring the weather conditions. She also tracked what turned out to be Hess' plane as it approached and landed on Hamilton's estate.
So that leaves Skaebrae and Grimsetter but I don't know which she was stationed at.
I'm very grateful for the information.
regards
AJ

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Armed Forces / Re: 2 Gordons 1944
« on: Monday 25 March 24 12:15 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Andy. some useful info there. I appreciate your reply - it's told me things I didn't know before. Thanks again
AJ

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