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From: "David Lamb" <>
Subject: Re: lookup please1871
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 08:22:40 +0100
References: <40C1FD28.1010307@comcast.net>


Hello,

There is only person of that surname (but spelled "WILCOX") on the index for
Colchester 1861 census, a 15-year-old Arthur WILCOX. Sorry.

Regards,
David Lamb (Paignton, Devon, UK)
Interests (Essex): BAXTER, BERRY, EREY, GOLDSTONE, LAMB, MOTT, PARTRIDGE,
SARGENT, TICHBORNE, WEBB, WHEELER, WILLSHER
(Suffolk): BRYNGLOVE, CRISPE, FINCH, PARTRIDGE, PORTER, PRATT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Willcocks" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: lookup please1871


> Hi David:
>
> If you have the index for Colchester 1861 census I have posted several
> requests to this list re:
> William Robert WILLCOCKS b. 12 Nov 1825 chr. 2 Feb 1826 Portsea Hants,
> m. 22 Mar 1858 St. Mary's. Portsea, Hants, to
> Sarah J Giles, b. abt 1832 St Albans Herts (father George GILES, office
> clerk in 1858)
> and their children
> Evelina Jemima WILLCOCKS b. 3Q1859 Midhurst 2b 313, schoolmistress in
> 1881 (claims b. Hastings, Sussex)
> William C WILLCOCKS b. 1864 Kingsland, Middlesex (age 17 in 1881, clerk)
> Edward H WILLCOCKS b. 1868 Colchester, Essex (age 13 in 1881, scholar)
>
> I have them in the 1881 census, but so far have no idea where they were
> in 1861 or 1871 except for the births of their children, only the one
> being on FreeBMD so far. It's possible they were in COlchester and may
> have been associated with the workhouse there in 1871, as in 1881 and
> 1891 they were Master and Matron of Bishops Stortford Union House, and
> in 1901 retired, still in Bishops Stortford. In 1851 William was in
> Portsea with his first wife Elizabeth CHALKLEY, but widowed by 1858,
> with no children in first six years of first marriage (1845).
>
> I'd appreciate a lookup in 1871 for Colchester and/or any other
> information about Workhouse connections in the area, also if anyone has
> indexes for 1861 for other places mentioned any other help appreciated
> greatly.
>
> Regards
> Martin Willcocks
> Taylorsville, UT, USA.
>
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