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Thanks to my cousin Serena Sissons who found and digitised the original book a month ago.
George
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Trevor Williams
Cricket Match Report
The lunch at Jacobs and Keeling vs Sedlescombe cricket match at Newenden were held on 16-17 September. We won the cricket by some wickets. They were all out for 106, Zak took three wickets, it rained for lunch, then we went in and got 107 for 4. Ted excelled with 40 runs and Jasper hit 30.
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Orpen portrait of Barbar
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Just after Barbar, my grandmother, was married (~1920), her great admirer Mr Johnson commissioned a portrait of her by the famous artist Orpen. In her diaries Barbar wrote of it "I was rather disinterested and would have preferred the fifteen hundred pounds which was the price named. But then I had a letter from Mr Johnson. I wish that I had kept it. What he said, in effect, was 'You know you would rather have today the pearl necklace that the artist's fee would buy you; one day in the future your husband will give you those pearls but he will never be able to have you painted as you are today.' That letter should and did console a greedy girl."
Allis - Keeling family tree
Jane and Bill Allis visited England recently and met Nick and Mark Crean and Simon and Tom Keeling. Bill shared this family tree which shows how we are all descended from Edward Phelps Allis (1824-1889). There is a more legible version of the image here. Mary [Allis] Keeling (1891-1988) my great aunt was the Aunty Allis who introduced the card game as told in the rules by my Dad.
George
Cherry Palmer
Serena Palmer wrote us on 13 July, "very sadly our mother died yesterday. She literally just faded away, suffered no pain and it was very peaceful. She was 95 and had been immobile for some time."
Cherry's funeral will be at St James the Less, Winterbourne Church, Newbury RG20 8AU on 8 August.
Cherry, the last survivor of all the aunts and uncles, was Mum's best friend and the sweetest aunt of all.
George
Great grandfather Arthur Gibbs
Leslie Price from Houston, Texas wrote recently:
My great-grandmother, Gladys Taber Chamberlain, was the 2nd wife of your [great] grandfather Arthur Gibbs.
I discovered your website one day while searching for information about my great grandmother and her 2nd husband. All I really have is a few photos and a calling card.
My great grandmother was always known to us as Grandmother Gibbs. She’d married first Ernest Chamberlain, had my grandfather (Thomas Taber Chamberlain), then divorced, and remarried the somewhat mysterious “Mister Gibbs”.
By the time I knew her, she had been living in Cuernevaca Mexico for many years. My mother explained to me that in Cuernevaca, Grandmother Gibbs could live in style on the modest amount of money she had.
I’m so pleased to finally be able to learn a bit about Arthur Gibbs, the wealthy Englishman who worked at Rolls Royce and met my great-grandmother at Cannes where they both liked to gamble.
Thank you so much for creating your website, and for including that wonderful book by your grandmother Barbara Gibbs.
This excerpt from p.104 seems about right given the little I ever learned about Grandmother Gibbs’ 2nd marriage:
“He [Arthur] drove down to the South of France every February, but he never took his wife. No doubt he needed a new one. Curiously, having obtained his divorce and married the lady that he had in mind, to the great satisfaction of them both, she, in turn, found that marriage to him was another matter. Within two years she had left him, preferring real poverty to the gilded cage in which she found herself trapped.”
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| From https://lptex.com/gallery/page/search/?search=gibbs |
More patience: Enter the User zone
We now have a user zone so scores can be recorded and entered in the champions league. Grandpa MK is at the top. If you are lucky, as I was, you may be able to pick up your previous scores when you first log in. xxx G
See below for more about the games.
The Five Great Games of patience: Live!
What are the Five Great Games of patience?
The games are Aunty Allis, Uncle Remus, Seven & Six, Senior Wrangler and Kings. They have been passed down by Grandpa Michael Keeling who played them as a young man and inherited them from his family. One was his aunt Allis (often misspelt Alice). I remember watching him playing them at home and with his mother at Hurst when I was a child.
