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From: "J & D Turner" <>
Subject: Re: [Ess] Marsh Farm, Hockley, in 1911
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:58:09 +1000
References: <DD9B9978EAB5B34C9B68C5C9296911424EACA24DDB@EXMBX04.ad.oak.ox.ac.uk>


Hi Adrian
Try this website of Old Maps you might be lucky?



http://www.old-maps.co.uk/maps.html



Jacquie




----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Gray" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Ess] Marsh Farm, Hockley, in 1911


> Thank you to everyone for their thoughts and efforts on this one.
> Unfortunately it looks to me as though there will be no simple resolution,
> so I've advised the lady at Marsh Farm to contact her Essex County Council
> colleagues at the ERO to see what they can do with the earlier census
> returns. This could be interesting as in 1861 the enumerator seems to have
> enumerated a number of farms as "Farm House"... hopefully for them he
> didn't do too many other years!
>
> As William Bewers is recorded in the various censuses as a stockman (of
> varying descriptions), I think that Marsh Farm must have been owned by
> someone else, and he was living in the farmhouse as tied accommodation.
> This might explain why it doesn't seem to appear in any of the directories
> as he wasn't a farmer as such. I might be able to track the farm down if I
> go to Kew and go through the whole parish (actually, I wonder if the
> Centre for Oxfordshire studies has an FMP sub... pity the boss is back
> from holiday!), but I don't think I have enough other stuff yet to justify
> a visit. Ho hum!
>
> Adrin
>
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