COMPLETED Golding/Whitehead

[SRD]

Trouble is, I don't think I can, there's too much contributory evidence; I don't think there would be two families, in the same area, all with the same names and dates and with no other evidence to the contrary other than the reported death of one member of the family during WWI who then seems to have gone on to father children for the next 10 years. Hopefully I've just made a silly generational mistake so I'll go back to my original notes and construct new timelines.
That's the trouble with having so many common names within families. Although of course sometimes it can be useful if the family name is unusual (like Wildboar )

[SRD]

Bingo, with the kind help and support of Mrs Susan Pittman at the Farningham and Eynesford Local History Society we have
Marriages Sep 1921
Whitehead John Whitehead Dartford 2a 1710
Whitehead Violet M Whitehead Dartford 2a 1710

So it would appear that she married her dead husband's younger brother and went on to have a couple more children. There's still the paternity of Dorothy to prove; husband's death in early May 1917 and the child's birth in the third quarter of 1918 may be charitably explained by a late registration of the birth due to the grief over her husband's death and the general war situation.

Now on to the Goldings

But I think we can close this one down again: COMPLETED.

[Northern Lass]

Brought back as requested by SRD

[SRD]

Here is a photo of the huts in which the farm workers were living around 1914. The farmer, John Wood, is in the middle, middle distance. Do note the lack of chimneys, and therefore heating, in the huts and the open air kitchen (covered by a roof but otherwise open to the elements) served by a chimney, somewhat behind the farmer on the right. I'm not sure about the building in the middle, far distance, which also has a chimney, it might be laundry facilities or the home of the overseer (possibly the Whiteheads). The huts were only a couple of metres square, it amazes me how clean and well dressed everone is given the difficult situation they were living in.




As a contrast here is a recent photo of The Mount, the house the Wood family lived in:



It was sold within the last ten years for well over a million quid (without the farm which was sold in the 1950s).

[SRD]

This can be archived again.

Thanks everyone.