It is ages since I last sent an email, it's now time to try and tear down my brick wall. This is what I have .... William HOWICK & Mary RELPH were married 14 May 1776 in Easebourne. as per SMI -Place: Easebourne, West Sussex,  Date: 14 May 1776:Subject: William HOWICK, bachSpouse: Mary RELPH, sp wcop (B) - wcop = 'with consent of parents'Extra Information: Witness wit: Edm.POWELL; Jn.DURMAN Their son John was baptised 19 May 1780 at Woolbeding, All Hallows. John married Sarah WHITE 22 Jul 1802 as per SMI -Place - Woolbeding, West Sussex; Date - 22 Jul 1802; Subject - John HOWICK, bachelor; Spouse - Sarah WHITE, spinster; Both of This Parish, by Banns ; Witnesses - Jn. KNIGHT, Eliz. W. John HOWICK was my husband's ggg-grandfather. It's William HOWICK & Mary RELPH who eludes me completely. Any ideas, anyone? Lynne Howick#8991

Hi Lynne I would say that William's baptism is probably the following one from FamilySearch, given the father's name which is the same as William & Mary's son - William Howick England Births and Christenings Name William Howick Gender Male Christening Date 18 Aug 1754 Christening Place WISBOROUGH GREEN,SUSSEX,ENGLAND Father's Name John Howick Mother's Name Mary On a quick search I can't find a marriage for John & Mary in FamilySearch or Ancestry anywhere in England. If you consider the spelling of the surname may be different because of phonetic spelling in earlier times, Findmypast has a John Hack & Mary Saunders marrying by licence in 1751 somewhere in Surrey - First name(s)John Last name Hack Marriage year1750 Spouse's first name(s)Mary Spouse's last name Saunders Place Surrey Commissary Marriage Licences County Surrey Country England Source Boyd's 1st miscellaneous marriage index, 1415-1808 Record set England, Boyd's marriage indexes, 1538-1850 Good luck Christine Jackson SFHG 397 ________________________________ From: Lynne Howick via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> To: "SFHG@rootsweb.com" <SFHG@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 11:02 PM Subject: [SFHG] HOWICK / RELPH or RELF It is ages since I last sent an email, it's now time to try and tear down my brick wall. This is what I have .... William HOWICK & Mary RELPH were married 14 May 1776 in Easebourne. as per SMI -Place: Easebourne, West Sussex, Date: 14 May 1776:Subject: William HOWICK, bachSpouse: Mary RELPH, sp wcop (B) - wcop = 'with consent of parents'Extra Information: Witness wit: Edm.POWELL; Jn.DURMAN Their son John was baptised 19 May 1780 at Woolbeding, All Hallows. John married Sarah WHITE 22 Jul 1802 as per SMI -Place - Woolbeding, West Sussex; Date - 22 Jul 1802; Subject - John HOWICK, bachelor; Spouse - Sarah WHITE, spinster; Both of This Parish, by Banns ; Witnesses - Jn. KNIGHT, Eliz. W. John HOWICK was my husband's ggg-grandfather. It's William HOWICK & Mary RELPH who eludes me completely. Any ideas, anyone? Lynne Howick#8991 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi again, Lynne Further to Vic's message & to my previous one, there definitely was a family of Howicks in Wisborough Green (WG). You might want to investigate there first. The SFHG online Data Archive has a number of Howicks scattered over West Sx. But also in the People Index at that site is a reference to a 1734 inventory for a John Howick, farmer of WG (though his burial is not in the database) who may well have been William's ancestor - Entry Id 103191 Entry John Howick, Farmer Date: 1734 February 04 Parish: Wisborough Green, Wsx WSRO Ref: STCI/36 F.240 Sourcelink 148 = inventory Christine Jackson SFHG 397 ----- Original Message ----- From: Lynne Howick via <sfhg@rootsweb.com> To: "SFHG@rootsweb.com" <SFHG@rootsweb.com> Cc: Sent: Friday, September 25, 2015 11:02 PM Subject: [SFHG] HOWICK / RELPH or RELF It is ages since I last sent an email, it's now time to try and tear down my brick wall. This is what I have .... William HOWICK & Mary RELPH were married 14 May 1776 in Easebourne. as per SMI -Place: Easebourne, West Sussex, Date: 14 May 1776:Subject: William HOWICK, bachSpouse: Mary RELPH, sp wcop (B) - wcop = 'with consent of parents'Extra Information: Witness wit: Edm.POWELL; Jn.DURMAN Their son John was baptised 19 May 1780 at Woolbeding, All Hallows. John married Sarah WHITE 22 Jul 1802 as per SMI -Place - Woolbeding, West Sussex; Date - 22 Jul 1802; Subject - John HOWICK, bachelor; Spouse - Sarah WHITE, spinster; Both of This Parish, by Banns ; Witnesses - Jn. KNIGHT, Eliz. W. John HOWICK was my husband's ggg-grandfather. It's William HOWICK & Mary RELPH who eludes me completely. Any ideas, anyone? Lynne Howick#8991 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SFHG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In addition to the suggestion from Christine Jackson re Wisborough Green, you might like to take a look at the parish of Fernhurst (sometimes spelt Farnhurst). The Sussex Marriage Index shows a large cluster of marriages there (plus some associated Licences) and they are regularly spaced from the mid-16th century to the early 19th Century. The Fernhurst baptisms & burials are on the SFHG Frontis site. There are also eight wills proved in Chichester Archdeaconry up to 1800, including three from Fernhurst and two from Wisborough Green. I can send you a copy of the page off-List if you would like to have it and the wills have been filmed by the LDS, so you ought to be able to view them at your local Family History Centre. The Wiki on the FamilySearch web site will provide extra details. You will find more HOWICK wills that were proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury pre-1858 and these can be found on Ancestry and also on the TNA web site. As you have firm evidence that your family lived in Easebourne at one time, it is possible that they lived on land within one of the various Cowdray Manors which had extensive holdings in that part of Sussex. These records can be a little difficult to use, but they are an extra source of information to use in conjunction with parish register entries. The Cowdray volumes have been deposited at WSRO and most have now been filmed. Before 1733, the records are written in Latin except for the Commonwealth period of 1649 to 1660. However, there is often a contemporaneous surname index within each Court Book that will direct you to particular folios and it is comparatively easy to pick out names and places within a particular paragraph. I have used these records in the past to sort out research problems relating to my husband's family who also lived in this part of Sussex. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex SFHG Member No: 3323