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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Parker from Gloucestershire mid 1700s
« on: Wednesday 02 July 14 15:23 BST (UK)  »
This document - re: George Parker of Little Sodbury, who may be the same one you mention, an inventory of his goods from July 30, 1723, is in Gloucestershire Archives, and could be of interest:

http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/explore/sites/explore/files/explore_assets/2013/11/24/1723_71_parker.pdf

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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Parker from Gloucestershire mid 1700s
« on: Wednesday 02 July 14 15:19 BST (UK)  »
Hi Avril -

In fact, seeing your Curtis49 tree on Ancestry made me join Find My Past to search the Boyd's Marriage Register. Could not find anything on Boswell Parker on Family Search that was not already on Ancestry. You have - it seems - gone far further into this than I have!

I have been on a few motorbike trips to churchyards, to see if there are any grave inscriptions of note that might give clues. The church at Little Sodbury is Victorian, and when I went there, I was told that the Wycliffe Chapel (which is what would have served as the church in Boswell Parker Snr's day) was on private grounds and I was advised not to request a visit then, as there had been a bereavement in the family. I also visited Wapley/Codrington church, where Susannah Parker was married, but it has only exceedingly weathered gravestones, and has been neglected, so few clues there.

Horton and Little Sodbury today share the same parish and I visited Horton churchyard recently - many graves have fallen headstones or are weathered, so I may see if I can contact a church warden there.

I find that I have been quite frustrated by lack of information online for this period. I will have to get in contact with Gloucester Records Office. I live in the county, so it could be worth a trip there. I will share with you whatever I turn up. I will send you a contact message on Ancestry.

Your suggestions of an extra generation in between sounds feasible - people married young then - but you know far more about these characters Thomas, John and George than I do.

Best regards

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Travelling People / Re: Boswell Parker from Gloucestershire mid 1700s
« on: Tuesday 01 July 14 20:50 BST (UK)  »
Hi

There is some confusion - in fact there appear to be two Boswell Parkers, both from the Old Sodbury/Little Sodbury region.  The first appears in a "Millennium File" (Source Information:
Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003. Original data: Heritage Consulting. The Millennium File. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: Heritage Consulting.) This states that Boswell Parker was born on 26 Dec, 1669 and died in Little Sodbury on 18 Dec 1737. His father was Thomas Parker, he had a spouse called Sarah, and a daughter called Sarah.      However - from Boyd's Marriage Index 1538 - 1840, a dataset on Find My Past - a man called Boswall Parker married Jane Isles in 1745 at Old Sodbury.     

I am descended from Susannah Parker, who was baptised at Little Sodbury on 14 Feb, 1746. She would marry John Anstee at St Peter's Church on Wapley Hill on 5 April, 1772. Her 1746 baptism record states that her father is Boswell Parker and her mother is called Jane.

(Source Information: Ancestry.com. England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. FHL Film Number: 427775)

It seems certain that Susannah's father Boswell Parker is the son of Boswall Parker (1669 - 1737).

The original and unusual first name Boswell Parker probably derives from the name of the vicar at the Wycliffe Chapel in Little Sodbury. According to Gloucestershire Notes and Queries, on May 10, 1661 George Boswell, Minister of Little Sodbury was married (spouse unnamed), and on July 23, 1665 a widow called Mary Boswell was married to an unknown partner. http://archive.org/stream/gloucestershiren03londuoft/gloucestershiren03londuoft_djvu.txt

I cannot find further information about other people with the surname Boswell in Little Sodbury - but it is not unheard of for a child to be named after a vicar/minister. Anyway, that is just supposition.

What seems clear is that there is a Boswell Parker who lived from 1669 to 1737, around Little Sodbury), and another Boswell who (according to unsourced family trees) seems to have been born in 1717, and who married Jane Isles in 1745 at Old Sodbury, and who was the father of Susannah Parker/Anstee (b. 1746, buried on November 23, 1796 at St Peter's Church in Dirham & Hinton parish, South Gloucestershire - adjoining Dyrham Park). I hope these notes are helpful.

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