Nash Mills is on the outskirts of the (new) town of Hemel Hempstead on the way to Kings Langley. If you put Nash Mills into any map site, like Multimap or Google maps you should find it. There were at one time lots of paper mills there - which probably explains how Daniel Ratcliffe came to be there and met Mary. There is an extracted entry on the IGI for a Mary Ann Budd at Kings Langley who might fit MARY ANN BUDD Christening: 08 JAN 1804 Kings Langley, Hertford, England Father: JOHN BUDD Family Mother: ELIZABETH Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date. Source Information: Batch No.: C048131 If you look in the Hertfordshire Names online ( marriage index) available at the HALS site, you find groom William Spurr of Hemel Hempstead bride Mary Ann Budd of Hemel Hempstead place Hemel Hempstead date 13 Oct 1840 and groom Charles Miller bride Mary Ann Budd place Tring date 5 Aug 1836 Can't find a marriage for Daniel to her on Free BMD though Anne On 8 Jul 2008, at 16:09, Modbury wrote: > I have a Mary BUDD which says she was born in Nash Mill > Hertfordshire abt > 1806 as from the 1871 census. > I cannot say if the name of BUDD is her maiden name as I cannot find > her > marriage to Daniel RATCLIFFE, all I have is the birth cert for one > of her > children that tells me her former name was BUDD. > Daniel RATCLIFFE was a paper maker in Kent where he was born, but I > believe > he travelled to many paper making area's, ending up at Winchcombe > where he > died. > > Is there a village called Nash Mill ?, if so, could some kind person > with > access to any PR's for the area do a lookup for me please. > > I am looking for Mary's chr or marriage dates, or even a connection > to this > Mary BUDD ?. > > All info most welcomed. > > Thank you. > > Best Wishes > > Bernie > > > ------------------------------- > 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