I have been desperately searching for my Baker and Laccohee ancestors. I've been on ancestry, IGI and reg. I have found a lot of Laccohee's but I can't go back further until I can find the parents of John Laccohee. He was married in 1807 so at the earliest he was born abt 1787. Also I have Samuel A baker born about 1810 in Norwich, but cannot find any info on him so I can find his parents. Is there anywhere else I can look?
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Norfolk county record office is your next step. You wont find all you need on the Internet.
Take a look here
Norfolk - Family Tree Forum
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Debbie, Norfolk is a wonderful, wonderful county, with some of the best records you can hope to find in England..... but they haven't let the Mormons film them.
Find the nearest large family history library to you and see what is in their catalogue. Several societies have produced transcripts of all sorts of records: will indexes, bt indexes, etc etc.
Have a look at our Wiki and follow each of the Norfolk links. There is a surprising amount available these days.
Check NROCAT and see if any of the records are for sale (or available in libraries in Canada)
In the end, however, the only way to do the research pre 1837 is to visit the Record Office. This is especially true of Norfolk because it has more small parishes than anywhere else in Western Europe. Norwich, a city you can walk across in less than twenty minutes had something like fifty ancient parishes, so if you don't look at them all, you may miss the relevant entry (or discover two men with the same name born at the same time)Phoenix - with charred feathers
Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
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This is the only Laccohee on Norfolk Transcription Archive http://www.genealogy.doun.org/transcriptions/index.php
Marriages (Parish Register)
Place Register Year Groom Bride No. Notes
Norwich District Norwich St.Margaret
1755 SHIMMON, John LACCOHEE, Mary
10 gr from Norwich St Peter Mancroft~ with love from Little Nell~Chowns, Dunt, Emms, Mealing, Purvey & Smoothy
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Originally posted by Debbie View PostHe was married in 1807 so at the earliest he was born abt 1787.
Debbie, he could well have been born long before that. And it could be that the 1807 marriage was a second marriage in which case he could have been much older than you think. If you can find his burial then it might give his age at death which would help figure out when he was born.KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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Also there are lots of Norfolk PR entries on FreeREG:
FreeREG - Search UK Parish Register Indices
FreeREG has a few people called LAGUOY or LEGUOY baptised at Burnham Norton, church of St Margaret, (I used the Soundex option to find those) - including a John Laguoy baptised 11 Sep 1787. A Matthew Laguoy also baptised on the same day, and a Matthew Leguoy on 28th March 1789. Parents John and Elizabeth (nee Johnson). It says that John and Matthew are "not detailed as twins". A Benjamin in 1800 and twins Robert and Joseph in 1796 - oh, and another John in 1793. I guess that means the first John would have died young (yes, there is a burial for him), and the 1793 one would be too young to be your John. But I still wonder if these are variants of the same surname, in which case there will probably be loads of other variant spellings too.
Of course, this could be nothing to do with your family! Or as I said before, maybe the marriage in 1807 was John's second marriage, in which case he could even be the John who was the father of all those children at Burnham Norton!KiteRunner
Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh" (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")
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Originally posted by KiteRunner View PostDebbie, he could well have been born long before that. And it could be that the 1807 marriage was a second marriage in which case he could have been much older than you think. If you can find his burial then it might give his age at death which would help figure out when he was born.
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Try having a dig through NOAH - Norfolk Online Access to Heritage - Powered by DScovery - particularly good for wills and the like.Kind regards,
William
Particular interests: The Cumming families of Edinkillie & Dallas, Moray
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