Hello Colin
I pick up and put down family research, picked it up again as off to Gloucester for four days in July, for the first time, to do photographic social history of my Shurmers, their schools, homes and workplaces (or workhouses and jails !)
I am descended from John Shurmer B. 1500? in Purton, John Shurmer B 1526 Purton married Margaret Gleed: John Shurmer B 1586 Purton married Denise Telling and then Joan Stinchcombe, Richard B 1618, Bap in 1619 but died in 1691 in Bilbury married a Margaret: then John B 1641 Bilbury married a Catherine. There was then William, Richard and Joseph all in Bilbury, then the venue changes to Notgrove with John B 1772 who married Dinah Clark, Thomas married Priscilla Ivin, John Ivin married Sarah Court, Edwin married Ann Stevens, then my Grandad married Emma Jane Empson, my dad Jack Empson married Mary Bridget McConville and then there was me !!
Hope that helps you a little
Regards
Pat Littlewood
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