A 1693/4 will of Mary Blatt nee Curtis (widow of William, silkman of the City of London) filed in Suffolk (her home county to which she had returned with her four children upon the death of her husband) mentions (in relation to her eldest son, James) a property she called "Faymehall in Essex", indicating that her bequest to him was conditional upon the above property not descending to him. (In the event, James died unmarried in Bury St. Edmunds in 1709, so presumably this property never came to him. I have looked for some trace as to the possible location of this property, but so far have found nothing. The IGI shows early Essex records for the surname Blatt in Barnston & Waltham Holy Cross, but I have not found such a property in conjunction with either place. (The surname was sometimes written Blate & one clerk has erroneously recorded it as "Place".) As I have been tracking the Curtis line and know of no Essex connections there, and as James Blatt was the eldest son of the eldest daughter - and as Mary Curtis Blatt had a younger brother with living sons, it would seem most likely that the property in question was descended on the Blatt side. Has anyone out there any knowledge of such a property ever existing anywhere in Essex? Mary T.