Jim persuaded Grandpa to write down the rules for posterity and then Grandpa played a hundred games and set the gold standard for performance. The rules and those hard-to-beat scores are now at p5g.racingdemon.net. They even work on smart phones but you need good eyesight and dexterous fingers. Feel free to pass on the URL to anybody. x George
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| Uncle Remus in Progress |
More recently (2024) I have been working with C#, ASP.NET and SignalR to produce The game of Racing Demon is also known as Nerts, Nertz, Pounce, Peanuts, Squeal, Scrooge or (in German) Rasender Teufel. It is a competitive game for two or more players or bots, using a pack of cards for each player. The players race to get rid of the cards from their "Demons" (also known as "Nerts piles" , "Pounce piles", etc. - depending on what you call the game) by building them from the ace up onto common foundations.
Keelings 114 vs Sedlescombe 111
The weekend properly started on Saturday with lunch and games at Jacobs which is almost finished and is looking spanking new. There was a great turn out - nearly 50 people - it was lovely to see all the relatives and catch up and get to know them better.
After lunch there was bicycle polo on the rather battered lawn followed by water melon water polo which worked out better this year without any melons getting smashed.
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On Sunday the cricket match officially began at 11.30 at the very swanky Polegrove cricket ground almost on the seafront in Bexhill. It was about the most exciting cricket match I ever saw. Sedlescombe batted first. As lunchtime approached there last two batsmen made a stand of 33 which delayed lunch and took them to 111. It seemed like an achievable total to beat. Our innings started after lunch. Josh got 27 runs and Ted 24 and we were heading in the right direction. Then our star man JJ came in and was out for 4. And the runs slightly dried up for us. Paul got 12 and then we only we only had three batters left: Fred who was hitting them up and Tom at number 11 and Simon who came in to join Fred when the score was 110 runs to us. Simon was out for a duck! Tom came in. I could barely look. Tom survived a ball then Fred was facing and he hit a four. It was over, we had won.
There are lots more photos here.
All My Friends Hate Me
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| Tom Palmer |
Tom’s film “All My Friends Hate Me” is now or is about to be released in England through a distribution chain of cinemas called the PictureHouse Group of cinemas.
Go to https://www.picturehouses.com/ and choose a cinema near you and muddle your way through to book tickets. From the look of it the Cinemas in London are geared up to showing it for a week from 9th June.
It is also at the British Film Institute Cinema on South Bank ) Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XT) until the last week in June See https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp and search the title of the film
Further links at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9340892/
It is a dark comedy – but I wont tell you much about it. Has excellent reviews on Rotten Tomatoes (93%) and metacritic.com (79%), and less good ones on imdb (6/10), all of which will tell you more about the plotline if you want to know it in advance.
Lara Romilly Keeling
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| Lucy Archie Lara |
Jacobs farm photo albums: 1974 Apr - 1978 July JBK
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| Keelings, Christmas 1974 |
People
Barbar (Barbara) Gibbs
Granny, Grandpa, Robert, Trevor, George, Simon, David, Tom, Jim, Paul
Keelings: Jocelyn, Johnny, John
Keelings: Bri, Magdelise
Hudsons: Loveday, Philip
Woodward Fisher: Anne, Ken, Charles, Jane, Emma
Eddis: Francis, Mary, Chris
Courtenays: Sara, William, Lucy, Caroline, Mr. James
Jonathan Lane, Jeremy Hill, Margaret Marsden, Peg Eva, Benita Sayth, Rowes, Penmans, Darby & Joan, Father McCurdy, Robert Newham, Jane and Pete Gardener-Hill, David Gibbs
Places
Jacobs Farm, Sedlescombe hunt, Albert Place, Dolphins, Mill Hill hang gliding, Saas Fee, Sardinia
Horses and other animals
Black King, Tabitha, Miss Moppet
Dog: Mini, Mr. Fox, Chickens
Bill Palmer Obituary
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| Young Bill |
Captain Bill Palmer CBE DL,
Late Grenadier Guards,
by his son Howard Palmer QC
William Alexander (Bill) Palmer was born on 21st May 1925 in Down Street in London. He died at home on 31 October 2020, the last survivor of the fourth and final generation of Palmers to serve as directors in the firm of biscuit manufacturers, Huntley & Palmers of Reading. The firm had been founded by Bill’s great great uncle, George Palmer, in partnership with Thomas Huntley, in 1842, and they had been joined soon afterwards by George’s .......
