Hi
Thank you Carol for the further details you had given about the Jarvis family in Essex. Yes We do have the details of them all now, having used the various census information to follow them through the years, as apart from the very early ones, there were no baptisms after the family converted to the "Peculiar People" religious sect, we had then to follow the trail on the census, also after writing to the various churches, this particular group are now merged into the Evangelical church, and through an elderly secretary who had been connected to the Essex branch, we had been given a lead, which very fortunately led us to a distant member of the family of Joslin (one of Job Jarvis`s daughters had married a Joslin and she was descended from them) she had no knowledge of our branch of the family, but had found amongst her mother`s effects a newspaper article about Arthur Jarvis (my late husband`s father) she had known who he was, but fortunately for us, had kept the cutting and when she received my son`s letter, was able to give us some brief information and of course the newpaper cutting.
The newspaper article was the one through which we discovered that there had been a second wife, and that then led on to the uncovering of the divorce etc. Sadly the contact`s mother had died a year before we had made the contact, otherwise we perhaps would have learned a bit more about the family, as it was she who had been related to them, but as she had never told her family anything about our side, we then came to a dead end for some considerable time.
Happily we have now found out about the two brothers who went to Canada, we have been given a few details about Frederick, but only the brief details concerning Charles, who as you know we are now trying to trace any descendants, which we are hoping for as he had some children, we now need to find out how to trace them, so obviously any leads concerning the family would be of immense importance. It seems from some of the results we have been having, that quite a few have left no descendants, either because there were no children, or the children
died without leaving any issue.
We did manage to trace a cousin of my late husband, a few years ago, but again unfortunately, he had died before we discovered about him, and his widow did not have any more information than we did,. He too had been in a childrens home and knew nothing about his family either, so again, another dead end!
Sorry if I am boring you with all these details, but hopefully it will make the situation clearer about the family and our reasons for wishing to find them.
I do thank you, and the other kind people, who have been suggesting avenues to follow, which we will be investigating over the next few days.
My son has printed out a map showing the area where they had been living, also shows St Catheraines the last place they were staying, it appears to be only a few miles from their previous residence.
Thank you once again for your interest and help.
