Dear Howard Marriage Knight: My apologies for being so tardy in replying to your kind message. It appears that we are cousins! You ask what I want to know about Rachel and Walter. The simple answer is "Everything!". A more detailed reply is that I am interested less in ancestors and pedigrees than in the stories of their lives in England, Canada, Mexico and the United States. They were active in teaching the Freedman (former slaves) after the American Civil War as well as active members of a number of monthly meetings, especially in Iowa. I do have the 1987 compilation, along with a pamphlet describing an anniversary celebration of the Marriage Mill in Chelmsford. I will send a separate e-mail message to your personal e-mail address describing how I became interested and summarizing some of what I know and many unanswered questions. If others are interested I will forward this information to them. Thank you in advance for any information or clues of where to go next. Eleanor W. Helper --- Howard M Knight <marriage@one-name.org> wrote: > At 02:27 AM 27/01/06, Eleanor wrote: > >I am interested in viewing and/or purchasing the Essex CD you > mention. > >How can I obtain it (I live in the united States)I am interested in > >Rachel Winston MESSER AND Walter MARRIAGE. (You can imagine the > >problems encountered when I search for that name. They were married > in > >the Chelmsford, Essex meetinghouse on 8 March, 1848. I believe six > >children were born there. Any information on this family that you > have > >would be apprecited. > > I have details of the genealogy of the Marriage side of this > connection, > going back to Francis Marriage (died 1701) and I am still in contact > with > one of their descendants, Donald O Marriage. I also have copies of a > > printed Marriage family tree produced in 1987, but it only includes > Marriage descendants. > > As it happens, I am another descendant of the family, though not of > Walter > & Rachel, the member of the Guild of One-Name Studies who has > registered > the name Marriage and the coordinator of the Quaker Family History > Society > Digest indexing project (that Margaret Page has mentioned a good deal > > recently). > > If Eleanor gets in touch with me direct with details of what she > wants to > know I will see what I can do to help. > > Howard > > Howard Marriage Knight, near Bristol, UK > (Marriage surname info. clearing house. Guild of One-Name Studies > member > no. 1750) > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and > the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >