Help with Will

[Merry]

I'm not deleting this thread yet, because you might want to come back to it another time. We might find something to help

[Terri]

Sorry Phoenix, I assumed you were talking about the Surrey online catalogue which tends to give out a fair bit of information. I use it all the time - only visited the actual Surrey Archives once in 15 years!

[Merry]

I'm not deleting this thread yet

Unless you absolutely insist that is

[Terri]

That's fine, thank you Merry x

[kiterunner]

There are a couple of entries that come up in TNA's catalogue when searching for Geale AND Abinger, both at the Surrey History Centre. One 1694 and one 1700, both include Edward Geale of Abinger, yeoman. I would think more likely to be your Edward than the one who married in 1641.

[Merry]

William May's eldest daughter Elizabeth of Esher £300 at marriage or 21

There's an Elizabeth May marrying in Esher in 1726 to John Hitcher or Hitches (there's an image but I've not looked as need to look at lunch...)

[ElizabethHerts]

I'm dreaming of the day when I can visit the Surrey History Centre again.

They have some large boxes donated to them by my grandmother's first cousin when W.E. White & Sons of Guildford closed in the 1960s. He didn't know what to do with all the records so he donated them to the Record Office.

When we went last we went through two large boxes and there were two items which particularly delighted me. One was a photo of my great-grandparents when they were quite young, when they first ran the shop. The second was a real gem. It was the staff book my great-great-grandfather kept and features my great-grandmother who came to them as a Milliner. He is very complimentary about her, and writes "Good girl" beside her name. Then later "Left to marry". In fact, she left to marry his younger son Herbert. They ran a branch in Chertsey for a short while, but Herbert's health failed and he died aged 37 when my grandmother was only 9.

[ElizabethHerts]

Sorry, I went horribly off topic there.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

There's an Elizabeth May marrying in Esher in 1726 to John Hitcher or Hitches (there's an image but I've not looked as need to look at lunch...)

John Hitches of Walton on Th[ame]s.

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Terri

A William May married Mercy Dally in Esher in 1709 (the Dally family having had loose business connections with the Geale/Gale family). But I don't think they had daughters called Elizabeth or Ann.

Ann May baptised 6 Sep 1710 at Esher, daughter of Will and Mercy:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...=successSource

The above is a link to the image - Ancestry don't seem to have indexed that part of the page for some reason but it is there.

They also had a son William baptised 5 Aug 1714 at Esher.

I don't see a baptism for Elizabeth at Esher in 1709 so I guess either she was born somewhere else (perhaps where her mother came from - oops, just realised Mercy came from Esher) or her mother was a previous wife of William's. Or I suppose possibly this is the wrong family but that seems highly unlikely!