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Annual General Meeting  2020

 
Due to the extenuating circumstances  posed by Covid 19  we cannot arrange a meeting in person but in order to hold a meeting as required by the  Association Constitution, we have decided to  hold the AGM by ZOOM in early November. 
Members will shortly be contacted by the Secretary  with the details required.
Anyone else interested in joining us for the meeting should contact the Secretary  ASAP.
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Since the society was launched  25 years ago a Journal called  ' POINTS EAST '  which contains many interesting facts, information and articles has been produced twice yearly.
As the Society Celebrates 25 years this  year  We have decided to reproduce some articles from the early journals.  They will appear here on the home page and will then move to the new 'from 25 years ago....' page.  

Previous articles from the archives have been moved to the  'from 25 years ago....' page.
'The Will of Henry East '
Yeoman of Somerton

Made in 1863 - transcribed in 1986 by R. W. D. East​
MS Wills Oxon  20/4/26

Henry East Yeoman of Somerton 
31 December 1683.


In the name of God Amen.
I Henrye East of Sommerton in the countye of Oxon  yeaman, being sick and weak in my bodilye health butt yet of perfect sound memory and understanding for which I thank my Saviour Jesus, and haveing some little worldly substance to dispose of doe by hisbpermission, make this my last will and testament, in the manner and forme following, thatt is to say, first I recommend my soule into the hands of Almightye God hopeing and assureing myself thatt by the meritts of the death and passion of his onlye Sonne my Saviour and Redeemer Jesus Christ shall I be pertaker of everlastinge blisse and happiness and that this my corruptible body shall rise in incorruption, and enjoy the Company of the Angells and Saintes in the Kingdom of Heaven, and for my bodye I leave itt to the earth to bee buried in such decent manner as my Executor shall think fitt.

As for my worldly substance / first I give and bequeath unto my loveing wife Elizabeth, her meat drink lodgeing and Apparell dureing the time of her full life, and all to bee provided for, at the proper cost and charge of my Executor, and if itt soe happen that my sayde wife, shall nott like of his usage and carryage towards her, thatt then sayde  Executor shall paye unto my sayde wife five pounds of good and lawfull moneyes of England, everye year dureing her life, at two equal payments, thatt is to say fiftye shillings at the day of St. Michael the Archangell, and the other fiftye on the  Annunciation day of our Blessed Ladye, att the now dwelling house of  the sayde Henrye East, and then shee to provide for herself.
Item I doe farther order, and appointe, my sayde Executor for to bye, or cause to bee bought, for my Daughter Lucye, and her heires after her, some smalle parcell of ground, or house, to the value of fortye pounds purchase, and thatt the sayde house, or ground being soe bought shall bee settled uppon my sayde daughter dureing her life, and afterwards to her children, and thatt he then my sayde Executor, when he hath found out any such parcell of ground, as aforesayde, thatt then the sayde Executor shall paye the fortye pounds for the same.  I doe farther order thatt my sayde Daughter shall give the settlement being soe made as aforesayde, unto  my sayde Executor, for to keepe for her behest and her childrens. 
And I doe farther order thatt the Husband of my sayde Daughter shall receive the yearly rent of such house or ground, as shall bee  soe purchased as aforesaid, dureing the term of his life. I doe farther order thatt my Executor shall paye unto my said daughter, and her husband fiftye  shillings yearly, till such time as he hath purchased the sayde house or ground afore mentioned. 
Item I  doe give unto my Daughter Elizabeth fifty five pounds.

Item I doe give unto my Grandson Edmond Moore, to bind him  Apprentishe five pounds.


Item I doe give unto the Grandchildren of my sonne William ten ? shillings a peaice.

As for the remaineder of my goods, after my funeral charges, and Legacyes shall be discharged, I give and bequeath them unto my Sonne John, whom I nominate the sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament, in witness whereof the sayde Henrye East doe sett hereunto my hand and seale, the 31 of December in the yeare 1683.    
Sealed and delivered in the presence of                         Henrye East 
William East                                                                     his mark
Elizabeth East 
MS Wills Oxon  20/4/26  Inventorie

Henry East Yeoman of Somerton 
1684.

A true and pearfect Inventorie of all the Goods & Chattels of Henrye East of Sumerton desesed in the County of Oxford yeo taken the 14th day of January in the yeare of our Lord God 1683 Bye us whose names are under ritten.  

