Hi Gerrie, Have you actual proof that he was born in Essex? Sometimes they were born elsewhere but because they have lived in a place for a very long time it is really only assumed that they were born there, so it may be worth following that one up. Kay >My ggrandfather Robert JOLLY was said to be born at Romford Essex- >as said on the 1881 census, making him born in 1831 or1832. > >I have just found a Robert JOLLY married to Eliz. Harrison at Skelton, >Guisborough Yorkshire in 1780. Now this happens to be the place where >my grandmother Emily ABBOTT was born & she married Henry JOLLY >son of Robert JOLLY (born it said in Essex) What are the chances that >the 1881 birthplace was not Romford but up in Yorkshire? Kay Hinnrichsen Listowner Rootsweb *JOLLY *BOSANKO Lists - also searching for TONKIN and WILSON and more http://www.southwest.com.au/~kayhin Research Names: http://carmen.murdoch.edu.au/community/dps/research/hin02.html