The earliest I've gone back is to my great x 9 grandparents Steven Kemboll and 
Bridget Alcocke born in the 1570s around the Hadleigh area of Suffolk - they married 
there on 30/11/1597. Their great granddaughter Sarah Kembul married John Marven 
of Copdock on 5/11/1696 in Kersey. 
   The Marvens feature for several generations in the ancestry. They were quite 
prominent in the Washbrook / Copdock area at the time. The two oldest sons John and 
George were at Copdock Hall and Amor Hall (Washbrook) respectively, while I am 
descended from a later son, William - of Fen Farm. When his daughter Elizabeth 
married Robert Porter, Marven switched to being a first name in their son - Marven 
Porter. He seems to have been an interesting character. In 1802, at Washbrook, he 
married Elizabeth Hicks, of Hintlesham. Indeed, I think her mother Sarah Timperley 
was of Hintlesham Hall. Her father John was of The Hall, Stratford St. Mary. 
Elizabeth is described as an annuitant when living alone in the 1851 census and as 
Marven's widow at her death a year later. However, as stated, they were living apart. 
There had been a tremendous sale of goods of Marven Porter of Hintlesham made in 
1821. According to the census, he was living with a housekeeper Mary Peggs, but in 
later censuses her children are listed as his, using the compund name Porter Peggs - 
inlcuding the boy, Marven Porter Peggs. 
   (I had traced the Peggs back to George, who married Sarah Turner on 26/12/1740 in 
Monks Eleigh by licence. Their son George married Elizabeth Woods, whose family I 
traced back to Richard Wood, who married Ann Marchant on 20/10/1635 in Kersey.) 
I am descended from Mary Pegg's second child - Amelia Porter Peggs, who lived with 
Thomas Empson Horn, but I found no marriage. This might not have bothered them, 
as they both seem to have been illegitimate. Indeed, Amelia had already had one 
illegitimate child in 1851, presumably by someone called Knights - as the boy was 
called William Knights Peggs. He eventually became a chief officer in the coast 
guard. 
   I have still been unable to find Thomas anywhere in the 1851 census. I also had 
trouble finding him in the 1841 census, eventually finding him, aged 12, in Great 
Yarmouth workhouse. His mother had died at Southwold just a few months earlier of 
consumption. I then traced the Horn family back to about 1730 in Norfolk. I was 
unable to establish the link with the unusual family name Empson. It does, however, 
seem to have originated in Suffolk, with the first mention being a Richard Empson 
there in 1498. It may mean "Emma's son". A Sir Richard Empson was chancellor of 
the Duchy of Lancaster under Henry VII.
   Another name making quite an early appearance in the time line is Pinner - my 
mother's maiden name. There are 9 generations of Pinner in the tree. The earliest I 
found was Robert, born around 1675, possibly in Witnesham. His son George was 
certainly born in Claydon in 1703, where they stayed for quite a few generations. His 
great grandson Jeremiah J. Pinner was born there in 1805 and married there in 1829 to 
the widow Naomi Evans (nee Sheldrick). He had moved to Ipswich by the 41 census 
and was an agricultural labourer, but by 1871 was a fishmonger, which his son 
Jeremiah T. Pinner also became. His son Albert A. Pinner was a shoemaker according 
to the census, but was given as a boatbuilder at the Christening of his son Albert V. 
Pinner. This Albert was in the Royal Artillery before the First World War and was 
gassed in Flanders before being sent to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where he won the 
Military Medal. His daughter Jean is my mother.
   In the late 17th Century we find the first branch that I can get back to outside of
Suffolk - just over the border in Essex. There are a few generations of Burgesses, then
they marry into the Cuttings. In fact, there seem to have been a lot of people in just
a few families who keot intermarrying in this small area, around Great Oakley, ending
up with my the parents of my maternal grandmother being cousins.
   The next name of interest that crops up is Orford, with Edmund in Ipswich in 1713.
His will of 1763 says he's an innholder, including the Buxhall Bear & Crown. His 
grandson Richard married Ann Byles, who was probably part of the Byles family
of Hill House in Ipswich, who were corn merchants. The site of Hill House is now
Alexandra Park and Hillhouse Street. A fountain in the park has an inscription
'erected 1905 by Charles Henry Cowell, alderman, twice mayor, to his mother 
Marianne Byles, born hillhouse 1801'. The Byles's seem to have been prominent 
non-conformists - their graves-stones are in the Tacket Street graveyard. Richard &
Ann's daughter Mary married Henry Roberts.
   Samuel Burrows was born about 1710 and his son Samuel in 1736 in Bromeswell.
But his daughter Elizabeth spelt the name Burroughs when marrying Joseph King in
Woodbridge in 1803.
   It was about this far back that I can get with the Norfolk connection, with
Robert West born about 1712. His daughter Deborah married John Horn in Great Yarmouth
in 1757. He had been born about 1730. That is as far back as I get with my name.
   In 1739 Martha King produced John King, a base son of Thomas Plant, thus starting
a long line of Kings through the Joseph mentioned above and Martha, who also seems to
have prodiued illegitimate children. The father of the eldest, Anna,  was given as 
John Hayward, but later Martha was living with Henry Davis - all 3 children having the
name King. The middle daughter Ellen was given as imbecile on the census, and her son 
Henry DAVIS as dumb.
   By 1752 we are able to find ancestors further afield - Poddington, on Beds. /
Nothants. border. Mary Denton married William Partridge there. His father and son had
the unusual name of Bolt. The Partridge link carries right down to 1899, when Kate,
still born in Poddington, married my great grandfather Henry Gillingham. He was a 
journeyman plumber and had obviously journeyed up from Suffolk and found his bride.
The Gillinghams had been in the Ufford area of Suffolk since about 1783.
   1759 sees the first appearance of the Bowman family with James in Ipswich, which
lasts 3 generations before brother and sister Christopher and Jane marry brother and
sister Jeremiah and Eliza Pinner.
   Similarly, the Roberts appear in Ipswich in 1777 with William and last 3 generations
before Sarah marries Ambrose Robert in 1886.
   Another name that last 3 generations is Brown - William born about 1794 in Ipswich,
with his granddaughter Susan marrying Albert A Pinner in 1881.
   Strangely, there is an entirely separate Horn family in the tree - John born 1790
in Beds., his granddaughter Elizabeth Horn marrying into the Partridges in 1866 (she
was Kate's mother).