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Where is Weeke?
« on: Friday 27 January 23 10:17 GMT (UK) »
On 19 January 1762, John Burrows of Weeke married Anne Mannings of Weeke ... but where oh where is Weeke?

They MIGHT be my ancestors ... but my Burrows ancestors were in Coggeshall. The only places I have been able to identify called Weeke are in Hampshire and Devon ... but this marriage is showing up in the Essex records. So what's going on?

Any thoughts or comments from people who are more familiar with these parts than I would be much appreciated.
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright

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Re: Where is Weeke?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 27 January 23 10:19 GMT (UK) »

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Re: Where is Weeke?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 27 January 23 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Can you post a snip of the document in which “Weeke” is written?

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Re: Where is Weeke?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 27 January 23 11:56 GMT (UK) »
Smith Tiplady Boulton Branthwaite King Miller Woolfall Bretherton Archer and many more

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Re: Where is Weeke?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 27 January 23 21:43 GMT (UK) »
Oooooohhhh ... thank you emeltom ... that does indeed explain it.

Hmmmm ... Wix is rather a long way from  Coggeshall. Not out of the question, but it does seem rather unlikely. My ancestors had a pronounced tendency to stay were they were (but not baptise their children ... which is a right pain in the posterior once you're pre-BMD!)
All identified names up to and including my great x5 grandparents: Abbot Andrews Baker Blenc(h)ow Brothers Burrows Chambers Clifton Cornwell Escott Fisher Foster Frost Giddins Groom Hardwick Harris Hart Hayho(e) Herman Holcomb(e) Holmes Hurley King-Spooner Martindale Mason Mitchell Murphy Neves Oakey Packman Palmer Peabody Pearce Pettit(t) Piper Pottenger Pound Purkis Rackliff(e) Richardson Scotford Sherman Sinden Snear Southam Spooner Stephenson Varing Weatherley Webb Whitney Wiles Wright
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