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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Suffolk => Topic started by: Anne1830 on Monday 01 November 10 14:40 GMT (UK)
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Please can somebody help with a look up for Samuel Mowell b. 1768 in Suffolk. I have looked in Mendham parish records already and cannot find his birth, so wondered if he could be in a parish contiguous to Mendham.
I believe his parents were Samuel Mowell brn Mendham 1736 and Rebeckah Larke born Gillingham Norfolk 1733. Thanks Anne
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I could not see any MOWELL's but there are quite a few HOWELL's around the South Elmham - St Margaret & All Saints. Also Rumburgh but alas no bpt of a Samuel about that time.
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Hello Anne and welcome to Rootschat ;D
Have you tried Mowl and Mole for your searches, Mowell is one of the many versions of this name.
Pat ...
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Heres one from the Family Pilot site http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home
Samuel Mowle
bap. 9th October, 1768
son of Peter and Mary
Hitcham
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Thanks for your suggestion - I will certainly follow it up. There is a large contingent of Mowell, Mowles etc in Hertfordshire but I had always considered there was no link. Certainly the date of birth looks right so I will have to start researching with a fresh mind!
Anne
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Hitcham is a village in Suffolk, not far from Hadleigh.
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The family of my husband, from his mothers side, are Mowles, they all come from Whatfield in Suffolk, and many of them still live in that area. We have their history from the arrival of the first in the family in that area, Isaac Mowles/Moule/Moules/ or somesuch, as he could not read or write and his names was at first spelled many ways, but was finally arrived at as Mowles, and that is what the family have used since those early days. We are happy to share family info with any other family member.
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Thanks so much for offers of help. I have looked at the Whatfield Mowles family trying to find a connection but couldn't. I would certainly like the opportunity to see the family tree and history from Isaac Mowles.
Anne
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the Mowles family of my husband lived mostly in Whatfield and also in Hadleigh, there are a few mentions of family members named Samuel, but if you dont think they are related to your Mowell family then no point in you having the family tree if you have already checked and found no connection. Sorry, we only share our research, which has taken about 40 years so far, with family members who can show a connection
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The point about my Samuel is that I cannot find his parents and I didn't find any Samuels when I looked at the Whatfield families. Therefore I don't know if there's a connection or not do I? Maybe you could simply give me info about the Samuels you have - I would be so pleased and grateful as thgis is proving a huge brick wall to my research.
Thanks
Anne
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Here is an extract from our first page of our Mowles family tree, and you can see we also have no idea of where Isaac came from, so we have never been able to find his parents, would need to know that to be able to search early church records.
"In about the year 1800, a young man arrived int he small Suffolk village of Whatfield, some two miles north of Hadleigh, and ten miles west of Ipswich. In his early 20s, Isaac Mouls had found work as a labourer on one of the farms in the village, but it was not until he was 30, in the year 1808, that he was able to marry his 18 year old sweetheart Elizabeth Severing. They settled in a small cottage and raised a family of ........" and then our tree goes on for about 50 A4 pages of data showing births, marriages and death plus photos and certificates that we have obtained over the years. You will appreciate we are sure that we cant just give that to people who are not family members, but if you do find a connection, please contact us, sorry we are not prepared to just give our details without that connection and we cant find any mention of Hitchfleld as the home of any of our Mowles, family, but of course we only have what the certs, the census, and BDM details show, and they are not always very descriptive as we would like them to be.
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Hi:
On my father's side I believe we may be related as our family came from Whatfield. My grandfather's name was Robert Cecil Russel Isaac Mowles born in Whatfield on February 12, 1895 and passed away in toronto in 1964. My great-grandfather was William Mowles, born 17 April 1867. My great-great-grandfather is Isaac Mowles born in 1813 in Aldham, suffolk and my great-great-great grandfather is Isaac Mole born in 1779.
If we are related I would be interested in any information you may have.
D. Mowles