Hi and Happy New Year to All. Requesting an 1841 Census Look up for Totternhoe (or Eaton Bray). Looking for a James Pratt, with Wife "Jane" and Any Familly Best regards Jerry Sandford

Hi Jerry - a very useful website is www.leighton-linslade.com. Here you can look up the 1841 and 1861census free of charge and also search local newspapers etc. Liz Sandford Jeremy-jsandfo1 <Jerry.Sandford@motorola.com> wrote: Hi and Happy New Year to All. Requesting an 1841 Census Look up for Totternhoe (or Eaton Bray). Looking for a James Pratt, with Wife "Jane" and Any Familly Best regards Jerry Sandford ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving the messages individually or want them individually) or Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a digest of multiple messages or want this mode) In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe or unsubscribe.

Hello, I have been sitting and reading for a month or so before posting to the list. The ancestor in question is John Newton. I know he died in VA in 1697. Most Newton researchers say he was from Hull, Yorkshire, England. This is because in his will he leaves a house/land belong to his father, Thomas, ("John & his heirs & assigns forever, what land I have at Charton &Camilsforth in Yorkshire and that house in Hull which was my Fathers"). Several months ago I was reading a old Virgina history magazine article on William Fitzhugh, also from Bedforshire, and it said that his friend, John Newton served on the Council in Bedford in 1648. It also addressed him as John Newton master Mariner, which is found in the VA records, and stated that his stepdaughter Sarah Tucker married William Fitzhugh which is true. So I think it is "my John Newton". I have put the information in Google and nothing came up. I have tried most popular genealogy sites and found nothing to back this up. I went to the Family Search.org catalog and find that they have very little on Bedford in this period of time. I did contact via email the Archives and they returned a very nice email saying there is a record of John Newton in Aug. 1648 on the council and that the surname of Newton appears in parish records. I will send money to them for a copy. But I am not at all familiar with doing research in the Bedford area so I am stumped at where to go for documentation. John Newton was married four times and had children by each wife. No names of wives are known except the last one who was in VA. SO I am interested in finding out wives/children and did my John Newton actually live here ...well, just anything at all. Most researchers of this line try and tie John Newton and his father Thomas into the Newton line from Barr's Court near Bristol but there is a gap of at least two generations. I would love to find if this Newton line actually lived in Bedfordshire for some time or it John just passed through for a few years. Hopefully I have not given too much needless information. I just need some guidance on where I might be able to find documetation. I live in Las Vegas so I can't go to Kew for the day or to Bedford to do the actual research. Thanks very much. Elizabeth Sloan -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.