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MESSAGES.
We would really like to encourage as much correspondence as possible , either by e mail or by post if you prefer , as this will bring the Web page alive for us all . Where possible we would like to be able to post most of the communications in the message box , so that all of us can keep up to date , and join in on anything that seems interesting . However, if there is anything that you want to be personal , then please mark the correspondence CONFIDENTIAL and we will respect your wishes on that score. Above all this Web page should be fun , and we hope that everyone will be of the same mind. Olin Rippeth is going to be responsible for the USA family Tree additions and generally looking after the Web Pages and will work together with Brian Rippeth who will look after the UK pages and any technical problems with the service provider where necessary. Should anyone have any fits of inspiration regarding the running of the Site and what they would like to see on it , then please understand that we are open to suggestions and will try and include any additional ideas, where we can . I'm sure that it goes without saying for all of us that this page will always maintain a high moral tone for all that is published in our name , on this Web Site. Unfortunately we would have a potential problem with publishing our e mail addresses , as the scourges of the Web, will latch on to any published e mail address and send all kinds of unsolicited mail , so we will be best suited to only use the web site e mail address and Olin and Brian will sort things out from there. BRIAN'S e mail = Brian@rippeth.info please send me a message.
MESSAGE BOX. "I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IT" ---- Says Brian M. Rippeth .
One day in 1995 I received another one of those unwanted direct mail letters; from BURKE’S PEERAGE, normally a Company associated with Royalty and their Coats of Arms and Heraldry etc. In this instance they wanted to sell me a copy of the World Book of the Rippeths. I had to laugh, because I knew my family and at the time there was only about 15 of us in existence, so I felt that if they had really done any research into this they should have known there were so few of us, and so for them it would have been a waste of time. Anyway, they said that I could return the book, if I wasn’t satisfied, so I sent off for a copy. I was really stunned to find that there were more than 150 Rippeths living in America . We have had, over the years, many old Aunts that could tell stories about almost everything that has happened in our family, but never any clue from them or anywhere else that there might be more of our family overseas. I had lived for nearly sixty years thinking that we were a family that were growing smaller in numbers as time passed by, but now there were suddenly another 150 members out of the blue. It is nice to know now that the name will not now die out, thanks to the size of our American Family. I thought it might be interesting for those of you who don’t know me, to just give you a short personal resume. I am semi-retired with one daughter Carolyn and one son Simon. Both are married, and Carolyn has a son and a daughter, their mother Susan, died sadly of a heart attack some years ago and I have now remarried and live very happily with Ann in a small English country village , called Nether Winchendon, -- ( yes there really are places with strange names like this, in England ) .Our nearest well known city is Oxford, and we are approx. one hour by car from London . Simon has been of great assistance in setting up this Web page and I hope, over the years to come it will become something of value to all the Rippeth Family, at home and abroad. I have attached a few photographs of Ann and myself and some of our house and the village that we live in. PHOTOGRAPHS. BRIAN + ANN
HOUSE IN WINTER
GARDEN IN SUMMER. HOUSE IN SPRING. 13th CENTURY VILLAGE CHURCH.
13th CENTURY COTTAGE
THE OLD VILLAGE PARSONAGE.
AN OLD VILLAGE BARN.
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