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Annual General Meeting 2022
Due to the continuing difficulties 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 on Sat 15th October 2022 at 6pm.
Members will shortly be contacted by the Secretary with the details required.
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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.
Ann Maria Yemms - nee East
by Beryl Padgham.
Published in Points East Journal Autumn 1996
by Beryl Padgham.
Published in Points East Journal Autumn 1996
This portrait once hung upon the wall of my grandmother's gloomy Islington bedroom.
"Ah" she would say "That was my dearly beloved mother. She died from a broken heart you know, when I was very young and I was brought up by my wicked Aunt Sarah". The picture filled my childish soul with sadness and I put the thought away from me.
But much later when I became interested in my family's history, and alas G'ma had died, I began to wonder, what had caused her heart to break and how was this recorded on a death certificate?
The portrait is of Annie Maria Yemms nee East, married to Thomas Goble Yemms in 1873 and I knew nothing about her beyond the facts given above. I decided to investigate.
"Ah" she would say "That was my dearly beloved mother. She died from a broken heart you know, when I was very young and I was brought up by my wicked Aunt Sarah". The picture filled my childish soul with sadness and I put the thought away from me.
But much later when I became interested in my family's history, and alas G'ma had died, I began to wonder, what had caused her heart to break and how was this recorded on a death certificate?
The portrait is of Annie Maria Yemms nee East, married to Thomas Goble Yemms in 1873 and I knew nothing about her beyond the facts given above. I decided to investigate.
Grandma was born in 1875 so if Annie died when she was 'very young' I decided to work backwards for a couple of years. Well the 1880's produced nothing so I worked backwards for a couple more years - still nothing. I didn't think I could have missed her, after all Yemms is not a common name in the registers but she had died and there must have been a death certificate. So I went on - and on - and on - Finally there it was in 1923. I eagerly awaited the arrival of the certificate and then received my next shock. Not surprisingly, the 'broken heart' turned out to be 'fibrosis of the lungs' but it was the location that caused the shock - The City of London Lunatic Asylum !
She was still shown as the wife of Thomas Yemms of 45 Fish Street Hill, City of London, my grandmothers birthplace, yet Thomas had died in 1906, living in Brighton and no one had let them know.
The City of London Corporation told me the Asylum is now known as the Stonehouse Hospital near Dartford, Kent, but they had no records.
She was still shown as the wife of Thomas Yemms of 45 Fish Street Hill, City of London, my grandmothers birthplace, yet Thomas had died in 1906, living in Brighton and no one had let them know.
The City of London Corporation told me the Asylum is now known as the Stonehouse Hospital near Dartford, Kent, but they had no records.
I wrote to the hospital and received a very helpful letter and a photostat of a photograph. Admitted in May 1879, Annie had been "behaving very strangely during the last two years". She was depressed and deluded on admission but for most of her stay at the asylum she had no depression. Her illness was thought to be 'puerperal melancholia'- post natal depression and though of short duration, no one came to fetch her home. Indeed no one seems to have visited her at all during her 44 year stay! Perhaps they were discouraged as the hospital said, because 'her mother is said to have been a heavy drinker and a brother who kept a beer shop was described as light-headed and wild.
Annie had three children : Maud (grandma), Stella 1877 and Tommy 1878. I obtained their birth certificates, both Maud and Stella had been born at Fish Street Hill, Tommy surprisingly was born in Cookham, Berks. Even more surprisingly Annies name was mistakenly shown as Neighbour - I had never heard of the informant, who seemed to have no connection and she seemed to know little about Annie.
What I did know was that Grandma had married Albert Lacey from Cookham on 1899 and I was puzzled as to how Annie Maria could have had links with Cookham some twenty years earlier. I know a great deal about Cookham and I was sure that she had not been born there. At the time of her marriage to Thomas Yemms she had lived in Islington (father Joseph East - general dealer). I supposed she had been born there - one should never suppose!
A long search and many wrong certificates later revealed that Annie Maria East had been born in Great Marlow, the daughter of Joseph East a gardener and Eliza East nee Neighbour! Great I thought I'll look them up in the 1851 census and find out more about them. Yes, the family still lived in Great Marlow , and there was the elder brother and now a younger sister Rachel aged 8 months old but where was Annie ?
Later while researching my grandfather Lacey's family on the Cookham census for 1861, who should I find but Rachel East now aged 10, niece of Thomas Lacey. born in Great Marlow and described as a servant. So they had farmed out Rachel and presumably done the same with Annie by the time she was four. But Where ?
