Have you checked your unusual names against those entered in the register of one name studies www.one-name.org Should your contacts prove to be negative perhaps you could consider helping those one name studies by providing whatever information you have in case it allows links to be established with other interested parties ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Fry" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [Ess] Surname MEAD > On 2011/07/31 08:09, Sharon wrote: > >> I am looking for a Samuel MEAD/E born abt 1810 possibly of Burntwood or >> Brentwood. He is the son of James Mead and Margaret (surname unknown). >> Unfortunately what I know of him is not a lot except that he was >> sentenced at >> Chelmsford in 1831 for stealing some geese and he was transported to NSW, >> Australia for 7 years. He later married and died here. On won records >> it is >> stated that he was from Brentwood but when I ordered the film in I could >> not >> find him. Then recently I found his obituary in one of the papers for >> NSW >> and it states he was from Burntwood. > > I think you'll find that Burntwood is the much earlier, former name for > Brentwood. They are the same physical place. > > -- > Regards, > Mike Fry > Johannesburg (ex:Billericay) > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 >