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Essex Completed Lookup Requests / Re: HARVEY baptisms lookup Great Totham
« on: Saturday 01 March 08 13:52 GMT (UK) »
Hi Deborah,
Thank you so much for your efforts. The mystery deepens! I think you're right - they must have been baptised in one of the independent chapels. There is a baptism for Elizabeth Whittle Harvey, daughter of Matthew Barnard Harvey & Mary (his first wife) at St Peters Independent, Maldon, in 1783, but no signs of our Samuel or Matthew, or any other children.
There's a new website bmdregisters.co.uk where one can search the non-parochial registers, but no sign of them there either. I think this website is still "work in progress", so I'll check back there in a few months time.
Funnily enough I do have Hiltons. Gertrude Attfield - the daughter of John Attfield & Martha Harvey (Samuel's daughter) married Charles Norman Brooks in 1903, and he had a nephew called William Hilton Hingeston Brooks, who in turn had a son called William Hilton Brooks, born at Mistley in 1896, who died in 1959. He married Gwendolen Cato in 1925 but I don't know if they had any children, or if they named any of them Hilton.
(Charles Norman & Gertrude named their son Charles Attfield Brooks, and apparently the two Brooks cousins always addressed each other as "Attfield" and "Hilton" respectively!)
WHH Brooks's mother was Ann Hilton Edwards (1844-1901), and her father was Joseph Berry Edwards (c1807-1866) who married a Miss Hingeston. Joseph was for a time the Town Treasurer of Southwold in Suffolk. His father was Peregrine Edwards, but I don't know where the "Hilton" connection originated. maybe Peregrine married one.
Does this ring any bells?
All best wishes
John
Thank you so much for your efforts. The mystery deepens! I think you're right - they must have been baptised in one of the independent chapels. There is a baptism for Elizabeth Whittle Harvey, daughter of Matthew Barnard Harvey & Mary (his first wife) at St Peters Independent, Maldon, in 1783, but no signs of our Samuel or Matthew, or any other children.
There's a new website bmdregisters.co.uk where one can search the non-parochial registers, but no sign of them there either. I think this website is still "work in progress", so I'll check back there in a few months time.
Funnily enough I do have Hiltons. Gertrude Attfield - the daughter of John Attfield & Martha Harvey (Samuel's daughter) married Charles Norman Brooks in 1903, and he had a nephew called William Hilton Hingeston Brooks, who in turn had a son called William Hilton Brooks, born at Mistley in 1896, who died in 1959. He married Gwendolen Cato in 1925 but I don't know if they had any children, or if they named any of them Hilton.
(Charles Norman & Gertrude named their son Charles Attfield Brooks, and apparently the two Brooks cousins always addressed each other as "Attfield" and "Hilton" respectively!)
WHH Brooks's mother was Ann Hilton Edwards (1844-1901), and her father was Joseph Berry Edwards (c1807-1866) who married a Miss Hingeston. Joseph was for a time the Town Treasurer of Southwold in Suffolk. His father was Peregrine Edwards, but I don't know where the "Hilton" connection originated. maybe Peregrine married one.
Does this ring any bells?
All best wishes
John