I wrote to the following organisations to promote the Project and seek help:
St Barbe Museum
Efford Cottage (no response)
Owners of 6 Highfield and Hoopers Hill House
Re. 8 Sion Place, Sion Hill, Leeds (still no trace)
- Yorkshire Archaeological Society, West Yorkshire Archives Service Central Library, Leeds
West Galway Family History Society (no response)
The following steps were taken to promote the Project:
- Publication of the Project in my web-site:
www.cmbower.co.uk- Entries in the Family Tree Magazine and Hampshire Family Historian
- Letter to the New Milton Advertiser & Lymington Times (A & T)
- I gave copies of Interim Reports to:
local historians
local libraries and
local history groups in the Lymington area.
Responses received
There have been a number of responses about the Neufville Family, St Barbe Family and Rooke Family.
- A descendant of Leonard & Elizabeth Rooke of Formosa House, Lymington e-mailed me from Canada so that I was able to match a number of entries in the Calling Book.
- Arthur Lloyd drew my attention to West Park where there is a monument to Sir Eyre Coote, and Alice Hargreaves (believed to be Alice of Alice in Wonderland)
- I am particularly indebted to Jude James for his help described in Section 2 of the Report.
Colin Bower
31 October 2009