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Hi Margaret

A couple of things to try.

check that you have full on your outlook.pst file.  (Sometimes they get changed for no apparent reason, or maybe installing updates or something might do it) Depending on what version of windows you are using in xp it's in something like could be in Documents and Settings\user...\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook. In vista it's in c:\users\"your name"\app data\local\microsoft\outlook

If you can't see the file, open my computer, click tools, folder options, select the view tab, scroll down and make sure "show hidden files and folders" is selected.

When you have found the outlook.pst file, right click it, select properties, then the security tab, then make sure that your name  has full access rights. tick all boxes in the allow column.


2nd thing that could be causing the problem is that outlook 2000 and older versions don't like the outlook.pst file to be larger than 2gb. You can check the size by right clicking the file and selecting properties. I have just been reading about how to deal with this, and it looks a bit complicated for me. If you google exactly the error message you are getting (as I just did) there are several helpful articles. Just don't download any software that claims it will fix it!

Debbie.

This looks like samuel in 1851

Richard peek, head, u, 68, county magistrate and retired tea merchant, b loddiswell devon
samuel peek, widowed, brother, 66, retired tea dealer, b. loddiswell
susan a., neice, u, 28, b kinsbridge devon
plus 5 staff - a groom, cook, housemaid, and 2 servants

living hazelwood house, loddiswell, devon, ho107/1876, district 6a, page 24.

On same page, the next entry, at hazelwood chapple house are:

thomas peek, head, m, 54, annuitant, b dodbrook devon
mary, wife, m, 53, b kingsbridge devon
thomas peek, son, u, 24, annuitants son, b.west alvington devon
mary peek, dau, u, 20, annuitants dau, b. west alvington.

plus just one servant!

I may have found Louisa gunn on the 1901 aged  22 living with grandparents and 2 siblings in cosham, hampshire.

Also there are two unmarried william skinners who could be yours, one on board ship (presumably in portsmouth) born in ireland, and one living as a lodger in alverstoke. I don't know if you know this area, but cosham is just a couple of miles north of portsmouth, alverstoke and fareham are both within 6 miles to the west.

I can't find them as a married couple. Do you know their date of marriage?

Is anyone out there researching the cocks family? I have william cocks, plasterer, and wife amy (sometimes emma) nee Martin, and children marrianne 15, emma 10, william 8, samuel 5, and henry 2, living in exeter in 1841. William died in 1846 aged 41. Henry is my direct ancestor, he married louisa laskey and they later moved to portsmouth.

I am tyring to piece together the cocks family and try and identify williams' parents. From his age at death I can assume that he was born around 1805, and (if the 1841 census is correct) in devon.

His wife amy martin was born in Dawlish, and william and amy married in dawlish in 1827. The parish record of their marriage does not give williams fathers name. There are two entries on the igi of christenings of a william cox and coxe in 1804 and 1806 in dawlish, but there are also many others within 20 miles of exeter!

Does anyone have any cocks info that might relate(!) to this family?

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

Debbie.

1851

Henry thorp, head, mar, 39, gamekeeper, b andover
elizabeth, wife, mar, 31, b bramdean
william, son, 10, b bramdean
edith, dau (8 or 9?), b droxford
abraham, son, 7, scholar b droxford
stephen, son, 6, scholar b droxford
dorcas, dau, 4, scholar, b droxford
christina, dau, 2, b soberton
agnes, dau, (1 week or 1 month) b warblington
rebecca pafford, servant, mar, 44, nurse b bishops waltham

address woodbury cottage, warblington, hampshire. ho107/1656 district 3a page 28.