Help - John LEVIS

[bedfordshire boy]

John and Rachel may have had other children - Cambs Records Office online index at http://calm.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ArchiveCatalogue/SearchArchives.htm

Huntingdonshire Quarter Sessions records May 1829
Ref HCP/1/13 part
   
Concerning the theft from Stephen Bowd, Sawtry All Saints, Labourer, of a table cloth and shirt statements from Bowd, Thomas Milborn, Constable, William Levis the accused (with George Colley) and Robert Wright with whom Levis lodged.

If, as seems likely, William was a son of John and Rachel, then Robert Wright was his step father.

What this might do to the naming pattern is anyone's guess! Depends when he was born and where he fitted into the pecking order. I can't find him in censuses to get his age.

David
   

[bedfordshire boy]

Long shot!

You mention that there are sons named Aaron

I mentioned that they could have come from Northants

There's a tree on Ancestry where an Aron Levis had a daughter Elizabeth in Stanion, Northants (15 miles from Sawtry) in 1790

I would definitely post a request on the Northants Look up Request board for look up in Northants Marriage Index for a marriage of John Levis and Rachel c 1810 +/-10

David

[bedfordshire boy]

I've cracked it, although how I missed it when I posted earlier I don't know.

Living in Sawtry in 1851 was Thomas Levis 43 born Stanion, Northants. Also in the same houshold was John Levis brother widower 29 b Sawtry, and Robert Wright father in law ie step father.

The key fact that I missed (how could I have done?) was Thomas' birthplace of Stanion Northants (which he also gives in 1861)

We've been saying all along Dave, have you got the Levis childrens' details from the parish register, or from someone elses tree. It's now clear that Thomas wasn't born in Sawtry, as you stated in your original post, but in Stanion, Northants, and that's where I think you'll find the marriage of John Levis and Rachel. Shows how unreliable other peoples trees can be, and how you should always verify details with parish registers.

One thoroughly ashamed of himself David in the south of France

Reuben's brother John is another problem but will hit you with that one once this is fixed.

OK, hit us, but start a new thread

[seahall]

Hi All.

David I haven't got time to read it all, but am answering your call. 

From the Northants Baptisms Indexes.

Stanion C of E
03 Jul 1808

Thomas LEVIS s John & Rachel 

Sandy

[seahall]

I can not find a marriage for parents John & Rachel
on the N.M.I. I am afraid.

Sandy

[Selina]

Pity the marriage is not listed!  Were there any other children baptised Northants to John and Rachel?

The marriage is not on the Cambs Marriage Index either.

Selina

[bedfordshire boy]

Thanks for helping out Sandy

Not a clue where they married. I can only wonder if it's a case of LEVIS being incorrectly entered in a parish register, or mistranscribed in a marriage index.

I would go through the Sawston parish registers to (i) confirm the baptisms of the rest of the children, and (ii) to see if there's a marriage of John and Rachel.

David

[seahall]

You are welcome David. 

I am afraid that is the only baptism to the couple.

There is another family A(a)ron , Aram, and Elizabeth baptising there.

William, 07 Dec 1795, Sarah, 30 Aug 1799, spelt as LEVES,
Ann, 05 Jun 1802, spelt LEVIS, Charles, 06 Jul 1806.

Sandy

[seahall]

Sorry Selina I missed your posting.

David I suppose a possibility could be LEWIS.

Sandy