How did Baskerville get his name?

[philheeks]

Thats a hell of a coinsidence as I was in Baskerville house when I went to school at Kidderminster WOR & I wonder if its worth googleing the name to see if it throws up any links - try putting in Baskerville Kidderminster

Good hunting

All the very best

Phil
Weston-super-Mare

ps Baskerville in this case was a surname

[bibliotaphist]

Thanks Phil; I'm guessing that your Baskerville house was named after this guy?

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagename=SystemAdmin%2FCFPageLayout&cid=1223096352116&packedargs=website%3D4&pagename=BCC%2FCommon%2FWrapper%2FCFWrapper&rendermode=live

There are 80+ miles between Wolverley/Kidderminster and Stadhampton Oxon so no obvious connection atm... I'm guessing that if I can get back a generation or two I'm going to find a Baskerville.

[philheeks]

Thats right & I clean forgot to mention the name of the school (no longer in existance) it was
Sladen C of E school, Hurcot Rd, Kidderminster, WOR

All the very best

Phil

[bibliotaphist]

Revisiting some of my old, open RC posts to see if I can move any of them on a bit.

One thing I hadn't noticed about "Baskerville" was how rare the name is/was as a forename.

There are 162 birth registrations on FreeBMD with Baskerville as a middle name.

But:

There are only 2 birth registrations in total with Baskerville as a first name:

• One is Baskerville Simms Bowden's son of the same name (1887-1946);
• The other is Baskerville Simms AUSTIN who I believe is B. S. Bowden's nephew (1902-1908)

Who know it was effectively a unique forename? Only three people have had it in England/Wales, and the younger two were named after the first.

Still no sign of a birth or baptism for the elder B. S. Bowden (abt 1852-1932).

For the record there are also 2 birth registrations for "Baskervyle"; there might be other spellings I haven't thought of.

[bibliotaphist]

Baskerville Simms Bowden's baptism is in the new Oxfordshire FHS "Oxfordshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1915" collection on Ancestry.

Baptised 9 Apr 1854, Stadhampton, parents James and Eliza.

[Raybistre]

Hi,
Regarding a birth registration there is this 'Births Dec 1853 BOWDEN Male   Thame 3a   441' courtesy of FreeBMD.
Right sort of area, right sort of time.
Ray

[bibliotaphist]

Hi,
Regarding a birth registration there is this 'Births Dec 1853 BOWDEN Male   Thame 3a   441' courtesy of FreeBMD.
Right sort of area, right sort of time.
Ray

Thank you Ray - I hadn't spotted that one, that's a good possibility.