Dear Fred and List, Sorry I do not know anything about Happy Harry BUT... The Essex Family Historian that Fred edits is the journal of the Essex Society for Family History. I know some of the list memebers also belong to this society, but I hope it's OK (and not against list rules!) to make sure everyone else knows it exists. Every quarter Fred puts a very useful and interesting journal together and I have used it to find out lots about the area where my ancestors came from. I've also learned about how other people go about their research. If anyone wants to know more about joining, I'd be happy to pass on the details. Best wishes, Edwina Higgins P.S. The ESFH is a charity so this is not a commercial plug! > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:42:59 +0100 > From: "Fred"<[email protected]> > Subject: [Ess] Happy Harry - Southend > To:<[email protected]> > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > > > I edit a family history magazine, the Essex Family Historian and I am trying > to research, for an article, > > the life of the Reverend George Wood (Happy Harry) who died in 1974 at the > age of 86. > > Happy Harry preached on Southend Seafront for some 53 years. There is a > plaque on City Beach, > > opposite the Falcon Hotel. Ken Crowe of the Southend museum has found me a > photograph. > > > > Family History enquiries have stalled because of the numbers of George Wood > born in South > > London in 1888. He may have died in a nursing home in South London or had a > property in > > Leigh. Other than that, a complete man of mystery. Does anyone know more > please? > > > > Fred > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:09:19 +0100 > From: Adrian Gray<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ess] Burial of Louise Knapp 1915 > To: "[email protected]"<[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]uk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hi Jenny, > > At that time in that part of Essex, which is very rural, there were relatively few cemeteries as we would understand them, except in market towns such as Saffron Walden, and most burials were still in parish churchyards. These have little connection with the registration districts, which were a civil entity. > > I don't have my map of Essex parishes to hand, but I would start with the obvious one, the parish church at Great Bardfield. Hawkspur Green is a hamlet of a few houses, and the nearest graveyard to there would be Little Sampford. However, the register is very badly water damaged (stolen in the 1960s and found in a ditch months later), and many parts are illegible. Little Bardfield is also a possibility. > > Just to throw down a bosie, it is possible especially if she was a young wife, that she may have been buried in the parish she was born in - I know of a prosperous farmer's wife who died in about 1886 aged 35 and was buried many miles away where she was born. > > Those are the first four places I would look. If you find a burial, I would also try to find out if there is a gravestone. If she was a member of a farmer's family (I'm guessing here from the place of death), farming had suddenly just become very profitable for the first time in a generation because cheap grain from the US and Canada was suddenly very expensive because of U-boats targetting the ships bringing it across the Atlantic, so there was money for ostentatious funerals and monuments. > > Hope that helps, > > Adrian > > > Hello Listers > > I am wondering if there is someone out there that can help me shortcut my search for the burial of Louise Cecilia KNAPP who died 26 Nov 1915 at Salmons (Farm) Great Bardfield. I have found Salmon on a map and it is near Hawkspur Green; the death certificate records the district as Dunmow and sub district Thaxted. > > Should I be looking for cemeteries with those names or have boundries now changed and the cemetery that she will be in has changed name. > > I also would like to thank all those who have helped me a few weeks ago. This is what I love about family historians. > > Jenny in Oz > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 06:08:22 -0700 (PDT) > From: Helen Carter<[email protected]> > Subject: [Ess] HARRIDGE at Rayleigh > To: [email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Is there anyone who can visit Holy Trinity Church, Rayleigh and take a photo for me please > ? > Thomas HARRIDGE d.1827 and was buried there, it is said there is a plaque on the floor of the church to him and his wife Susanna. ? over a burial vault > ? > Or any HARRIDGE graves or plaques?in the church please > ? > Thankyou > Helen > West Australia? > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ESSEX-UK list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ESSEX-UK mailing list, send an email to [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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of ESSEX-UK Digest, Vol 6, Issue 128 > ****************************************