My name is Brian Horridge and I first started researching my family history about 25 years ago knowing little other than my parents and grandparents were from the East End of London. My first steps were to work through the heavy GRO Birth index books at St Catherine's House recording every Horridge entry up to 1901. I very soon realised that there were very few in the London area and after then restricted my Horridge research to London and Essex.
When I reached the proverbial "€œbrick wall"€ with my London Horridge ancestry I started researching my other ancestral lines but have now got stuck with some of these. Having become more experienced along the way, I'€™ve now decided to undertake a full One Name Study in the hope that I may be able to knock a hole in the wall (if not demolish it completely).
A lot of my London Horridges were Lightermen in the various London docks and on the Thames in general. Their apprenticeship records have helped greatly in getting exact dates etc.