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Name : jean Gorman
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Comment : looking for Hines family who lived in Row 144 in 1861 also Maria Curtey Row 2 in 1881
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Name : Audrey Serreau-Capp
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Comment : A little bit of Norfolk in Poitiers.I always think in broad east Norfolk!
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Name : Aidan Ward
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Comment : I cannot find Dwile in the dictionary!!
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Name : Ian Goodwin
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E mail : pauline.goodwin@bigpond.com.au
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Comment : Great site.
My Great Great Grandfather William Goodwin was born in Great Yarmouth 1823 and seems to have travelled from there to London where he met his wife Eliza. I have so far traced a son Robert who may have come back to Great Yarmouth or Gorelston
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Name : Colin Wright
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Home page : xtra.co.nz
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Comment : I was born in Kings Lynn to a Norfolk mother and a Brummie father so find both sides of my family interesting.
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Name : samantha culley
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Comment : Fantastice site, great memories
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Name : Mavis
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Comment : one of my memories of the Rows is going with my older sister to the local bath house, I forget which Row it was in but I think it was close to the Dukes Head , you could smell the Dettol before you got to the door, I remember the taps were on the outside
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Name : Marilyn Taylor
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Comment : I am researching my family tree and my great grandfather ran the Bowling Green Public House on Bowling Green Row. We visited Yarmouth last week and went to visit Bowling Green Walk, sadly this area is now dedicated to storing fairground equipment and is v
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Name : William Bull
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Comment : My family have now lived in the north east for the last 100 years but originate from Yarmouth.Family documents mention Morleys Alley,Bank Row,George St,Row31,12,18,45,Elm Walk,Saxon Place&Jetty Rd.They were all employed in the fishing trade and your site
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Name : Gerald Dee Salyer
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Comment : William Salyer of Southold, Long Island,New York, USA...1669..may have come as a young lad from Norwich, Norfork, England...as Salyer family was at St.Pauls church....possible Youngs church family connection....need England experts help....Gerald Dee Saly
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Name : Claire
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Home page : http://homepage.ntlworld.com/cparfrey/index.htm
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Comment : A great site Pauline. A very enjoyable read. THanks!
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Name : Daniel Cassidy
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Comment : Thanks for the very interesting website. Daniel Cassidy (Grandson of Albert E. Risebrow who came to America from Northrepps (nr. Cromer) in 1913).
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Name : Chilvers (nee Bensley)
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E mail : margaret@mkchilvers.freeserve.co.uk
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Comment : I am interested in finding information on my peers in class 1942 to 1947
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Name : Robert Tuck
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Home page : www.isn.net/friartuck/tuck
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E mail : rtuck@isn.net
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Comment : My dad emigrated to Canada in 1913. Has anyone old photos of Hilborough 1870 - 95(Gamekeepers, School), N. Elmham 1901 - 36 (The George & Dragon, School), Little Cressingham (Clermont Lodge), Saham Toney 1895 - 1910 (The Plough Boy)?
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Name : Pat Tosh [nee Amos]
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Comment : Hi,now living in Cincinnati,Ohio,
Husband,Ian Tosh [es-GYGS]retired Procter & Gamble executive.
Two sons and 4.3 granchildren living within 15 miles.
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Name : joyce harllee
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Home page : san antonio texas usa
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E mail : harllees@webtv.net
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Comment : Im going to really enjoy listening to this. I am from Norwich (1958) and my Dads parents spoke with really a norfolk accent ! MANY THANKS
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Name : Shirley
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Home page : Hayes
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E mail : sshayes55@fuse.net
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Comment : Well I,ve lived in the states for 44 years, and happy to say, never lost my Norfolk accent.Do you know there are a whole bunch of Stolworthy,s from Yarmouth over here, all descendants of a Thomas Stolworthy, found out about them last year, would love for
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Name : Penny Ewles-Bergeron
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Comment : I enjoyed the Norfolk dictionary and recognised phrases my grandfather Fred Cordy of Cantley would use. Do you know the term lob lolly for jelly dessert? It is perhaps more a Suffolk name, but I couldnt help thinking of it while reading your webpage. Used
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Name : Craig Gordon
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Comment : My grandfather charles stewart ramc survived the sinking of royal edward and spent most of the war in el kantara egypt defending the suez canal
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Name : sharon duthie
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E mail : derrick@dduthie.freeserve.co.uk
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Comment : Born and bred in the fens! Now living in Leics. Loved the site and helped with dialects for college work. Thanks!
