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I have been researching the Lay family and am interested to know if there are any local histories of the Great Oakley area. The Lay family were mostly blacksmiths and the particular family I am researching are Daniel and Deborah Lay who had a son Daniel, baptized !752. From their wills they seem to have owned a fair amount of property and I hoped they might have been mentioned in any local histories. Just hoping for information to add to the tree.

Thanks to you both for your help. At least I know that the information I was given for his birth is correct.

I am looking for  the birth of a Maria Sheppard (or Shepherd). She states her birth to be in Harleston in the 1881 census which would make her birth around 1857. On her marriage certificate her father's name is left blank which would suggest she may have been illegitimate or that her father died when she was young. In 1871 she is living with her grandmother and a sister Emma. I have found an earlier census which might suggest her mother was called Caroline and was unmarried.
Any help with this would be appreciated 

Thanks for the suggestions.
Yes I can see that I have given the wrong name for the father on my original post; I have the marriage certificate for Ernest which is where I had Ernest Edward as his name. Ernest died at the beginning of the 1st world war his number suggesting he had been in the suffolk regiment and was a reserve. His army records from WW1 only call him Ernest
George Barber did indeed marry again to Mary Ann Pennell and a further time to a Betha Hayward. His mother has to be Maria as he was born sometime after the 1881 census and later census suggest a birth date between 1881 and 1882.
I guess I need to order the certificate for Ernest David