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You may want to bear this IGI entry in mind for a later date - this Joseph could be your Joseph's father

JOSEPH ILOT   Christening:  19 MAY 1765   Codicote, Hertford   
Father:  EDWARD ILOT    Mother:  SUSAN 

Wow thanks for that, I am fairly new to this, but what is an IGI entry?

Hi,  I am trying to find some more information on my Great Great Great Great Grandad. Some limited information i have shows he was married at St Pancreas on 2 July 1814 to a Charlotte Pepler, born Circa 1789. He was born in Codicoat? Hertfordshire.  They Had at least one Son, Samuel Boukland (Brookland)? ILOTT and were living in "over stable" in Hackney according to the 1851 Census. Any information / leads would help.  Cheers

Hi everyone

I stumbled across the site, all the way from New Zealand. My Dad, Bill (Billy, or William) was at the Ashford Home, along with his three older Sisters Doreen, Jean and Elsie from around 1943 when he was four or five after they had been placed in care when his mother and father seperated. Dad is now 71 and has only just started talking about his past at ashford in the last few years. To say it was grim for him at least is an understatement. Not only was he seperated from his parents as a four or five year old, he was also segregated from his sisters within the home and he very rarely saw them. He only recently, in the last six years re untied with his sisters Doreen and Elsie after some 50 years, who my sister managed to track down via the Internet and who had been trying to locate dad for a number of years. They travelled to NZ to meet all of us and it is interesting to put some of the "missing pieces" together. Dad is not to well nowadays, suffering from Parkinsons, but I think he may find some of these posts interesting. As a side note he obtained a heap of records from the London Metropolitan Archives relating to his care, not so much at Ashford in particular, but from the Council, who were effectively guardians for him and his Sisters.