james Snook/s

[Valda]

SNOOK, James   
Christening Date:1 Feb 1829 Buckland Ripers, Dorset
Father:Thomas SNOOK
Mother:Eliza

6th December 1829
St Nicholas Buckland Ripers
Thomas Snook aged 33

You really need to have checked James' regimental muster records (which will be held at The National Archives) to see what information is given on him when he enlists and leaves the regiment and whether at either times his birthplace was stated.

Regards

Valda

[pinkie6]

hi there, thankyou for that, from memory I had checked on that one and those boys were a different line, will try it again, national archives had sent me what they had but that is NZ, have tried looking on the uk archives, will keep plodding along with it!!!

[pinkie6]

In the 1881 census a Jame snook, ag, lab born Buckland ripers dorset 1847, in 1881 aged 34.  The same one went on to ,marry an Agnes Knight.

[Valda]

Not sure what the relevancy of James Snook born circa 1847 Buckland Ripers is to James Snook born between 1829/32 in Buckland Ripers?

James Snook born Buckland Ripers circa 1847 was the son of Samuel and Catherine Snook. He is clearly on all censuses from 1851 onwards to at least 1881. In 1851 he and his siblings were living in Owermoigne Dorset. Judging by the sibling birthplaces from the 1851 census this Snook family passed quickly through Buckland Ripers with only James being born in the village.

You have to visit or engage a researcher if you wish to access the regiment's muster rolls at The National Archives in London. TNA has over 50 miles of shelved records dating back a thousand years. Only a mininscule amount is indexed electronically - around 10 million records - which for TNA is a bit like a drop in the ocean.

How have you managed to eliminate the James Snook born Buckland Ripers circa 1829/32 who appears on the 1841 and 1851 censuses then disappears from English censuses. What happened to him?

Regards

Valda

[pinkie6]

I will check my notes etc for that james Snook, thankyou for the info too!

[Valda]

Buckland Ripers is a very small rural village

http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/buckland-ripers.html

http://www.dorset-opc.com/BucklandRipersFiles/BucklandRipers.htm

People in the past when they moved away from an area they lived sometimes gave the nearest town as their birthplaces. Nobody but those living close by to Buckland Ripers will have heard of it, but Weymouth is much more well known. Use Google maps to see how close the two are.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4HPEA_en-GBGB236GB236&tab=wl

The National Archives research guides give you very useful information about the records they hold.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp

Scroll down to

'British Army: Muster Rolls and Pay Lists, c1730-1898'

and

'British Army: Useful Sources for Tracing Soldiers'

I doubt James Snook served long enough in the army to receive a pension so the more detailed records found in

'British Army: Soldiers' Discharge Papers, 1760-1913'

will not be any use to you. If a soldier during this period left the army before serving sufficient time to receive a pension - as most men did then his enlistment papers were not kept because there was no reason as far as the army was concerned to keep them.

The burial of a possible sister for James

1827 Aug-17; Caroline SNOOK; Buckland Ripers aged 5

but no baptism for her or the George Snook found on the 1841 census in the same household as James, in Buckland Ripers so they are likely to have been born somewhere else. No marriage for Thomas Snook and Eliza in Buckland Ripers.

Regards

Valda

[Valda]

TEWKESBURY, William         
Eliza SNOOK widow      
Marriage Date
8 Aug 1830 Buckland Ripers, Dorset

TEWKESBURY, Henry   
Christening Date:13 Feb 1831   Buckland Ripers, Dorset
Father:William TEWKESBURY
Mother:Eliza

TEWKESBURY, Caroline   
Christening Date:7 Apr 1833 Buckland Ripers, Dorset
Father:William TEWKESBURY
Mother:Eliza

TEWKSBURY, Emma   
Christening Date:12 Jun 1836   Buckland Ripers, Dorset
Father:William TEWKSBURY
Mother:Eliza

Emma and Henry Tewkesbury were in the samehousehold with James and George Snook in Buckland Ripers on the 1841 census.

Regards

Valda
      

[pinkie6]

thankyou for that, James was given 60 acres or 30 pounds, he turned the land down, it was confiscated land from the maori.  Another descendent has his war medal from the maori war days, his regiment papers here apart from what I have written list his occupation as labourer, thankyou for the sites i will check them out.

[pinkie6]

i found also,

july 18 1790 birth of william son of joseph and frances snook.



aug 8 1830, marriage of william tewkesbury bachelor, buckland ripers to elizabeth bilke, banns, with consent of parents eliza snook widow buckland ripers, ralph guy.

that above marriage confuses me, its from the marriage records of buckland ripers which had been transcribed, was eliza snook or elizabeth bilke williams wife?

what does banns mean?

is raplh guy the father of william or elizabeth?