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Topic: Major New Oxfordshire FHS Online Resource: Transcribed Wills (Read 1215 times)
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Iffley
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Oxfordshire Family History Society is pleased to announce a major new
project - one in which I envisage many Oxfordshire RootsChat members
will be excited to participate.
Linked from the home page at www.ofhs.org.uk is an embryonic library of
Wills and Related Documents related to Oxfordshire.
There are about 500 documents there already, with an index allowing the
library to be accessed either by Testator name or, more generally, by all
the names mentioned in all the documents.
The library has the potential of having a significant number of Oxfordshire
wills deposited, resulting in the possibility of visitors to the library
finding names of interest to themselves in the indexes - maybe a transcript
of direct relevance - or maybe a person of interest appearing as a
beneficiary in a will.
There is an article in the forthcoming Oxfordshire FHS journal giving more
detail of the project. More donations of will transcripts are very much
welcomed - they will be formatted as required. We will be pleased to
receive submissions from both members and non-members of the Society -
whilst hoping some non-members might like to become members!
The project was conceived by OFHS member, Dave Beames,
to whom the Society is very grateful for his initiative and time given to
the project. Dave is pleased to receive submissions - see the web pages for
further details.
Wendy
Chairman, Oxfordshire FHS.
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snowsell
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This is an excellent and very generous site - on my first visit yesterday I found the answer to an obscure marriage via the surnames Baughan/Boffin. I had no idea Baughan was a variation of the name Boffin and vice versa!
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snowsell
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Thank you very much for that Wendy - kind regards, Jill
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julie64
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Gt-gt-grandmother Elizabeth Nelson 1847- 1936
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Hi Everybody
I too found this resource fascinating but was disappointed not to find anything relavant to my own family tree.
I have a Charles Brooks, gunsmith from Witney, who died circa 1830-40
John Nelson, stonemason from Banbury, who died circa 1845-1850
William Riley, mill/wheelwright from Neithrop, who died circa 1841-1851
and various Pinfolds, blacksmiths from Banbury.
Would these occupations not have been particularly lucrative and therefore not require the business owners to leave wills? I had always assumed there would be wills ... if only I knew where to look!
Regards, Julie
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WHERE ARE YOU BEFORE 1851 TAMAR LITTLER?! Staffs (Audley) Shrops (Market Drayton) Lancs(Golborne, Ashton in Makerfield) Oxfordshire (Banbury, Neithrop, Gt Tew, Witney) Monmouthshire (Abergavenny) Lancs/Ireland: Armstrong Aspinall Billingham Burchall Burke Doyle Littler Wareing Ox: Brookes Nelson Pinfold Riley Staffs/Shrops/Cheshire: Beeston Bull Durber Gater Massey Walker Abergavenny: Cobner Williams Any census information in this post is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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julie64
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Gt-gt-grandmother Elizabeth Nelson 1847- 1936
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Thanks Newburychap
As I live in Yorkshire a visit to Oxfordshire Record Office is not an option for me - I'd be grateful for any advice you could offer as to how I could go about obtaining this document, for example, is there a way to email or telephone to ask for a copy to be posted? Sorry for my ignorance but I haven't looked into obtaining wills before.
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Julie
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WHERE ARE YOU BEFORE 1851 TAMAR LITTLER?! Staffs (Audley) Shrops (Market Drayton) Lancs(Golborne, Ashton in Makerfield) Oxfordshire (Banbury, Neithrop, Gt Tew, Witney) Monmouthshire (Abergavenny) Lancs/Ireland: Armstrong Aspinall Billingham Burchall Burke Doyle Littler Wareing Ox: Brookes Nelson Pinfold Riley Staffs/Shrops/Cheshire: Beeston Bull Durber Gater Massey Walker Abergavenny: Cobner Williams Any census information in this post is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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julie64
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Gt-gt-grandmother Elizabeth Nelson 1847- 1936
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Thanks Jill
I'll get on to that right away!
Regards
Julie
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WHERE ARE YOU BEFORE 1851 TAMAR LITTLER?! Staffs (Audley) Shrops (Market Drayton) Lancs(Golborne, Ashton in Makerfield) Oxfordshire (Banbury, Neithrop, Gt Tew, Witney) Monmouthshire (Abergavenny) Lancs/Ireland: Armstrong Aspinall Billingham Burchall Burke Doyle Littler Wareing Ox: Brookes Nelson Pinfold Riley Staffs/Shrops/Cheshire: Beeston Bull Durber Gater Massey Walker Abergavenny: Cobner Williams Any census information in this post is Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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