My Family Tree

Birth GRO 3rd qtr 1865
CHATFIELD, Richard Thomas Hastings 2b 17
Death GRO 2nd qtr 1945
CHATFIELD, Richard T 80 Greenwich 1d 483
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Births and Christenings, Richard Thomas CHATFIELD, 1865
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 22 Dec 1865
baptism/christening place: St. Clements, Hastings, Sussex, England
father's name: James Chatfield
mother's name: Elizabeth
indexing project (batch) number: C13558-9
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1067177
reference number: item 10 p 165
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Find A Grave Memorial# 127404301
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Census 1871, Lawrence Hse, 158 Rock-a-Nore, Hastings with parents. Next door to his Grandmother (87 yr old Lucy Chatfield/Peckham) Richard was 5 yrs old.
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1881 Census. 1095. Richard CHATFIELD - "Farm School For Boys Reformatory" Red Hill, Reigate, Surrey. Inmate Gender: Male Birth: 1865, Hastings, Sussex.
Juvenile Offender Under Detention aged 15.
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Boer War
1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment
Cape Colony
Orange Free State.
Confirmed 1901 Jul 30 Springfontein, South Africa Boer War
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Census, 1911
name: Richard Chatfield
gender: Male
age: 39
birthplace: Hastings, Sussex
record type: Household
registration district: Greenwich
sub-district: Greenwich West
parish: Greenwich, London
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1915 @ 4 Coltman St., Greenwich, London.
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1931 @ 4 Coltman St., Greenwich, London.
Richard Thomas C.
Alice Amelia
Charles C.
Elsie C.
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1936 @ 4 Coltman St., Greenwich, London.
Richard Thomas C.
Alice Amelia
James Edward C.
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Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2013
Hi Colin,
Although you won't know it, you have helped me a great deal with my family research through your own.
People like you who let your research be searched by the likes of me are a god send!
My grandmother was Elsie May CHATFIELD, born 1908 in Lewisham, Greater London England - Her father Richard Thomas Chatfield was born in 1865 In Hastings, Sussex. I have researched this line back to Alexander Chatfield (married to Mary Vennes in 1699) and although I can find generations going back even further, I am a bit dubious about adding any of them to my tree without any evidence to back it up.
But the point of this note is just to add my thanks - I haven't gone through all your Chatfields yet, but I am already certain that I will find lots of valuable information. I have only been researching my family since 2010, so it is still early days for me!
Many thanks
Anne
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I have attached a few bits for you, I had the picture of Richard, but
thanks anyway - do you have the picture of his wife Alice Amelia - I
have attached it just in case, but I should think you already have it.
I got these pictures from Robert CHATFIELD, son of Arthur Chatfield -
or Uncle Bob, born in 1910. I exchanged a few emails with Robert when
I first started out on this tree, he was a mind of information and
stories, I wonder if you have come across him?

The other attachment is the military campaign log, I would like to find
out more about his war. I believe that this is our Richard, but I
haven't found anything else that would verify it. I don't have access
to military records at the moment - but I do intend to get access at a
future date - I am making a list of all military members of my family

The last attachment is a descendant chart, which would bring you more
or less up to date with my line. Obviously many on this list are still
with us, so I trust you to be discreet, I am sure you are anyway!! This
includes my personal notes - I was going to remove them, but thought
they may be useful, if there is one or two things you can add to your
own research then I am pleased to help.

I try to be thorough and check all the details I find, and if possible
add records and evidence, but if you notice any errors I be grateful
for any corrections, and talking of which I did notice a small one in
your research, it was Lavender house, 2 Rock a Nore Road Hastings - it
is now a listed building, you can see most of it in Street View.
Unfortunately, a café has spread itself in front of the building, but
at least it is still there, a nice looking building too I will visit
Hastings this summer and go and have some fish and chips in front of
the house where my great Grandfather once lived! I was taken to
Hasting many times while growing up and never knew that it was home to
a large number of my ancestors!

I am Ann Clements b.1966, my mother was Dorothy May Lawrence, daughter
of Elsie May Chatfield. Its all in the chart.

I enjoy researching Richard, he is one of my favourites, a more
colourful ancestor, and I am lucky that so much research already exists
about the Chatfield's, Cyril Henry Lawrence (Husband of Elsie May
Chatfield) also comes from an interesting and well researched family,
so this was fun to do. Now if only the other branches of my family
were as easy to find! And fisherman are a welcome change from
agricultural labourers - which most of my male relatives seem to have
been!

I seem to have been chatting away, but I so rarely have anyone who
actually asks about my tree! When I contacted Robert Chatfield he said
that I was the first person to have contacted him about his tree in the
10 years he had been doing it, and I now believe him, I would be happy
to contact him again on your behalf if this is something that interests
you. It has been a year or so since I contacted him last so it is
about time I did, he is my cousin! What line of the Chatfield tree are
you on? What ancestors, if any do we share?

Thanks for listening!!

Best regards

Anne

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