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Heraldry Crests and Coats of Arms / Can anyone help with this coat of arms in Baulking Grange
« on: Sunday 09 August 20 19:08 BST (UK)  »
Hello,

Just wondering if anyone can shed some light on this coat of arms found above the door of a house called Baulking Grange in Baulking Berkshire.

Kind regards

John

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Fortescues of Buckland, Berkshire
« on: Thursday 16 May 13 07:41 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Decided to create this as a new topic - as updating up the old Fortescue thread didnt seem to attract any attention as yet?

Anyway - I decided to pull out the Fortescue file again and have another look and see if any new info has popped up re the family in Baulking . . .

Cant seem to find much new on the Internet - however, I had another in depth look at the family from Buckland, and it seems that the original Francis Fortescue from the Baulking line and the original John Fortescue from the Buckland line probably came from the same parents?

I spent some time piecing together the Buckland line (see attached - sorry in advance for the messy scribble) - and the original John Fortescue would have been born in the same period as Francis Fortescue - who we assume was buried in Longworth in 1755.

Longworth is quite close to Buckland - so it makes sense that the original family ties in together somewhere around that area?

Just wondering if someone out there has access to the memorial inscriptions from the local parish church in Buckland - just to see if any of them shed any more light on the family and where they may have come from?

Also - wondering if anyone has any access to any of the older wills of the Buckland Fortescues.  I already have one will - of William Fortescue (snr) who died 1759.

Thanks in advance!

regards,

John


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Berkshire / Thomas Thatcher and Mary Warren - Uffington Berkshire
« on: Friday 24 June 11 03:16 BST (UK)  »
Hi Everyone,

Its been a while since I last posted - I was hoping that someone may be able to assist with some erasearch I am doing on my Thatcher line in Uffington, Berkshire.

We (actually it was John Little - a local historian) have traced the line back to Thomas Thatcher who married Mary Warren on 18 Feb 1740 in Shillingford, Berkshire.

They were buried at the Uffington Cemetary:

"Near this place lieth the body of Thomas Thatcher who departed this life Nov 19 1802 in the 90th year of his age.  Also Mary wife of Thomas Thatcher who departed this life April 27 1789 in the 78th year of her age"

So that gives us some useful information to estimate the birth dates.

However - for Thomas - there are a couple of options:

Thomas THATCHER Gender: M Christening: 15 Mar 1713 Longworth, Berkshire, England Father: Richard

Thomas THATCHER Gender: M Christening: 6 Oct 1717 Sparsholt, Berkshire, England Father: Thomas, Mother: Elizabeth

Nothing listed in Uffington parish records.


Sparsholt is the closer of the towns to Uffington, however the Thomas from Longworth matches his calculated birth date much closer - (1712).  However Longworth is quite a distance to the North of Uffington and doesn't seem likely that he would have came from there and met his wife who was from Longcot.

Also - the Sparsholt Thomas is the son of a Thomas and Elizabeth, which matches the names of his children nicely, while the Longworth Thomas is the son of a Richard, (and he doesn't have a son named Richard)


Seems like the best fit is still the Thomas Thatcher born in Sparsholt in 1717 - but need something to prove the link.

Does anyone have access to the indexes of wills in Berkshire?

Also - may be some info in the Land holding / voter poll records if anyone can help?

regards,

John







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Berkshire / Fortescue Baulking Grange
« on: Tuesday 12 January 10 23:26 GMT (UK)  »
Hello,

I am tracing a line of Fortescues of "Baulking Grange" (near Uffington) - previously known as "Costars Farm". The first Fortescue (Francis) appears to have moved there in the early 1700's, had a son (Francis) in 1709, and died in 1769.

The Fortescues lived there until the 1880s.

I am trying to find out where this origional Francis Fortescue came from so I can tie my line into the main Fortescue tree.

Any ideas or suggestions greatfully appreciated!

cheers,

John

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