Swineshead MIs - LEWINS

[soulsister]

Does anyone have access to Swineshead MIs?

I'm looking for any LEWINs buried there.

Emma

[bedfordshire boy]

No, but here are Lewin burials in Swineshead up to 1851

30 Nov 1823   Elizabeth infant
27 Jan 1828   Thomas   72
4 Aug 1828   Richard   34
30 Oct 1831   Joseph   9 months
4 Nov 1834   Mary 42
21 May 1842   Elizabeth 79
9 Dec 1842   Walter   1 week
14 Oct 1845   Frances Elizabeth 2 months

David

[soulsister]

Thanks for those David!!

How far back do the burials you have go? There is a gravestone in Swineshead for a William Lewin who died 1803 aged 78 who I am trying to trace backwards.

Emma

[johnP-bedford]

Hello Emma

The Beds FHS has the MIs of Swineshead, St Nicholas available on microfiche, and there is a stash of hard-copy MIs in our reference library - I'll check the catalogue when I get home. However I won't be able to check out any of your Lewins until next meeting - first Friday in October.

Meanwhile have you seen this lot - see Ahnentafel, Generation No. 4

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=charlescrane&id=I407

Regards John

[bedfordshire boy]

The first record of a Lewin in Swineshead was in 1814 with the marriage of William. Burial records go back to 1548.

Are you sure it's 1803 rather than a weathered 1863,  as there's a death of a William Lewin in 1863 in St Neots registration district which includes Swineshead?

In 1861 in Dean (1 mile from Swineshead) there's a William Lewin age 75 born Ansty Leics

David

[johnP-bedford]

Swineshead revisited...

Emma,  Yes BFHS has the Swineshead MIs in printed form (in fact we have most graveyards of Bedfordshire) I will have a look for Lewin on Fri 6th Oct -- unless David's dug them all up by then.

[bedfordshire boy]

There's no William Lewin in Beds on the NBI in 1803 - in fact there's only one, in 1728.  The MI looks highly suspect!

David

[soulsister]

Thankyou to you both for your help!

David, I feel you must know who I am trying to trace with your mention of Anstey!!

Unfortunately, the William you found in 1861 is the grandson of the William I am trying to trace, the only clue I have to finding anything out about him is the MI from the churchyard. I'm hoping the MIs for Swineshead could hold more clues as to who this william was!

With no burial for the MI I'm wondering whether he could have been buried elsewhere and the stone be a memoriam stone rather than a 'grave' stone.

Emma

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Emma

The online tree that John found seems pretty well researched, but there's no indication that any Lewin moved down to Beds from Leics prior to William b 1785. If the 1803 date is correct then it must be a memorial stone

I suspect that Anstey PR may contain the information you are seeking!

David