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Hi Julie

My RG appears to descend from one or more John Greens, again very common in the records, so I know exactly how you feel, although I think there is more to be found on the Greens as yet, eg., via wills, to make the line a bit clearer - there seem to have been Green various farmers in that area, so maybe my/our ancestry ties into that. My descent is from Sarah Harriet Green, daughter of Robert and Jemima, who married my GGGG-Grandfather James Firmin Warren in 1813 at Gt Horkesley. Both Sarah and James were also from there.

What birthplace did 'your' RG give in 1851? I can't see that in the posts below, though obviously you had posted earlier about him.

Regards
ipswichian

ps. you'll see the message I got below about your e-mail address being removed

Hi just to mention that I descend from Robert Green/Jemima Everett (maiden name Jemima Ladbroke) if you're able to establish that link - I think they had a son Robert baptised 28 Dec 1800 at Great Horkesley - Regards

Hi Jamie

The photo in our family is the same as the one Ruth has got, I'm pretty sure from what you say, as ours gives the same 4 brothers' names (I'm saying that from memory, but Benjamin Binsley has always stuck in my memory). I've might have a photocopy of the photo here (I think my aunt has the original since my nanna died a few years ago), so I'll see what I can find in my boxes of genealogy stuff. I can't send to you anyway yet, as my scanner isn't connected to our new PC yet.

My descent from the McClans is:
James McClan=Rhoda Gaze
daughter Mary Ann McClan=William Cook
son William James Cook=Florence Ella Warren
daughter Mildred Florence Cook=Nelson Maurice Wright
daughter Barbara Ann Wright=Michael Bernard Frank Hines
-->son Shane John Hines

I also have a copy photo of my great-grandfather William James Cook aged 4, taken in 1872 and with his three aunts behind him  (all looking about 20-ish and I think my nanna may have said all spinsters), who I understand also to be McClans and my nanna reckoned one of them (Jane, I thought, but maybe Kate, as I'm not sure there was a Jane), died in Hertfordshire aged 105, so presumably about the 1950's. I'll see if I can scan that copy photo in for Ruth when I get set up properly.

I tried various websites last night to see if I could find the family in Ontario in old censuses, but no joy so far, whether McClan or a variant of that or Stevens, so I'm still unclear exactly how the boys relate and I suppose they might have had another surname still - also unclear whether they were born before or after their parents emigrated. Perhaps they also ended up in Canada via America. A half-Canadian girl I work with recently suggested I write to a Canadian newspaper with the copy photo to see if that might do the trick. Now it looks like Hamilton may be he place to target, maybe I'll do that.

I'm happy to hear from Ruth - how do I send you a private message? Am I missing something obvious?

Shane