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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Essex 1851 Shenfield ...Perry and Noble
« on: Saturday 15 October 22 01:22 BST (UK)  »
Hi, thanks for replying. i hadn't noticed the date because it was late at night and I'm a bit number-blind anyway. What was the name of the book your ancestor wrote, please? I'm wondering if that was the book I was lent, rather than the one I located online because I'd forgotten the title. I think that may have been a thinner book or booklet. The one I read didn't actually mention my direct branch of the family, as it ended or diverged before that. It was a really interesting book though and I was a bit miffed when our neighbour asked for it back after just a couple of days. I'd like to get hold of it if I can.

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The Common Room / Re: Mahala - where does this name come from?
« on: Saturday 08 October 22 02:58 BST (UK)  »
Mahala is a Hebrew name, as is Zillah. I expect it's from the Old Testament if they are a non-Jewish family. It means 'tender'. I think it must have been decided that the correct transliteration was Mahla, as that's more common now. I know a Mahla but have never come across a Mahala.

Rachel Perry (London and Essex)

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Lancashire Lookup Requests / Re: Ellen SAGER 1841 census look up
« on: Thursday 06 October 22 04:27 BST (UK)  »
I'm a SAGER by birth, but my name when registered was accidentally written as SAGAR, so that's what's on my birth certificate. If that could happen in the 1960s, I expect it often happened in the preceding centuries.

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Essex Lookup Requests / Re: Essex 1851 Shenfield ...Perry and Noble
« on: Thursday 06 October 22 00:50 BST (UK)  »
There is a book about the Perry family of Essex during this period. It makes for a really interesting social history. My own branch of the Perry family were from that area, but moved into London for work. My paternal grandfather (George Perry) worked at the railway engineering works at Stratford, London and lived in a rented house (now demolished) in Salway Road, Stratford. His wife was Ellen (who was born just within the reign of Queen Victoria) and his only son, George Arthur Perry. George married Iris Lilian Curtis (They were both born in 1927) and they had two children and adopted one, myself. They lived in Barking, Essex and in the 1980s moved to the village of Ingrave, close to Brentwood (of which Shenfield forms a part) in Essex.

We discovered that there is a 'Perry's field' not far from there. Our neighbour came across the book and I'm trying to locate the title online, but just keep getting stuff about Sarah Perry's famous novel 'The Essex Serpent' - now an Apple TV series. She's from further out in Essex and I don't know if that's her married name or if she's any relation - will have to ask her. I've read three of her books.

The Perry family seem to have had a tradition of calling the oldest son George. We moved to Brentwood because my mum was evacuated there during the war and liked it and one day she took the wrong turning coming home from work and ended up there and got the idea of moving there. My older sisters are still there in Shenfield and Rayleigh, but I moved to Bath. Not sure if all this is any help - I'm not good at dates. See also, https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/Result_Details.aspx?DocID=40654.   The Perrys came over at the Norman Conquest and were given land in Hampshire and spread out from there, some going to Ireland.

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