Hi Helen, I will try to answer part of your query. The expression "Living in the parish" does, I believe, indicate that the person was not born in the parish, but had settled there. Under the Poor Laws, there were conditions that the migrant poor had to satisfy, when examined by a local official, before being allowed to settle in a parish. If an applicant failed to pass the criteria for settlement, then they were returned to where they came from. So, it may well be worth your while checking the settlement records for the parish in which the DAVEY family lived. My explanation of Settlement Exams is a sketchy one, and probably misleading, but Settlement records are well worth checking out. In FreeBMD I looked for the death of Edmund DAVEY - the finds follow. Deaths Jun 1842 (>99%) DAVEY Edmund Chard 10 252 DAVEY Edmund Kenyon Halstead 12 91 Deaths Sep 1848 (>99%) Davey Edmund Okehampton 10 108 Deaths Mar 1851 (>99%) DAVEY Edmund Brighton 7 241 Deaths Jun 1853 (>99%) DAVEY Edmund Cuckfield 2b 87 The Halstead, Kent entry may be of interest if you think the family moved to Kent. Halstead is on the hills above Sevenoaks. I heaven't looked up anything else in FreeBMD, but it's worth a try under your own steam. Richard Brown Bromley, Kent U.K. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:51:48 -0700 From: "Helen Carlisle" <helencarlisle@comcast.net> Subject: [KENT-ENG] Greenwich History Could anybody with more knowledge of the area's history be able to help as I am trying to find an ancestor who appeared in Essex in 1814 but we cannot trace where he came from. (Not Kent, I know, but please bear with me). I have an EDMUND DAVEY born 1814 in Kelvendon Hatch, Essex to Joseph (a labourer) and Elizabeth. Joseph is noted has "living in the parish" which I am assuming means that he was not from Kelvedon Hatch as such. :=>< SNIP Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Kind regards to all Helen