{"id":676,"date":"2016-10-16T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=676"},"modified":"2024-04-14T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T19:11:06","slug":"are-we-related-willetts-of-essex-and-of-kent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Are We Related: Willetts of Essex and of Kent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is in response to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=647#comment-118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comment<\/a> from Eve Thirkle.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I happened across your family tree of Josiah Box and Elizabeth Stiles when researching my Kreamer family line (my father\u2019s line) and was amazed to discover a link to the Willett family (my mother\u2019s line) \u2013 <em> still need to see whether it is the same families and where the link occurs if there is one<\/em> but thank you for publishing the tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This post addresses the second relationship &#8211; between the Eve Thirkle&#8217;s Willett ancestors and the Willett family (which has been traced back to Colchester, Essex).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Willett great (x3) grandfather of Eve Thirkle according to Eve&#8217;s research is a Carpenter, Thomas Willett b ~1804 in Milton, Kent.<\/p>\n<p>I have not yet found a connection between the Willett&#8217;s of Colchester, Essex and any Willetts whose ancestors originated in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>In Colchester, Thomas Willett (d 1808) is the furthest back I have got to date &#8211; he is the great grandfather of &#8220;Daylight Saving&#8221; Willett. All Colchester Thomas&#8217;s known children and grandchildren were christened in Colchester (1791-1806 &amp; 1817-1839 respectively).<\/p>\n<p>(William Willett of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=142\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daylight saving fame<\/a> of course lived for a time in Petts Wood, Chislehurst (now in Greater London), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/?p=30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wilfred Willett<\/a>, his nephew who lived in Tonbridge, Kent.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is in response to a comment from Eve Thirkle. I happened across your family tree of Josiah Box and Elizabeth Stiles when researching my Kreamer family line (my father\u2019s line) and was amazed to discover a link to the Willett family (my mother\u2019s line) \u2013 still need to see whether it is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[255,12,50],"tags":[258,198,257,259],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-are-we-related","category-england","category-willett","tag-colchester","tag-essex","tag-kent","tag-milton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2518,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/2518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faulder.org.uk\/genealogy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}