From Cookham and Great Marlow censuses I discovered nothing. However I did find the Yemms/Lacey/East link.
When grandma died and her house was cleared a companion to Annie's portrait was found of Thomas Goble Yemms, but it was never hung on the wall and grandma never spoke of her father with anything but deep dislike.
Curiosity made me look up the 1881 census for 45 Fish Street Hill and there installed as 'housekeeper' was Sarah Lacey, 19 years old and born in Cookham, a daughter of the same Thomas Lacey with whom Rachel had been billeted in 1861. She was said to have a daughter by Thomas Yemms but I have yet to find proof of that.
Stella died of measles at age 6 and Tommy drowned at Borden on his 25th birthday, drunk.
One pathetic little note was found on a scrap of paper addressed to 'Maudie' and signed 'your loving mother' was also found. It was written when Grandmas was 16, although couched as though to a young child. It begs for news and pleads wIth Maudie to ask Aunt Sarah to bring her on a visit. It seems unlikely that the visit was ever made, Grandma kept her secret until she died, even her children never knew their grandmother existed.
The portrait still fills me with sadness, for this poor, beautiful woman, seemingly unwanted by her parents, rejected, betrayed, abandoned by her husband, she was deprived of the love and warmth of family all her tragic life.
She now occupies a cherished place on a wall in my house and I hope she will continue to find a place with her descendants after I am gone.
Annie had three children : Maud (grandma), Stella 1877 and Tommy 1878. I obtained their birth certificates, both Maud and Stella had been born at Fish Street Hill, Tommy surprisingly was born in Cookham, Berks. Even more surprisingly Annies name was mistakenly shown as Neighbour - I had never heard of the informant, who seemed to have no connection and she seemed to know little about Annie.
What I did know was that Grandma had married Albert Lacey from Cookham on 1899 and I was puzzled as to how Annie Maria could have had links with Cookham some twenty years earlier. I know a great deal about Cookham and I was sure that she had not been born there. At the time of her marriage to Thomas Yemms she had lived in Islington (father Joseph East - general dealer). I supposed she had been born there - one should never suppose!
A long search and many wrong certificates later revealed that Annie Maria East had been born in Great Marlow, the daughter of Joseph East a gardener and Eliza East nee Neighbour! Great I thought I'll look them up in the 1851 census and find out more about them. Yes, the family still lived in Great Marlow , and there was the elder brother and now a younger sister Rachel aged 8 months old but where was Annie ?
Later while researching my grandfather Lacey's family on the Cookham census for 1861, who should I find but Rachel East now aged 10, niece of Thomas Lacey. born in Great Marlow and described as a servant. So they had farmed out Rachel and presumably done the same with Annie by the time she was four. But Where ?
From Cookham and Great Marlow censuses I discovered nothing. However I did find the Yemms/Lacey/East link.
When grandma died and her house was cleared a companion to Annie's portrait was found of Thomas Goble Yemms, but it was never hung on the wall and grandma never spoke of her father with anything but deep dislike.
Curiosity made me look up the 1881 census for 45 Fish Street Hill and there installed as 'housekeeper' was Sarah Lacey, 19 years old and born in Cookham, a daughter of the same Thomas Lacey with whom Rachel had been billeted in 1861. She was said to have a daughter by Thomas Yemms but I have yet to find proof of that.
Stella died of measles at age 6 and Tommy drowned at Borden on his 25th birthday, drunk.
One pathetic little note was found on a scrap of paper addressed to 'Maudie' and signed 'your loving mother' was also found. It was written when Grandmas was 16, although couched as though to a young child. It begs for news and pleads wIth Maudie to ask Aunt Sarah to bring her on a visit. It seems unlikely that the visit was ever made, Grandma kept her secret until she died, even her children never knew their grandmother existed.
The portrait still fills me with sadness, for this poor, beautiful woman, seemingly unwanted by her parents, rejected, betrayed, abandoned by her husband, she was deprived of the love and warmth of family all her tragic life.
She now occupies a cherished place on a wall in my house and I hope she will continue to find a place with her descendants after I am gone.
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 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
In Memory of John & Andrée East
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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 2022 competition closes on the 1st August 2022 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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£50
CASH PRIZE |
The winner of the £50 cash prize for the best article submitted for publication in the journal during 2021 is A Very Musical Family by Angela East, cellist, teacher and member of the ensemble Red Priest.
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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 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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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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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
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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
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Its a Double Mystery !
Can you help us ?
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.
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 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 ?
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 ?
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. |
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