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Hi Liz,

Got on the website and found the dates required for Harwich PRs (1789-1794 & 1794-1808).
 
It's not possible to order microfiche on-line. You have to phone the contact number and be put through to the Archive department, tell them the code numbers required and ask for the relavant forms. They send you the forms by post (if the microfiche you require are in stock). No indication of price yet. Will keep you posted.

Thanks again for all your help.
Chris

Hi Annette

I'm not sure if this might help, but if the couple you're searching for were married in St Lawrence Church, Cowley, Middlesex then the Gendocs website might help you locate the info.

Quote:
"The following is a list of Middlesex churches which have deposited their registers at the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB"

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hitch/gendocs/middx.html

Good luck
Mudlark

Don't know if anyone can help,but have been in touch with some Amarican descendants of William & Sarah French and they have asked if it would be possible to get a photo of the grave & inscription of Sarah in Southam Rd Cemetery,Banbury. I have the grave number & who is in it.
I live to far away to do it.
Could anyone be of assistance.
Derek

Hello Derek,
Perhaps you might get some assistance if you got in touch with the local Council in Banbury who manage Southam Road Cemetery?
Here is the cemetery webpage.
http://www.banbury.gov.uk/infopage.asp?infoid=1534

Good luck with your quest
Chris

Do you know what - I've never heard of this story before. Checked it out in Google and came up with this.

http://histclo.com/The/movie/m/if/eng/me-mud.html

Plot (Quote)
An English waif tries to meet Queen Victoria, secluded in her castle since Prince Albert's death. The movie is set in London during 1875. The main character is a little boy named Wheeler. He is the Mudlark for which the film is titled. "Mudlarks" were the name given to poor London street children who survived by scavenging along the banks of the River Thames which flows through London. Wheeler is a little orphan who during his scavenging finds a beautiful cameo of Queen Victoria. He is almost killed in retrieving it. An older friend tells him that the Queen "is the mother of all England," Wheeler who does not have a mother of his own sets out on a quest to meet her. Queen Victoria profoundly affected by the death of her beloved Albert (1861) is still mourning him. She dresses in black and continues to shut herself off from the world. Wheeler's manages to penetrate the Beefeaters who guard the palace, but has many close calls wondering around the vast Windsor Palace. He finds a state dinner being served. The Queen did not get on at all with the stiff Gladstone, but Disraeli was much more ingenious in his efforts to convince her to make public appearances.
Sounds a good uplifting story for just after the war (c1950) - I'll have to watch out for the film on TV. 

My username idea came from my ancestors in Shadwell and Limehouse, they lived in streets very near the Thames. One of them (a Rigger on merchant ships) became a scrap iron dealer.

That is very helpful, thanks Mudlark. By the way, did the mudlark who met Queen Victoria in the film really exist, or was it just a story?

Hi Pam,

I've checked in Google for St Matthias Church Birmingham and found this page.............
http://www.bmsgh.org/parish/warw/tyaib/cofeindex.htm

The address given is Wheeler Street/Farm Street (details copied in below).

Birmingham St Matthias - Wheeler St/Farm St
bap 1856-1948
marr 1856-1946

Hope this helps
Mudlark