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Name : Ian Hook
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Comment : Pauline,
Visited today to put a relative of 20729 Pte JW Nurse of Weybourne ("Webbun") on the Royal Edward trail.
Wiht kind regards,
Ian
Ian Hook
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Name : Kenneth A Holloway
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Comment : A very interesting site. Well worth the browse. I also had a gt uncle drowned when the "Royal Edward" was torpedoed on 13/06/1915.
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Name : Marlies from Holland
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E mail : haarlem11@hotmail.com
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Comment : gret to see a site about a dialect, very interresting!I'm making a script for school about the english dialects,slang and accents. The history of the english language. Has anybody information about the subject!please contact me, thank you very much!
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Name : Linda VESEY Sokalofsky
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E mail : VESEY@DCCNet.com
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Comment : Thank you for your pages Pauline. We too lost a member of our family with the sinking of the Royal Edward the 13th of August 1915. Private 2345 Walter Frank VESEY,3rd/1st (East Anglian) Field Amb., Royal Army Medical Corps age 23 and just married. He is r
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Name : John Rundle
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Comment : Hi Kieth,
My family is 2 generations out of Norfolk and we now live in Arizona. Its great to hear the language of my grandmother. Great webpage!
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Name : christine
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Comment : Hi I lived in Norfold from 8 -16 years of agee in the 60's I loved growning up there in Swanton Morley, I so miss the accent, its the best inthe world. I now live in Melbourne Australia, anyone who went to Dereham Girls Secondary Modern, please feel free
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Name : john neave
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Comment : My Neave forebears were Norfolk dumplings - they showed up in North Pickenham from somewhere (?) around 1800 but most were scattered elsewhere by the 1850s. It must have been something somebody said!
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Name : Francis Skipper
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Comment : I was told that my family descends from Norfolk. My surname is Skipper and I am begginng my search. If my family did descend from there I will let you know. I would be proud to have come from such a culturally rich part of the world.
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First Name : Peter Bewick
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URL : peterbewick@yahoo.co.uk
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Comment : Jochabed & Barzilia were the children of Thomas & Eliz Tipple.
S. Elmham St Cross late 17 hundrend.
I have details.
Regards
Peter Bewick 01603 618187 (Norwich)
I will be at home in mid April.
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First Name : keith aves
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Comment : Son of William (bill)Aves. Loved the boy John.Laughter is great. The humour magic. Its good to see it continue. Now resident in New Zealand
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First Name : Bonnie
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Comment : I just read your article on Norfolk dialect and found it quite inteesting, ufortunately, I have the web and cannot download anything but Skip's voice a bit. But, did enjoy that...I have an online friend who lives in Norfolk, and just love him to pieces, h
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First Name : Stuart
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URL : stusage@hotmail.com
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Comment : Living with that other strange breed, the Scousers - this makes me feel rather homesick - and the quiz says it all, there is something special about crossing the bridge at Sutton Bridge and seeing that sign for Norfolk...
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First Name : Audrey
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URL : Serreau née Capp
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Comment : how're ye a gitiin'on tergather?Tha's a masterpiece,this here machine but ye're gotta hev a hid on yer to git it to wark proper
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First Name : clair
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URL : cheerfulpippa@hotmail.com
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Comment : i am a proper norfolg gal trying to teach my kids the rite way to speak. After all I am related to Sidney Grapes who wrote the boy John books.
