New Member Joanne needs...

Pictures of Bere Regis or Shitterton.

Surely we must have POE members living in those areas? Now come on your cover is blown, share the beauty of these places with your family!

I look forward to approving them and thanks in anticipation.

Can't say I've ever heard of either of them Ron.  POE will be an heavy reference to people seeing the many castles I will be writing about in some of the genealogy sources from here in the states you know.

Little excerpts like "Crow Hall", home of the Dickenson family was  in the center of Newhouse(district) which was used at the beginning of the 18th century...Crow Hall, in the chapelry of Goosenargh near Preston, is suppsed to be for the priest's.,,if it's the same as I think it is it was the old Bougham Hall of the Lawson's and it was given to them as "priests".. Mr. Marmakude Lawson.I have the original "papers" on it....I pulled out of text some near 30 years ago....before everyone got to changing the history to suit their own pocketbooks. Something that got me to fuming fussing around the house yesterday. The Dickson line was probably orignally Hickson people,

Jimmie Hendrix, native American rooted as proably some kind of kin of "King Henrick" he was an son of an Mohawk  woman and mohegan father...he was probably named after one Henry Adsit, from England to Lynn, Massachuesetts....whose son went to the Mohawk valley  ca 1750, and through his son James there likked by the Indians near the Herikimer Daimond mines....they were crystalsnot true diamonds.  He is in reference to an line of Thomas Larkin of Wilmington, Delware m. Ellen Hilles. I have them also as an Martin family and now as an Lakin family...an man has written an book on the Indian Language of back then. Thsi general area in the Mohawk valley had three Forts in it ..when the Six Nations combined to form their own "Confederacy" or League. AS to the chief...his family moved into the area with other New Englanders, where he was converted to Christianity, and he took on the name of "Henrick" though am member of the Wolf Clan, he later became an preacher for his tribe also. Through his education and oratory skills he becames and spokeman for the MOhawk's and with his freindship with Sir William Johnson, he emerged as the prime chief of his tribe...he signed the Six Nation treaties for them often. He sailed to London in 1710 and was received like royalty and introduced as King Henrick from America of the Mohawk Nation. He died in 1754 in the French and Indian War...which he had predicted some yearsbefore it ever happened. The Hickson/Dickson family of TEnneessee may be his rememant family lines...as is the musican Jimmie Hendrix was also amoung the greatest  musicians of his time...and he use to go to Rolling Thunder for visons and guidance before his death in the "peace movement" age of the 70's to 80's. Rolling Thunder I talked to one time in "Spirit Web". There is an "Dickson" family also...coming out of the eastern seaboard of Virginia...considered I think "white" in legacy( hum, I doubt it completely). I have followed them also. I can also image the use of the Crystals in this area not only for "beads" but particulalry in the making of cyrstal "prism's" that we used to be set flush into the decks of ships back then for natural light below with out the need for candles or kersoscene. It is said that they would also illuminate an soft glow at night when they did use lights in the cabins below and helped to light the upper decking then also. There is only one ship that still historically remains with them in it. I am finding so much data these days that has been changed from teh original with the advent of the computer. It is real hard for me to tell the truth...after this booklet series I mmight give itup...after all these years...it is has taken me some 35 years to figure out who is whom and where as it is...Kegley's Va. Frontier has our Lawson family written as "Ralston"..both John and William. John was an surveyor in his time and probably trader also with the Indians....though his boss was "George Washington". ..as was my William Larkin with him. They were making treaties with the Indians via "John Watts" (I do not know if he started out as and Letts family ancestry...kin to our Rachael Reed/Reade...whose line is also married into the George Washington family)..... and got the land through them to erect the line of Forts ofr Col. George Washington around 1755.  He became freinds with them and later they supported him in the Rev. War. So they played an important role in the whole affair and here they are being called "Ralston". It gave the occupation of William Ralston as laying out roads...well, that's what you did probably after your father bought the land rights to the area Records says the in 1740 an Robert Ralston took himself and wife Martha to Orange co., Va...later this area would be Augusta Co., Va. Robert Lawson has his own lineage of Scotland/England. His crest support that of four son's...I've only been able to find three of them so far. But anyway...it goes to show the improtance of the material coming out of England back then..Ireland...and Scotland.  In all Iwould rather be told that you don't know...then to be given an line that isn't pure truth...as it won't hold to " truth"  later on. And to be what's called an "Physic Vampire" by way of attachments because an lineage is wealthy....is making for "God" problems later on perhaps....for we get what we give out also..later on.

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Bere Regis in Dorset, England is an old anglo-Saxton village, situated along the Bere River.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitterton

Hope this helps. When I first saw the name Shitterton I did wonder if such a place existed. Little doubt it's a charmong place, being in Dorset. Never been, but maybe one day my Nikon will find its way there, with me too!