At 12:45 AM +0000 3/1/05, EMMA HUNNISETT wrote: >Hi All, > >After a two year jaunt into other parts of the country I have headed >back this way. I seem to have followed in the footsteps of my >ancestors, who travelled the length and breadth of our fine country >with the development of the railways, though I, unlike them have not >yet reached my goal! > >For two years now I have trawled census, birth records, marriages, >deaths in the hunt for William and Henry Howlett. They have taken >me on what appears to have been a wild goose chase into Norfolk >where I remained for a long time as another Howlett family almost >matches mine - the Howletts of Watton..........BUT........nothing >concrete. > >William Howlett was born about 1834, give or take a couple of years >- his age varies slightly between marriage record and all census >details (but then I like to forget my age at times!). >William was born to a Henry Howlett somewhere in Buckinghamshire - >on all census the place is named as Little ? (just my luck that I >cannot read the second word!), I believe the place starts with a >'W'. > >My first question to you all is - what could the place name be? I >have a copy of the name on the census should anyone like to take a >look............ > Hi, Sorry - no idea about the place. However, a Mary Anne Howlet married a William King in Great Brickhill in 1815. William is, at the moment, not connected to me (but I'm sure he will be, eventually). Do you have a Mary Anne in your Howlet/Howlett family who might have gone to GB to be married? Regards, Mike King. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Michael King 255 McClellan Road, Ottawa ON K2H 8N7, Canada ( Phone (613) 828-3781 2 Fax (613) 728-1933 + Email miking@sympatico.ca The box said, Win2K or better required....so I bought a Mac