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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Friday 05 October 12 15:53 BST (UK)  »
Hi
This is a real puzzle and I dont think I can help. 1841C shows a Richard b. 1821 living with Thomas and Emma in Bridge.  Followed Richard b. 1821 through all census and tied in nicely with 1851 showing him living with a Richard & Mary (parents) but now an ag lab.  1861 - 1881 married to Margaret and several children.  So cannot be your Richard who died in NZ!
No other Richard of that age exists so maybe he came to NZ with his brother.  Thomas & Emma we know went to Maldon in Surrey (1851C) and then to NZ. 1841C shows him as b. 1816 (not 1809 as you have) then on the 1851C he is suddenly 47?? (b. 1803) and Emma 33 not 30??
On their marriage certificate Thomas's father is Richard.  Two Richard's exist on census as being b. 1779 one with Richard (son) b. 1821 and eventually marrying Margaret (not your Richard) and the other in the wrong area completely so not them either.  So father Richard must have died before census records started. 
As to the name Huffau,  Ancestry has the spelling Huffal (as spelt by othersresearching the Maxted's) but can find no record of a marriage with that name anywhere. Hougham is pronounced Huffam however.
The whole thing is a mess really.  Too many Maxted's in Kent with not enough information to place them in family groups. Sorry.  If you have any further information that could help I dont mind searching again.
Bye for now 


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Kent Completed Lookup Requests / Re: GRIGGS of Wickhambreaux & Sandwich
« on: Wednesday 03 October 12 10:09 BST (UK)  »
Hi
Good to hear from you.  I have managed to trace the Griggs back to Grigg Farm, Grigg Lane in Headcorn Kent, 1470, one Roger Griggs who owned it then.  Extraordinary!
I think maybe your Richard Maxted married Mary Hougham 01/02/1800 in Ash Sandwich.  So I am guessing it was a miss spelling on the certificate.  And I have two daughters to that marriage too.  Anna b. 21/02/13 and Mary b. 19/12/1819. There are probably more but I cannot find them. 
Good luck
Gini

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Kent look up please
« on: Saturday 11 September 10 12:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, missed that, but unfortunately it doesn't clarify which Newington.  Still stuck, cant find a marriage for William and Sarah or any other children.
Am really stuck on this family.
Thanks
Virginia

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Family History Beginners Board / Kent look up please
« on: Friday 10 September 10 16:22 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone look up a birth for a George King C1803 Newington next Sittingbourne. 
Thankyou
Virginia

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: look up marriage in Merton, Surrey
« on: Monday 03 May 10 12:56 BST (UK)  »
Their first child was Thomas b. 1794 Merton
This whole thing is a puzzle, I just wish they didn't always, use, John, Thomas or William with no middle name, it makes it so hard to trace them.
Thanks everybody

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: look up marriage in Merton, Surrey
« on: Monday 03 May 10 12:44 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the information.  The London Borough of Wandsworth is just across the river Thames to the Borough or City of Westminster, so not far really, walking distance, but in terms of prosperity, miles apart.  Wandsworth was and I guess still is a poor borough when compared to Westminster.
Thanks again
Virginia

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: look up marriage in Merton, Surrey
« on: Monday 03 May 10 12:32 BST (UK)  »
It is near enough to be definitely worth some research.  John and Rebecca's son William moved in that direction s it is a possibility.  What details do you have?
Virginia 

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: look up marriage in Merton, Surrey
« on: Monday 03 May 10 12:28 BST (UK)  »
It is indeed,  Rebecca married John Cooper, and they stayed in Merton as all their children were born there so it is a strong possibility that John was born there too.  This is where I am stuck, I cannot find out who John was, when and where he was born.  There is a record of a John Cooper marrying Rebecca in St George's Hanover Square, but why would she go to London to marry, there never has been any record of money in the family and St George's Hanover Square Westminster was I think a little too 'posh'.
Regards
Virginia

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Family History Beginners Board / Re: look up marriage in Merton, Surrey
« on: Monday 03 May 10 12:19 BST (UK)  »
Thanks, yes I have seen this, but I am trying to tie to Merton, where all their children were born.  I need a positive identification to try and probe back further into the Cooper history.
Thanks anyway
Virginia

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