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Norfolk / Re: albert skeet
« on: Tuesday 16 August 11 10:31 BST (UK)  »
Wow, Joan, that's great detective work finding and deciphering the originals!! I wouldn't have been able to read a single word on that document - perhaps just the name Skeet.
Thanks so much, you've really helped me plus now I realise what you can access if you sign up to Ancestry properly. I have been looking through the Norfolk parish scans (supplied by LDS) which you directed me to - they're excellent. I hadn't got back as far as 1783 yet though, and have only looked in Wells so far.
Thanks again!
 :)

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Norfolk / Re: albert skeet
« on: Monday 15 August 11 15:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi again Joan,

I just wondered where you got this info from:

"In 1851 there were also a Robert Skeet (Skeel) b c 1786 in Walsingham & Martha Skeet b c 1784 Walham Waytts, Norfolk, England.  These could well be the parents as James & Mary Ann had eldest son 'Robert R Skeet'."

...because I can't find Walham Waytts or any similarly spelled place on google maps. I think there's a good chance that these are the parents of James Skeet, so I'd like to find out more if possible.
Many thanks  :)

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Norfolk / Re: albert skeet
« on: Friday 12 August 11 18:21 BST (UK)  »
Hello Joan, I guess that last message was for me. How exciting, and unexpected! And how kind of you to look them up (Skeel, huh!). i should be able to locate them using Skeel, I guess. By the way, do you have any Skeets in your family?
All the best, and thanks again!

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Norfolk / Re: albert skeet
« on: Thursday 11 August 11 23:57 BST (UK)  »
Hello!
I am also trying to find my Skeet family. It seems nobody could spell or transcribe this name, and so far I have found them down as Street, Skeal and Skelt! For ages I just thought they didn't exist, or had moved from somewhere I couldn't find. Anyway, I just wanted to say (in case you haven't) - look for these really weird spellings & others you can think of!!
I don't think there is an Albert in our lot. The men we have (in the 1881) are: James (the grandfather); Charles (1847) (the father); James (1868), Arthur (1871), Herbert (1877), Frederick (1880). Since the Census came straight after this, there is a chance that there was a later Albert, but I don't know. These Skeets were living in Wells Next the Sea, which is up in north Norfolk on the coast.
Good luck with your searches! Maybe we will find we have a distant connection! It's not a very common name.

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