 
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Imprimis his waring apparell and monny in his porse                    05  -   00  -  00
Item lands bills and all Cassal depts we prayse att                       80  -   00  -  00
In the hall Chamber one Chust 2 Chers 2 Stooles one
passell of wooll                                                                              05  -   00  -  00
In the parler Chamber 2 beds and furnyture  one side 
cubbard one stoole                                                                        02  -   00  -  00
In ye deary chese bords forms and bakken                                   01  -  00  -  00
In ye buttery drink barels & one cob                                              00  -  10  -  00
Item the linnen of all sorts                                                              02  -  00  -  00
illegible on paper fold   2 flichs bakken                                          02  -  00  -  00
In the Kitching one Maltmill chese pres  Coules pails 
Churn and other lumber                                                                 02  -  00  -  00
In the stable 3 horses and harnes                                                  06  -  00  -  00
Item Whete Maslin  barly pease hay                                              30  -  00  -  00
Item one wagon 2 carts plowes harrows                                        08  -  00  -  00
Item 2 porkets                                                                                 01  - 10  -   00
Item one hundred and  seven shep                                                32  -  00  -  00
Item 11 cowes 2 calfs                                                                     23  -  00  -  00
Hay in the grounds                                                                         04  -  00  -  00
​Item fierwood horstroufe Grinston and all other things
whatsoever nott menshoned we prayes att                                    02  -  00  -  00

                              The hole som                                                  216  -  00  -  00
 Wilum East
 Henry Cuper 
     
COMING SOON  : Another article  
' The Estes of Radnage & their descendants' 
Radnage, Bucks.  is a tiny village just inside the county boundary with Oxfordshire, about ten miles north west of High Wycombe. It is well worthwhile making a visit to the parish church, as we did one  fine summer day. The lanes are extremely narrow, but navigable with care.
The church contains a fine memorial to an East whose family put its stamp on the area over many centuries. This was William, Gentleman, whose wife Sybil bore him thirteen children. They are all depicted in a set of brasses, now mounted on the wall near the pulpit. She had the memorial placed over his tomb, and some wear took place over the years that followed, before it was moved and placed in its present position.  
The arms of this particular family probably go back to 1515, and the family must have been in good standing to have been granted them in the first place. A visitation by Heralds in 1560 confirmed the right to the Arms and a crest was granted. In a manuscript of 1574 relating to the visitation, the Arms and Crest  were sketched ( or 'tricked' ).  
Eleven descendants and five today are known. Some of the sons of William whose marriage details are not known, may have passed the name on, and we hope that eventually yet more 20th century descendants of this family may come to light.

The Founders Award
In Memory of John &
Andrée East

An annual prize of £50 will be awarded to the member who submits the most interesting article for publication in the Points East Journal

The 2021competition 
closes on the 1st August 2021 so please send articles for consideration to our Journal Editor. 


The Journal Editor needs more articles
so please
put pen  to paper or hit the keys ! and send articles that can be published in the Journal 
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to contact our Journal Editor
Amanda
 

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 £50  

CASH PRIZE

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The winner of the £50 cash prize for the best article submitted for publication in the journal during 2020 is 'Arthur Ernest East'  by  Adrian Pearson
  
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Arthur Ernest East by Adrian Pearson 

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Write an article telling us your story  and you could be the winner of the 2021 cash prize
The EAST Family history society was launched in 1993, to bring together people researching ancestors with the name EAST and to build a database of family tree's for EAST families worldwide.
In addition to the name EAST, we also research variants of the name such as EASTE, EASTES, EST, ESTE,  & ESTES.
In 2013 the EAST Family History Society celebrated 20 years of helping people worldwide to research their  EAST ancestors.

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Please consider joining the East Family History Society as the very small membership fee helps us to provide this website and maintain the society.
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Membership of the Society is open to anyone with an interest in the surname EAST or its variants.

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Can you help us ?
Our aim is to compile a database of all East family trees. 

If you have traced your EAST family tree, please let us know the details of the earliest EAST ancestor that you have found - you may be able to help us record a new family line that we don't yet know about !


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In England EASTS have been traced right back to the arrival of the Normans.
The EAST FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY, was founded in England and has helped many members to trace their ancestors back to the 16th century.
Some of these members live in Australia and  we are sure that many EASTS living in America can also be traced back to these  times.
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Information from the Society's database is 
provided to Society members and to the public. 
Research assistance can also be provided
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Look at the database page for details of the information we have available to members.  