Cricket match weekend Sept 17-19 2021
The annual Keeling-Sedlescombe cricket match was rained off in 2019 and COVID cancelled in 2020. It came back in full glory on Sunday 19 Sept at Brightling Park near Robertsbridge. It was preceded on Friday by a convergence of the clan on Jacobs and Northlands and a feast and games on Saturday at Jacobs. It was also the 50th anniversary of the family moving into Jacobs.
At Northlands Farm we whiled away the evenings with parlour games of which there are photos. There is no record of quiet evenings at Jacobs. Fire Hockey was the preferred way to pass the time. Apparently Simon caught fire and had to be doused with a fire extinguisher.
On Saturday caterers provided a plentiful lunch in a marquee on the lawn. The sun shone gloriously and there was a photo shoot, bicycle polo and then water polo. They had to play water polo with a football instead of a water melon because a certain perfidious person pushed the ref Polly into the pool and the only surviving melon was smashed. In the resulting fracas, I and my phone joined her. The evidence is in the photos. This made my journey back to Berlin even more difficult as you can read below.
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| Missing: Alice, Luke, Viv, Art, Dulcie; Kate, Will, Jasper, Monty (came to cricket); Harry Harriet, Florence; Archie, Lucy; Jasper, Zak |
The official plans for the weekend are here. It did not all work out as expected. Some went missing, some reappeared and the Keck family, headed by Meg, joined for lunch, photos and games.
Cricket report
On the Keeling team were Simon, Tom, Jim, Paul Sr (on-field captain), Poppy, Ted, Arthur, Edward, JJ, Fred and Kev. Josh was off games, Harry had other engagements, the perfidious Trev Sr played for Sedlescombe, Trev Jr and Ruth were scorers.
The Keelings batted first in light rain. Paul was out quickly for 9 and Ted for a duck. Things were looking bad until our secret weapon JJ came onto bat and was very instrumental in propelling us to a creditable 168 by getting a massive 69.
The weather improved a bit and Sedlescombe went into bat. Their opener was very stubborn, would not be out even against bowlers Edward, JJ, Paul, Fred, Kev. There was one hopeful moment at about 160 runs when we got two wickets in two balls. Sadly no more wickets followed and Sedlescombe went to 172 for five wickets. So they won with Crittenden the opener finishing on 83 not out.
After the match, amid mass confusion with the Southeastern Rail network, half of our team and most of the opposition, repaired to the Ostrich pub for friendly pints where Trev (the perfidious) Sr led a rousing chorus of ‘Delroy Reid, he’s the meanest……’ which rather shattered the quiet Sunday evening peace of the place.
JJ was definitely our man of the match. He not only scored a lot of runs and bowled but he made an amazing catch. He was sprinting to the boundary and a barbed wire fence with the ball descending behind him and he caught it over his shoulder while screeching to a halt.
As he said later, "We will be back stronger next year".
Selected photos (135)
End of automated email service
Google say the automated email service on this blog is ending in July. I have email addresses of all the subscribers. I will try to remember to email you whenever a new post goes up! This is probably the last automatic one.
George
CORRECTION 12 Jan 2022. Six months after Google's announcement, the email service continues to work and even accept new email addresses. So I have reinstated the Suscribe: widget near the top right of the blog and we will carry on using that system as long we can.
Jacobs farm photo albums: 1973 Dec - 1974 July JBK
Barbar (Barbara) Gibbs
Lady Dot Keeling
Granny, Grandpa, Trevor, George, Simon, David, Tom, Jim, Paul
Johnny, Jocelyn, John, Bill
Fanny Gibbs
Ruvé Finucane, Tris Grayson
Gaynor: Thyrza, Helena
Woodward-Fisher: Anne, Jane
Rowe: Lucinda, Josephine, Sarah
King: Harry and Sheila ,
Gardiner-Hill: Peter and Sue
Jonathan Lane, Isabel Mons, Jackie Kent, Carmen Roa
Horses
Black King, Rusty, Tabby
Places
Val d'Isère, Jacobs, Ladycross
Click here to see all 17
Welcome Florence!
