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THE ENGLISH ANCESTRY<br />

OF<br />

REINOLD AND MATTHEW MARVIN<br />

AND THEIR HOMES.<br />

HE earliest trace <strong>of</strong> our <strong>ancestry</strong> thus far dis-<br />

covered was found in the summer <strong>of</strong> 1897,<br />

in <strong>and</strong> near Ramsey, a Parish in Tendring<br />

Hundred, Essex County, Engl<strong>and</strong>. This vil-<br />

lage, a "coast Parish," with a population at the present<br />

day <strong>of</strong> nearly two thous<strong>and</strong>,* is sixty-eight miles from Lon-<br />

don, <strong>and</strong> three miles <strong>and</strong> a half west <strong>of</strong> Harwich, the nearest<br />

railway station being that <strong>of</strong> Parkeston Quay, on the Harwich<br />

<strong>and</strong> Manningtree branch <strong>of</strong> the Great Eastern Railway, a<br />

mile from the village, which is called " Ramsey Street," <strong>and</strong><br />

borders on the River Stour.<br />

<strong>The</strong> northern part <strong>of</strong> the Parish forms a peninsula, which<br />

has the Stour on the north, <strong>and</strong> a small creek on the south<br />

<strong>and</strong> east, <strong>and</strong> is called "<strong>The</strong> Ray." This creek, which passes<br />

* <strong>The</strong> population <strong>of</strong> the Parish is given in the <strong>English</strong> Clergy List <strong>of</strong> 1895, as 1,877.

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