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Essex / Re: Advice/guidance for marriage please
« on: Saturday 16 April 22 20:18 BST (UK) »
I'm only a few years late to the party so wonder if anyone will see this, but I've been struggling with this too.
The Conyers of Copt Hall seem from Wikipedia to have been Cambridge educated landed gentry so it seems unlikely that they are immediate forebears of an illiterate agricultural labourer.
My first thought was that Conyers would be a mother's or grandmother's maiden name but I can't find anything. Now I'm wondering if the first George Conyers Parish could have been named that was because he was an illegitimate son of one of the Conyers from the big house.
Anyone think that likely?
The Conyers of Copt Hall seem from Wikipedia to have been Cambridge educated landed gentry so it seems unlikely that they are immediate forebears of an illiterate agricultural labourer.
My first thought was that Conyers would be a mother's or grandmother's maiden name but I can't find anything. Now I'm wondering if the first George Conyers Parish could have been named that was because he was an illegitimate son of one of the Conyers from the big house.
Anyone think that likely?