------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: Carlton Blaxill <carlton@blax.demon.co.uk> To: "Neil Ward" <nward@cableinet.co.uk> Subject: Blaxall ancestry -- 'Early Essex Blaxalls' Date sent: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:10:02 +0100 Hi Angela (and all on the list), Hope you and yours are all well, it was Peters Fifth Birthday yesterday so we are recovering today (Sunday). Anyway, your e-mail is quite interesting as this is another distant off-shoot of the Blaxall's that needs a lot of work on it. (If indeed this line is actually related to ours.) There are about 40 Blaxall and variant marriages listed in Boyds Marriage index for Essex starting as early as 1611down to 1754 (which is when Boyds finishes for the majority of parishes) and I have a further 25 marriages from other sources. Only one of these (James Blaxall and Lucy Royce in 1826) seems to relate to the 'Later' Essex Blaxall's (Angela's line) and we believe that this line emerged from Suffolk via London at a fairly late date (1780's). Therefore, there are a whole load of Blaxall's that I would term the 'Early Essex Blaxall's' and certainly many of these were in the North East corner of Essex (Beaumont-cum-Moze, Great Oakley Ramsey, Thorpe-Le-Socken, Weeley etc.) area as early as 1640- 1670. I can't quite recall whats in the IGI for Essex on this crowd, but if these parishes are not indexed then I would suggest Shane does a search of the Great Oakley registers back to the 1620's. The strange thing is, that from the 1881 census index it would appear that none of these 'Early Essex Blaxall's' survived (at least male lines !). Would be very interested in any lines Shane turns up. Best Regards. Carlton. On 30 Oct 99, at 10:55, Neil Ward wrote: > Hi to all > > I have just received this email from Shane Hines - can anybody help ?? > > <Subject: Blaxall ancestry > > > Hello. I've recently got back a generation on one of my lines, Rainbird, > and this has thrown up a Blackshall ancestor, Mary Blackshall, who > married Samuel Rainbird in December 1812 at Gt Oakley, Essex. She was > born at Ardleigh according to 1851 Census and he at Mistley. If you tie > into this, I'd be pleased to hear from you. > > Regards > > Shane Hines> > > Cheers...........Angela >