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The Kent Family History Fair promises to be one of the largest regional events this month, so YFH takes a look at what else is happening in the county.

Reader comments

1. Aileen Susan Jeffery wrote:
   I am interested in The Kent Family History Fair as my Great Grabdfather and his wife with their 2 daughters came from Kent to Australia on The Lady Nugent in 1838

   26th October '10 @ 7:22am
2. Rhys Walkley wrote:
   My Kentish ancestors, Ann Walkley nee Ledger 1834-1916, her daughter Harriett and her Minchinhampton/Box, GLS-born husband Nathaniel Walkley, a stone mason 1830-1902 emigrated to Port Fairy (then known as Belfast) on the ship Balnaguith arriving 17-1-1857; later living in Collingwood and Grantville, Victoria.They had 8 more children.
   Ann's ten siblings and parents John Ledger, a carpenter, and his wiife Lucy Ledger nee Day lived at The Alders in West Wickham, including William who built Charles Darwin's glasshouse.
   The Kent Fair may show early pictures of The Alders houses, but in Melbourne,Australia and pooor, I cannot get there.

   1st November '10 @ 9:26am

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