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Staffordshire / Ivinghoe WINDMILLs parish register lookup please
« on: Wednesday 05 July 06 02:28 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: lee1800 on Wednesday 02 March 05 23:25 GMT (UK)
I have a John WIndmill who married Ann Unknown. Their children are Mary 26 June 1773  & Thomas 10Sept 1780. There is probably more but at this stage I cannot find them. They were both born in Ivinghoe Buckinghamshire. Thomas married Elizabeth Wright TAme of Potsgrove, where the next generations of my family come from.
Any help is appreciated

Lee

Hi,
I am new to this board and have just found this post. The John and Ann mentioned in the quote above, and their son Thomas (and his wife Elizabeth) are my direct ancestors too. I have been searching for information on John Windmill but to no avail. His son Thomas moved to Potsgrove, Bedfordshire where he married Elizabeth Wright Thame, as Lee has mentioned above. We have been able to trace many of the descendents of Thomas.

But it is his dad, John that is prooving elusive. I have had no luck with the ancestry message boards, as virtually no-one is looking for Windmills. Does anyone on here have access to Ivinghoe parish records, that we might be able to find a marriage for John to Ann? (btw the dates that Lee has given above for Thomas and Mary are the baptism dates not the birth dates). Or can anyone check the original entry for the baptisms of both Mary Windmill and Thomas Windmill, so that we might be able to verify the IGI info on their baptisms? Also I have found two possible marriages for a Mary Windmill in Ivinghoe, both to William Bates, one dated 12/1/1791 and the other dated  28/2/1791. Both entries are form submitted by a member of the LDS, so would anyone be able to check these and verify her father's name at least so we can see if there is a link.

I know that there are many Windmills to be found in and around Ivinghoe, and have even wondered if their name originates from the Pitstone windmill (which is right next to Ivinghoe), said to be the oldest post mill in the UK (dates from 1625 or earlier) pictured below.

I look forward to hearing from anyone who can help.
Kind regards
Happy Flowergirl.

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The Common Room / Re: July 2005 Rootschat Challenge
« on: Tuesday 04 July 06 00:29 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Lesanne on Monday 04 July 05 20:26 BST (UK)
                 Interesting to see the Higgin Green surname.  That chappy Pantenness,
                    His dad, Thomas Higden and mum Margaret/Mary Green,
             Pantenness married 2 Baltch girls 1771 & 1779.

           I also wondered if our lost person's went to Africa, as that was the in place
                  for Masonic movement in the early 1900's.
            
             Not quite sure how to find those records though.
                             ~~~
              My next wedding is all in red roses, everything, so I'm off to sort the quantity,
              Then hit the sack. zzzz

                 :D   Lesanne.   :D

          


Hello Lesanne and everyone!

I am completely new to this board, just joined tonight after finding this quoted message in a google search I was doing for my gtx4 grandmother.

Lesanne, I hope you still log into this site, because I am most interested in the people of whom you are talking because I have a very strong feeling that they are related to my family somewhow.

My gt gt gt gt grandparents were John Ridewood and Sarah Baltch who married on 14/11/1796 in Bruton, Somerset.  Their son John Ridewood (born 1799 Bruton) married Jane Upham in 1821 also in Bruton. John and Jane's first son was named Pantenness Higdon Ridewood, born 1823 in Bruton who became a saddler, married Lydia Garrett in Nunney, Somerset and moved to Monmouthshire, Wales, and changed his name to William Panteness (Upham) Ridewood.

I have failed to find a baptism for Sarah Baltch in Bruton (although there is a Hannah Andrews who married David Baltch in Bruton in 1769 who had children in Bruton at the time that Sarah was born, though Sarah is not mentioned in the Bruton parish records.

Obviously Pantenness is a very unusual name anyway, but with Sarah Baltch's grandson being called Panteness Higdon Ridewood, I am most interested to find out more about the guy you have mentioned, Pantenness Higden who married 2 Baltch girls. (You don't often see the name spelled Baltch, as I mostly find it as Balch). I have also found reference to a directory c1793 that shows a clockmaker of Bruton called Panteness Higdon.

Would anyone have any idea if and how these people might be related?
I look forward to hearing from anyone who has thoughts on this.
Kind regards
Happy Flowergirl

p.s. Lesanne, are you a florist by any chance? (mention of red rose wedding flowers and ordering the right quantity noted...) If so then we have that in common as I have a flower shop!!

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