Nelsons in Glemsford

Richard Moss, who lives in Tyne and Wear and therefore has difficulty visiting the area for hands-on research, has approached me with this query.

My mother's maiden name is Nelson and I have, I hope, traced her family back
from (i) Greenwich, London to (ii) Glemsford, Suffolk.
However, I've now got stuck at a John Nelson (b 1797) and although I have a possible parents for him - (father William, born abt 1764 and mother Sarah Copsey born about 1767, both of
Glemsford) I'm not sure that is correct.

There I hit a brick wall.

Any help or pointers to circumnavigate that wall will be gratefully received (through me, as usual).
(There is an earlier reference to the Nelsons on this page - link via the title line, above).

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Arthur Rutter - Roll of Honour

Carol Hindle has contacted me:

Hi.

Does anybody have information on the Arthur Rutter shown on Roll of Honour killed in action 16th Sept 1916?

Is he the 2nd husband of Esther Ford nee Brown, can anybody tell me - married to her 6th November 1905?

Regards Carol

There were three Rutter families in Glemsford at the 1901 Census, on Angel Lane, Egremont Street and Chequers Lane, but Arthur does not appear in any of them.

If anyone has any clues for Carol, leave a comment here, or you can email them to my address and I will forward them.

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Biggs and Tweed families

For the last year I have been researching part-time the Big/ Bigg/Biggs/Bygges families from around Glemsford, Stanstead, BSE, Lavenham, Preston, Nayland amongst a few Villages.

I already had about 800 Descendents from my Bigg =Tweed Tree, then I found about 900 on Ray Long's Cosford Database.

I have collated the IGI entries, Ancestry's Parish and Probate Records, Boyds Marriage Indexes and the NBI. I have also trawled the web for info and contacted just about every Bigg researcher on Genes Reunited and Rootsweb World Connect Project.

Lots of people have added to the info I have and I have been able to add more from the Censuses and able to make quite a few new links.

However there are still lots of loose ends.

So if anyone has any Bigg connections I would be happy to hear from them

I also wish to ask if you know of any way of finding out a persons 'Trade' before 1800. I have a Samuel Bigg Born Abt 1761 Stanstead and two of his sons, Ambrose and William Bigg(s) were ' Cutlers' and it would be nice to find that this was the trade of the father.

- Clif ( London )

(Contact Clif in the usual way via me, or add a comment here.)
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