There is some information on the Denny family in the Packard special document collection at the Society of Genealogists. An index for the Packard documents are due to be put online in the near future. In document 1266 in that collection, there is a pedigree of Thomas Ives Denny which notes Thomas Ives Denny's children, but only names some of them. Alas, no Edward Denny c1766 is mentioned. Thomas Ives Denny was also an illegitimate son - the son of Thomas Denny and Hannah Ives. However the Denny family were quite wealthy, had property in various villages, and certainly Thomas Ives Denny had more than one wife and at least one illegitimate child that has been found. So there may be a connection and so this could be of help. Wishing you every success in your researches Giles Colchester, Researching COLCHESTER family, any spelling, any time, any place And PACKARD in Suffolk Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:53:00 +0100 (BST) From: Pat Cook <[email protected]> Subject: [SFK-UK] Researching DENNY in Great Bealings and Rendlesham, Suffolk To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> My name is Pat, I live in Lincolnshire and have just joined the Suffolk List. I am researching the surname DENNY in Suffolk. Alfred Edmund Denny born 1886 Great Bealings s/o John DENNY and Jane KING, has the dubious reputation of being a bigamist. I have found two marriages for him, so far no deaths or remarriages of his two wives. He next fathers a child with the lady? he is living with, but she is said to have thrown him out when she discovered he was a bigamist. I now know the story from then to the present day, Although I? have only recently started researching this name I have had a lot of success so far and have been able to trace the direct line back to a marriage in 1795 of Edward DENNY( b to Margaret KNAPPET/NAPPETT.(b Campsea Ashe abt 1776) I have no place of birth for Edward apart from Suffolk, he was born abt 1766, he appears in the 1841 Census, as an Ag lab. So far I have traced three children, all born in Rendlesham.? Ezekiel abt 1799, Elias abt 1806, Ephraim abt 1793. The DENNY's like to give their children names beginning with E. Is there anybody else on the list researching DENNY?? With the help of the Census returns etc; I have gathered together a presentable tree, I would love to be able to include a few photographs, but so far have only ones of the modern generations. I am hoping to present the DENNY family history next summer as a surprise retirement present to our son in law. Pat in Lincolnshire