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Hougham in Dover
« on: Thursday 16 August 18 10:04 BST (UK) »
Could anyone tell me exactly where 'Hougham in Dover' is. Is it a suburb?
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Re: Hougham in Dover
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 16 August 18 10:23 BST (UK) »
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Re: Hougham in Dover
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 25 May 22 20:27 BST (UK) »
Could anyone tell me exactly where 'Hougham in Dover' is. Is it a suburb?

Church Hougham is a village between Dover and Folkestone (there is also West Hougham nearby). The parish of Hougham originally stretched as far as the bottom of the Folkestone Road in Dover - almost the centre of town. Christ Church (now gone) was built opposite the old Dover Priory (now Dover College) to support the community that had spread up the road to Maxton. That was then the parish of Hougham in Dover.

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Re: Hougham in Dover
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 26 May 22 14:38 BST (UK) »
Thank Bill749. My mother, Gwendoline Roberts, was christened at 'Hougham in Dover' in February 1897,  which puzzled me. I thought Hougham was a village. However their adress was given as 7 Selborne Terrace, Clarendon Road, Dover. and i wondered, erroneously,  why they had gone to a village for the cfhristening. All is now clear. I wonder if the christening took place at Christ Church?

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Re: Hougham in Dover
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 13 August 22 22:43 BST (UK) »
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I wonder if the christening took place at Christ Church?

Regards, Quarryman

Yes - Christ Church was the only one in "Hougham in Dover"
Banks, Beer, Bowes, Castle, Cloak, Coachworth, Dixon, Farr, Golder, Graves, Hicks, Hogbin, Holmans, Marsh, Mummery, Nutting, Pierce, Rouse, Sawyer, Sharp, Snell, Willis: mostly in East Kent.
Ey, Sawyer: London
Evans: Ystradgynlais, Wales
Snell: Snettisham, Norfolk
Knight, Burgess, Ellis: Hampshire
Purdy: Ireland/Canada/Durham/Pennsylvania
McCann: Ireland
Morrow: Pennsylvania
Sparnon: any
Beers, Heath, Conyers, Miller, Russell, Larson, Clark, Sibert, Hopper, Reinhart: USA