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Hello Delta,
I will try again to send you the information I have on Martha and Susannah Harwood's parents. Father was Benjamin, christened 26th March 1780 in Little Munden, Hertford. He married Elizabeth Howard in 1805 in the parish of St. Luke Old Street, that is all it says in the Pallot's Marriage Index.
I only have the two children listed. If you have the others I would appreciate it if you could send me the names.
The parents of Benjamin Harwood were William Harwood and Sarah Smith, who were married 24th November 1779 in Therefield, Hertfordshire. I have the family going back further but am not one hundred percent sure if they are the right family.

Have you a full list of any siblings that William and Daniel had?
Best wishes
Adas

Hello Delta,
I have just found this website and notice that you are probably related to me. My grgrgrandfather William Odell was born Littlebury, Essex. I can't find a lot out about his birth or parents. My grgrandfather was David, born in Bengeo Herts. He moved to Nottingham before 1881.

I also have Daniel Odell married to Mary Webb as William's parents but wonder why, if they did, move to Liitlebury. It is only William who was born in Essex as the others were from Thunderidge and Wadesmill, as was Mary Webb.

It is all very confusing and I would be very grateful if you have come up with anything else since you posted your last message.

It would be nice to hear from you anyway.

Best wishes, Adas

Hello again
Hope you had a good holiday.
You don't say who your grandparents were but, as a rule, anything relating to births, marriages and deaths after the beginning of the 20th century is not always easy to find on the web.
My first option would be to try the freebmd site which does sometimes give dates up to about 1920ish.  If it's after that I am afraid it means trawling through the bmd records at your local archive office (I think some records are kept at local libraries but I have never tried that route myself). 
The way I would do it would be try to see if your grandmother remarried, starting soon after your grandparents separated.  I believe there may be a way of finding out about divorces but, again, I have never tried to find out anything like that.  If you do find a marriage that seems likely you would probably need to send for the certificate.
Another alternative would be to buy a subscription to either findmypast or ancestry (both around £80 a year I think). The basic package on findmypast gives access to all censuses except 1851 and 1901, but you would be able to scroll through the births, marriage and deaths quarter by quarter and year by year up to 2005/6.  I think Ancestry would probably give you the same options and they do have most of the 1851 and 1901 censuses.
There are a lot of kind people on this site who might be willing to help but you would need to give quite detailed information because of the time factor involved in looking up information when it is not in a census.
Any local archive office should have the bmd info for the whole of England and Wales up to at least 2006.  Some are willing to look things up for you if you are unable to visit but they do charge, usually by the hour so it can get quite expensive.  However, local archive offices only have parish records for the county they are in and they do not receive the records until the parish books have been completed so not all records are available as some books are still in use by the particular churches, especially if it is a small parish.
Sorry not to be more helpful.
Delta