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 Hello, and thank you for visiting! 
  
 
This is the first time I have tried to set up a website. Please let me know if
you find any errors and any constructive observations would be very welcome.  

 

I cannot take the credit for tracing all the relatives listed here... without
the input from several relations, most of whom I have come into contact with
while researching, this tree would have been much smaller. 
 
I would like to thank all the family members and people that have contributed 
information and photographs that has made this family tree possible.
 
Special thanks goes out to: 
RON HOSKINS who initially did a Hoskins One Name Study;   

KAREN DAY nee.Hoskins who embellished Ron's work and contacted me initially 
via Friends Reunited... Karen's priceless information & encouragement to so 
many HOSKINS relatives has culminated in her writing a book entitled...  
  My Family - The Hoskins of Greenwich & Erith   
Wonderful! Thanks so much Karen! 
 
Another Hoskins relative KAREN CHRISTLEY, has corrected some omissions & 
errors on my side of the Greenwich HOSKINS (my assumtions were incorrect!). 
Karen also provided excellent HOSKINS Family Charts which have enriched the 
information I already had and she has now set up her own TRIBAL PAGES 
website. 

 
THE HOSKINS LINE is the blood line of my Grandmother, DOROTHY MAY HOSKINS. 
 
PETER SWINSCOE (husband of JEAN aka.RUBY RUMBLE) who has devoted many
hours during retirement researching The Swinscoe's and The Rumble's which is 
my husband's blood line. 
 


 'LOST COUSINS' found out that my Grandfather's name had been changed from 
HUTCHINS to LEIGHTON... so the Leighton surname that I have had since birth
really is not relevant, as my grandfather was actually born HUTCHINS!!! 
Despite many hours... no days of searching, Why the whole family changed their
name to LEIGHTON is still very much a mystery to me. 

Contact with JOAN HAWKSWORTH and her daughter SALLY, (both through PAUL 
DRAPER) has introduced me to an Aunt I never knew I had... PHYL JOYCE who is 
the daughter of my grandfather's sister. These contacts are greatly helping me 
to establish accuracy in the COLMER maternal line of my Grandfather... Thomas 
Ptolemy Frederick LEIGHTON formerly HUTCHINS' blood line. 
 
More recently I have been in contact with DAVID WALSH who had discovered new 
details about my HUTCHINS & LEIGHTON FAMILY via information regarding their 
Wills & Probate. David's research has uncovered yet another HUTCHINS branch to 
my family and a step-brother, Reginald Fred HUTCHINS (1920-2002), that my 
grandfather probably never knew! So thanks very much to goes out to David, who 
also provided information about my Father's Step-Sister he never knew... Joy 
May LEIGHTON (1918-1984) through Probate references. 
 
My sister, PAULA LEIGHTON-NEWMAN and SUE MASON nee.Linda Susan ANSELL,
BOB and MAYLEY CALVERT & JAMES JONES have all helped me to compile the 
Calvert/Jones Lines of my step-mother Joan CALVERT. 
 
Thanks and acknowledgement again to GENES REUNITED where JIM JONES first 
contacted Sue & I and where I also came into contact with BOB CODDINGTON
who has helped me add the EMMA JANE HOSKINS nee.CODDINGTON branch. 
 

A big thank you to my 'Cornish' Cousin KATHRYN Ellis nee.BOYNS who is helping 
me understand our BOYNS/BOYENS family; Kathryn is in the process of putting 
together a website of all the Bowens/Boyens/Boyns information and she would be 
delighted to hear from anyone researching the family to exchange information 
in the meantime. You will find Kathryn in the GUEST BOOK or alternatively you 
can contact her through me by email or telephone. 
 


 Lots of thanks goes out to DOREEN BERRY who has persevered and is still 
struggling with me to establish facts about our BOAST ancestors. Also a big 
thank you to ANN CHOWN who has recently been sharing her research findings 
with us and helping Doreen & I to accurately fit together the BOAST Family 
Tree jigsaw puzzle - we are all trying to find out whether & how the Linstead 
Parva & Stradbroke BOAST Families of Suffolk and Norfolk are related. 
 

Thanks also to VALERIE SARGENT and ANDREW SARGENT who have helped me 
with the Sargent line, which is the blood line of the father of my 'Mum' from 
three months old, Valerie Elsie Churchill nee SARGENT. 
 
Last, but not least ROBERT COTTRELL who, as Indexer of the Thames Watermen & 
Lightermen, has provided affidavit proofs for HOSKINS and SARGENT names. 
 
 

I am currently adding photographs and documents, more will appear very soon.
You may like to view a 60 second Video Clip about THAMES WATERMEN - you will
find it in the Watermen & Lightermen Album under 'PHOTOS'. 
 
 It's always good to receive feedback, so please send me your observations 
and comments via the GUEST BOOK or email me at lindamayrumble@gmail.com.  

I do hope you find a connection here... and if you do I'll be delighted to 
hear from you - please use the Guest Book.  

If you find your name on this site, you might find the 'Relationships' Tool 
useful and very interesting - find it under 'Tools'. 
I have another Family Tree website that you might like to visit...
 
The Churchill/Sargent Tree more truly represents my upbringing experience 
rather than my bloodline. I was never legally adopted, but was brought up 
primarily by my father's half-sister and her husband; As relatives of my 
father, they can be viewed on this site too - William Samuel Churchill and 
Valerie Elsie nee. Sargent.  
 
TRIBAL PAGES makes it so easy to set up your own Family website - just click 
on the icon above and give it a try... let me know the address and I will add 
a link from this website to yours. 
 
There is also a link to The OFFIN Branch which may be of interest to anyone 
with the family name of OFFIN or CHANT. This information has been kindly 
provided by PAT GIBBINS nee. PATRICIA CLIST formerly MOODY. 
 
Finally a big thank you to NEIL BOULTON (see Guest Book), who although 
unrelated, has been helping me to understand military connections of many 
individals in our family since November 2006. 
    
Feedback is very important to me and it is really encouraging when I find that 
someone has signed the GUEST BOOK - so please remember to sign there before 
you leave - you will find the link above. 
 
THANK YOU very much for your interest. 
 
Linda