Attfield. Parish Records. Farnham.

[DiOs]

If anyone has access to the Farnham parish records, I would very much appreciate a lookup of the following members of the Attfield family.

Nathaniel Attfield was born in 1802 to Richard and Elizabeth Attfield in Farnham. I believe he married Ann Caesar in 1828 and they had 7 children, William Addecar, Frederick, James, Elizabeth Watmore, Nathaniel, Sarah Ann and Emma, all born in Farnham. Frederick is my g grandfather.

I had believed that Richard was born in Surrey, but since he married in Gosport, it is possible that he was born in Hampshire, and that they moved to Farnham at a later date.  Richard married Elizabeth Watmore in Holy Trinity, Gosport in 1795, and they settled in Farnham and had 6 children, Ann, Thomas, James, Nathaniel, George, and Frederick Watmore.

I would appreciate confimation of these facts and any other children born. It's not possible for me to visit the record offices myself as I live in Canada, so help would be very welcome.

Regards, Di.

[joy_w]

Hello Di

I found the following data for you …. Hope it helps.

Regards
Joy ~ from Farnham in Surrey


Baptisms of the children of Richard and Elizabeth ATTFIELD
Ann 5 November 1796
Thomas 5 November 1798
James 25 May 1801
Nathaniel 31 July 1802
George 4 September 1805
Frederick Watmore baptised 23 Aug 1809, born 28 Feb

Baptisms of the children of Nathaniel and Ann ATTFIELD
William Adecar 14 Nov 1830, dau of Nathaniel – butcher - & Ann
Frederick 8 Feb 1833 (ditto)
James 1 May 1835 (ditto)
Elizabeth Watmore 21 Jun 1837, daughter of Nathaniel – gamekeeper - & Ann
Nathaniel 14 Feb 1840 son of Nathaniel & Ann of Castle Street, keeper

(Extracted from the microfiche of Farnham Parish Registers – Baptisms West Surrey Family History Society - - Fiche end in 1840)

PLUS

1841 Census Ref: 1072//04//8

Castle Street Farnham Surrey  
ATTFIELD Nathaniel M 37 Keeper
ATTFIELD Ann F 32
ATTFIELD William M 11
ATTFIELD James M 6
ATTFIELD Elizabeth F 4
ATTFIELD Nathaniel M 1
(all are ‘from Surrey’)

Almshouses, Castle Street
ATTFIELD Richard M 69 Supported by Charity (not from Surrey)


Nathaniel, Richard and other members of the ATTFIELD family are mentioned in a number CAESAR Wills. You can see a selection of them at:

http://www.rootsweb.com/~engsurry/

[DiOs]

Hi Joy,

Thankyou so much for your very quick response, and for all the useful information, especially the last note about Richard not being  from Surrey. He seems to be quite a mystery, but I shall now cease looking for him in the Farnham area, and try Hampshire where he was married.

Thankyou too for the info about the Surrey wills website. By coincidence I chanced on it last night, and there is certainly a great deal of useful information for me there too, including some Caesar wills, Nathaniels Ann being a Caesar.

Anyway thanks once again.

Di.

[Geoff Chew]

Just to add the entry from the Surrey Marriage Index:

Farnham, 9 November 1828
Nathaniel ATTFIELD
Ann CAESAR
(no further details)

Geoff