Frances STEVENS - birth baptism mystery

[[Ray]]

LizzieL
Forgiven 
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William
I got caught in the Devon one 
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[[Ray]]

. . . . . and a new thread here 

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=755740.0;topicseen

[Wiggy]

Ray - stop!!!      (but ony about the thread in Whitechapel.  thought I was on to something - but I wasn't  )
The thread about the Whitechapel family was all wrong as has been pointed out!!  I'm getting all embarrassed now!     
I had that one going before I was told it was all wrong.    It is quite hard when one doesn't know the districts and their relative wealth!!   

You have all been very busy while I slept.  Thank goodness for thunderstorms say I!

 You've even found a new son - I didn't know about Abraham!  Will have to go and find him now!! 

As I said, I hadn't been down the side paths apart from those who came to Australia.

What a wonderful 'crew' we have here on Rootschat.

Thank you so much everyone.    

I have much to digest here.   

[Wiggy]

Stevens is such a common name unfortunately, they pop up all over the place.

Wish they'd pop up in Hertfordshire - preferable with a daughter Frances attached and born in 1778-ish!   

Found Abraham!  Thanks for the pointer!!

[Millmoor]

Thunderstorms lasted all afternoon here! While it lasted I found an interesting link on UKBMD to Hertfordshire County Council and a page on Historic Birth Death and Marriage Records - if you then click on Hertfordshire Names Online there is a range of records available. If you decided to obtain the marriage licence for Isaac Green and Fanny Stevens it shows how to do so for a fee.

You might also find it of interest to google the names Isaac Green Essendon and Abraham Green Essendon. There is, for example, a biographical entry for one of Abraham's sons, Charles Frederick who was educated at Bedford School and became a prominent engineer in Ireland. Interesting family Wiggy.

William

[Wiggy]

I will do William . . .  Pioneers too . . . .   

Rats!!   Put in Green instead of Stevens - back to the drawing board - (thought I was onto a winner there for a minute, when I found a Frances Green not too far away in 1777)


A big thank you folks . . .   It surely does seem an interesting family.   Lots of interest to look forward to when I return.

[Wiggy]

 Found a Frances Stevens born Sep 1777 to Susanna and Henry - Wonder if the Susanna signing the marriage register could be a sibling or remarried mother.   

Is Ely too far away?     It isn't Hertfordshire though         Was it back then?

[KGarrad]

Hertford to Ely is about 60 miles?!

[Wiggy]

I don't suppose the county boundaries changed did they??  Would that be too much to ask? 

How far to the county border though KG?  or is Hertford city near the border?