Hi Jon There are a few family trees on Ancestry that include this couple, unfortunately none of them include have Elizabeth's parents. Brightwell and Peasemore are about 30 miles apart. HTH! Best wishes, Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon's FH" <jons.fh@btinternet.com> To: <berkshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:33 AM Subject: [BRK] The HISSEY family of Berkshire > Hi everyone, > > With the relatively new style familysearch.org website up and running, I > thought I'd try and locate some info on my 4xGreat Grandmother's family. > Elizabeth married my 4xGreat Grandfather, John NIXEY at Upton cum Chalvey > in 1765. All indexes I've been able to find have her surname as HESSEY, > and one transcription of the entry notes that she signed her name HISSEY. > There aren't any entries on familysearch for HESSEY that come close to > being the right person, but there is an Elizabeth HISSEY bapt at > Peasemore, Berkshire, on April 11,1742, the daughter of Henry and Ann. > > Elizabeth NIXEY died at Upton cum Chalvey in 1813 aged 73, giving an > approx year of birth of 1740. This is the closest I've come to so far. > > Are there any HISSEY / HESSEY researchers out there who know more about > this family's movements please? > > My own NIXEY family have done a fair bit of jumping back and fore between > Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, including the above mentioned John who was > apprenticed for 7 years to a Wheelwright named William COX of Brightwell, > Berkshire in 1754. If he completed those 7 years, that could put him in > the Brightwell area until 1761, only a few years before he and Elizabeth > were married. > > Being totally blind, I'm unable to view online maps of Berkshire. Could > SKS please give me an idea of how far Brightwell and Peasemore were from > each other? > > With many thanks in advance for any hints, clues, suggestions and help, > best wishes to all, > > Jon > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BERKSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Very many thanks Karen, I know the trees you refer to, sadly they are mostly duplicated and contain quite a number of errors, where info hasn't been thoroughly checked and corrected. This happens a lot with online trees unfortunately. I guess even back in the mid 1700's, 30 miles wasn't far away. My John NIXEY started his life in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire, in 1737, then as I say was apprenticed in Brightwell in 1754, married in Upton cum Chalvey, Bucks, in 1765 where he appears to have stayed for the rest of his life until his death in 1817. I don't know if these places appear to form a route, or whether its here there and everywhere. <G> Many thanks once again, Jon