here,s my 2 ha,peth if you look in seax the essex record site go into ancestor search all the ardleigh parish records are online it does mean trawling through the actual books as there is no index but it,s well worth it as most of them are in good condition for a change so make for easy searching , also if you google ardleighs past there is a lovely site dedicated to the village with quite a lot of info on it , again well worth a look .
when looking for rellies in that area don,t forget to check out gt and little bromley and dedham as it,s surprising how they got about back then , hope this helps .
regards
trevor