Marriage lookup

[Vance Mead]

Have a look at Charlie Mead’s site at

http://www.mead-online.me.uk/

Especially:
Family Trees / The Descendants of Nicholas Mede of Wraxall, Somerset

He has your George Mead born 1821 in High Easter, and takes his ancestry back to 1300.

I'm not not absolutely sure about all of the connections. This was a collaborative effort, with input from Liz Holliday, Andrew Mead, David Stern and myself. My part covers 1500-1650 in Essex, and 1300-1500 in Somerset and Bristol.

My homepage is here:

http://koti.welho.com/lmead/page4.html

And I have Essex wills here:

http://koti.welho.com/lmead/page240.html

There were a lot of Meads in that part of Essex - within about ten or twelve miles of Saffron Walden - and it's not easy to sort them all out. Too many named John, Thomas and William. They were reasonably well-off, yeomen farmers mostly, and many of them left wills. There are are also Herald's Visitations and many other records to put some more flesh on the bones.
Vance

[Bob2000]

Thanks for those links, Vance.

I'm still trying to ascertain Henry's date of birth with 100% certainty. I've got his marriage certificate which shows his father, George Mead, as 'deceased' but can't work out how to know which 'Henry Mead' birth certificate is correct.

George Mead might be
http://www.mead-online.me.uk/trees/fam001/indiI356.htm
but I'm not sure that his son Henry is 'my Henry'

[Vance Mead]

How about the 1871 census?

All of these are Henry Mead born 1859 +/-5 years (London area) with father George.

Henry Mead born 1854 in Henham Essex
Living in Bishop Stortford

Henry Mead born 1859 in Stepney
Living in Mile End Old Town

Henry G. Mead born 1863 in Mile End Old Town
Living in Chigwell, Essex

This last one was the one I mentioned yesterday.

[Bob2000]

Here was my reasoning...

From FreeBMD, there are 5 Henry Mead births that could be possible:
[A] Henry Charles Mead, b.1859 in Hackney
[B] Henry Mead b.1859 Q2 in Mile End
[C] Henry George Mead b.1862 Q2 in Mile End
[D] Henry Mead b.1864 Q1 in Mile End
[E] Henry Augustus William Mead b.1864 Q2 in Mile End

I am looking Henry Mead - a labourer who married Elizabeth Harvey on 15 March 1891

[C] is the son of George and Jemima who goes on to marry Bridget.
[D] is a works manager who marries Amy (1901 census)
[E] is possibly Harry A Mead, son of Charles and Clara (1871), a labourer in Newgate Prison (1881).
...so I eliminate [C], [D] and [E].

That leaves [A] or [B]. The only Henry Mead that I can find who was born in 1859 is the son of George Mead and Louisa Anthony.

[Vance Mead]

You might be able to get more information if you have the will of either George or Henry. Henry might give the names of his siblings. George, if he was still alive after Henry got married in 1891, might mention his daughter-in-law or grandchilden.

All of my experience with wills is pre-1858. For wills after that you would have to ask on the Wills forum.

Vance