Ingatestone: Wilson family

Received: 19 January 2011

I am researching my family history & trying to discover where I can find information on Sarah Poole born c.1801 in Ingatestone, Father – William. I have found her in the later census in Ancestry but have not been able to find anything before her 1825 marriage in Tower Hamlets Middlesex. I have found a William in 1841 in a place called Doddinghurst. Not being from England I cannot figure out whether these 2 towns are close enough to consider this William as her Dad.

Sorry to bother you. Your Blog was the only spot so far I could find to communicate with someone.

Thank you

Lynda

Ontario Canada

Replied: 21 January 2011

Dear Lynda

Thanks for your E mail. As you will be aware, Britain has carried out a census every ten years from 1801 with the exception of 1941. All years from 1801 to 1911 are now available but 1801 to 1831 merely contains statistics not names. However, the Essex Record Office hold s the census enumerator’s book for Ingatestone parish for 1831 – an unusual preservation. Perhaps ERO D/DU 407/1 includes some of your relatives? William and Poole are common names around here, so care must be taken to assume that William in Doddinghurst is the same as your William. It is plausible, because Ingatestone and Doddinghurst are only five miles apart from one another. To give you an idea, both are bordered by Blackmore.

If ‘Doddinghurst William’ survived until 1851 then he may be recorded with place of birth. It’s a long shot. Alternatively check the burial register for Doddinghurst to see if he died in the intervening years.

I checked ‘Essex Ancestors’, the project in which the Essex Record Office is digitising parish registers. The archive is not as far as the period you require so the data you need is on microfiche in the search room in Chelmsford.

Tower Hamlets, now a London Borough bearing this name, is a district just over the ancient county border in Middlesex. Places like Poplar, Shoreditch and Whitechapel come to mind. The parish registers for these and other ‘villages’ are held, according to a book I have dated 2003, in the London Metropolitan Archives.

Hope this is of use. Happy researching!

Andrew

Received: 7 February 2011

Thank you

Lynda

Postcard Collection: Chelmsford

"Mountnessing Brentwood. Sept 3 07. Another card for your album showing the river Cann at Recreation Ground I should think. It is not very distinctive but yet is a pretty view. Love & c. W."

Postcard Collection: Chelmsford

The River Can runs through the centre of Chelmsford. This postcard, sent on 3 September 1907, clearly is of the town centre but its location today is not clear.

Postcard Collection: Chelmsford

St Mary's Church, Chelmsford, which later became the Cathedral. On 30 August 1907, W wrote: "Have taken taken a cousin of mine over this church. We cycled here via Writtle [from Mountnessing] where we inspected old church there. Weather is fine. Love W. Written standing".

Postcard Collection: Blackmore

The sending of postcards during the Edwardian era were the e-mail or twitter of their day. These are a huge source of interest to family and local historians. While sorting the effects of a relative, these were found which are mainly correspondence from her spinster's father and her mother while they were 'courting', to use that phrase. He lived in Mountnessing. She was a nurse in Wales.

This is a Fred Spalding postcard from the turn of the twentieth century of the Priory Church of St Laurence, Blackmore.

Area: "High Country History Group" Journal No. 37

This edition has been out for some while. The October 2010 edition includes:

- Essex Dialect and Accent, Part 2

- William Byrd Library (published on http://www.williambyrdfestival.blogspot.com)

- Blackmore War Memorial Recarved (covered extensively on this blog)

- Good Essex. A poem by G. Sarham (1947)

- Fred Cearns. From Plaistow to Passechndaele

- Pole, Rod or Perch?

- White's Directory of Essex 1848. Bobbingworth

- A History of Epping Drinking Fountain

- Executions at Springfield Gaol

Ingatestone: Poole Family

Received: 19 January 2011

I am researching my family history & trying to discover where I can find information on Sarah Poole born c.1801 in Ingatestone, Father – William. I have found her in the later census in Ancestry but have not been able to find anything before her 1825 marriage in Tower Hamlets Middlesex. I have found a William in 1841 in a place called Doddinghurst. Not being from England I cannot figure out whether these 2 towns are close enough to consider this William as her Dad.

Sorry to bother you your Blog was the only spot so far I could find to communicate with someone.

Thank you

Lynda

Ontario Canada

Replied: 21 January 2011

Dear Lynda

Thanks for your E mail. As you will be aware, Britain has carried out a census every ten years from 1801 with the exception of 1941. All years from 1801 to 1911 are now available but 1801 to 1831 merely contains statistics not names. However, the Essex Record Office hold s the census enumerator’s book for Ingatestone parish for 1831 – an unusual preservation. Perhaps ERO D/DU 407/1 includes some of your relatives? William and Poole are common names around here, so care must be taken to assume that William in Doddinghurst is the same as your William. It is plausible, because Ingatestone and Doddinghurst are only five miles apart from one another. To give you an idea, both are bordered by Blackmore.

If ‘Doddinghurst William’ survived until 1851 then he may be recorded with place of birth. It’s a long shot. Alternatively check the burial register for Doddinghurst to see if he died in the intervening years.

I checked ‘Essex Ancestors’, the project in which the Essex Record Office is digitising parish registers. The archive is not as far as the period you require so the data you need is on microfiche in the searchroom in Chelmsford.

Tower Hamlets, now a London Borough bearing this name, is a district just over the ancient county border in Middlesex. Places like Poplar, Shoreditch and Whitechapel come to mind. The parish registers for these and other ‘villages’ are held, according to a book I have dated 2003, in the London Metropolitan Archives.

Hope this is of use. Happy researching!

Andrew

BLACKMORE HISTORY NEWS - February 2011

Welcome to this month’s round-up of local history and heritage in and around Blackmore, Essex.

Postcard Collection

Over the coming weeks Blackmore Area Local History will be uploading copies of old postcards. One hundred years ago these were the e mail or twitter of their day. Fortunately the pictures on the front, as well as sometimes the comments made by the writer, can be very interesting to local and family historians. The card illustrated is of Nine Ashes Farm, technically in High Ongar parish. Last year the building was extensively renovated. For a while the infilling of the walls was removed to expose the timber framing, and I regret now not taking a photograph of the twisted hedgerow trees which were fashioned by skilful carpenters to create the Grade II listed sixteenth century, or before, building.

Flicker pictures

Fryerning Church: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cy-46nikon/5335919737/galleries/

Mountnessing Windmill: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21898360@N07/5375737609/

Ingatestone Secondary School remembered

The school which became the Anglo European School in 1973 is remembered by a local resident: http://www.thisistotalessex.co.uk/news/Gran-s-learning-computers/article-3085458-detail/article.html

West Horndon on Wikipedia

Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Horndon?oldid=0

William Byrd Festival

The ‘William Byrd Festival’ will be held at St Peter & St Paul Church, Stondon Massey, on 7, 8, 14 & 15 May 2011. For the latest information visit http://www.williambyrdfestival.blogspot.com.

A Folk Song A Day

Don’t forget the marvellous site http://www.afolksongaday.com

Links

For an extensive list of links to other sites go to: http://www.blackmorehistory.co.uk/externallinks.html