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Re: Who was Beaufoy?
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 15 August 06 00:15 BST (UK) »
Thank you JK

It is really appreciated to receive feedback.   Glad the outcome was so favourable.

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Re: Who was Beaufoy?
« Reply #16 on: Thursday 17 August 06 11:35 BST (UK) »
Quote from: colinsorigins on Thursday 03 August 06 10:24 BST (UK)
I think Bob may be correct on this occassion but we shall never know.   Unfortunately we are dealing with a transcript, and we cannot be certain of what was in the original record.   A few years previously the transcript also gives the date of birth.   We do not know whether the date of birth was no longer included in the parish register or whether the transcriber ceased including the information.

{This is a great frustration with Henley parish registers.   LDS has the transcript available on film, but, because OFHS has the transcript for sale, the film is not available in Family History Centres.   But what is worse, is that much of the valuable information in the original documents is not freely available because LDS has not filmed the original registers, presumably because this might interfer with sale of transcripts by OFHS.   The information given in a transript may be adequate for the purposes of LDS members but it is often only a pointer for people trying research and understand their family tree}

Sorry about the rant at the end, but this arrangement between OFHS and LDS is a great frustation in many of the Oxford parishes.
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Re: Who was Beaufoy?
« Reply #17 on: Thursday 17 August 06 12:09 BST (UK) »
Quote from: colinsorigins on Thursday 03 August 06 10:24 BST (UK)
{This is a great frustration with Henley parish registers.   LDS has the transcript available on film, but, because OFHS has the transcript for sale, the film is not available in Family History Centres.   But what is worse, is that much of the valuable information in the original documents is not freely available because LDS has not filmed the original registers, presumably because this might interfer with sale of transcripts by OFHS.   The information given in a transcript may be adequate for the purposes of LDS members but it is often only a pointer for people trying research and understand their family tree}

Sorry about the rant at the end, but this arrangement between OFHS and LDS is a great frustration in many of the Oxford parishes.

Whoops - hit the post button too soon! Sorry.

I think a little clarification is in order.

The PRs for most Oxfordshire parishes have not been filmed by the LDS because the Archdeaconry of Oxford has decided not the allow their registers to be filmed.  Their reasons are to do with the use the LDS put them to and their inherent doctrinal differences.  This has nothing to do with OFHS.

A great many of the PRs have been transcribed by OFHS and others and are published on fiche (many also on CD) by OFHS.  Without OFHS's efforts in this direction we would be in a far worse situation than at present.  They may have asserted their right to not allow the LDS to copy these for use in their FHC system. However, as the LDS don't seem to copy any commercial sources in this way I suspect it is simply LDS policy not to do so (but they may have asked and been denied permission by OFHS).

I can only assume that the LDS have decided not to purchase multiple copies for use in their distribution system (again I suspect that this is a general rule and not specific to Oxon transcripts). I am sure that visitors to the library in Salt Lake City will find them available there (I'm told it is genealogist's heaven and well worth the visit).

If you want information from these sources the simplest solution is to ask for a lookup on the Oxfordshire Rootsweb list. Members of OFHS are extremely helpful, there is almost certainly a subscriber to that list who will have the fiche or CD to hand.

If you do want to see the originals you will still have to go to the Oxfordshire Record Office in Cowley. Its a nice place to visit - but you will be faced with shelves of the published transcripts.  However, they will get out the originals unless they are too fragile to be used and they are happy for you to photograph them yourself (no flash) and make no charge for this privilege.
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Re: Who was Beaufoy?
« Reply #18 on: Monday 10 December 07 22:40 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: colinsorigins on Thursday 03 August 06 01:33 BST (UK)
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June 11 1854 at Holy Trinity, Thomas William Thorp, labourer, father Thomas labourer, married Beaufoy Whittick, father dead  -  witnesses George Whittick and Sarah Soundy.
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Interesting string - one mystery solved but another one remains.  Sarah Soundy who wittnessed the above marriage was born Sarah Whittick. She married Peter Soundy in Henley on 25th December 1847 (my husband is a direct descendant of this couple). Sarah's  father's name was not given in parish register.  According to census information, she would have been born around 1821 in Henley.  Is there a link between Sarah and this Whittick family? I have not found her baptism record yet.  If the other wittness is Beaufoy's brother, could Sarah belong to the same family?

Pirkko Soundy
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