From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au  Mon Aug  3 13:58:58 2009
From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw)
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:58:58 +1000
Subject: [Boykett-announce] New program release
Message-ID: <200908031358.59069.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>

A minor upgrade of the program has just been released.  I am rather reluctant 
to install it, since my local copy is not working properly.  If you find that 
you can't connect, it is probably because I am upgrading.

Doug.


From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au  Wed Aug  5 11:26:29 2009
From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw)
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 11:26:29 +1000
Subject: [Boykett-announce] New program release
Message-ID: <200908051126.30019.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>

I have successfully installed the upgrade, but so far, not the plugins, which 
are "bells and whistles".  I don't know if anybody used them.  All user data 
is preserved, and anybody who has chosen a different theme should still have 
it.

This upgrade employs a different way of handling the database, something that 
was new to both me and my host.  It is supposed to speed up navigating about 
the site.

Please advise any proiblems to my private email address or via the messaging 
facility on the site.

Doug.


From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au  Mon Aug 31 20:53:53 2009
From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw)
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:53:53 +1000
Subject: [Boykett-announce] William Boykett's Bobbing Holdings and other
	things.
Message-ID: <200908312053.53456.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>

1.  The Land Tax assessment shows William as tenant of the biggest allotment, 
with an annual rental value of 276 pounds, but on the next line is "The Manor"  
with an annual value of only 3 pounds, occupied by Wm Tyndall.  This suggests 
that Tyndall, who was the landowner, was occupying only the home allotment.  
He was not rated in respect of any other.  If Wm Boykett was living somewhere 
on the "manor" in the widest sense - the whole feudal area - he wasn't living 
in Bobbing Court.  As I understand it, serfs or "villeins" who were tied to 
the land, lived within the limits of the manor and were entitled to be 
protected by their lord, so there must have been residences for them, and 
probably residences for freeholders as well.

2. Bobbing and the St Legers.  A while back. I heard from Rosemary Millar, who 
has St Legers in her family, that at one time the St Legers owned Bobbing in 
right of Mary Southwell (1566-1603.)  She acquired it by right of her former 
husband, Sir Conyers Clifford, for whom I have no dates.  She subsequently 
married Sir Anthony St Leger (1539-1613.)  Rosemary says that on Mary's death, 
it passed to her children, who sold it.  That suggests that the St Legers 
never got actually to own it.

The Clifford family was associated with Bobbing as far back as the early 15th 
century.  A family tree devoted to the Plantagenet line (it has Richard III) 
has a record that in about 1433 Florentina St Leger, born Abt. 1413 married at 
Bobbing John Clifford, born Abt. 1408 in Bobbing Court, Kent; 
died Abt. 1437 in Iwade, Bobbing, Kent.

3.  The mystical date.  I haven't chased up the details of this one recently.  
On the Roll of Solicitors in London there was a date in pencil opposite 
Thomas' name.  Nobody knows what it means.  There was even some doubt whether 
it was against Thomas' name or somebody else's.  My feeling is that a date in 
pencil is meaningless.  The absence of any notation strengthens that.  
Somebody may have jotted it down on the nearest piece of paper, although the 
Roll of Solicitors is hardly an appropriate place.

4. My book.  I have decided at this stage to put every piece of info I can 
find, onto a genealogy program against somebody's name.  Then I can decide what 
is a bit too far removed to put in a publication.  What I really want to do is 
to make everything I have, findable.  Many family histories are no more than a 
"narrative report" which prints out all those facts joined by tags to make 
sentences.  They are pretty easy to spot.

Doug.