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Does anyone know of a Francis Miles King of London or Greenwich whoi married an Hester Rolfe at St. Martins in the Fields on 4 June 1788.  They had a daughter Hester Rolfe King bapt. 21 Feb 1791 in St Pauls Covent Garden.
 She married a Henry George Pickess whose ancestry goes back a long way.

Does anyone have a connection with the MUNTs of Harpenden, Wheathamstead and nearby?  My grandmother was Ellen MUNT who married William BARKER in Wheathamstead on 2 Oct 1878 and Ellen's grandparents were William MUNT and Sarah Starkins who were married in Harpenden on 4 Nov 1799.  Earlier than this I cannot go.

Hi Tazzie.

     Thank you very much for being so helpful.  You really are marvellous.
I found four children of Thomas and Fanny WARD, nee CHANDLER, all born in Heath and Reach and baptised in Leighton Buzzard. They are -
Charlotte bapt. 29 Aug 1784
Zilpah  bapt.  19 Feb 1786,  bur. 20 Aug 1801
Sophia  bapt.  22 Jan 1789,   bur.  1 June 1849
Martha  bapt.  10 Sept 1790

I think therefore that "my" Thomas Ward cannot be the same person as the Thomas WARD of Hockliffe who married Mary Southam in 1786
It is possible however that he could have been widowed and then married Elizabeth Becket in 1799.    It would be nice to find the burial of a Fanny or Frances WARD between 1790 and 1799 but it would not help in finding the parents of Thomas WARD.

Again, many thanks for all your help.  Roy

Does anyone know about the Thomas Ward (of Leighton Buzzard) who married a Frances Chandler (otp) at Soulbury, Bucks, on 13 Oct 1783?  I can trace Frances back to 1556 but cannot find the parents of Thomas Ward.  His baptism is not recorded in the Leighton Buzzard register but there is a possibility that he came from Lavendon, Bucks.
Roy Barker.

Thank you, Steph, for taking the trouble to reply at such length to my query about Percival Chandler and Elizabeth Barnsley or Barsley who married at Soulbury on 31 Dec 1753.  I originally found this marriage in the Soulbury register.  It is possible that I made a mistake in copying it so I would like to know which version of the name is actually there. If it is fairly easy for you to check which spelling is present in the register I would be most grateful for that help.
    I already have most of the the information you sent about the Chandlers.  Unfortunately Percival was a name in very common use by the family and there were, in the 17th century, often several around at the same time.  Sorting them all out provided quite a challenge.  Mostly they were   
farmers or yeomen who left wills, without which I could not have succeeded.
     The Percival named above was a descendant of an Alice Chandler who died a widow in 1556.  The text in my file relating to this (including transcripts of wills) occupies 17 A4 pages but I also have a tree diagram summarizing it all on a single page.  I tried to attach this diagram to the present message but found that rootsweb does not permit attachments in WORD format, i.e. files with the .doc extension which is what I use.
     If this information would be of interest to you will you please send an ordinary email to me - (*) so that I can reply together with attachment(s) as normal.  And would you like just the tree diagram or the whole lot?
     Look forward to hearing from you,  Ronald

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