The suggested topics through out the month have been Females: Worship; Flowers; Joined Together and sisters. The previous post talks about Alice TILBEE's sister Louise and the church she was baptised in as well as about her husband. Louise and Robert Cook were married in St Mary's church, Westwell.
However, another appropriate relative of Alice is Elizabeth LINKINS who married Alice's son Thomas WHITE born 1855 in Egerton Kent. Elizabeth and Thomas are my great grandparents.
Elizabeth was born in 1854 in Wye, Kent and married Thomas in the Congregational Chapel in Ashford. They had 9 children and only 5 were still alive in 1911 and living in Chilham. The children were born in different parishes in and around the villages in proximity to Ashford, Egerton, Boughton Aluph, Kennington etc.
Elizabeth died in 1932 and Thomas in 1924. Both Elizabeth and Thomas were buried in Chilham churchyard but we couldn't their graves when we visited but it was a very overgrown churchyard.
I had a church services book given to me after their daughter and my grandmother, Annie White, died in 1975. I treasure it as been inscribed with the name Elizabeth White. It looks like Annie's writing so I always wondered if Annie had given this to her mother and when. Did Elizabeth use it in Chilham Church? Was I named after Elizabeth?
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