William Flack

[gumboots]

Thanks Pat.  It is good to still have some options to try.  I am still a bit confused about the Mellis/Melles.  Think I will check and see if the Mormon Centre has records for Melles and if so, check for a Thomas Dye there too.  Like I said before, families often used the same names.  The Mellis family seemed to fit though, also with Ann's sisters Sarah and Esther Dye who married at Oakington.  But you have shaken my tree a little with the info given to me by Shire Hall.  It still reads as though Walston and Mellis in Suffolk were given as places of birth in relation to the marriage at Impington.  Never mind, hope to visit UK one day, so might get to have a crack at it in person.  Can you tell me what information I could expect on an English death certificate if I sent for one for Thomas Dye who died at Oakington in 1846?  They vary enormously here in Australia from State to State.  A South Australian one would not give you parents.
Thanks again.

[Suffolk Mawther]

A connection at last - very windy day her in south Suffolk !  22h20 Sunday evening and the winds have died down at last.

The information for Melles/Mells would probably be with the parish records for Wenhaston St Peter's they run from 1687-1900 at the SRO, and should be available to order from the LDS.

I look after all the Local History Recorders in parishes throughout the county (and have info on those parishes which became part of Norfolk in the county boundary changes) and I can assure you there is no Walston in Suffolk.
I dug out my copy of 'Origins of Suffolk Place-names' today and checked with accent pronunciations too in fact, a friend of ours Robert Malster has written about the Suffolk accent and dialect and our daughter who studied English Language at Uni wrote her thesis on same subject).

Bearing in mind that the Suffolk accent would say Wall for Worl I am wondering now about Worlington.  When I did have a connection this morning I checked randomly for Flack and there was an amazing amount of folk with this name in the Lakenheath/Mildenhall area in1851.

The only other place I can think of is West Row, which of course is said as one word Westrow - still doesn't make a great deal of sense though.

I also checked through the info I have on my home PC for my website and see that you have registered in the past and I was unable to help further with that to see if any other areas are predominantly 'Flack areas' of the county.

I have been out of action, stuck at home, following surgery and 8 weeks R&R, am nearly six weeks into that - but all being well, once I have finalised our LHRs conference day in October, I will be able to visit the Bury branch of the SRO and maybe able to carry out some look ups for you in possible parishes.

Pat ...

www.slhc.org.uk

[Suffolk Mawther]

I did contact Simon for his thoughts - here is his reply.

Walsham? Weston? or most likely Woolverstone?

I am beginning to think you will need to check out all parishes beginning with 'W'     

Night Night

Pat ...

[gumboots]

Thanks for your continued interest Pat.  I have been digging around looking for ancestory for my William Flack for some time.  It is hard to just give up.  I try to keep the query out there, just in case someone gets hold of new records or something!  It is a very good fit to think he is the little brother of John the convict, and I may end up having to be happy with a best fit.  But I will follow up some of your suggestions and see how I go.  Thanks again.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Just musing 

If Ann was from Mellis, would William have been from nearby Wortham?

Still windy here in south Suffolk, but sunny on this Bank Holiday Monday.
Off out soon.

Pat ...

[Suffolk Mawther]

Have just been through

Parson and People in a Suffolk Village
Richard Cobbold's Wortham 1834-77
ed. David Dymond

no mention of any Flack families 

Back to the drawing board!

Pat ...

[suffolk*sue]

Has this one been mentioned, which isn't far from Mellis. WYVERSTONE.


BUT, like you say Pat, the parishes beginning with W need checking before anything else.

[Suffolk Mawther]

Seeing your suggestion of Wyverstone made me think of Woolverstone (which is much further south - just south east from Ipswich).

I think we are looking at checking out all parishes beginning with 'W'     

Pat ...

[gumboots]

Can we assume William Flack and Ann Dye knew each other before going to Cambridgeshire and marrying in 1829?  Perhaps the places in Suffolk in which they were born are not close at all!  I am thinking William was on his own when he went to Cambridgeshire, but Ann may have been with her parents.  The young couple may have met there.