So pleased for you Anne - you have been very helpful to me in the past. I'm still looking for my grandmother, Eliza Annie Clarke, born May 1859, Leicester. Still hoping she will turn up one day. Chris Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "A P L" <annepaling@hotmail.com> To: <warwick-l@rootsweb.com>; <derbysgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:58 AM Subject: [WAR] FW: [LEI] PALLING/DICKINS > > I am forwarding this message that I wrote to the LEI List to give everyone > hope! > > Serendipity? > > > Anne Paling > SHEFFIELD, U.K. > > > > > >>From: "A P L" <annepaling@hotmail.com> >>To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com, ficus@euroweb.net.mt >>Subject: [LEI] PALLING/DICKINS >>Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:28:00 +0000 >> >> >>NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER GIVE UP!! >> >>I have been looking for my PALING gt gt gt gt-parents for over 30 years. >> >>John PALING was buried in Houghton on the Hill in 1826 aged 56. This >>would >>mean that John was born c. 1770. He and his wife, Elizabeth CLARKE, who >>were married in Houghton on the Hill in 1804, had 3 sons, Samuel, Robert >>and >>John Jnr., who later called himself John Dickins PALING. >> >>I thought that I had looked everywhere for the parents of John Snr., BUT >>.................. >> >>Recently Keith Hammond from the LEI List (we are loosely related) asked me >>to look at my CD of marriages from Thurmaston South for BYWATERs. I >>thought >>that I searched this CD several years ago for PALINGs BUT ..... >> >>On Sunday 25 April 1767 in Thurmaston I see this entry .. >> >>Robert PALLIN marries Mary DICKINS !!!!!!!!!!! >> >>I think that it must be the right couple - don't you? there are too may >>similarities >>The name Robert, the surname DICKINS, the date of the marriage is only 3 >>years before John's birth, Thurmaston is only 8 miles from Houghton .. >> >>I am so excited!! >> >>Yours with many many thanks >> >> >> >>Anne Paling >>SHEFFIELD, U.K. >> >>P.S. Will look for BYWATERs when I have calmed down a little - I did, >>however, notice one or two FEWKES, FOCKES, FUCKS (!) >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >>without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 218 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len