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Mission impossible!
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Unknown | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:29 |
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OK, here's the plan. Your name is John Smoothy, you were born in Coggeshall, 1776 and you need to hide in the 1841 census. |
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Unknown | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:31 |
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You don't want to give away too much about your whereabouts. You married Elizabeth Wiltshire/Wilsher in 1805 at St Mary's Chemsford. You have sons John 1812, Charles 1816 and daughter Elizabeth 1820 baptised in St Mary's Chelmsford. You are in Chelmsford in 1851 as a widower on poor relief. You die and are buried in Moulsham (a suburb of Chelmsford) in Feb 1861. Where are you 1841? |
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Anne | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:31 |
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Find one of the illegible pages to hide on - like half of mine in Yorkshire!! Anne |
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Jeanette | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:31 |
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1841 you go to Birdbrook? Eliza Smoothy abt 1821 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record Emily Smoothy abt 1816 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record George Smoothy abt 1816 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record Henry Smoothy abt 1816 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record John Smoothy abt 1776 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record Samuel Smoothy abt 1811 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex View Record Sarah Smoothy abt 1781 Essex, England Birdbrook Essex Oh perhaps not |
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Jessie aka Maddies mate | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:33 |
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Be like my great grandad - be on all the census, get married and then die - but don't whatever you do tell any one you were born, no-one must ever ever ever know you were born!! lol Joanne |
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Unknown | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:40 |
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Anne & Maddie - cheers! Jeanette thanks, but that isn't him. The Smoothy surname is rampant around Birdbrook and other local places between Coggeshall & Saffron Walden, in Essex and adjacent parishes in Suffolk & Cambs. nell |
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Zoe | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:41 |
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have you searched under John Smutty? he could have been having a giggle with the wife |
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Unknown | Report | 31 Aug 2006 21:42 |
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The smoothy surname has been mangled into Smarthy, Smithy, smothey, Smoothey and Lenorthey but I've tried every combination and looked at all possible Johns born Essex 1776 +/- 2 years and I'm stumped. nell |
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Paul Barton, Special Agent | Report | 31 Aug 2006 22:44 |
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Helen, you've been on about me all week - thread after thread. Haven't you got the hint yet.... I DON'T WANT TO BE FOUND!!! |
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Jessie aka Maddies mate | Report | 31 Aug 2006 22:48 |
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pmsl - I came back to see if he had been found lol Joanne |
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Cornish | Report | 31 Aug 2006 22:54 |
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Lolol. Was he out in a boat with all my fishermen? |
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Susan | Report | 31 Aug 2006 22:58 |
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Helen Did you know the Smoothy/Willshire marriage is on line.(the actual image) Go to SEAX, click on image search, put in Chelmsford parish registers and search away. |
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Unknown | Report | 1 Sep 2006 14:46 |
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Sue Thanks, yes I did - I've seen the original marriage register entry at the Essex Records Office. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to check burials for Elizabeth and John while I was at it, but just found the baptisms for their 3 known children. nell |
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