Egham Hythe is the section of the highway along the river (Thames) between Staines and Egham on the Surrey side of the river. The parish church is St Paul, Egham Hythe, but the parish of St Paul was carved out of Egham parish (St John the Baptist Egham) only around 1930, and there was no church (nor a chapel of ease) there earlier. (The only St Mary near Egham is the ancient parish church of St Mary, Thorpe, not far away.) Egham is in Surrey, but counted in the 19th century for registration purposes as being in neighbouring Berkshire; I don't know about the Berkshire connection pre-1837. Wheatley is in Hampshire, the other side of Aldershot from the Egham direction. I can't suggest anything about your William COX. Geoff Geoffrey Chew g.chew@rhul.ac.uk ________________________________ From: eng-surrey-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of Bill Dalton I am trying to work through some apparent problems with a family tree that I have found that has information in it that pertains to my line. The person in the tree that I am interested in is one Mary Goldhawk. She is supposedly baptized Oct. 19, 1692 "in Egham." I have seen it stated that she was born in "Eghamhithe, near Staines, England." Mary supposedly had a brother, Abraham, who was born Dec. 18, 1735, in London. Mary reportedly married one William Cox, in 1743 in "Eghamhith, Berkshire, England" This same William Cox was supposedly born in "Wheatley Parish, County of Southhampton, England" in 1718. Another source places the birth at being Oct. 16, 1711, in "Eghamhith, Berkshire, England." {He certainly seems to have moved about a good bit.} I have found that there is a Egham located near Staines. I went to Google and did a search (which I can not now replicate) and found that there is a St. Mary? Church near some place in the Egham, Surrey area that is spelled something like Heith. Another bit of information from what I have found is that the grandparents of Mary Goldhawk were John and Sarah Allery who lived near London. Apparently this William Cox that Mary married was the son of a rather successful merchant in London, involved with shipping and trade with Norway. From the document I have found is "William Cox was the son of John Cox and his wife, Mary Banes Cox, and was born in Essex, England in 1717 or 1718. His mother's family name was Banes. John Cox was a man of considerable wealth, owned several mills, and was engaged in the shipping business, --sending vessels to Norway for deal boards. His son William accompanied him on one of his voyages and brought home a handsome Norwegian pony." Can anyone shed some light on this mess?