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Why Hastings Close?

Over the weekend I was idly surfing the net and, as is my wont, was entering
various names into a Google search. On entering the name John Paget
Hastings, I came upon your excellent and informative site. I could hardly
believe that here I was finding so much information on the Hastings family
in which I have an interest as I am descended from Elizabeth Hastings' aunt
Martha Pagett (the Chipping Norton Pagetts used two ts in the 18th Century,
it was only in the 19th that the second one was dropped) and have been
putting together a family tree the various Pagett/Paget descendants both in
the male and female line.

Martha married a London law stationer named Thomas Druce and one of their
sons, Charles Druce founded a law firm there that survives to this day as
Druces and Attlee.

I was impressed by the amount of detail in your piece on the Hastings family
- it is far more informative about both the Pagets and the Hastings than
either family's entry in Burke's Landed Gentry. I also sensed from the
beginning of the article that more information might be available and I
wonder if you might be able to point me in the direction of finding this.

It occurs to me that as the last Hastings incumbent of the parish only
died/retired in the late 1950s, there may be Hastings descendants still
living in or around Martley. I should be most grateful for any further
information and once again congratulations o your excellent site.

Yours sincerely,

Neil Robertson

Chief Executive Officer
Australia's Open Garden Scheme
Westport
New Gisborne 3438
Victoria
AUSTRALIA

Ph: +61 3 5428 4557
Fax: +61 3 5428 4558

Posted by Lynne at February 23, 2004 03:57 PM