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Hi Margaret,

First of all Thankyou again for your help with the Bachelor family..

Please could you find birth details of Mary Ann Messenger c.1817 Woodstock. & details of her parents..Father Thomas c.1791 & Kitty ? c.1796

On the 1841 Thomas is with partner Kitty.in Thame..

Thomas & Kitty both died before the 1851.,so I haven't been able to establish their actual areas of birth..

Thanking you,

Regards,
Eunice

Hi Margaret

Thanks a million for all this info!!

I wonder if I can be really cheeky and ask another couple of questions?

RICHARD FOX Can you tell me what old year means? I have a note about a will dated 1741? Can you throw any light on that? Any idea of birth year?


RICHARD FOX b 1760 d 1819 Did he marry and have children?

THOMAS b 1762 d 1835 re-married 1802. Assume you mean FOX not Smith? Did he and Ann Hayes have any children?


THOMAS + MARTHA

Can you give me any info on other children ie. Thomas b 1787, Elizabeth b 1793, Sussanah b 1795, Charlotte b 1798 and George b 1800. I think I have some for the males but the girls are harder to track down after marriage!!?

Last one!!! Does buried Swalcliffe mean the churchyard?

Thanks again in advance!

Regards
Jane

JANE

Old year means that the present date would read 1745, ---then the calendar ran until the end of March so would read 1744,
ie 14/3/1744 old year
would now be 14/3/1745
you need to make your own mind up which calendar you will use, or do the stroke thing
ie 1744/5, they continued to use the old calendar for ages, so in the registers they often appear using the stroke.
I have no idea of the birth year for the first Richard Fox.

Yes it should read Fox not Smith.

There were no children for Thomas Fox and Anne Hayes

Swalcliffe means buried in the Swalcliffe church yard.

Hope this makes it clearer.

UNA

Mary Ann Messenger was baptised in Woodstock 5/12/1817
her sister Eliza was baptised 7/5/1819 Woodstock
both daughters of Thomas Messenger a shoemaker and Catharine.

Thomas Messenger had married in Hanborough Catharine Greenaway
28/12/1815 witnesses Thomas Greenaway and Maria Collett

Catharine was baptised in Hanborough as
Kitty 21/4/1793 daughter of John and Sarah
who had married in Hanborough 15/5/1791 John Greenaway and Sarah Stiles, witnesses John Woodward and William Reeve.

Thomas Messenger husband of Kitty(Catharine) was baptised in Thame 24/6/1792 son of Thomas and Mary who were poor.
Who had married in Thame 13/10/1782 being Mary Hastings and Thomas Messenger. witnesses Sam Dudley and Jonathan Austin.

Hope this helps

Hi Margaret,

Please can you see if there is a bapt. record for either a Jemmima, a Jemmima Alice or Alice Jemimma Beckett born Mar Q 1858 Thame area (I am trying to find out who her parents were).
I have her on the census but she was living with her grandparents William & Dinah Beckett.

Many thanks,
Christine

Hi Margaret,

Thankyou yet again,That information is bringing life to a branch which was looking permanently deciduous.

I cannot thank you enough.

Regards,
Eunice

Hello Margaret

I've purchased the CD of parish records for Witney and surrounds as I've been looking for the connection to my Levetts in Lambeth. There are many Levetts in Witney but not the elusive specific records I'm after.

I am looking for the possible birth c1740 and marriage of a John Levett, a hatter, to Sarah c1760 and also any records on an older John Levett who would be his father c1709, possibly one of the blanket weavers.

Thanking you.

Alison

CHRISTINE

Alice Jemima was baptised in Tiddington 6/5/1866, but appears on the 1861 census aged 3, so a late baptism. illegitimate daughter of Harriet Beckett of Tiddington
The grandparents were still having children after they took over Alice Jemima, including twins.
Hope this sorts it

I am looking for information on the parents of John barnes baptised c1735 Standlake. I think the date was 11 Jan 1735 - can you help me find information on his parents - their baptisms/marriage?
John married Elizabeth Bartlett 1758 Bampton - thank you very much!!!

Hi Margaret
Many thanks for your time and effort, much appreciated.
Christine.

Hi Margaret

A belated, but big, thank -you for finding the marriage of Harry Holifield to Helen Hall in Stadhampton.

I had no idea that he was a Police Constable!

Best wishes
Liz Rees

Hi Margaret,

Please can I bother you for just one more ,to help solve a mystery .
It is for a christening of Elizabeth Payne 1851 Headington.

All that I knowis that her mother's name was Ann,.

Thanking you,
Eunice

UNA
sorry I cannot find a baptism for Elizabeth Payne nor Pain in Headington 1851 or thereabouts.

Hi Margaret,

Thank you very much for looking.

Regards,
Eunice

Hi Margaret,

Probably a long shot, but do Parish Records ever include confirmations?

I'm trying to prove whether my gt. aunt Sarah Ellen Jarrett (born 1879) was ever in service at Shellingford House, near Faringdon (although this is probably Berks not Oxfordshire).

I thought perhaps she might have been confirmed there, if she went into service after leaving school - around 12-13 years of age.

However, Sarah is more likely to have been confirmed at her parents' parish church, which was Woodstock. If you have access to such records, would you mind having a look, please?

I'm guessing the year would have been between 1890-1894.

Many thanks

Liz.

LIZREES
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dear kind lady i've hit a brick wall i cant find a joseph dring on any cenus but i do know he had two children eden and ezra and i also kniow they were living in oxfordshire at some point in their lives if you could find them for me i will be very greatful as i'm doing this as a favour for a friend

Hi Margaret,

Please can I ask for your help once again?
Not sure if your records go up to the 1890's but if they do please could you see if there is a bapt. record for a Thomas Frederick Lovegrove c1890 Parents William & Susan, Oxford (St Ebbe area). In the 1891 census there is a Thos K Lovegrove, parents William & Susan and in the freebmd site there is a birth reg. for a Thomas Frederick Lovegrove 1890 but no birth reg. for a Thomas K Lovegrove so I'm trying to establish whether this is the same person.
Many thanks
Christine.

CHRISTINE
I have searched all the OxfordCity parishes but no sign of your Thomas Lovegrove c 1890. sorry

SYLVIA
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