> > From: Rosemary Williams <[email protected]> > Date: 2008/07/02 Wed PM 11:38:32 BST > To: Herts <[email protected]> > Subject: [HRT] Fwd: (no subject) > > Barbara, Hi Rosemary I don't think the Lovejoys came from Kingston, they eventually settled there, my grandmother met and married my granddad there and most of their children were born there. The variations on the census I think was laziness on the part of the family at the time. My Grandfather was born in Essex, but was invariably put down as born Kingston. Barbara > There seem to be variations on the census returns: > > 1871 > James born Watford Herts > Eliza born Kingston Surrey > > 1881 > James born Kingston > Eliza born ditto > Eliza's sister down as 'Jean Brackwell'(But there seem to have been a > whole set of Brockwells from Kingston so I think the name is not in > doubt, just how it was sometimes recorded.) > > > 1891 Ancestry has Love joy as 'Louegoy' > James born Hertfordshire (Transcribed 'Herefordshire') > Eliza born Surrey Malden > > It is also possible that a marriage never took place. > > Ro > > --- [email protected] wrote: > > > From: <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:18:59 +0100 > > Subject: [HRT] (no subject) > > > > I am trying to locate my G.Grandfathers birth, according to the > > census returns he says he was born in Hertfordshire. I have searched > > the BDMs and no trace, his name was James Alfred Lovejoy born > > somewhere around 1838-1840. Another thing is I can not find a > > marriage for him and his wife Eliza Brockwell, this event would have > > happened somewhere around 1865 + or - a few years. > > > > My hope is that someone might be visiting HALS and might have a quick > > look at the parish records for a birth date. > > Or can anyone give me any ideas how to move on. > > > > Barbara Spicer > > > > ----------------------------------------- > > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam