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If you are young you are impatient, middle aged you're more prepared to sit back and wait; get closer to ninety and you're worried that it won't be available in time!

Promises, Promises; and I am getting older by the day!

I am beginning to have sneaking feeling that there will be great disappointment with this project.
I realise this is surmisal rather than fact, but are the new Ancestry parish records going to show anything that is not already available on FamilySearch or the Suffolk Family History Society?  Did those two august bodies not have access to all the parish records that were available?  If records were not kept, as I understand to be the case in some parishes around Orford at least, or if they are lost, where is the new stuff coming from?

Lake of Theydon Garnon Coopersale

I have noticed your old post in Rootschat and wonder if you could please help me.

My ancestor Sarah Lake 1778-1856 was one of seven children of William Lake and Ann Collins, who married at St. Bennet’s , Paul’s Wharf London in 1777 and lived at Weald Hall, probably farming there.  Wanting to trace the Lakes further back I find there are many Lakes in the area of Theydon Garnon, but I am unable to find a baptism of William that bears a date that makes sense. A family record written by a descendant in 1910, possibly unreliable, speaks also of a family called Stracey who were related to the Lakes. I have not found any marriage between these two names, though a couple of Lakes were given Stracey as a Christian name.

If you have come across William in your work on the Lakes, I would be very grateful to hear from you.