west sussex records office

[flossy]

Hi
           I have some good news to share. Today I stumbled upon a collection of documents and letters belonging to my gx5 grandfather " Dennett Jaques".

           But I have a problem I don't know where to go from here. These documents are at the national archives, west sussex records office and I live hundreds of miles away so cannot visit.

           I have all of the relevent reference and catalogue numbers. Can anyone tell me what to do next?

           Flossy
     

[kerryb]

Hi flossy

If you have a look at the west sussex website http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/libraries-and-archives/record-office/about-us.en somewhere there is instructions to order documents using references found on TNA.  I recently ordered a settlement certificate that I found on their own searchable database and the charge was very reasonable and the service was brilliant.

Kerry

[kerryb]

I think this was the page I contacted them through.

http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/libraries-and-archives/record-office/about-us.en?page=4

Kerry

[janan]

Hi Flossy

Email them with your request and they will be able to post you photocopies of the document

http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/ccm/content/libraries-and-archives/record-office/about-us.en?page=2

Jan


Beat me too it kerry

[kerryb]

 

I have to say it here because its true IMHO anyway, I find the West Sussex Archivist one of the most helpful I have had to contact.

Kerry

[flossy]

Thanks Jan and Kerry,

        I have used the service you mention some years age, but that was for a single document.  This find looks like a large amount of paperwork.

[photocruiser]

Hi
Just found your reference to Dennett Jaques and I have a question for you.  Do you know the names of Dennetts children?
I am decended from a George Frederick Robinson Jaques whose father was Richard Jaques a compositor who I believe was from Brentford, Middlesex.  I think I have found him in 1841 living with Charlotte Robinson and Jane Jaques.  If this is the right person, then I believe that these two ladies are related to Dennett and therefore so would George.
The problem that I have is that my George keeps changing his name -one census he is Jaques, then the next he is Robinson, so at the moment I am trying to find out whether he has been telling the truth (he wrote in the family bible that he was the son of Richard Jaques and Mary Ann Goater).
Also, he was living in Crawfordjohn from at least 1851 onwards and was down on the census as a Tailor!
You see my dilema??  My great Aunt thought that there was French royal blood and that he may have gone to Scotland because of a religious feud with the family?, others think that he was Hugenot.  Either way, the local minister refused to marry him - he's a real puzzle.
Can you help? Cheers!

[exRAF]

Hi Flossy: I have only just come across your message and I have some more good news for you.  it was my father's cousin who gave all the information to the West Sussex Archives.  I am the 6th great grandson of John Dennett who married Mary Lawder. It was their daughter Elizabeth who married Joseph Jaques.  I could go on and tell you that the Jaques family were printers in Chichester and the family tree that I have, going back to the 1690s.
I will be happy to supply any info I can.
I live in Michigan, USA.

[exRAF]

Hi
Just found your reference to Dennett Jaques and I have a question for you.  Do you know the names of Dennetts children?
I am decended from a George Frederick Robinson Jaques whose father was Richard Jaques a compositor who I believe was from Brentford, Middlesex.  I think I have found him in 1841 living with Charlotte Robinson and Jane Jaques.  If this is the right person, then I believe that these two ladies are related to Dennett and therefore so would George.
The problem that I have is that my George keeps changing his name -one census he is Jaques, then the next he is Robinson, so at the moment I am trying to find out whether he has been telling the truth (he wrote in the family bible that he was the son of Richard Jaques and Mary Ann Goater).
Also, he was living in Crawfordjohn from at least 1851 onwards and was down on the census as a Tailor!
You see my dilema??  My great Aunt thought that there was French royal blood and that he may have gone to Scotland because of a religious feud with the family?, others think that he was Hugenot.  Either way, the local minister refused to marry him - he's a real puzzle.
Can you help? Cheers!