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Hello, I am planning to go to the ERO in the next few weeks. I only have a small amount of my own work to do, so I am willing to do some extra searches for other people. Please provide as much information as possible. I cannot promise to do all (or any) of the requests, but I will try. The more simple the request, the better the chance (I am still a novice) :-) UPDATE: Amanda has raised a very helpful point. You can find if the records you are interested in are at the ERO by looking at the 'Parish Records' database of the ERO (Google: ero parish records). FINAL NOTE: I think I have enough now. So no more please. I will send you a message if I get round to your request. Good luck :)

Oh, yes please Ian! I am trying to track down some information about my g-g-g-grandparents, John HORNER and his second wife Elizabeth. I know that John married his first wife, Charlotte Sweatman, on the 29th September 1778 at St. Mary's Church in Leyton (John was a farmer and lived at Leytonstone / Low Leyton), but I haven't found his marriage to Elizabeth which must have taken place in the late 1780's or in 1790. Their first child, Maria, was christened 3 October 1790, and John and Charlotte's last child, Sarah Charlotte, was christened 31st May 1789, which would suggest that John and Elizabeth probably married in 1789 or 1790, but I suppose Sarah Charlotte could have been christened some time after her mother's death. So, if you have time, could you please look at the St. Mary's, Leyton, parish records, to see if you can find the marriage between John and Elizabeth in 1789 or 1790? And if you can't find it, could you please have a look at the marriage between John and Charlotte to see if it gives any clues about John's family (witnesses etc.)? Thanks very much, and good luck with your own research. I have looked at the ERO 'parish records' database, and the marriages for St. Mary the Virgin (W) 1575-1899 are on microfilm. So I will quite understand if you don't want to get into using microfilm on your first visit! Kate.

Hi Ian, Thank you very much for the offer. Please could you see if you can find any baptism records of the Crouchman family: Elizabeth born c1822, William c1826 and Sarah c1828, all in Chipping Ongar. Sarah was my ggg-grandmother Thanks and good luck, Michael

Thanks so much for such a generous offer. Long to get to the Essex RO myself but it's four train changes away! I'm looking for the marriage of Samuel Hurrell. He married a Sarah from High Laver and I should really like to know her maiden name. Samuel was born in Stanford Rivers abt 1787 and I should think the marriage took place around 1820 or maybe a bit before. Think the marriage might have taken place in Stapleford Abbotts as this is where they settled and the three children that I know of were born. However, if this is all a bit too time consuming please don't worry. Many thanks, Ness.

Ian this is awfully kind of you - thank you. Could I ask for a birth search of : Ephriam John NEWMAN b c1843 Great Clacton also his marriage in 1865 Jun qtr to Mary Jane CARRINGTON - hoping to find at least his fathers name so i can locate him on the 1861 census. Many thanks Ian Much happiness Debi

Hi Ian, Please can I take up your kind offer of 'lookups'.....My grt grt grandmother Elizabeth Dodson was born Theydon Mount. I have looked up on Essex Archives Online, Parish records for St Michaels Theydon Mount Ref code D/P 142?5 dates of creation 1788-1875 1 vol. Baptisms 1788 1815 Elizabeth was born 1811 ish. Any information would be wonderful, thank you Mandy

Dear Ian, Thank you very much for your offer. ROBERT PLUMB c1832 JOHN PLUMB c1833 (Sibling to Robert?) Parish records for ALL SAINTS, VANGE Ref code D/P 298/1/4 Baptisms Register Volume 1. 1813 -1925 According to the Essex Record Office website, this document has been indexed so it should be straightford to check the index for any mention of PLUMB!!! With kind Regards Yve (Norway)

Ness I think that marriage MAY be in High Laver, I was looking through their records a couple of weeks ago and seem to recall a Hurrell. I'll try to check it out next time I go. I think that our Whitbreads may be connected as well, I have a Rebecca born High Laver 1798 marrying William Dennis.

Ian If by some miracle you still have time after doing the other look-ups and you are still feeling charitable (!) I would be sooo grateful if you could look in the burials register for St Mary's, Chelmsford (now the cathedral) for any burials surname SMOOTHY between 1810-1830. Many thanks indeed. nell

ian, thanks for the offer if you have time can you have a look at a marraige for me MARY ANN HARRINGTON ---CHARLES EDGAR POTTER [BOND]. 1897 could you just check wether he used potter-bond as surname or just potter as on his birth cert it was potter-bond but on my grandmothers birth cert he only used the potter surname , the area they lived in was messing so i presume thats where they were married many thanks catherine

Hi Ian If not too greedy of your time, I am looking for information on a William Henry Priest born c1829 in Barking, his parents names are William and Elizabeth PRIEST wonder if you can find any other siblings born around 1830's or a marriage for William Priest to an Elizabeth ? c1820's. Not sure but St Margarets seems to be the most common parish in my family and this is the reference for Baptisms 1800-1851 BT D/CR 17/1-2 and Marriages 1828-1848 BT D/CR 17/1-2 or Marriage 1661-1993 F D/P 81 Anything at all would be wonderful! With much thanks Danielle (Australia)

Hello Ian, if it wouldnt be too much trouble I would really appreciate if if you could look up the following for me. Baptism register for St Michael's Braintree Ref: D/P 264/1/23 19th Nov 1823 Maria Digby daughter of John Digby and Catherine Landers of Braintree. Many thanks for your kind offer Helen from OZ

Hi Ian, looks like you're going to be busy. However, I would dearly like to find baptismal records for Charles POOLE who in every census I've seen states that he was born in Leyton about 1836 Would be great if you could help. thanks, Malcolm

Ian Thank you for the offer. I basically would like a confirmation of an LDS entry as I am not sure if it is correct It is the baptism of Lionel Ferguson, the details are; 17 JUN 1805 Saint Nicholas, Colchester, Essex, England I would be grateful for this and if you have any more time any fergusons baptised around this time. Thank you

I have been to the ERO. Unfortunately only managed to look at three. I do intend to go again this summer. So hopefully i'll have more time then. I'll send you a message if I have your information.

Dear Ian, Thank you very much for not only searching the dates given, but taking time and widening the range. The information, you have found for me, is my family, and you have also provided me with female relatives I did not know about! I just wanted to say a public THANK YOU. Good luck in your own research. Yve (Norway)