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Cheshire / Re: Possible MIs for William Wickstead in Wrenbury church
« on: Tuesday 28 March 17 10:21 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for looking. I'm a West country man, so not familiar with family history resources for Cheshire. My next move will be to write to the local vicar/churchwardens.

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Somerset / Maria Aust, nee Grist, of Bath and Hemington
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 18:17 BST (UK)  »
I am trying to find out more about my 4x great aunt Maria Grist.
Christened; 2nd October 1803, Hemington, Somerset.
Married; 1st October 1831, St James, Bath, Octavius Aust.
In 1834 she, and her husband, were witnesses at the marriage of my 3x great grandmother Temperance Grist to Robert Moger Fussell at Radstock. But then the trail goes cold.

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Somerset / Re: Bath Union Workhouse Burials
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 18:09 BST (UK)  »
The Bath Ancestors section of Bath Archives website is worth a look. They have several useful databases for the city parishes that can be searched on-line.

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Somerset / Re: Fords chewton mendip
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 18:06 BST (UK)  »
My great grandmother was Eliza Ann Ford, born 1867, Chewton Mendip, daughter of Joseph Robert Ford, christened 2nd June 1835, Chewton Mendip. His father was one Robert Ford, buried 12th November 1838, Chewton Mendip, aged 50. But he, his wife and some of his children also seem to have used the name Smith! I cannot seem to fit him in with the other Chewton Mendip Fords. There is no christening for a Robert Ford, but there is one for a Robert Smyth at about the right time, 8th September 1786, Chewton Mendip. Likewise there is no marriage for a Robert Ford, but there is one for Robert Smith to Hannah Dix, 14th November 1814, Chewton Mendip, witness William Foord. There is also no burial for Robert Smith, only Robert Ford. Can anyone though any light on the name change? Illegitimacy?

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Berkshire / Rev Stephen Wickstead
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 17:47 BST (UK)  »
Does anyone know whether the MIs of Pusey are recorded?
My 6x great uncle  Stephen Wickstead, although Rector of Tellisford in Somerset, served as curate at Pusey. His 1755 PCC will requests burial in the vault at Pusey with his wife Eleanor.
The PR records her burial on3/8/1754 and his on 9/8/1755.
It also records the burial of their son Stephen on 18/4/1779.

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Berkshire / Re: Bear Inn, Castle Street, Reading
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 17:39 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I think that my cousin had probably disposed of the Bear by 1695, but your reference helps put it into context.
I am puzzled as to how a Wiltshire man had acquired this property, both of my 10x great grandfather's wives were also from Wiltshire families around Trowbridge.

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Cheshire / Re: Possible MIs for William Wickstead in Wrenbury church
« on: Sunday 26 March 17 17:36 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I had assumed that they would have been buried in a vault within the church, as requested in the wills. Possibly covered by a ledger stone, or given a mural tablet nearby. In Somerset and Wiltshire, where most of my English ancestors lived, antiquarians recorded many of the MIs within the church, going back several centuries, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.  In several cases the MIs of ancestors mentioned within these accounts failed to survive subsequent "restorations". So I wondered whether anything similar exists for Cheshire.   

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Cheshire / Possible MIs for William Wickstead in Wrenbury church
« on: Saturday 25 March 17 18:53 GMT (UK)  »
Have the MIs for the church at Wrenbury Frith been published?
My 10x great grandfather, William Wickstead, requests burial in the church of Wrenbury Frith in his 1627/8 Cheshire will. The PR records his burial on 13th February 1627/8.
His grandson, another William Wickstead, in turn requested burial in the same church, as close to the body of his wife as possible, in his 1665 Cheshire will. The PR records her burial 14th June 1661 and his on 22nd July 1665.

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Berkshire / Bear Inn, Castle Street, Reading
« on: Saturday 25 March 17 18:39 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find out more about this inn, owned by my x10 grandfather Richard Dicke of Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire. Mentioned in his 1641 Wiltshire IPM;  "one inn in Reading called the Beare."  His 1639 PCC will left his lands and tenements at Reading to his son John Dicke, who lived in nearby Winsley. He in turn bequeathed his tenement known as the Beare in Castle Street, Reading, to his nephew another John Dicke in his 1663 PCC will. Otherwise there is no discernible Berkshire connection, all of his family seem to have lived in the hundred of Bradford on Avon, on the Somerset border near Bath, from at least the 1580s. Any information, or suggestions, would be gratefully received.

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