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Dear Editor,

I am seeking information about my great grandfather.

Walter G B Mant lived in West End Cottage somewhere in Hawkinge.

It was a small holding and I know he was there during the Second World war. He is buried in the cemetery with Jane his wife and my mother Frances who as a girl used to visit him on his \'farm\'.

Is there anyone who might be able to identify where the house used to be? Anyone who might remember them?

Penny Hacking

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Dear Editor,

Hello there, I live in Australia although originally lived in the UK, and I'm trying to track down friends and family from the Cheriton area.

My husband Robert Slater from Cheriton recently died.

As in most marriages one listens, keep photos...and letters, none from UK unfortunately, but some of those very necessary details are missing and proving stumbling blocks to making sense of something to leave for daughter and grandson as they have no other relatives in Australia.

I am very interested in the Fred Slater Band...as my late husband's father was a Frederick Slater married to Nellie (nee Atkins) of Cheriton....and wonder if this could be a grand-son!

All of my husband's brothers were in the services, Charlie served in the Army, John was a Navy diver and my late husband Robert was in the RAF during the Second World War. There was a best friend Arthur Nokes who married a local girl but they went back to Midlands later. I do have baptismal from All Souls and service records of course.

If you have useful suggestions or contacts they would be very very much appreciated. I'm just hoping for something to crop up.

Many thanks

O. Rose-Slater

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Dear Editor,

I am looking for Derick Young who lived in Woodfield Close, Cheriton, Folkestone in the 1960s.

I would love to hear any information anyone has on this family.

Have a great day

Ron Colman

South Australia

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Dear Editor,

I am desperately looking for Melanie-Jane Collins, born in Folkestone in 1969, her mother Margaret (nee Shell) was married to my brother David Spencer Morris.

Melanie should know she has a brother and sister, 5 aunts and uncles, 29 cousins and many 2nd cousins she knows nothing of, sadly her grandmother passed away in March, she worried about Melanie all her life.

I would be grateful for any information.

Robin Simpson

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