The internet reaches people that word of mouth never can. In May 2010 people from 23 different countries visited this website.

This is the section for memories to be recorded for posterity. We would love to hear from anybody with memories of Scarning village life to contact us with a view to putting them on this site. If you have any memories, anecdotes or photos please let us know and we may be able to use them to include them here There is an email link at the bottom of this page.

The village has been associated with many famous people including Horatio Nelson’s father who attended the school in Scarning. Click on this link to see who lived in Scarning in 1901 Perhaps you know of or remember someone listed in this census. Perhaps you wondered who lived in your house all those years ago, or maybe you ar reseaching your family tree.If so the following voters lists may be of interest.

Click on the image below to see the electoral roll for 1921

Click on the image below to see the electoral roll for 1954



If there is sufficient interest it would be possible to have sections for families as well as individual people. If you have photographs I can scan them in a form suitable for inclusion with any text you might like to submit.

Please e-mail Richard Allan at mail@scarning.info by clicking the logo below.

Sheila Parker nee Walpole wrote:
  Hello, I just wish to say what an interesting web site that has brought such joy to me through your information and old photo's. Many of my ancestors resided in and around Scarning, my father being born there in 1907. Sadly both his parents died 1911& 1916 when he was a small boy and are buried in the Parish Churchyard so the old lovely pictures give me a real insight to what the village was like in their time. The 1918 School picture is a special delight as there is a chance he could be on it! 
On the 1921 voters list I found both my Great  Grandmothers! Hester Draper and some of her family including Great Uncle Sam who I remember visiting us when I was a little girl. Hester Walpole and two of her sons along with Rachel who I have yet to find if she is a daughter or daughter in law. Also there may be a new connection, when time permits I shall do more research as my father's stepfather was a William Mayes and Arthur and Florence on the list may have been Williams parents? 
    Being a bookworm myself I think the old copies of books and records are wonderful and how fortunate they have been kept for future generations.
    The more I look at the school photo 1918 I am convinced the boy (front row right-hand side of the left-hand window) is my father as he would be aged 11 in October of that year and always had a lovely mop of curly hair.
    Dabbling with a little poetry I had written of the joy with earlier Census of finding, via the Internet, both the Grandparents I never knew and now, fortunate enough to being able to view the 1911 Census it has been magical to be able to have record of my father and his parents together for that one and only time with his father dying in July that same year and his mother in 1916.
   How good to see both the old and now re-newed twenty-first century Village Hall still in use, a great asset to your village social life.