Brian Sackett Margate, UK , who had heard we were here because a friend gave him the article that was in the paper and called Chris, is supposed to join us shortly before the female Mayor's Councillor Kay Dark reception at pm. He actually arrived about pm. We visited with him for a few minutes before we went up to change. We all convened about 7pm for the walk down and up the other hill to a large building, Ramsgate City Hall, with a British flag flying on the top.
We were met by Janet Dale, who is the Mayor's assistant. We were shown into the Mayor's Parlour, to which only a few are invited, so it was quite an honor.
The mayor is only the 5th woman, out of Ramsgate Mayors, and since she is divorced with 3 sons and twin daughters 28 , one of her sons, Adam Dark, was her escort. She is a working mother, who works full-time as a therapist. When she first met us, she had on a business suit with her chain of office around her neck.
She is very down to earth and quite enjoyed herself. One of the pictures is with her and all the actual Sackett descendants. We presented her with one of our light blue TSFA shirts. Janet served us wine and juice and some munchies. We did a toast to the Mayor. After many pictures, she decided to don her regal robes and her hat. Michael took a picture of me wearing her hat. Afterwards we went into the council chambers and her son took pictures of all of us with the Mayor.
She told us about the official celebration commemorating the Battle of Britain, which will be a parade culminating in a ceremony at the St Lawrence church here in Ramsgate, Sunday morning about am. We'll already be gone, but many of the others will still be here. The others went back to La Magnolia and they were still eating when we came by on the way back to the hotel.
We went up to bed early. According to the schedule we didn't have to be in St Peter's until am, so we didn't hurry in the morning, even though we'd been up since am. We came down about 8am and had to wait for a table.
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We'd already ordered a hot breakfast, when we found out we were actually supposed to meet to leave at am. After one false turn, we followed Chris, who didn't go the most straight forward way, as far as we could determine, but we made it to the church Parish Church of St. Peter the Apostle in Thanet in St. Peter's, which is part of Broadstairs. I took a picture of Michael with the Mayor. According to Will, Dane Court, the area which starts just outside the church grounds, and much more acres was once all owned by the Sacketts. Our tour guide was Shiela. The tour was one of the best I've ever had, with costumed characters of yesteryear telling the stories at each stop.
We toured the church, then walked through the churchyard second longest in England , and did a walking tour which included Reverend John Wesley, Mocketts farm, Village Sign and stocks, Nuckell's Almshouse, The Coves with tunnels used by smugglers , site of an air crash and memorial where we were shown a picture with a sign for Sackett and Sons Builders, registered Plumbers and certified Sanitary Inspectors , Ranelagh Gardens, Blagdon Cottages, and the Red Lion. We then had lunch at the Red Lion pub across the street from the church in a building rebuilt after the original one story building with a thatched roof was used as an isolation hospital for smallpox cases, and the cellars were the morgue with an underground tunnel directly to the church.
Took pictures of both of us with the Town Crier. After lunch we were met by Linda Drew Kent and her sister Julie Drew Presnell Kent , who also had just seen the article in the newspaper, and are Sackett's through the Mockett line, and joined us for the first part of the cemetery tour and were disappointed the church was not still open.
Verena-Maria Martin-Dickin, who is a Sackett through her deceased mother, Joan, who is descended from Ann Sackett-Mockett whose ancestors have been in Thanet since the Viking times, her husband, Dr Paul Martin-Dickin and her father, Derek Martin also came, but Verena-Maria is not well and was not able to do the cemetery tour, so they just sat on a bench in the churchyard.
Paul had an article for Chris, so he went over and talked to them and invited them to join us at Jill Atwood's at 4pm. We were put into small groups and did a graveyard tour, which I had thought would be mainly of Sacketts. Only one Sackett grave and several Mockett graves were part of the tour. We saw one other Sackett grave, which according to Linda has incorrect information, but I'm not sure what the correct information is. According to Arabella, Linda was supposed to join us on Saturday, and I would've asked her, but she didn't show up.
After all of us had finished the cemetery tour we drove up Dane Court Road to Sackett's Hill it's about a twenty minute walk and Jill Attwell's cottage from , that is next to the abandoned and derelict original Sackett's farmhouse. The house is on the historical registry, so would have to be restored, rather than torn down. The outbuildings could be torn down, but new buildings would have to be on the site of the existing buildings.
