Hi, Jericho,
My 4-times-gt-grandfather's sister Ann's second marriage was to a SEARLE from Saffron Walden. In 1791 James Ginn SEARLE married Ann PAKEMAN (nee GURNER) in Ickleton, Cambs, just across the County border. He was born in 1730 and died in 1810, and she was born in 1736 and died in 1817. They were both heavily involved in the Protestant Dissenters Chapel in Abbey Lane, Saffron Walden. Although they didn't have any children of their own - quite naturally, as she was 56 years old when she re-married - I believed the SEARLE family flourished for a while in Saffron Walden, Essex...
Keith