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• From: Mike Welch <<email address>>
  To: Les Sullivan <<email address>>
  Subject: Re: Woollett/Spencer/Welch links (+many others)
  Date: 03 January 2000 21:37
  
  Dear Les
  
  Thanks for your prompt reply. Perhaps I had not made my mothers maiden name quite clear. She was born Vera Beatty WOOLLETT, married my father Laurence Eric WELCH, (who died in 1966) and subsequently re-married  John Holland.
  Unfortunately I do not know the exact date of her first marriage, but was in 1941, I believe in June or July, at St. Peter's Church, St. Peter's Road, Maidstone. This church was eventually de-consecrated and pulled down, together with the old Style & Winch brewery opposite, to make room for the second bridge over the Medway and for the new shopping complex next to it.
  
  I enclose below all the details I know of the Maidstone Woolletts. I also have added details of the much earlier William Woollett and his wife and son; details of these three taken from the gravestone just outside the main door into All Saint's Church in Maidstone. These details are as follows and are an exact wording taken from the gravestone when I first discovered it:-
  
                                                          IN
                                          Memory  of  WILLIAM
                                       WOOLLETT  Late  Serjeant
                                       inthe  Weft  Kent  Regiment
                                       of   Militia  who  died Nov.r
                                       10th  1776  Aged 39 Years
  
                                       Left  Ifsue  by  SUSANNA
                                       his  Wife  one Son  WILL.M
  
                                           Also  of  SUSANNA
                                      Wife  of  the above who died
                                      Sept 26 1786 Aged 40 years
  
  I suspect the above fits in two or three generations back from my great grandfather.