Number

20

Date:  

Thursday 26 May 2011

Name:  

Roy Martin

Location:  

Southampton UK

Message:

I am related to the Whittles and Stevens of West Lulworth and can provide information about them if required.

Roy martin

Number

19

Date:  

Saturday 19 March 2011

Name:  

Ira Dorey

Location:  

Newfoundland

Message:

Hi...

Stuck on my search for family tree...

I am back to my GG Grandfather Lawrence born about 1810 and died 1859

married to Rebecca ?...

There is also a record of a Joseph Dorey who had a fishing room in Twillingate District in 1806...no other info(Black Island is in Twillingate District)...Lawrence named his 1st son Joseph so this may be Lawrence's father but not sure.

Lawrence & Rebecca's children are: Joseph, Rebecca, Jane, William, Eliza, Henry, Elizabeth & Louisa.

Lawrence had siblings:

John, Elizabeth, Jane, Dianna & Eve (Eva)

Lived on Black Island, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland

May have come from West Lulworth Area

Number

18

Date:  

Monday 24 January 2011

Name:  

Eddie Miller

Location:  

Bournemouth

Message:

Addendum. Sorry but in my previous message (no.17) I should have made it clear that my grandfather and grandmother John and Amelia were surnamed Miller, same as me.

Number

17

Date:  

Sunday 23 January 2011

Name:  

Eddie Miller

Location:  

Bournemouth

Message:

Enjoyed searching the website. Found my grandfather John (born 1863) and grandmother Amelia (born 1869) there, also my father William who was 17 years old at the time of the 1911 census.

As a boy my holidays from Bournemouth were always spent in Lulworth and grandad, the local fisherman, would take me out at the crack of dawn to empty the lobster pots. Other times, he would take me out into the fields shooting rabbits.

I have many happy memories of Lulworth.

Number

16

Date:  

Monday 10 January 2011

Name:  

Jan Plenty

Location:  

Suffolk

Message:

Hi,

Excellant resource!

Researching my family tree I have discovered that my great great grandfather John Nettle was a coastguard at west lulworth. He was living there on the 1861 census. All 7 of his children were born there whilst living in coastguard cotttages. I would be very grateful for any information to help me further.

Thx

Number

15

Date:  

Thursday 2 December 2010

Name:  

Eric Samways

Location:  

Seaton Devon

Message:

Excellent site easy to find ones way around

Number

14

Date:  

Saturday 18 September 2010

Name:  

Janet Brown

Location:  

Manchester, U.K.

Message:

I lived in Wareham for a time many years ago and continued to visit. I love this area of Dorset and consider it my 'spiritual home'.

I have enjoyed looking at this website very much and can't wait to return to the area again.

Number

13

Date:  

Saturday 10 July 2010

Name:  

Tony Hillman

Message:

Wonderful site as too are the others in the opcdorset.org group. With ancestors of Mitchel, Miller, Dorey and Harvell I found the information here very interesting. The note left by Albert on Mar 7 2010 included a reference to Dulcie Miller who is my mother's 2nd cousin. Wonder if Dulcie is still alive, she was born in 1928. Her mother Harriett died in Rose Cottage in 1991.

Number

12

Date:  

Wednesday 7 July 2010

Name:  

Bob Meaden

Message:

Always interested in the Meaden's of Dorset, although connecting those of West Lulworth with my side of the family in Winfrith Newburgh, Owermoigne and Galton has proved very difficult. The story of Grace Meaden is very intriguing

Many thanks for a very good site

Number

11

Date:  

Monday 14 June 2010

Name:  

roger brooke williams

Message:

we used to live in lulworth house,and my grandfather edward brooke williams was the coastguard and lived in the coastguard cottages, have fond memories of L,COVE

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Number

10

Date:  

Thursday 3 June 2010

Name:  

mrs linda leach

Message:

this has been wonderful through this site my daughter terri and i have been able to find out about our relatives the hawkins. my grandfather reginald hawkins came from lulworth and i have heard stories from him and my mother. now i have been able to visit on line this beautiful place and now i feel i must visit.

Number

9

Date:  

Tuesday 1 Jun 2010

Name:  

Margaret Jaggs nee Hawkins

Message:

My grandparents lived at 47 and later 50 West Lulworth and my father was born there in 1910

I found this site fascinating

Number

8

Date:  

Thursday 20 May 2010

Name:  

Angela McConnell

Message:

I live at 25-26 Main Road, West Lulworth. Amy Sturmey lived here for many years and her family before her. She used to be called Miller. I know she was well known in the village so if anyone has any history of her time at 25-26 Main Road I will be really interested to hear it.

Number

7

Date:  

Sunday 2 May 2010

Name:  

eve horswell

Message:

I have found this site so interesting I have been researching my family in Dorset for a good many years so I am wading through all of the parishes where members of my family have fetched up I have a vague link with Lulworth and found this a very good experience

many thanks Eve

Number

6

Date:  

Friday 16 April 2010

Name:  

sally meek

Message:

great site! I am researching the Parmiter family in Dorset. Our ancestors lived in St Andrews Farm and Burngate Farm in the early 1800's, being tenant farmers of the Weld family. I am visiting the are in May to carry out further research and to look round. Ironically as a child I holidayed in Lulworth without knowing that it was home to our ancestors. Living at the other end of the country these days it is marvellous to have such amazing FREE sites for the Dorset area. Keep up the good work!

