Good day to all. I thought some listers might be interested in the latest issue of my "Famous family trees" blog in which I research well-known celebrities for the Findmypast website. The main URL is in my signature below. My most recent subject, which went online only yesterday is TESS DALY, the co-presenter of Strictly Come Dancing. She was born in Derbyshire and her ancestors prior to that came from Ireland, Manchester, Salford and Stockport, Cheshire. However, I found she had a great-grandmother called ELIZABETH MANN who, according to the 1911 census, was born at Navestock. FreeBMD has her birth record in the last quarter of 1860 at Ongar registration district and she appears in the censuses of 1861 and 1871 In 1871 she is recorded as LIZZIE MANN, living with her parents JAMES and ELLEN MANN and four siblings at No. 2 Pratt's Cottage, Navestock. The entire family gave their birth place as Navestock except Ellen, the wife, who was born in Ireland. How she got to Essex I couldn't say! I couldn't find Elizabeth for certain in 1881 but she might have been the Elizabeth Mann who was in service as a cook/domestic at Brighton with an Indian Army colonel and his family called GEORGE SMART. However, if this was her she gave her birth place as Romford which I suppose she might have done. Elizabeth married William Joseph Daly at a Roman Catholic church in Sheffield in 1885. FreeBMD has the likely marriage in the third quarter of 1855 of James Mann and Ellen Driscoll and I found James with his parents, WILLIAM and RACHEL MANN, and five brothers in 1851 at Water Hales, Navestock. William and Rachel were Tess Daly's gt-gt-gt-grandparents and they're found in 1841 at Navestock Heath. The URL is.....http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2012/12/famous-family-trees-tess-daly/ -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE