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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Friday 04 April 08 00:41 BST (UK)  »
Hello Gini, WOW! This is exciting! I have been hoping to find another Griggs descendant. Here is what I have on that Griggs family -

My information has come from a chap in Kent (he is also trying to verify all the info in a book written by Fred Griggs in 1986) - he is sure he has now sorted out the William Griggs issue - your William with that same wife & children are ours too;
& this also verifies info I received from a chap when he travelled from Australia to Kent to research Sarah's parents.
I have Sarah as being your William & Mary's daughter - she is their eldest born sometime between 1811 & 1816.  She married Stephen CASTLE in 1838 & appears on the 1841 census as Sarah CASTLE - on the same page as the Griggs &, by the looks of it, living 5 houses down from her family. Sarah is often not linked to the Griggs as in the first available census (1841) she is already married & has moved out of home. She & her husband Stephen came to Australia in 1841, therefore she doesn't appear on the 1851 census.

I'd love to know what you make of all this!
Please let me know what you think - my email address is email address removed by moderator - please use the secure Rootschat personal message system to exchange personal email addresses - thankyouLooking forward to hearing from you again,
Jenny

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Saturday 16 February 08 05:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Susan,

That particular James was also a Blacksmith, as were all of William's sons.
Sandwich is the thing also that is 'Sandwiching' this line together for me!  :D

So that certainly looks good!

Thanks so much,
Jenny

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Tuesday 12 February 08 22:59 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Betty,
thanks for the welcome!  ;D

I think you've hit gold for me with that marriage!
I had an OPC look in Whickhambreaux & she replied today that there was nothing.
So Littlebourne it will be. The bride's town - of course!  ::)
I need to get into the habit of putting my feet in their shoes when thinking of events!
I'll chase up the certs for that one.

Thanks again,
Jenny

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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Tuesday 12 February 08 02:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hello everyone,

I am looking for the marriage of William GRIGGS to Mary ?
Their first child Sarah was born in Wickhambreaux about 1816, so the marriage would possibly be shortly before this.
According to the 1851 census William's wife Mary was born in Littlebourne (about 1789), & he was born in Sandwich (about 1788). He was a Master Blacksmith.
Hopefully they were married in Wickhambreaux.
 
Thanks for any help you can give,
Jenny (Melbourne, Australia)


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