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Herefordshire / Herefordshire Parish Records Online?
« on: Thursday 23 January 20 08:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all,

Just a quick question. Since I now live out of the country, I was just wondering if anyone was aware of any plans to digitise the Herefordshire Parish Records in the future.

It seems I was blessed with a couple of years where they came thick and fast (Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire/Warwickshire etc) but places like Herefordshire and Worcestershire don't seem to be making any noises at all.

Does anybody have information to the contrary?

Chris

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The Common Room / John Westmacott, Royal Army Staff Corps
« on: Sunday 02 December 18 15:07 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, I hope you're having a nice Sunday.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on this one. It's a bit of a punt, but I have a John Westmacott on my tree who was born in Willersey, Gloucestershire c1787-1789, and I can't find any other information on him beyond this.

However, I did stumble across a grave of a Captain John Westmacott in Canada, and then further found his obituary and a couple of army records. This John Westmacott is recorded as being born in 1788 in England. That's as much as I know, apart from that he was involved in the Peninsula Wars in the Staff Corps. I'm wondering if anyone can think of where to look to perhaps find records that might either confirm or reject him as being the one I'm looking for.

Many thanks!

Chris

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Oxfordshire / Marriage Licence Lookup
« on: Saturday 17 November 18 20:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, I hope you're well.

I'm very unlikely to be able to get to Oxfordshire Record Office for some considerable time.

Could anyone who's going sometime do me a huge favour and try to find the marriage licence for a Matthew Townsend and Hannah Bourton, married at Bloxham the 29th November 1747.

If a copy has survived and it says "licence paid for by Robert Townsend of Hook Norton" it will go a long way towards knocking down an extremely long-standing brick wall.

Many thanks if anyone can do this for me!

Chris

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The Common Room / Can't find in 1861 census Davis, Chadlington Oxfordshire
« on: Thursday 28 December 17 13:04 GMT (UK)  »
Hi all, I hope you had a splendid Christmas,

I'd given up on this search a while ago, but I've decided that maybe I'd reach out to anyone who fancies a challenge.

John and Hannah Davis (Hannah née Townsend, previously Costins) and family - I can't find them anywhere on the 1861 census. Here are the records I have for them at the moment:

1851, Sarsgrove Lodge, Churchill, Oxfordshire
John, 48, Ag Lab, Churchill, Oxfordshire
Hannah, 44, Chadlington, Oxfordshire
William, 12, Scholar, Chadlington, Oxfordshire
Caroline, 10, Scholar, Chadlington, Oxfordshire
Emma, 7, Chadlington, Oxfordshire
Mary, 5, Churchill, Oxfordshire
Thomas, 3, Churchill, Oxfordshire
Sarah, 5 mo, Churchill, Oxfordshire

1861:
Caroline found in Chadlington with uncle Thomas Townsend
Emma found on Iffley Road, Oxford working as a house servant
Mary found on New Street, Chipping Norton working as house servant
Thomas found boarding at a school on Church Street, Charlbury

John, Hannah, William, and Sarah unfound.

1871
Hannah reappears as a widow and a house servant in Stonesfield
William has married but is found in Yorkshire away from his family at the time of the census.
All other family members accounted for.

The most logical explanation is that John died and that this resulted in the family spreading out, and ending up in different places. However, I can't find an obvious death in the index for John - certainly not one that matches up age wise (although the index/record could be incorrect). I also can't find any obvious death or marriage for Sarah, but I can't find any trace of her apart from her brief showing in 1851.

Basically, if anyone fancies a challenge, I'd like to know where John, Hannah and Sarah were in 1861...

Happy New Year and thanks in advance for any help!

Chris





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The Common Room / Act Books
« on: Thursday 30 March 17 14:00 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,

Question on Archdeaconry Act Books - do these archives often have an index, either as part of the record or compiled by a FHS, or if one were to search them would it be a case of just trawling through everything on the off-chance that an ancestor features?

Many thanks in advance,

Chris

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Hi All,

Here's a quick one for you. I'm trying to establish the name of the witness for a marriage record. Can anybody tell me what they think this says in the attachment...?

Regards,

Chris

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The Common Room / William Empson (1854 - ????)
« on: Monday 12 December 16 13:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

I'm looking to find out what became of William Empson, born in 1854 in Leafield, Oxfordshire, and his son, William John Empson, (b. 1876 Chilson, Oxfordshire).

William snr was born to John Empson and Harriet Siford. He appears with his parents in 1861 and 1871 in Leafield. In 1875 he married Fanny Bishop at Shorthampton, Oxfordshire.

It appears Fanny died in 1879. In 1881 their only son William John is found with his grandparents, John and Mary Bishop, and again in 1891. In 1901 he is found as a boarder with some distant relatives in Tipton, Staffordshire, and then in 1911 he is found at Bruern Abbey working as a groom.

I can't find William snr in any further census, and neither can I find a death record for him. I can't find a criminal conviction, I can't find him on a passenger list anywhere, nor can I find him in any Scottish, Irish, Canadian, Australian or US records. He does not appear to have a military record. He doesn't appear in any newspaper articles that are currently searchable at the British Newspaper Archive.

Put bluntly, I have no idea what happened to this man.

As for his son, I can't find any likely death record for him either, nor find him in the 1939 Register.

Any help in working out what happened to William or his son would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Chris

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The Common Room / Amelia Hagren's Parents?
« on: Wednesday 16 November 16 15:04 GMT (UK)  »
Good afternoon all.

I'm trying to find out about Edward and Jane Susanna Hagrean (I have no idea how this should be pronounced and by all accounts there seems to exist a variety of spellings). They are listed as the parents of Amelia Hagrean, baptised at Marylebone 14.11.1819, born 16.4.1814.

That's literally all the information I have about these two. I can't find a marriage record, I can't find a burial for either of them. There is an Edward who appears in the Marylebone registers some years earlier, married to an Elizabeth. I can't find a burial for Elizabeth to suggest that she could have died and Edward remarried.

As for Amelia, she married Richard Salter in 1831 and died in 1858. The witnesses on her marriage record provide no clues.

Any help appreciated!

Chris

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The Common Room / Sarah Holyoake (c1809 - 1891)
« on: Monday 14 November 16 11:40 GMT (UK)  »
Hi All,

I'm trying to find out more about the family of Sarah Holyoake. Basically I have a problem:

Sarah Holyoake is my 4x Great Grandmother. She married John Townsend at Saint Aldate's Church, Oxford on the 26 July 1831. Throughout the censuses that follow she is recorded as having been born 1809-1810, in Oxford. So I found a baptism for a Sarah Holyoake...to a George and Sarah Holyoake...in Saint Aldate's Church...in 1809...

...but a month later there is a burial record for a Sarah, daughter of George and Sarah Holyoake.

I cannot find another Sarah Holyoake born around that time in Oxford.

In 1861 a visitor appears in the Townsend household, named Sarah J Holyhock, aged 29. Thinking this to be far too much of a coincidence I looked for a baptism and found a baptism for Sarah Jane Holyoake in Henley in 1831 to a John and Jane Holyoake. John and Jane it appears married in Watlington in 1829. I can only find two baptisms for a John Holyoake in Oxfordshire that would be of an age appropriate for this marriage. One is in Banbury 1797 to a John and Elizabeth. The other is in 1794... to George and Sarah Holyoake in Oxford.

If anyone can help me work out who Sarah Holyoake's parents were based on this mish-mash of information, I'd really appreciate the help.

Regards,

Chris

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