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From: Don Edes <>
Subject: Re: ESSEX-UK-D Digest V98 #117
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 12:06:11 -0400

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> ESSEX-UK-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 117
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> Today's Topics:
> #1 Re: Roman Catholics in Essex [Ingrid Billings <]
> #2 Re: ESSEX-UK-D Digest V98 #116 [SonOfBryn <>]
> #3 Re: www.genforum.com: useful new s ["Family History" <]
> #4 Re: ESSEX-UK-D Digest V98 #115 [Peter DeAth <]
> #5 CHANDLER and ESSEX Motor Companies [Lesley Chandler <]
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> Subject: Re: Roman Catholics in Essex
> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 22:42:15 +0100
> From: Ingrid Billings <>
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> Hi Les,
> Also looking in Ingatestone but for Emberson families also worked for
> Lord Petre @ Ingatestone Hall 1830+
>
> As for the RC area they had their won chapel there which is the "Petre
> Church". or St John The Evangelist & St Erconwald. I have a book
> written by John Glynn (Father/Priest) about & called "The Catholic
> Church in Ingatestone from the Reformation to the present day". If you
> want further details email me personally.
>
> The parish records are at the Essex Records Office (In Chelmsford) -
> later or todays are probably still at the Chapel with the Priest
> Incumbant.
>
> Sorry can't help with the other names though but all are within distance
> of each other. Are we talking UK spring or Australian autumn? They open
> the hall during the spring & summer till autumn I think? maybe you can
> contact to get more information.
> Researching EMBERSON / CLARK / BANGS
>
> In message <01bd6c6f$3e5a0ae0$>, hydele-1
> <> writes
> >Hello everybody. Does anyone have any gen on Roman Catholics in Essex?
> >
> >I'm researching a family name RANK from Ingatestone and Broomfield area. The
> >RANKs were Roman Catholics which was not that common in Essex. Some of them
> >worked for Lord Petre, local RC nobility. Family lore states that they were RCs
> >of old, but maybe they converted because of their work connections. Any
> >literature ot information on this would be very welcome spring reading.
> >
> >Other Essex names I'm researching are:
> >
> >POOLEs Writtle
> >SMEE Buttsbury
> >HAWKES Great Waltham
> >
> >Best wishes to all
> >
> >
> >Leslie HYDE
> >Helsinki, Finland.
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> Subject: Re: ESSEX-UK-D Digest V98 #116
> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 04:57:11 EDT
> From: SonOfBryn <>
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> Subject: Re: www.genforum.com: useful new site...
> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 12:20:21 +0100
> From: "Family History" <>
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> It's been going since at least Dec 97. I have posted some messages on it but
> the conversations are somewhat slow for my surnames. It also appears very US
> oriented - not so good for us UK folks. Still it is, poterntially, another
> source of info and for some surnames may be very active..
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cornelia Warner <>
> To: <>
> Date: 21 April 1998 23:45
> Subject: useful new site...
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> >there is a new site, no more than a month old, probably less, that is a
> >'net-wide, world-wide query site. it works by surname. go to the surname
> >list, choose your 1st letter of a surname, wait for the surnames that start
> >with that letter to come up, alpha browse to where your surname should be,
> >if you find it, click on it. if you don't find it, go to the bottom of the
> >page and click on Forum Finder and search for variant spellings. if you
> >still don't find it, go to New Surname Listing and ask them to add it to
> >their list. happy hunting!
> >
> >http://www.genforum.com/
> >
> >Cornelia
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> >
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> Subject: Re: ESSEX-UK-D Digest V98 #115
> Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 20:33:19 +0100
> From: Peter DeAth <>
> To:
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> Hello David,
>
> Saw a posting on Genbrit regarding WHITEING - does this project include the
> surname WHITING as my wife has many WHITING connections in Birmingham
> Uttoxeter and London England. I do not know which is a variation of which in
> these two surnames
>
> besy wishes
> --
> Peter DeAth (East of London FHS 0037/London & N. Middx FHS 4172)
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> Subject: CHANDLER and ESSEX Motor Companies
> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 17:04:49 -0400
> From: Lesley Chandler <>
> To:
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> Hello everyone...
>
> Does anybody know of the existence, early this century, of the CHANDLER
> Motor Company in America?
>
> According to family legend, two of members of my family emigrated to
> America early this century and, when the explosion in car manufacturing
> took place, established the Chandler Motor Company. In time it became the
> Essex Motor Company (so it is said). And that in turn was taken over (by
> GM?) in the 1930's.
>
> Can anyone confirm any of this whimsy? I'd love to hear from you if you
> can.
>
> Best wishes,
> Stephen Chandler in sunny Redruth, Cornwall, UK (which had 2.5 times its
> usual rainfall in April).
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