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behindthefrogs
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Has anyone any ideas on this one?
According to a tree which I was recently sent William Major was the son of David Major born around 1820 in Litle Woolstone. David Major married Sarah Ray in 1824 and they had two known children Levi born c 1826 and Mary born c 1827. David subsequently married Mary Ann Perry in 1867.
The only other trace that I have found of Willam is in 1881 when he is a tramp and brickmaker living in Cosgrove Lodging House in Cosgrove Northamptonshire. He is married but there is no sign of a wife.
My problem is to find any evidence that William is David's son. I haven't done a very serious search of earlier census.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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behindthefrogs
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Thank you jamjo.
I know a lot about the William born in 1826. He is not the one I am looking for. He is the one who died in 1900. He is potentially the second cousin of the one that I am looking for.
Wozzle's find looks like the right one. Once again there appears to be a missing wife. I need to look closer at the Eliza living with him and her children.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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1871
RG10/1419/61/21.
william major age 51. b. woolston. occ. agr.lab. lodger.(mar)
eliza major age 31. b. eskley,bucks. lodger.
mary.a.major age 10. b. ditto. lodger.(daughter of eliza)
sarah major age 6. b. newport pagnell,bucks. lodger(daughter of eliza).
thomas major age 4. b. ditto. lodger(son of eliza)
living at a lodging inn in silver street,newport pagnell.
proprietor ;william-phoebe garrett.
reg.dist. newport pagnell.
would imagine that eliza is his wife though it does'nt state that.
I can't work out where Eskley might be. There is a marriage of a William to Eliza Tribbs in 1864 in Buckingham but that is too early for Mary's birth. Going outside Buckinghamshire there are possible marriages of a William to an Eliza in Daventry and Wooburn which have more likely dates. Knowing where Eskley was would perhaps point at one of these.
William doesn't seem to wander very far. Little Woolstone, Newport Pagnell and Cosgrove are all fairly close together. Neither Eliza nor any of the children exist elsewhere on my fairly extensive Major tree which is mainly in this area.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Thank you again Wozzle.
You have just expanded another branch of the family. John Major c 1819 was the first cousin of William 1826 and married Harriett Herbert Q1 1842. Harriett died Q4 1846.
Do you have any ideas about Eskley? I am sure it must be a mistranscription but of what? I know the area fairly well as all four of my grandparents were born and died in what is now Milton Keynes.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Hi all.......
Well from another in MK...... How about Eakley. It is near Stoke Goldington as Eakley Lanes. If you look on the original thats what I see.
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Liscoe -all Green/Simpson/Underwood-Beds Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks. Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London Rewallin/Underwood -Devon Casbolt-London/Cambridge Favell/Favel - Lincs-Beds This information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Thank you for identifying Eakley. Unfortunately it doesn't lead any nearer to a possible marriage of Eliiza to William which is what I was looking for.
It is a marriage which I need because my main problem is identifying who was William's father.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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David .....
Next time I get to the library I will look in the PR's for William .
Wonder if he married in Woburn 1859?
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Liscoe -all Green/Simpson/Underwood-Beds Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks. Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London Rewallin/Underwood -Devon Casbolt-London/Cambridge Favell/Favel - Lincs-Beds This information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Thank you Tazzie
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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