I am trying to piece together the Porter family. There is a George Hunter Porter buried at St Michaels in Braintree along side his Brother Arthur and his 2 sisters Fanny and Jane. They are the only legible stones on the site (I have photos if you would like them). I know it was customary to use your middle name for the first name of your son and with Hyem being such a rare name and with Colchester so close, my thought is that maybe John Porter is Hyem Porters father. I have managed to collate a reasonable amount of info about Hyem Porter, including his job, where he lived, when and when he was born and died, his brothers, his wife, even that he attended a reading of the Merchant of Venice at the Lecture hall of the Braintree and Bocking Mechanics Institute on the 30th May 1879, read by a Miss Rose Seaton, but I haven't found where he is buried or where his parents are or who they were.