Ladies and gentlemen, and members of the Essex list as well, I am delighted to be able to announce the publication of my article on Great Sampford's Gray carpenters and undertakers in the Local Historian. http://www.balh.co.uk/tlh/issue.php I had a lot of help from members of this list, and I hope that you'll give it a read and agree with me that it was well worth the effort. Thanks to everyone who helped out! If you have Sampfords ancestors in the period 1855-1926, I strongly recommend taking a look at the copies of the records the ERO holds, under T/B 638/1-3, which are fascinating enough to write a whole article on... Regards, Adrian G Gray (given another Adrian Gray publishing in local history, I figured it worked for Edward G Robinson!)