Hello,
I am sorry I have not been able to reply sooner but I would like to pass on my thanks and gratitude to all of you gave up your time to help me, provide search ideas and to check and verify records.
Emeltom - thank you the dod fits well with John and the reg District for Shipton is Woodstock. Thanks also for listing the family from the census and for confirming Sarah Needle with the registration of Fanny.
Rena - thanks for this idea I hadn't thought of labour coming in to work on the canal. It was finished in 1790 so would tie in with new arrivals. Thanks also for the history of the name.
Katherine - thanks for the research ideas, they will be helpful in my searches. I couldn't find anything for Jacob and Mary on census docs or births of others.
Wivenhoe - sorry I didn't see your message earlier to list them.
Carol - thanks for the 1841 census data and for confirming Sarah's lifespan. Much appreciated.
Galium - thank you for looking at the original record, ancestry had only the transcription. Is there a website where you can look at baptism record documents please as this would be really handy for some other people I am looking for.
It made no sense as to why John would be born in Drayton and then travel to the other side of Oxford to Islip to be baptised, Islip is not by a canal. Interestingly Islip is 10 mins away from Bletchingdon where he got married but as they are Stops this rules them out.
Your suggestion that John's mum could be Kesia Hoops fits really well, around here the pronunciation of 'o' is 'oo' making Hope sound like Hoop. Also Kesia seems like an unusual name, it seemed to run in the family, John and John's sons Eli and William have a daughter named Kezia, possibly after John's mum. Shipton is and was a tiny place and the chances of this being a coincidence is really slim so it looks like you have solved the problem, thank you.
Steve - thank you for verifying the information.
Thanks again to all of you, I hope I haven't missed anyone in my reply
