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The Common Room / Re: a young mother?
« on: Saturday 18 July 20 16:15 BST (UK)  »
What you say seems logical, but are you sure that you have a date of birth of 1783. this could have been a date of baptism and depending on her family or religion she could have been a few years old at the time.

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Essex / Re: Who lived in this Farmhouse?
« on: Tuesday 23 June 20 16:21 BST (UK)  »
The property is on the road from Thaxted to Great Sampford (not the road direct to Little Sampford) On the left hand side about half way, which is in the Little Sampford parish area

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Essex / Re: Who lived in this Farmhouse?
« on: Tuesday 23 June 20 11:45 BST (UK)  »
Farms were often named after a tenant, subsequently changing when a new tenant came along or sometimes sticking with that name. Howlett is not an uncommon name in that corner of North West Essex. In fact there is a Hamlet in an adjoining village called 'Howlett's End' which is only about 2 miles away through the footpaths and tracks which were used extensiveley in days before cars.

It is possible that your Helen Howlett became a servant at one of the large houses in the area and met Walter Digby that way. As probably a pure coincidence a large Digby family lived in Howletts End in the middle of the last century.

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Perthshire / Re: Where is St Magdalen Bank, Perth?
« on: Saturday 11 January 20 08:37 GMT (UK)  »
St Magdalen's Road is on a steep hillside with some of the houses set up a particular steep bank. I suspect that this is the area referred to. They are now numbered in with the road, around about No.35 if my memory serves me right.

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The Common Room / Re: Professions of 'absent' fathers on birth certificates -- illegitimate births
« on: Tuesday 12 November 19 16:28 GMT (UK)  »
You say that in 1881 the child is entered as Son of the father and his wife! This is not correct the question on a census form is the relationship to the head of the household. he can therefore be a child of the 'head' without being related to the wife.

This catches out a lot of people who just assume that the head's wife is the mother, often a first wife dies and he marry's again, particularly if the two wives share the same first name.

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Essex / Re: Looking for Doris Day
« on: Sunday 03 November 19 15:41 GMT (UK)  »
There is a marriage between a Doris L Day and a Lewis C King in the Edmonton district  September Q. 1923, 3a, 1376.

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Unusual surname Tarvin Halstead/Steeple Bumpstead
« on: Saturday 22 September 18 09:40 BST (UK)  »
The Tarvin name found in Steeple Bumpstead is an alternative probably a misheard version of the surname TARBIN, or sometimes TARBEN. Still rare but several in the South Suffolk/North Essex area of East Anglia

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Essex / Re: Looking for Mary Nottage - Elsenham or nearby
« on: Monday 03 September 18 16:08 BST (UK)  »
Although both Elsenham and Hatfield Broad Oak are both in Essex their nearest market town is Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire which is only about 3 miles from either. Likewise Takeley is even nearer. It is quite possible that a couple could meet up there, you could search in Hertfordshire records for a possible link.

I would definitely ignore the Ashdon link unless you have other evidence, although I have found that my relatives from the Ashdon area seemed to have clandestine meetings in BS. BS was on the main road from London to Cambridge, Newmarket and Norwich, with regular coaches passing through it.

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Essex / Re: Marriage of John Gray and Susan Flood
« on: Monday 16 July 18 10:02 BST (UK)  »
The original record is difficult to read but i am fairly certain it is Mary definitely not Susan. The surname could be GRAY but I think it reads GREY, however that would be down to the personal interpretation of the person writing the entry

 I have come across incorrect entries, I sometimes wonder how long after the event the register was actually completed especially before 1754.

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