Bill Palmer RIP
"I am afraid to have to announce that my father, WAP (William/Bill) died this morning, 31/10/20 after a short illness. Cherry is bereft, but bearing up well and in good health. Dad had been hale and hearty, if a little immobile, until about 3 weeks ago when he became rather weak and eventually chair and bed-bound for the last 10 days or so. He was 95 and a bit, so an excellent innings.
Happy memories."
Talking of which, he once played in the Sedlescombe match when I was 13 (and he was 42) and opened the innings with Trevor. I outlasted Trevor and Mike sent WAP in to take the number 3 slot at the other end. He hadn’t played cricket probably since he was 13 and was promptly out first ball!
Bill Palmer married Granny's sister Cherry. The photos were taken between 1967 and 1969. The one at the top right is almost certainly just before Bill got his duck. Unless I am mistaken, Bill was Sherriff of Berkshire and scion of the great biscuit makers Huntley and Palmers.
Jacobs farm photo albums: 1969 Nov - 1973 Jul JBK
Jacobs farm photo albums: 1969 Nov - 1973 Jul JBK mostly by Granny
People
Lady Dot Keeling
Barbar (Barbara Gibbs)
Grandpa, Granny, Robert, Trevor, George, Simon, David, Tom, Jim, Paul
Gibbs's: Emma, Fanny
Hudsons: Christopher, Kate, Alexander
Palmers: Howard, John
Keelings: Johnny, Jocelyn, Bill; Mark, Nick Crean
Keelings: Bri Magdeliza
Seitz's: Cally, Herbert, Nico
Gardiner Hills: Peter, Sue, Alice, Jane
Gaynors: Paddy, John, Cathy, Pat
Mash, Juliet Sturridge, Lars Backlund, Mary, Dom Caldecott, Simon Greenwood, Monika Heslmunte; Synove (Synøve) Lund; Harry Eddis; Barry and Val Sweatman; Mr Dumaresq; Anno Ainslie; Roger and Anne Field; Mr and Mrs Curry; June and Geoff Williams; Sheila and Harry King; Val, Tom, June Scruby; Jamie Petri; Cresta Norris; Sue Rowe; David Roberts; Caroline Schofield; Canal du Midi
Pony: Coco
Places
Lake Windermere, Davos, Sedlescombe, The Oast House, Hurst House, Eton, Zermatt, Dolphins, Venice, 11 Albert Place, Pollurrian Cornwall, Jacobs Farm (Oct 30 1971), Ladycross, Ampleforth
Includes
Fishing with trammel net.
The move in to Jacobs and some amateur building there.
See all 59 pages: Click here.
Jacobs farm photo albums: 1967 Jan - 1969 Aug JBK
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People
Keelings
Dot, Jack (Grandpa's parents), Ruvé (Dot's Sister)
Johnny (Grandpa's brother), Jocelyn Keeling, Mark, Nick Crean, John, Bill Keeling
Granny, Grandpa, Robert, Trevor, George, Simon, David Tom, Jim, Paul
Brian (Grandpa's brother), Sara, Patrick
Seitz: Cally (Grandpa's sister), Herbert, Nico
Barbar and descendants
Gibbs: David Gibbs and an invisible Geraldine Schwarz(?)
Hudson: Loveday, Martin , Cathryn, Alexander
Palmer: Cherry, Bill, Serena, Alexandra, Howard, John
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Eddis: Mary, Francis, Christopher, Dana, Samantha
Gardner-Hill: Peter, Sue, Jane, Alice
Backlund: Ingela, Alice, Lars
Sabina Gaynor
David Petri
Lorna Stewart-Wilson
Nannies: Glenda, Peggy, Val, Sarah Burnays, Winnie,
Gardners: Cecil, Hodsoll
Dawes the butler
Places
Albert Place, Beaulieu, Davos, Dolphins, Egypt, Hadrian's Wall, Hurst House, Medway canal, Oast House, Sedlescombe cricket pitch, Sweden, Zip wire at Hurst pool
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