Subject: Bifrons Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 22:03:33 +0000 From: "L.L.B0y1c" T0: mmr@mc1nai1.c0m Dear Maurice, I have been admiring your webpage on the history of the buildings of Bridge and have found a typo which you may hasten to correct if you feel so inclireo. The date of the sale or Bifrons to the Cohyngham family was l830 not 1820. My source is the Kentish GazeLte for January 29th, 1830. With rather less certainty, as I have not yet found a contemporary source, the date "l770‘s" for the rebuilding oi Bifrons by [The Rev.] Edward Taylor Wight profitably be refined to l767 as reported in Archaeologia Cantiana, 107, 330 (1989) who cite a 1794 source I have hot yet checked. I hope to see you at Sue's "Happy Hour" this Friday at 4.30 in the SCR. Best wishes, Laurence Boyle Re:Bifi0ns Subject: Re: Bifrons Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:35:16 +0100 From: "L.L.Boyle" To: n1mr@cWc0m‘net Bear Maurice, My qenealogies (Conyngham and Taylor) are almost ready to post out to you but T thought I would check what Stephen Benn nad written first. He seems to be exclusively interested in the Bargreves which I haven't typed out or worked on yet. So it he has a mistake there it remains to be uncovered. However, you were very interested in the Taylor genealogy. The only error I have encountered in that is the one in Berry's "Kent Genealogies" Vol. 2 pp. 276—277 (1830), l have also been exploring the ohurchyards in Bridge and Bishopsbourne: I have yet Lo find Bridge church open but Bishopsbourne church yielded some good lnformation when I eventually got in. I have some loose ends to tie up over Bourne Park — when exactly were Matthew and fanny Bell the owners and who preceded that Best wishes Laurenoe 10f1 18/09/00 17159 ‘ Rc:Bifi0ns ‘ Subject: Re: Bifrons Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:27:26 +0100 From: "L.L.B0yle" ‘ T0: mmr@cwc0m.net ;‘m not thinking about a next yet! I got the date of Matthew Bell's purchase of Bourne Perk as 1844 which is just about as awkwarc es it could be. I'll need a snort Becklnqnam genealogy too as there's an important Hogarth painting in New York of some relevance. There's still a fair bit of ru:nn1agl1;q work to be clone on the Bifrons accounts to distil bits of social history for popular appeal. And I've got to get pictures of inside. I was interested to notice yesterday that the plastic pages for Pokemon cards wete being advertised as being of archival quality ~ they contain no PVC. S0 we shall never get rid oi the wretched things! Laurence Re: Bifrons Subject: Re: Bifrons Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:59:00 +0100 From: "L.L‘B0yle" T0: mmr@cWc0n1.net Dear Maarice, Are you exhibiting at the Book Fair or participating in Canterbury Carnival or the Bridge/Patrixbourne shindig on Saturday? l have put in a lot of work on the Eargrave family tree these last few days. I seem to be able to fit Stephen Bann‘s contributions in to the pattern whereby you have Robert (yeoman farmer and tanner of Bridge), his son Jonn (Lhe builder of Bifrons) and then two sons (Robert and John) of this John. Robert was a nave; captain and John a prebend of Canterbury Cathedral and the one who sold Bifrcqs in l66l, There are of course numerous other Roberts and Johns in the iamily tree. Is this approximation discordant with your own work? Finally do you know who has the key to Bridge Church? Laurence Re: Bifrons Subject: Re: Bifrons Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:59:01 +0100 From: "L.L.B0yle“ i T0: mmr@cwc0m.net Dear Maurice, The Bridge shindig was a bit of a damp squib though the fireworks at the end were satisfactory. The timetable of the history walks was not included in the house—to—house circulation and I only found it too late pinned up in Bridgc. Alan Creighton was similarly disappointed‘ I've been in Oxford for a qaudy and renewed my Bodleian card and used it to find the Ba>>+1‘**3'§ 3 <..eJZ, \"*§("° - ‘ ‘ Aq \,¢,,~,_.-_“T (i-L v“"J:’“’°* LWK7 rim »~e;-4» 0°”) fiyé A35 /)\’sz""Q t\1r\lL‘1°f,1_0_v_\~m§J~L-v\4by;~y-¢»<;[(/--%- Nifiqvuu raw <’-”'*'C> A 1 “Q/“ML: ($0? 4”“) £A‘°-""'(" 4 7% v(-=..Q:._- OS_1s'f‘°”U-"' M7?/"° ®¢:£2..L¢=c %g 1., Mir ;f>L=¢fl¢<§.;i~l£z;i,J%r¢»(~?s¢.e;)+>@qA_ A4 vi-»s~»=_;a;,rI-@£~,§z_.v .§~.q (W 5 [fig férfipgiglufi--T ’=5<,?‘?7L §:%L§:‘:z3;~ 1=€;#_&P_-*-c Nfgfi. ¥>al"::%>%~i-a.qa~£‘i-;“~t: 52*‘) t@€»+=.~k‘ F" ( _ . >f€E%@T&i%%§?é{zr$ + Re: Bifrons Subject: Re: Bifrons Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 20:29:57 +0000 i From: "L.L.B0yle" T0: mmr@<.wc0m.net Maurice, have you any idea who this chap "B.M.Thomas" is who was conmissiorec by Lord Conyngham and his Land Agents to do the research which resulted in the (excellent) paper he wrote in Arch. Cant. 110, 3l3—329 (1992)? He mas dlstilleo tnc archives which were at Ramsgate {Conyngham MS U238 and others) which T assume are the ones now aL Whitfield. Naturally he didn't have the three ledqers I do but talk about stealing thunder .,. Laurence