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Warwickshire / Can I find the parents of William Hickin of Lapworth, born c. 1800?
« on: Friday 04 August 23 18:06 BST (UK)  »
I’d be grateful for help with William Hickin, who is a bit of a mystery. What I know:

He married Ann Bradbury in 1827 in St Martin’s, Birmingham. She was born in Lapworth and was the widow of Henry Hill, farmer. Her father William Bradbury was a wealthy farmer (PCC will).

William and Ann had children baptised in Lapworth.

William Hickin died in Lapworth aged 39 in 1839.

I haven’t found a baptism anywhere for him.

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Worcestershire / Where was John Laight in 1841?
« on: Thursday 03 August 23 15:17 BST (UK)  »
I’d appreciate a second pair of eyes to look for John Laight, who seems to be missing from the 1841 Census.

Baptised in Kington in 1808, parents Thomas & Ann Laight
Not with wife Diana in Dormstone in 1841
He was a labourer (presumably an ag lab)
Not at father’s farm (Cockshot Farm)
Died in 1846 in Dormstone (Diana informant), buried in Kington

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Technical Help / Word processing woes
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 17:34 BST (UK)  »
I’m currently trying to write a document, using WPS Office, which I find pretty straightforward usually. I think it works much like Word. I wrote some text on my iPad and emailed it to myself, then copied from the email to my document on my laptop. I find a pastel grey-green page colour easier on my eyes than white, and have a template I have used successfully when writing documents from scratch on my laptop.

Now, pasting the text copied from my email, I’m getting the text on a glaring white background, framed by the page colour outside the text area. I don’t relish the prospect of having to type the text manually into the new document. Is there a workaround?

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Worcestershire / Help please with record that has “disappeared”
« on: Wednesday 02 August 23 10:20 BST (UK)  »
Help please. I think I must be going mad, because yesterday I thought I downloaded an image from Ancestry to my computer. I thought I put it into a folder for renaming (it just downloaded with a long number). Now I can’t find it on my computer, nor on Ancestry.

It was the marriage of JOHN LAIGHT to DIANA BALLINGER in a church in Worcester in the 1830’s, (Diane was baptised in 1810 and they had children from 1835. I even recall seeing a witness, Vale, which ties in with Diane’s mother’s mn. Now I can’t find the record though I confess I haven’t much experience using Ancestry.

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Census Lookup and Resource Requests / 1861 Census - can’t see Richard Beacham
« on: Monday 31 July 23 15:11 BST (UK)  »
I’d be grateful for help with a census record that eludes me.
Richard Beacham / Beauchamp (and other spellings) was born in Lower Swell, Gloucestershire, in 1837. I have found him in all the censuses 1841-1911, except 1861. In 1871 he was in Maugersbury, Stow on the Wold, a labourer, with wife Louise, and daughter Mary (9), was born in Stow.

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The Common Room / Where is the best place to post Census lookup requests?
« on: Monday 31 July 23 14:14 BST (UK)  »
I’m not sure where in RootsChat is the best place to post a census lookup request. For example, looking for someone born in Gloucestershire and last found marrying a local man there in 1880, I then found them in censuses in Surrey (1881), Dorset (1891), Gloucestershire 1901, and finally in Cheshire 1911, 1921). Therefore, Gloucestershire would not have been the right location for four of the five searches, which is why I tend to post a request like this on thr Common Room board, but is that wrong?

Dave :)

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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Help please with Beachams/Beauchamps missing after 1901
« on: Monday 31 July 23 09:29 BST (UK)  »
I’d appreciate help with:

John Beauchamp, born in Lower Swell, Glos., in 1851

I can see him up to and including the 1901 Census, when he was in Lower Swell, widower aged 49, a farm labourer, with sons William (17) born Lower Swell); Frank (12) born Eyford, Glos; and Thomas (9) born Eyford).

I can’t see them after this. I do know that by 1901 one brother had moved to Aston and another to Warwickshire.

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The Common Room / Were these moves coincidence or due to family connections?
« on: Saturday 29 July 23 19:51 BST (UK)  »
In 1905 Harold Beauchamp, son of Leonard, farm bailiff, was born in Bledington, Gloucestershire. Leonard’s grandfather, Benjamin, was born there in 1816 and his son George in Lower Swell (not far away) in 1840, but Leonard was born in Dormston, Worcestershire, in 1874. There is no documented connection of Leonard with Gloucestershire (until 1905) or of George with that county after 1851. Benjamin died in 1894, and wife Mary in 1899.

By 1911, Leonard had moved to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. Also in the town was George Beauchamp, Leonard’s cousin, born in Lower Swell. Just beyond the town was Frank Hickin, (landed) estate agent at Little Dalby Hall, brother of Leonard’s wife Ada. Cousin George arrived in Melton first, by 1901. There were no Leicestershire connections with any Beauchamp or Hickin before then.

It seems to me very unlikely to me that either move was coincidental. Would you agree?

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The Common Room / Extreme age range in baptisms
« on: Saturday 29 July 23 12:57 BST (UK)  »
I was just checking the date of an ancestor’s baptism when I noticed something interesting. George Beacham was born on 1 March 1840 and baptised in Lower Swell on 5 March, some four days old. In the entry immediately above, John Westmacott, son of John and Jane, an adult, was baptised. Something tells me that his parents would not have attended the ceremony (except maybe in spirit form). A note in the margin records that he was born in June 1752!

So maybe George Beacham was baptised very young because he threatened to exit the world, and maybe John Westmacott was baptised for the same reason, but he’d done a bit more living first.

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