My ancestors came from Blickling, with my x3 grandparents being Jonathan and Catherine Daniel and their first child, Jonathan, being born in 1772. There are no other Daniels mentioned in the Blickling records before this, until the beginning of the century, when Jonathan and Mary Daniel had children baptized in Blickling, the last one being in 1715. Apart from the same name Jonathan, I have no proof that this is part of my Daniels family. On browsing through the Blickling parish records on Family Search, I found what I believe to be the death of the early Jonathan in Blickling, 1738. The record helpfully states that he was a 'native of Matlaske' and I've been able to find out quite a bit about the Daniel family in that village , but, again, because there is no direct link between them and my x3 grandparents, I am still unsure whether they are indeed my ancestors. The problem is this gap in Blickling between 1715 and 1772. I'd be very grateful for any advice as to how I could research this gap and perhaps link the two families - or not. Meg

Meg If you are right, then you would expect the family to be somewhere near at hand between the two periods when they were in Blickling. From the records available on FreeREG, I see that the elder Jonathan DANIEL had a son Samuel DANIEL C 1708 at Matlaske, and a Samuel DANIEL had a son Jonathan DANIEL C 1747 at Metton, who could possibly be the younger Jonathan in your tree. To prove this link with reasonable certainty you would need to find burial details for Samuel and the younger Jonathan which gave their ages and thereby confirm their dates of birth. David ________________________________ From: megrose61 <megrose61@googlemail.com> To: NORFOLK@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, 3 September 2011, 15:27 Subject: [NFK] DANIEL(S) - Bickling and Matlaske? My ancestors came from Blickling, with my x3 grandparents being Jonathan and Catherine Daniel and their first child, Jonathan, being born in 1772.  There are no other Daniels mentioned in the Blickling records before this, until the beginning of the century, when Jonathan and Mary Daniel had children baptized in Blickling, the last one being in 1715.    Apart from the same name Jonathan, I have no proof that this is part of my Daniels family. On browsing through the Blickling parish records on Family Search, I found what I believe to be the death of the early Jonathan in Blickling, 1738.  The record helpfully states that he was a 'native of Matlaske' and I've been able to find out quite a bit about the Daniel family in that village , but, again, because there is no direct link between them and my x3 grandparents, I am still unsure whether they are indeed my ancestors. The problem is this gap in Blickling between 1715 and 1772.    I'd be very grateful for any advice as to how I could research this gap and perhaps link the two families - or not. Meg ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message