Flack baptism, Redgrave cum Botesdale, Priscilla 1615 or earlier

[trish1120]

Good luck but with searching that far back the marriage record may not exist anymore or be indecipherable.

Trish

[findem]

Good luck but with searching that far back the marriage record may not exist anymore or be indecipherable.

Trish

Agree Trish, I won't be holding my breath. 

I've a few lines stalled around those time, whether it's due to missing records, mangled transcriptions, too feint to be read or people nipping across borders to wed, it's a mystery sometimes.

I've collected quite a few baptisms and marriages of the Woodfine and Flack(e) surnames which at the moment I'm not going to try and connect because I want to concentrate on direct ancestors and knowing their siblings, I want to bring my family tree database up to date.  All the others I'll be recording in my "Spares" database, you never know when they will prove useful to yourself or other people.

[trish1120]

I totally agree with everything you have said findem

[findem]

Regarding the Flacke family I have accumulated a heap of 1500s Flack baptisms and marriages from many parishes in Essex, plus a few burials.

So if anyone has a missing Flack who they think might have nipped down to Essex, feel free to contact me on the Essex County board of RootsChat or whatever.
 

[findem]

PS

There is a Flack web site on The Guild of One Name Studies, it has stacks of flacks  from Essex and other counties, well worth a try.

[Annette7]

Don't know if this is worth looking further into:

On FindMyPast we find a marriage:

Nicholas Coke married Joan Jillet 1599 (Boyds M.I.) Felstead, Essex
but
Nicholas Goer (?) married Joan Jyllet 15/5/1599 Felstead, Essex (Essex marriages and banns)

Felsted (Felstead) only 5 miles from Lindsell and wondered if the surname on the register difficult to read as Coke and Goer not even similar.   No baptisms with father Nicholas under either of these 2 surnames either.

Annette

[findem]

Thanks for that Annette, it's well worth a try.

[findem]

Hi Annette,

Had a long look at the PR image of that marriage, a terrible entry to decipher even having magnified it, it does look like the first letter of Nicholas's name is a C or a G but I can't say what it is with any certainty.  I feel pretty confident that first letter is not an F so he is not a Flack(e), one thing that's stood out in all this is that there seems to be very few Nicholas to a Joan marriages around that time in Essex.

Thanks for your help it is much appreciated.