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We are Looking for information on John Alger East or his family,  Can you Help ?

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This painting of an unknown man by an unknown artist is believed to be Captain James Cook. The painting is now owned by the National Portrait Gallery in London. It was bought in 1905 from J. A. East.
John Alger East appears in the 1911 census as an Artist living in Hackney, London. Could he be the painter ? Was he the J. A. East who sold the painting ?
John was married to Mary C Worth in 1843, who in the 1871 census was also recorded as an Artist.  
But John also had an Artistic family - His father was Henry Matthew East was a Picture Dealer in Hackney in the 1871 Census. Laura East & Gilbert East were siblings of John who became Sculptors.

The portrait can be viewed online at : http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw08900/Unknown-man-formerly-known-as-James-Cook?

Does anyone have information on Silversmith John East ? 

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​These Early 18th Century  Antique Queen Anne Britannia Silver Octagonal based Candlesticks with diamond facets, were made by John East in London in 1705. 

​They were recently listed for sale valued  at  
£12,500.
 
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18th Century Queen Anne Silver Footed Salver were made by John East in London in 1705. 
valued at 
£5,950.
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Porringer, described as 'Rare' was made by John East in 1711 and recently listed for sale on Ebay for £990 or $1223
This Queen Anne Silver Feeding Cup was made by John East in 1712. recently offered for sale in the United States, it was described as 'Extremely Rare'  and was priced at $9,850 or £7973.
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This is the assay mark of John East which was registered in 1697 and has been seen on silverware pieces dated between 1701 and 1722
Its a Double Mystery ! 
Can you  help us ?

Our Society Chairman Ros and her husband David recently visited the World War Battlefields & Memorials in Northern France. While visiting the Thiepval Memorial where 72,191 missing soldiers with no known graves are listed, they noticed an inscription for “East J “  a member of the Durham Light Infantry.
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Our former Research Manager Anne, found that the soldier was 28 year old Captain John East  of the 15th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, who died on the 1st July 1916. He was the son of John East from Auckland, New Zealand and husband of Marguerite East (nee Jacquet), of 33, Hatherley Rd., Sidcup, Kent.

We currently have no details of this family tree in our records but we would love to know more about this family. If anyone visiting the site has any information about Captain John, his father or any relatives in the UK or New Zealand, please let us know.  
 
We were also contacted by the Llandiloes community project who asked if we knew anything about H.H. East who is recorded on the towns WW1 war memorial.  Harold Henry was recorded as having been born in 1885 and he died age 32 on the 6th November 1917. He was a Private in the 1st/1st Bn. Herefordshire Regiment. His parents were Edwin and Laura East, of Newport & his wife was Edith Emily East, of "Dyfnant," Queen's Terrace, Aberystwyth. Harold's grandfather was Job Dawson EAST born in Reading about 1827 but moved to Wales by 1861, where he worked on the railway. 
Unfortunately although Harold came from a fairly large family, we do not have his family or his immediate ancestors in our trees.  Can anyone tell us anymore about this family ?


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WE HAD AN 'EAST' ON THE UK  'X FACTOR'  

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Fleur is a very talented 26 year old singer/songwriter from Walthamstow in East London who came 2nd in the 2014 competition.  She became the show's first contestant to reach number one on the UK iTunes Store chart during the competition, with her performance of "Uptown Funk". 
!n 2015 She was signed by Simon Cowells Syco record label and released a full-length debut album, Love, Sax and Flashbacks with lead single 'SAX' reaching no 3 in the UK charts. It also became an international hit in the Netherlands, Australia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Hungary and Croatia. Fleur's  career has gone 'international' after she was signed by Sony's Columbia Records, performed in the USA  on the season finale of Dancing with the Stars and appeared on the Today show & James Cordens Late Late Show.  
She  is  one of The X Factor's biggest breakout acts. She performed on The X Factor Tour 2015 & her own 'Sax' Tour this year,  has produced a second single  "
More and More", performed at the National Television Awards, Blackpool Illuminations, Pride Festivals at Brighton, Manchester & Birmingham and Girl Guiding UK's BIG GIG at Wembley to name but a few.

 Fleur East has also teamed up with British dress company Lipsy (London)  for the launch of her first fashion collection.

 We continue to watch with interest and congratulate Fleur on her fantastic success to date and we remain sure that there is still a lot more to come from her in the future.

​​Music Thanks to Moodmixes.com