Hello Heather - > Please can you help me pin down my elusive MILLERS. > > All my previous references were in Cheshire, but the 1891 census has > Henrietta Lea MILLER > born Woodford, Oxon, Birth registered Chipping Norton c1862. > > Would this be Woodford Halse, now in Northamptonshire? > Would the Parish Records be in Northamptonshire NRO? No - but you're right to think an 1861 census search is the answer - OFHS has indexed the 1861 census - see www.ofhs.org.uk (Search Services) for their searches . > I can get to Northampton, > but if the records are not there, > would SKP look in the 1861 census for Henry Miller, Emma aged 46 born Odde > Rode Ches., Louisa 15, > Emma P 14 and Fanny 6 all born Birkenhead, Ches. (No boys known yet). The 1861 shows in Enstone at RG9/ 912/ 108 a MILLER family and a MILLIN family, living at Woodford Cottages: MILLER Emma, wife, marr, 37, butler's wife, Congleton, CHS (yes, I know you expected *46* - but the writing's quite clear!) MILLER Louisa, 15, dressmaker's apprentice, Birkenhead, CHS MILLER Emma P., 13, scholar, Birkenhead, CHS MILLER Fanny, 6, scholar, Birkenhead, CHS but I can't see a Henry MILLER/MILL(I/E)N in the census index > I would love to know her baptism The CD OXF-CN03 covers Enstone. It gives in Enstone baptisms: 13 Oct 1861 MILLEN, Henrietta Lee, d Henry & Emma, domestic servant, Woodford and if Henry is buried at Woodford. > He went from "Gentleman, full age" at marriage to "Butler" for his eldest > girl's birth certificate > and "Tea Porter" for Fanny's. The burials give Henry MILLEN, 50, 22 Sept 1855, Church Enstone -- Wendy