Hi Ninkynoo, I can't believe you actually live in Clacton and your daughter is in St Osyth!! My Pop (grandfather) was born in the Tendring workhouse in 1902 and he lived at 27 Mill Street St Osyth until he joined the army in 1919. His family name is/was BEER/E and his family lived in Mill Street for years and years and years, they where agricultural labourers. Would your daughter know if any of the old houses in Mill Street are still there? Also, if it's not too much trouble and if Frederick House still exists,and if you have a digital camera I would love a photo, I don't want to put you out at all so if it's too much to ask, that's OK. I have visited the website you mentioned on many occasions and have often "started" letters to Phil Hendy the historian at St Osyth but can never quite get the letter right..LOL.
Could you tell me just off hand if there is a monument or cenotaph in St Osyth to those who died at the Battle of Jutland in 1916?
My other St Osyth names are PAGE, GRIMWOOD, STARLING and MANN.
Thanks again
Anne in OZ