As you are new to the list I have mentioned acronyms that regular listers know, but you would not. The Essex Record Office (ERO) has many of the parish registered digitised on SEAX (ERO's online  service)  for you to seach. However, looking at ARKESDEN the earliest baptism is 1690, which is too late for you, but there may be other family members that might interest you . I do not know if this is the earliest that the parish started recording or the earliest that ERO had access to.    Shirley in Florida ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Coleman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:58:34 AM Subject: [Ess] John COLEMAN, c. 1671 Arkesden Hi, I’m new to this list & looking for a little help in tracking my 6 x gt grandfather John COLEMAN, believed to have been born in Arkesden. Most of my Coleman ancestors lived just across the border in Cambs, and this one certainly moved there, marrying a girl in Thriplow, Cambs in 1696. I’ve seen a suggested birthdate of 1671, but that may be no more than an estimate. Is there anyone on the list with access to Arkesden PR’s who might be able to take a look for John? Thanks Dick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: [email protected] ------------------------------- 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

*The Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers* also gives a start date of 1690 for the Arkesden registers. On 13 September 2011 21:52, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > As you are new to the list I have mentioned acronyms that regular listers > know, but you would not. > > > > The Essex Record Office (ERO) has many of the parish registered digitised > on SEAX (ERO's online service) for you to seach. However, looking at > ARKESDEN the earliest baptism is 1690, which is too late for you, but there > may be other family members that might interest you . I do not know if this > is the earliest that the parish started recording or the earliest that ERO > had access to. > > > > Shirley in Florida > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Dick Coleman" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:58:34 AM > Subject: [Ess] John COLEMAN, c. 1671 Arkesden > > Hi, I’m new to this list & looking for a little help in tracking my 6 x gt > grandfather John COLEMAN, believed to have been born in Arkesden. Most of my > Coleman ancestors lived just across the border in Cambs, and this one > certainly moved there, marrying a girl in Thriplow, Cambs in 1696. > > I’ve seen a suggested birthdate of 1671, but that may be no more than an > estimate. > > Is there anyone on the list with access to Arkesden PR’s who might be able > to take a look for John? > > Thanks > > Dick > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > 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 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: [email protected] > ------------------------------- > 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 >

As well as parish registers, ERO has also been putting scans of early large-scale Ordnance Survey maps of Essex onto its website. They mainly seem to be of the 1st and 2nd 6" and 25" series. There are currently 91 sheets online, all under reference MAP/OS - simply search for this at Seax. Unfortunately, the list of results merely gives the map number, not its area of coverage; you have to go through each result in turn to get that info. But the document references do seem to have a bit of logic to them, following standard OS designation, which will be of great use if you know which sheet you want (but not much help otherwise). The ref. MAP/OS/6/1/21, for example, seems to mean 'Map, OS, 6", 1st series, sheet 21', and MAP/OS/25/2/41.7 refers to 25" 2nd series, section 7 of sheet 41. What would be useful is a key map of Essex divided into numbered grid squares to match the sheet numbers, but I can't find one at Seax. Other old map websites have such facilities, of course, especially Mapco (http://mapco.net) produced by our fellow lister David Hale. So far, 'OS' is the only sub-group under 'MAP' in Seax. Happy hunting, Lawrence