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Farnham Essex, suffolk or both?

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Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 31 Jan 2005 21:30

Thank you everyone A fellow GR member has found the person I was looking for and sent me details having been to the records office today. What a lovely surprise( it was the one in Essex!). Alice

BrianW

BrianW Report 31 Jan 2005 16:45

Farnham in Essex and Stansted are quite close and are the most likely coupling.

Researching:
Sherwood (Kent); Jesson (London); Worboys (Herts)

Cheeky Monkey

Cheeky Monkey Report 31 Jan 2005 16:20

Theres a Farnham in Surrey too

Rosemary

Rosemary Report 30 Jan 2005 15:36

Alice, The Essex Family History Gazetteer(2002) gives Farnham as being "... 2.25 miles NW of Bishops Stortford; Ch: St Mary the Virgin; Pr: Farnham. Hrd :Clavering. Un: Bishops Stortford. ..." Farnham Green is to NW of Farnham. Ch: Pr: Hd: and Un: precede the name of a Church of England Church associated with the place, the parish in which the place is located, its Hundred , and its Poor law Union. Rosemary(Essex)

Unknown

Unknown Report 30 Jan 2005 10:05

Yes, placenames are a pain. My gt gt grandmother had Farnham on a census and I immediately thought Farnham Surrey because she was living in Surrey at the time of the census, but it turned out on a later census (then I found her in the parish register) to be Farnham Royal, Bucks. Similarly, my Norfolk gt grandmother had Langley as her birthplace in a census. Since Langley was the next village to where she was living I thought it was the right one. Spent ages looking for her birth there. Eventually found out it was Langham, in North Norfolk. Presumably the enumerator had heard "Lang" and wrote down the place he knew. nell

Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 30 Jan 2005 09:13

Thanks Jim. I guess I will start close, then widen my search. With all those Farnhams it could be a lifelong quest! Alice

Unknown

Unknown Report 30 Jan 2005 08:27

There is a Farnham in Essex, in Dorset, in North Yorkshire, in Suffolk and in Surrey. There is also a Farnham Common and a Farnham Royal in Bucks, and a Farnham Green in Essex. It doesn't always pay to make assumptions. For years my 6th ggmother was the wrong person because I assumed she came from the same Village.

Mad Alice

Mad Alice Report 30 Jan 2005 07:37

I have someone in my tree and the the cendsus consistently says she was born in Farnham. She married someone from Stanstead in Essex so I was thinking Farnham was in Essex. Now I discover there is a Farnham i in Suffolk(but she wasn't born there - I checked the parish records yesterday. Is there also a Farnham in Essex ? Alice