Number

5

Date:  

Sunday 7 March 2010

Name:  

Albert Spavins

Message:

My family moved to the village in 1932. We first lived at No.19 opposite the war memorial. Later we moved to No.4 Sunnyside Terrace and eventually to Lulcote.

I was in Lulworth last year (2009) and noticed that Lulcote still retains its name.I was four years old when we first arrived in Lulworth and my sister Mary was 3. My brother Michael and my sisters Erica and Christine were both born in the village and so were considered to be 'villagers'.

Lulworth must be the most wondrous place in all the world for a young child with imagination and also blessed with good health.

My boyhood friends were John and Gerald Hawkins, Brian O'Hare and Donald O'Hare among many others.

I remember that the Meaden family who lived on the road to the village school had a marvellous fig tree and anyone was welcome to pick some.

The village baker would deliver the hot bread to your front door. On Good Friday the buns would be hot. I have never in all of my years ever seen or tasted the cottage loaves made in the bakery at Lulworth.

At Sunnyside we lived next door to the Miller family who were all fishermen.

Occasionally Mr Miller would drop off a lobster or large crab for the family. David and Jim were her sons and Jessie her daughter. All lovely people.

Whenever, I visited from Canada I would drop in at the coast guard cottages to see Jim. He was always very welcoming.

Dulcie Miller and her brother lived at Rose Cottage or near it.

Once 3 steamers came into the cove on the same day. I do not believe that it had ever happened before or since. One was the Empress from Weymouth and the Vicoria from Bournemouth. I do not remember the name of the other one.

On Guy Fawkes night there was always a huge fire on Hambury and people spent weeks preparing it.

I hope that all of the people privileged to live in the village and the remainder of my relatives enjoy their lives as much as I did.

Number

4

Date:  

Sunday 14 February 2010

Name:  

Tony Hyde

Message:

Very interesting site, I had relatives living in lulworth in the early 1900s up to about 1960s, an aunt (bess) lived in the old bakery my great uncle is remembered on the war mamorial (fredrick Hyde) and and other family members were also resident,.

I belive at burngate farm? although most of my family are from the Loders area, I have been to lulworth its a wonderful place

Number

3

Date:  

Monday 1 February 2010

Name:  

Rachel Stewart

Message:

Have found the site very useful and interesting. I am researching the Dorey Family for my aunt. She is descendant of Samuel Dorey b. 1796 Keep up the good work Rachel

Number

2

Date:  

Sunday 24 January 2010

Name:  

nic collier

Message:

just been lookin through the site,very well put together,very easy to use,my mum just got all excited at seein her address in the cencus list,the site is bringing back all chld hood memories of beach,shop school and the churc keep up the good work,wish i knew site was here before would have saved me lots of research as the cencus lay out youve done is awesome

will keep up my resaerch as said as hope to come down in summer hopefully meet living relatives some of old friends and yourself

with thanks

Nic

Number

1

Date:  

Saturday 23 January 2010

Name:  

Martin White

Message:

Just checking the guestbook is working ok!

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Number

24

Date:  

Monday 16 April 2012

Name:  

Penny Florey

Location:  

Nottingham

Message:

Thank you so much for such an interesting site. As a result of contacting the site I have now found the RN career I had been searching for. I have been researching the Bagg family, in particular, Charles Emmanuel and his children, in particular Arthur Charles Bagg and his career in the RN. His daughter Gwendolin M. Bagg married an army service man called Edwin Pole from Nottingham in 1943. BUT in the interim of her husband serving in Italy Gwendolin had a child by a Canadian Trooper based at Bovington and it is this gentleman that I am trying to find for Gwendolin's son, who remembers holidaying at Sunnyside Villa when a young boy. Have now tried DNA in an effort to find the "lost" father. Ever optimistic! Again thank you for the information on your site and I'm sure I will be coming back to it again.

Number

23

Date:  

Sunday 25 March 2012

Name:  

Anne Loader (Mrs)

Location:  

Northwich, Cheshire

Message:

What a fantastic village website. Many congratulations! I came across it while trying to find out more about Jane and Poppy Loader who wrote "Tales of Lulworth in Olden Days" published in 1932, and it gave me invaluable information for looking them up in the censuses. Sadly they aren't in my family tree (I was given the book by a friend who hoped they might have been) but your website has certainly made me want to visit Lulworth.

Thank you for your efforts.

Number

22

Date:  

Saturday 22 October 2011

Name:  

Layla Miller

Location:  

West Lulworth, Dorset

Message:

My grandmother researched our family tree extensively, including Millers of West Lulworth and Tyneham over about 12 generations. Tying in with others who have signed this guestbook I am also related to John and Amelia Miller (I believe Eddie who signed below is my 2nd cousin twice removed) Dulce Miller, Fred Hyde, and Amy Sturmey. Our tree also includes other ancestors of surnames Miller, Mitchell, Vye, Stevens, a Dorey or two, and a Whittle. If any one wants to exchange information, please contact me: lardylay@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks for an informative site! Layla

Number

21

Date:  

Saturday 11 June 2011

Name:  

Edward Black

Location:  

Church Point Australia & Pauanui New Zealand

Message:

Who is still around who feels still well disposed ?

Happy memories of so many nice folk

1 Sunnyside Road for yonks !

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