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  Sheila:
  
  PILCHER - I will send lists. Lots !
  
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  A.G. PILCHER (Sapper) of Dover "Saved" (on the lost ship "Hythe") a Group PHOTO (Dover Express 26.l.l9l5 p.6)
  
  Elizabeth PILCHER (servant) 24.2.1670 paid 6d. towards redemption of English captives out of ye Turkish Slavery (WALDERSHARE Regr No.1)
  
  Mrs. PILCHER: On Thursday last died at Tilmanstone, Mrs. PILCHER, in the 92nd year of her age; she has left surviving her husband in his 94th year to mourn her loss". (Kentish Gazette Oct l8 l79l)
  
  Anne PILCHER aged 100 years 8 months BURIED l7 Feb l790 (BOXLEY BTs LD)
  
  Alice PILCHER, widow, in the 104th year of her age - death at Sheldwich Lees on Tues 25 ultimo. Her remains interred at Sheldwich, near those of her 2 husbands (viz. Jasper COLE and Nathaniel PILCHER of River) by whom she had 9 children, whose children and grandchildren have increased to upwards of 140 in number. She was a native of Burwash in Sussex, her maiden name being FLINT. She retained the use of her faculties to an amazing degree and till the last 2 years could see to read without spectacles."
  (Kentish Gazette May 12 1797, back page col.4)
  
  John PILCHER: "On Wednesday while a man named John PILCHER was excavating the ground for cellarage at the foot of Castle Hill, the chalk gave way and burying him to the collar bone broke one of his legs and severely injured his body. With the surgical assistance he received there is every prospect of his recovery." (Dover Telegraph 2 June 1838 page 8 col.4)

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