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First Name : Carmen
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Comment : I visited Norfolk many times. I come from Romania. I think it is lovely part of the country, and I hope it continues to remain beautiful, but I guess that all depends on the way people continue in the Norfolky spirit and life.
I'd love to visit again, as
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First Name : Peggy
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Comment : I am a Skipper my grandfather was born in Norfolk in 1892. He came to America in 1910.
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First Name : Phil
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URL : captain@steamboat.freeserve.co.uk
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Comment : If you want to hear a bit o dumplin afloat, give us a look.
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First Name : Charles Franklin McLane
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URL : ChazMcLane@cs.com
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Comment : Very interesring ...and funny website. I was born in Norfolk Virginia USA and just surfed on in. Glad I did. Chaz
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First Name : Shaun
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Comment : Well may have only been away from Norfolk a few months here in New Zealand, but I miss greatly having a yarn wiv a few of the'bors back in Norfolk. Anyway the internet is great for keeping up to date and viewing Norwich through the web cams. Although my a
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First Name : Val
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URL : hallval@hotmail.com
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Comment : A wonderful find - thanks to Trevor who put me in touch. It brings back fond memories of my father who sadly left Norfolk many years ago and moved to boring old Surrey following a job offer. I will be adding my name to the mailing list - who knows I may f
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First Name : Dave
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URL : admrob@bigpond.com.au
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Comment : As an ex dumpling now living in Newcastle NSW Australia I find it great to be able to read your pages in particular the diologue as my mates at work find it easier to understand me now after giving them a copy of some of the lingo.
As you can tell from t
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First Name : Paul
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URL : schoolbutch@aol.com
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Comment : Born in Breckles around the time the old king was a little lad, now living 'down south'. Looking for Singing Postman info, hope this site will be of help.
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First Name : kevin
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Comment : its great to see that there are lots of people with an interest in the norfolk dialect as a norflok man my self and being lucky enough to speak a yarn or two it gives me a great pleasure in seeing others facinated by it
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First Name : madeline
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URL : maddy@scottla4.freeserve.co.uk
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Comment : IM,E FEELING VERY HOMESICK,AND SAD ,HAVE JUST MOVED TO MORECAMBE IN AUGUST AND THE CULTURE SHOCK IS TOO MUCH FOR ME I DESPERATLY WANT TO COME HOME TO NORFOLK,BUT I DON,T KNOW HOW I WILL BE ABLE TO AFFORD ANOTHER HOME NOW.
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First Name : Alton
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URL : http://www.lagrandemoda.co.uk
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Comment : Nice page, very imformative, at the moment I'm trying to imagine Yarmouth like you describe it, unfortunately as most of the rows are now gone I cannot imagine it. I would have liked to have seen a complete row, one that runs from the quay right to the to
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First Name : Dawn
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URL : sunsup@verizon.net
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Comment : What a neat site. Thank You!
Seattle, Washington, USA
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First Name : judy matthes (nee hewitt)
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URL : http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/5564/gyghighschool.html
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Comment : Hi, My son showed me your website it brought back so many memories of the old school, I have been living in canada since 1969 having taken a circuitous world route to get here! I would love to chat with you, my email is fredandjudy@shaw.ca so I hope to he
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First Name : Dave
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URL : Bradnum
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Comment : Ass a bloamen good read.Int northen betta on this ere compewter i,s gorta look in to it further.Keep a troshin boy cheerioo
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First Name : Ken
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Comment : Fantastic site. I should not do this I know. But I cannot help but look for more about Herman George Rayner, My Grandad. (Boof). A story I remember is about lots of woman scaling and cleaning at a mere 4 seconds each. Boof took me fishing too. Gorleston o
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First Name : Gerald
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Comment : Very informative - and lots of fun.I'm recommending the site to all those cousins overseas who need to experience how it might be that their ancestor's surnames became recorded with so many variations !!! The dialect is a joy to hear.
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