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Dear Chopsuey
Last Friday I visited the Centre for Buckinghamshire Studies and, as you had suggested, Benjamin and Ann were not the parents of Charlotte Beazley. Her parents were in fact Joseph and Elizabeth, and Charlotte's baptism was in 1814 (I was wrong in correcting that to 1817 in my earlier post.). I did manage to trace their other children's baptisms as well as those of Charlotte's children, including son Henry who was baptized a bastard under the surname of Beazley at Ickford before the marriage of Charlotte and William Freeman at Oxford a few months later. Henry died in 1844 and another Henry (or Harry), son of C & W, was baptized in 1850. Did you know that Ann and Benjamin Beazley had two sons baptized with the name of George, one in 1820 and the other in 1822? I listed the baptisms of Ann and Benjamin as well. If you would like to compare my notes with your information please let me know. Thank you for prompting me to make another visit to Bucks, it has proved very productive. I am sorry not to have any ancestors who emigrated to Australia - yet.
Best wishes
Robbdogg.

I googled 'Beazley' and 'Ickford' and found your posts earlier this year on Ancestry and RootsChat. I believe that my great great grandmother Charlotte Freeman (nee Beasley), born in Ickford in c.1814, may have been a daughter of Benjamin Beazley and Ann Haines. It's difficult to be sure as there are so many Beazleys (of all spellings) in Ickford in the mid-19th century censuses. I shall be making a trip to Buckinghamshire Record Office in the next week or so to check on Charlotte's baptism and parentage. If Benjamin and Ann do turn out to be my 3xg grandparents, it's interesting to see from your posts that they emigrated to Victoria (presumably voluntarily?!); that'll make them the first in my family tree to have settled overseas. Charlotte married William Freeman, thatcher and haybinder, before 1837, and produced about ten children, one of whom, James, eventually moved to Deptford, Kent, now London, and began the London associations of that side of the family. I'll contact you again, whether or not I find the link between Charlotte and Benjamin confirmed.