Hello, do you know where Frederick was born? There is this family on the 1851 census: -

HARVEY, Frederick Copland Head Married M 33 1818 Brewers Clerk born Wymondham, Norfolk
HARVEY, Ann Wife Married F 31 1820 born Ireland
******HARVEY, Frederick John Son M 6 1845 Scholar born St Georges, Middlesex ****
HARVEY, Thomas Owen Son M 4 1847 Scholar born St Georges, Middlesex
HARVEY, Ame Cathr Daughter F 2 1849 born St Georges, Middlesex
HARVEY, Edward Robe Son M 0 (4 MOS) 1851 born St Georges, Middlesex
BORKWOOD, Marshall Visitor Married M 24 1827 Mariner born Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
BORKWOOD, Mary A Visitor Married F 26 1825 born Limehouse, Middlesex

Ref: H0107, piece 1548 folio 23 page 38.

What are the names of his children? Do they link in any way with his parents/ siblings?

best wishes

Maria

P.S. If this is the right family Frederick Coplan Harvey married Ann Keavan in London City in 1841 - Dec qtr 1841 volume 2 page 72.

I am not sure how to use that reference number or the census details you gave me. I am new to this as I already had a lot of information given to me I havent had to research a lot.

Betsy May Harvey (1886-1062) married George Rogers in 1904
if you know George's birth date or his parents I could find out a lot more for you

George Rogers DOB is 1873. He is the son of George John Rogers b.1850 d. 1937 and Ann Elizabeth Burnett b. 1847 d. 1923

The children of Frederick John Harvey and Fanny Jane Kenning are:

William Frederick James
Charles
Betsy May
Thomas Henry
Emma Fanny
Ellen Lavinia
Fred
Percy
Maud

Thomas Henry married Betsy May (Betsy is Thomas's niece).

Any help would be much appreciated.

His parents were William Harvey & Betsy Gowan who married on 20 May 1839 atLakenham, Norfolk, England.

William born 1819 in Norwich, Norfolk, England and died 15 May 1890 at Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand he was buried on 16 May 1890 at Feilding Cemetery, Feilding, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand (Sub/Block: 3 Row 5 Plot Number:12).

Betsy was christened on 21 July 1816 at Heveningham,Suffolk,England and died on 10 April 1878 in Nelson, New Zealand. She was buried on 14 April 1878 at Wakapuaka Cemetery, Wakapuaka, Nelson, New Zealand (Area COE, Plot 089 Block:06)

If I can help a little it will be with the mother of Frederick Harvey, which I note was Betsy Gowan. I have been researching a little on the previous occupants of the house in which I live which is called The Old Post Office, Heveningham, Suffolk, England. The house was built about 1540. We have lived here since June 1983 and prior to that my parents had the property as Heveningham Post Office Stores (1976-1983). Over the centuries the village shop was known as the Grocers & Drapers and the earliest occupant I have been able to trace was John Gowen, who must have been the father of Betsy. There is a record in The London Gazette publication of 1816 which indicates that in February 1815 John Gowen, a grocer and draper of Heveningham was declared a bankrupt. I picked up Betsy's details from a Rotsweb entry submitted by a Sue Pinkney, also of NZ, indicated that Betsy had a brother, Thomas Gowin (stet) who was born in Heveningham and baptised here on 14 April 1814. She also had a sister, Ellenor. Suffice to say that Betsy Gowen once lived in the same rooms we now occupy. Regards, Allan Barnes