Broughton Poggs Parish Records

[Pennie]

Seeking any information on Thomas WASTY/WASTIE (and variants) who - according to the Victoria County History for Broadwell/Filkins - was working as a clothier in Filkins in the mid 17th century.  Thomas died at Filkins in 1667 and his will records his wife as Anne.

I would like to know if there's any record of Thomas or his wife in the parish records - marriage, burials, baptism of children etc.

(Broadwell records have already been checked, as have Holwell and Westwell.  Filkins records only start in the mid 19th century.)

Many thanks for any help.

Pennie

[ribbo39]

Hi Pennie,

Happy new year to you.

I wish I could be of use but regret to say there are no Wasty/Wastie + variants in Broughton Poggs
transcripts. (Bapts/Marriages or Burials).

Alan
PS; Also looked in Langford with same result - a neighbouring parish.

[NDRFT]

Hi Pennie

Happy New Year, hope you had a nice Christmas

I have just looked at the following PR's BMD and cant find a single entry for that last name (variants) in an appropriate period - most odd.

Alvescot, Holwell, Westwell, Taynton, Wilcote, Black Bourton, Broadwell, Broughton Poggs, Burford and Fulbrook, Kencot and Shilton

Zip nothing!
I have lived in that area all my life and cannot think I have missed a parish but may have done, any more clues?

Nigel

[Pennie]

Hi Alan/Nigel ...

Happy New Year to you both - and thanks for checking your respective parish records.

This Thomas is a bit of a mystery - I am trying to see where he fits in to my Eynsham WASTIEs, but he's getting very hard to track down!

Nigel:  I wonder if I could ask you to go back to your Burford PRs and check a marriage for me.  According to the OMI, Ethelbert WASTERNE and Mary FLETCHER were married at Burford on 10 NOV 1664.  A privately-published history of the WASTIE family refers to the marriage of "Ethelbert WASTIE, wool merchant, clothier of Quenington, Glos." and "Mary/Ann FLETCHER, widow of Burford".  Having found no marriage with the WASTIE surname, this 1664 marriage seems to fit - could you please check the surname and see if there are any other details in the parish record?  Many thanks.

Pennie

[Pennie]

Further to my previous posting, have just checked my records and I have the following (taken from the "Marriage Bonds Index"):

c1664 - Ethelbert WASTIE, of Quenington, Glos., clothier, & Mary FLETCHER, widow, of Burford

This is not on the MBI at http://whipple.org/oxford/marriagebonds.html, so I'm assuming that I found it in a different source at the Centre for Oxfordshire Studies some years ago.

Pennie

[NDRFT]

Hi Pennie

No other details in the PR's for St John The Baptist Burford for the marriage as you have found except it makes no mention of their marital status so if Mary was a widow it does not say so in the PR's.
If she was a widow then sadly I cannot see a funeral for a potential husband , of course it may be that he was buried elsewhere.

I do see a marriage of Henry Fletcher to Mary Parsons at the same church on 20 April 1652 no other details. This might be your widow?

Off to see if these two had any children which in turn may help you?

Nigel

[NDRFT]

There seems to be only one possible child of Henry and Mary Fletcher

Thomas Bapt 23 May 1653

So unless you have him in a will or such like then not much help there.

I shall be back in a mo to see if there are any similar last names to WASTIE in the Burford PR's at all

Nigel

[NDRFT]

Pennie

Sadly nothing of any use.
I found entries for WAITE but thats too far away from your search I think?

Nigel

[Pennie]

Hi Nigel ...

My apologies for the delay in responding - I think my "notify" option on this thread is only working intermittently!

Thank you so much for all that checking of the Burford registers.  I'm feeling fairly confident that Ethelbert "WASTERNE" is my Ethelbert WASTIE as it all fits so well.  However, I've come across many (too many!?!) variants of WASTIE but don't really think that I can stretch them as far as WAITE!

Again, many thanks for your help on this one.

Pennie