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Buckinghamshire Lookup Requests / Jane/Jenny FREE, baptism lookup
« on: Tuesday 05 January 21 16:10 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

Just a quick one here - would anyone be able to double check the PRs for the baptism of Jane/Jenny FREE? I believe I've found her baptism on FindMyPast (under the name Jenny, in 1772, in Great Hampden, to John Free of Speen), but I just want to check there are no others.

Re her name - at the time, Jenny was a diminutive of Jane, not Jennifer. She married (in 1791) under the name Jane, but when she baptised my ancestor Elizabeth Turner in Princes Risborough c. 1801, she was recorded as Jenny.

Thanks

Martin

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Kent / Parents of John WELLER, born Sandhurst area c. 1805
« on: Saturday 02 January 21 17:32 GMT (UK)  »
Happy New Year, everyone.

I haven't put this in lookup requests as it's not technically a lookup - I'm just interested in other people's opinions about a family I'm descended from.

My ancestor John WELLER was born in the Sandhurst area in about 1805, apparently to a Thomas and an Elizabeth (I have found a corresponding baptism in Hawkhurst, a neighbouring parish). According to the tree here (http://family-tree-russell.co.uk/TB.htm), John was one of six children born between 1787 and 1809.

However...I'm a bit suspicious about this as the first three children (all girls) were baptised as nonconformists (as far as I can tell, in Sandhurst), and there's a suspicious eight-year gap between the last of these three and the first of the other three...who were not baptised as non-conformists. To me, this looks a bit like someone's combined two separate families. Plus, in 1796 (right in the middle of that eight-year gap) a Thomas Weller who was a nonconformist was buried at Rye (in Sussex but only a few miles down the road.

So, it looks like there may be two separate Thomas and Elizabeth Wellers. However, there are problems:

I can only find a marriage in the right area (on FindMyPast) for one couple, Thomas Weller and Elizabeth MAYNARD, in Sandhurst on 13 June 1788.
2. The Thomas who died in 1796 was born in 1769, meaning that if he was the father of the three girls, Elizabeth, Katharine and Abigail, he was pretty young - only 18 (not impossible, but in my experience young even for those days).

Is there anything I might have overlooked?

Thanks

Martin

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Hello folks,

This is going to look like it should be in the Oxfordshire lookup requests, but please bear with me.
I have an ancestor, Damaris KING, whose origins I am researching. Damaris, not a common name, so you'd think it'd be fairly easy...

...err, no – there appear to be two of them, both from eastern Oxfordshire (along the border with Bucks). One was baptised in Chinnor in 1671 to Thomas, son of Richard (mother presumed to be Margaret BIGG), the other in South Weston in 1676 to Thomas and Elizabeth. One of them married my ancestor Thomas NEWELL by licence in Hughenden in 1704. One of them also posted a marriage bond in Henton (near Chinnor) in 1698 naming their spouse as a Thomas CARY of Bledlow. Perhaps both marriages were to the same Damaris.

This is what I'm trying to work out, as the more I can find out the better chance I have of working out which Damaris is my ancestor. Oxfordshire FHS can't find any record of a burial for a Thomas CARY in the 1698-1704 date range, so I'm wondering if he did die, whether he was buried in Bucks. Or, alternatively, if he didn't, where he and his Damaris baptised any children (I'm hoping any children's names might give a clue who this Damaris's parents were, and, therefore, allow me to work out which Damaris is mine by eliminating one set of parents).

To this end, would somebody be able to look up the following:

    Burials for a Thomas CARY (including variations) between 1698 and c. 1770?
    Burials for a Damaris CARY (including variations) between 1698 and c. 1770?
    Baptisms of children with the surname CARY (inc. var.) between 1698 and 1730?

