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Hi,
Some Essex records are on Family Search but unindexed, so I will check there to see if there are any Little Wakering records. It is difficult going through the images but worth it if you find something! I will keep you posted.

P.S. The article by Chuck is taken from “The Moss Lairds” by Archie MacKerracher


 

Thanks again, Mark. 

Rawreth makes sense, as Thomas stated in 1851 that he was born in Beeches Common, just about 1 mile down the road according to the map I looked at.

Achra

Hi Mark,

You have caught me out there - Eliza was from a time before I started noting my sources, so I don't know where she came from!  I also lost some info in my old genealogy program, Family Tree Maker.  I am now using Reunion for Mac.

Given that Eliza's birth was between 1851 and 1861 Census, I think that I must have got the information from another researcher many years ago.  I have looked at the parish records at the Essex Records Office and found Frederick Walter, as I indicated in an earlier post, but not Eliza.

Thanks for keeping me on the straight and narrow!!

Achra

Hi Mark,

Thank you.  I did not have all of these baptisms.  The following are the ones I had, sent to me by another researcher so not verified.

Baptisms, Eastwood
William, son of Thomas and Sarah Cockley, abode Eastwood, labourer, April 2nd, 1826
Eliza, daur of Thomas and Sarah Cockley, abode Eastwood, labourer, March 22nd 1835
Emma, daur of Thomas and Sarah Cockley, abode Eastwood, labourer, June 4th 1837

I had questioned the birthplace of John as it didn't match those that I had, being Barling instead of Eastwood.  Does it state the parents on the source that you have?  You did say, "same parents', so I assume so.  There was another John Cockley born around the same time and I had begun to question whether the information I had for John Cockley's marriage and children was correct.  The birthplace of Barling would prove that it was.

I also have the following baptisms and burials:
Baptisms, Eastwood - possibly children of John, bap 1823, and Mary Ann Anstee.
John, son of Mary and John Cockley, labourer, January 4th 1855
William Thomas, son of Mary and John Cockley, labourer, October 7th 1855

Burials, Eastwood
Thomas Cockley, Eastwood, September 10th 1826, aged 7.
William Cockley, Eastwood, July 2nd 1827 aged 15 months
Mary Cockley, Eastwood, March 2nd 1828 aged 3 months
Thomas Cockley, aged 62, March 9th 1855
William Thomas Cockley, aged 2, September 1st 1857

Henry Cockley (1833) married Charlotte Kemp on 5th Oct 1867 in Rochford.  Charlotte had two illegitimate children, Eliza, born c 1854, for whom I cannot find the birth as yet, and Frederick Walter, as follows:

Essex Records Office, August 2014
Rochford Baptisms St. Andrew

October 28th 1855
Image 30 Page 33 Entry 419
Frederick Walter, son of Charlotte Kemp, Rochford, single woman, servant

Henry and Charlotte had one daughter, Catherine Jane, born 4th Dec 1870 in Rochford.  Catherine Jane married 1.Fred Brazier, born 11 Apr 1870 in Basildon, son of Joseph Walter Brazier and Jane Aves. 2. Frederick Thurley, born 28th Nov 1866 in Beauchamp Roding to James Thurley and Mary Ann Stone.

Thank you for your reply.  I am more than willing to share any information that I have.  I don't live in the UK so don't have ready access to the records.  I did visit the Essex Records Office a few years ago and found it to be a goldmine of sourced information:)

Achra