Hi Elizabeth,

Thank you for your willingness to go over old ground. I was really pleased to find that you were still “on air”.

You have got so much more than I have, on the families than I have, and I just wanted to check a few sources. I think you have Eliza Ann’s family fairly sorted out, but I will run you through that in a later email. You are only missing Eliza Ann Strain who, I think, comes after the twins. Eliza Ann Potter died as the result of birth complications from having my grandfather, Isaiah, so her poor kids were orphans, with an old step-father, who did his best to fill in.

I was wondering how you came to get the parents of both Eliza Drake and Carsten Heinrich Warnecke? I didn’t think that Margaret Dorothy sounded very German, and the record I have found places his birth in Hanover in 1815.

I would also like permission to add your info. to my data base, (with appropriate wording, citing you as the researcher. I have not go a web page, so I won’t be putting it on-line at all.)

I had no idea of the existence of Carsten Henry, so was tickled to have that confusion sorted. (I found his marriage to Elizabeth Currie, and thought it was a second marriage for his father, so went on a wild goose chase, looking for Eliza Drake’s death).

I have Eliza Ann Warnecke’s birth certificate, death cert., and marriage to Isaiah, at least. I can tell you a bit about her families if you are interested, but this will do for a start, as I am not sure if you are researching as a distant cousin, or just doing it for someone else.

Best regards,

Lesley (cousin?)

Found this
Marriages June Quarter 1848
DRAKE Eliza Whitechapel Vol 2 Page 509
WARNECHE Carsten Henrich Whitechapel Vol 2 Page 509