Thanks in anticipation

Martin

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Oxfordshire Lookup Requests / Baptism of Damaris KING, c. 1680
« on: Tuesday 06 October 20 23:19 BST (UK)  »
Hello

Would anyone with access to the Oxfordshire parish records be able to search for the baptism of my 7x great-grandmother Damaris KING? When she married my 7x great-grandfather Thomas NEWELL in Hughenden, Bucks in 1704 she was said to be "of Chinnor", but I've no idea if that's where she was baptised. Neither Ancestry nor FindMyPast come up with any baptisms for someone of that name near Chinnor (there is one in 1676 in Weston (possibly Weston-on-the-Green), but this seems a bit too far away from Chinnor), only marriages.

Thanks in anticipation,

Martin

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Buckinghamshire / FARMBOROUGH* of Stone/Hartwell & NEWENS* of (perhaps) Cheddington
« on: Wednesday 22 April 20 16:51 BST (UK)  »
Hello folks

This isn't really a lookup, otherwise I'd have posted it in the lookups section - I'm just wondering if anyone else is researching these families. It looks like I'm descended from both of them via the daughter (Ann NUNES) of a John NEWNS of Monks Risborough and a Mary FAMBEROUGH of Great Kimble who married in Hughenden in 1734. If correct, my descent looks like this:

Me
|
My dad
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Kathleen Ridgley (1919-2000)
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Charlie Ridgley (1884-1967)
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George Ridgley (1839-1919)
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Elizabeth Turner (1800-1865)
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Jane Bignal (1769-possibly 1806, but cannot find a burial; may have died in childbirth)**
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Ann Nunes (1741-?)
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John Newens (1711?-1793) & Mary Farmborough (1713-1770)

There is a baptism for a John NEWENS in Cheddington in 1711 to a James and a Mary (whose marriage I cannot find), but the John who married Mary F seems to have spent the majority of his life in and around Monks Risborough. That said, the surname does seem to be quite rare and Cheddington is "only" ten miles as the crow flies from Monks Risborough, but I'm struggling to see a mechanism whereby he would move from one side of the county to the other.

I think it's good to be sceptical when researching your family tree and testing theories as far as possible, but am I being too sceptical, I wonder?

I expect this post will disappear into the ether, ne'er to be seen again but if not...I'd love to hear from anyone else researching these families.

Martin

*These seem to be the most common spellings I've seen.

**Elizabeth's 1800 baptism record (in Princes Risborough, since I gather there was no church at Speen at the time) list her mother as Jenny, but apparently Jenny was the diminutive of Jane In those days...Jenny as a diminutive of Jennifer seems to have come in in the 20th century).

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The Common Room / FindMyPast: is it worth subscribing?
« on: Thursday 27 February 20 20:54 GMT (UK)  »
Evening all,

Whenever I post a parish record lookup request on here, I often find that many respondents get a lot of their info from FindMyPast. Is FindMyPast's parish records collection more comprehensive than Ancestry's, or am I just not using Ancestry correctly?

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Martin

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Hello,

This is a long shot and I may be barking up completely the wrong tree here, but I have to start somewhere...

My ancestor Joseph NEVILLE married Elizabeth WOODS in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, in 1809. Their three children, Mary Ann (my ancestor), William and Ann were also baptised in Rickmansworth (in 1811, 1813 and 1815), but Mary Ann and Ann married in Harefield, Middlesex. (I cannot as yet find a marriage for William, but someone of that name was sentenced to be transported to Australia in 1837, which may be why I can't find one).

FindMyPast (I don't have a subscription) doesn't seem to have a baptism for a Joseph Neville (I'm searching the twenty years either side of 1785) in Hertfordshire, so I'm wondering if there is some kind of family link to Harefield (it seems that Ann, their youngest, was born in Middlesex). If he was from Middlesex, however, I can't seem to find a baptism. Is there something I might be overlooking or somewhere else I can search?

Martin

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / More mystery words...
« on: Monday 09 December 19 20:14 GMT (UK)  »
Evening all

I've been transcribing a few more ancestors' wills (from the same family), and have a few more words I don't know what to make of. Here are the first four:

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Four mystery words
« on: Friday 29 November 19 16:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I've been transcribing an ancestor's will but am stuck on four words. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in anticipation,

Martin


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