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The trustees and the keeper of the CFHT hope that all friends and family enjoyed a warm family Christmas and now wish you a happy and fulfilling Coronation Year, 2023

The trustees wish all our friends, family members and visitors a warm and loving family Christmas

If you shop Amazon Prime Day, Amazon will double donations: Simply shop with AmazonSmile ON in the Amazon Shopping app or at smile.amazon.co.uk/ch/1144757-0, and AmazonSmile donates to The Cobbold Family History Trust.

In December 2020 we announced that, as a charity in good standing with the Charity Commission, The Cobbold Family History Trust was registered with Amazon Smile as a beneficiary of 0.5% of purchases made on Amazon Smile at absolutely no cost to the purchaser or the Trust.

WHEN BUYING ON AMAZON PLEASE SUPPORT US – EVERY LITTLE HELPS!

Since the original appeal the Trust has benefitted modestly but consistently from Amazon Smile so our first duty is to thank all those who have taken the trouble to set themselves up to help. Thank you and please continue – your help is much appreciated.

Our second duty is to encourage more family members to join in. It is extremely easy to do so, and as a reminder we show below the two sides of the explanatory card.

PLEASE SET YOURSELF UP TODAY – You shop, Amazon gives!

Remember beneficial prices, delivery times and Amazon Prime are unaffected

Thank you.

One of a family history organisation’s imperative tasks is to remember family members who did not return. Each year we place an announcement in the Daily Telegraph on or around Armistice Day. 

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK

Six COBBOLDS – All my male descendants – (please forgive my ill-concealed pride) will be at

Wembley on Wednesday 7 th July to encourage England against Denmark.

Please add your support. Good luck England

(In family tree terms they are #643, 645, 646, 1009,1038 &1089)

Anthony Cobbold

The tenor bell at St. Clement’s (the Cobbold church) in Ipswich will be tolled half muffled (so will sound once loud and once soft) at 6.0pm on the evening of 9 th April to mark the sad passing of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. The present plan is to repeat this on the day of the funeral.

We understand that the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW on Sunday 28th March at 7.0pm BST on BBC 1 will be the second of the two episodes filmed at Christchurch Mansion in Ipswich.  Family members will recall that Christchurch Mansion was given to the people of Ipswich by Felix Thornley Cobbold (#201 on the web family tree) in 1895

Perhaps this pandemic year we should broaden its meaning to include all those who have been bereaved and all those on the front line of our struggle. Elizabeth Cobbold would certainly have wished us to do so. See this month’s Cobbweb ‘Oh come and be my Valentine.’

“Christchurch Mansion (given to the people of Ipswich by Felix Thornley Cobbold #201 in 1895) is the venue for the ANTIQUES ROADSHOW on Sunday 17th January 2021 at 7.0 pm on BBC 1.

Resulting from the gift of the Mansion, Ipswich was able to buy the park making CHRISTCHURCH PARK one of the Borough’s greatest assets.”