I have an Elizabeth, niece of Hannah Cross of Colchester. I know Elizabeth's maiden name was most likely either Cross, Jackson, Bland or Clark. these are the surnames and married names of her aunts and uncles and parents. I also know that Elizabeth m. a Mr. Cooper.
would some kind soul please check marriage records for Essex and tell me if they can find a marriage for this couple. I am 110 percent certain of the details I've just written, I can prove those, but I am almost as uncertain as to who and when and where Elizabeth m., as well as what her maiden name is.
Hannah Cross left one of those goldmine wills that some spinsters leave, mentioning many relatives and tieing together a lot of loose ends-but not the loose end regarding her niece Elizabeth!
I have Elizabeth's ancestry back quite a ways, and some of her descendants forward quite a ways, but I don't have the one thing to tie it all together-her maiden name...and the rest of what I'm missing, gravy compaired to that, her husband's given name and when and where they m.-abt 1815, Colchester, I believe...but they don't show up in Pallotts-or is that Piggotts-sorry, the brain just shut down after another stifling hot day...need a bite to eat....