It is totally overgrown. Tom, George and I approached from one side and then Christopher Goss, Michael and I made it through the barn and to the other side of the house from a different direction, and Michael and Christopher used boards to clear a path almost to the side of the house. One of the outbuildings has obviously been in a fire. We told the others we had gotten through and most of them went up to see the house and barn. There is no real road that currently goes to the house.
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The Sackett's Hill which is not that much of a hill road goes to the Young's nursery, which is where Jill works. Jill apologised for not letting us into her cottage, but said she hadn't gotten as much done on it as she thought she would've when she offered to have us there. The Youngs, Jackie and Martin, live in a trailer at the top of a hill and it was in their yard that we had tea. After we went back to the hotel, Michael took a nap and when he woke up we walked up the hill to the corner to The Churchill pub.
We had our usual dessert in the hotel and talked for a short while with some of the others before going up to our room. We got up early. After a light breakfast, I walked back to St Augustine's Abbey church to be there at am and waited until am, but the church door never opened. I did get onto the grounds of the Abbey and photographed their garden.
I got back to the hotel in time for the TSFA meeting which was held in the breakfast room. The secretary will have full minutes. It is painless. After the meeting, about 11am, we again carpooled Michael and I went with Chris to St Peter's to do some research at St Peter's church hall. I was hoping to do some research on the Sacketts buried in the cemetery there, but the woman who had that information was not available.
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There were 2 books provided for us. Jean and Elizabeth were working on one with actual entries in chronological order , while I had a book that was just an index of births, marriages and deaths of actual records that are now stored at Canterbury, beginning in , but at least it was in alphabetical order, so it was easy to find births and deaths, and only marriages had to be closely scrutinized. I compiled a list of the Sacketts I found and will compare that list to the records Chris has, to see if there is any information that has not been researched from Canterbury.
I don't expect to find any, but it's always possible. Most of us went back to Ramsgate, to a lunch place that doesn't serve alcohol, at the end of the row of restaurants, down the hill from the hotel, so we could have a speedy lunch. Michael and I got there first. We were soon joined by Chris. While waiting for the others, we found out that the other couple having lunch at the restaurant, had walked from Broadstairs, and he is the grandson of a Sackett!
We were a little late getting back to the hotel. Barrie gave a fascinating talk to the group. The talk was based on a selection of photographs from his personal collection and, for every picture, there was an interesting story to be told. Unusually, the hotel had a small cinema in its basement and this provided an ideal setting for the picture show. Will Friend came in, added some interesting information to the lecture and continued with an additional impromptu lecture on the relevance of the Sacketts in what we'd heard. He is a wealth of information.
If we ever have another reunion in Thanet, he should definitely be one of our speakers! After the presentation, we had been invited to Will Friend's home for tea. He led us, down the scenic way along the coast to his home, East Northdown Farm and Gardens. We made a stop part way at Joss Bay, where he explained even more group picture is from the parking lot.
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His house is amazing, with spectacular grounds. His wife, Louise, had made tea for us, but had to leave to take one of her 3 children to an activity. We had our tea and cakes at tables and chairs set up on the lawn. He gave us a tour of the house and showed us how it has been renovated. Brian had brought some of his pictures, which are wonderful, especially for someone who's only been painting for a couple of years. We had been scheduled to be back at the hotel for a reception with wine and snacks at 5pm.
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Supposedly Arabella had talked to Jill Attwell, the only one we expected who wasn't with us, to tell her we'd be late. When we got back, the waiter told us that Jill had been there for an hour and just left. She had left Chris pictures of her cottage when she moved in and a CD of pictures she'd taken of the farm when they had put it up for auction and it was still somewhat overgrown, even when it had been supposedly cleared for the auction.
We spent the next hour or so getting to know more about each other and doing some work on the computer. Many of us decided to go to The Churchill pub, where Michael and I had gone the previous night. Arabella didn't want to come, so George came with Chris, Michael and I. While Michael and George were placing their order, in their TSFA shirts, the waitress said that the other waitress had become a Sackett 2 weeks ago. She, Ottie, came around the corner and saw the shirts.
Her eyes got big. They live in Ramsgate. Jean, Mike, Steve and Debbie joined us at our table and Ottie was our waitress. Tom, Toni, Christopher, Martin and Angela were at another of her tables across from us. Arabella was really surprised we had met another Sackett. Hopefully Ottie will get in touch with us.