Figg Family from Ockley area

[Figgster]

Can anyone help me investigate my family of Figg from the Ockley area. I can trace back to my grandparents Harry Figg & Mary Honor Figg, but no further.

Thanks

Simon

[Necromancer]

Welcome Simon - can you flesh that out a bit ? Were they alive for the 1901 census ?

Take the old Newspaper approach - who, when, what, where etc ! 

[Figgster]

Yes, my grandfather Harry Figg was born in 1900 and died 1948, my grandmother was born in 1913 and died in 1998.

[Necromancer]

OK, theres 3 or 4 heads of family in 1901 in that area - one a Harry, wife Edith - so I guess your chap is a younger generation ... how about this lad, the grandson of the Jenkins - so James Figg's wife Kate's maiden name was Jenkins.

Was Harry a twin ?....

RG13/621; Folio: 106; Page: 17 - in Wotton, near Ockley
'Mearshurst


John Jenkins 67  Head Ag Lab Rudgewick Sussex
Caroline Jenkins 65  Wife Ewhurst Surrey
Alice Jenkins 40 Single  dau Rudgewick

James Figg 35  MAR son in law Ag Lab Abinger Surrey
Kate J Figg 29 MAR  dau of Jenkins born Ewhurst
Edith K Figg 7  dau
Emily Figg 4  dau
Harry Figg 11 months  son
Amy Figg 11 months dau 

[Tati]

Are you transcribing the 1901, Newfy?  OK 

Here's Harry's father James in 1881 in the meantime ...
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=uki1881&indiv=try&h=21418210

[Necromancer]

So, what needs to be done now is find the marriage of your G'parents to confirm that the above truely is Harry - via his Fathers name on the Cert - and also Mary's Fathers name - as she was born after 1901, we wont see her on the census ....

any idea of where and when they married ?

[Figgster]

All I know, about Harry Figg is the year of his birth and death, and that he was born at a house called Sheepgreen (or Sheep Green), near Jayes Park.

[Necromancer]

Not sure how we can link that info to the 11-months-later situation above !

Only by finding his Birth Cert I guess ....

[Necromancer]

I think we are OK - Wotton is up on the A25, about 3 or 4 miles due North of Ockley & Jayes Park. Abinger is in the middle ...