Thank you for your help Wendy, and you too Phil. I do have the BRS Probate Volumes, but you still have to change the refs in there Phil to those in their Probate pamphlet. I did have visions of simply turning to my book, and using the refs,, go to the will in question. This is almost the case but not quite. Kind Regards, Jill -----Original Message----- From: berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Phil Wood Sent: 13 July 2011 11:20 To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRK] CASBERD James died 1604 Kingston Bagpuize The British Record Society book is out of date - the references are historical in themselves. For a long time the Berkshire Record Office have been somewhat embarrassed by this old index - some wills mentioned no longer exist (possibly because of poor transcription) and they have wills that are not in the index. Over the last couple of years the BRO have had a palaeographer re-index these wills and the Berkshire Record Society have recently published two volumes of indexes covering wills of this period and earlier - indexed by name, place and occupation. That said most of the entries in the old index are valid - if a will is mentioned it probably still exists and the new index will make it easy to find at the BRO. Phil -----Original Message----- From: berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:berkshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Wendy King Sent: 12 July 2011 19:26 To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRK] CASBERD James died 1604 Kingston Bagpuize Jill from the Berkshire Wills and Admons 1508 - 1652 - BRS vol 8 they have modernised spellings for easier indexing - Casberd or Casbert with an alternate of Caseberd. Numbers after names are presumably will references but no explanation of them on the site I looked at. 1573 Nicolas Casberd or Casbert Kingston Bagpuze F 386 1549 Locking (?) Casberd or Casbert ad. 1571 William Casbert Brightwell F. I 58 1583 Agnes Caseberd alias Whistler Kingston Bagpuize G 417 1591 Henry Casbert Aston Tyrrold H 356 1604 James Casberd or Casbert Kingston Bagpuize J 1373 1615 Hester Casberd or Casbert Kingston Bagpuize L 572 The 1871 census has Casbards in Middlesex, Casbeards at Blewbury. There are 18th century Casbards, Casberds and Casbeards marriages at Blewbury earliest I found was 1719 most are London, Middlesex and Somerset but that may just be the limit of the data available; no births on the site I looked at; burials mainly London, Hampshire before 1800. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Jill Muir Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:54 PM To: berkshire@rootsweb.com Subject: [BRK] CASBERD James died 1604 Kingston Bagpuize Hello Listers, Our Local History Society is transcribing wills, and I have recently been transcribing a will of James Caseberde who died in my village of Kingston Bagpuize in 1604. I have already completed 2 other Caseberde wills, and I now have a 3 generation family tree for them, but wish to know more. I have tried discovering where the surname appears in Berkshire and Oxfordshire. It is not shown in the Surnames of Oxfordshire book and I don't believe that there is a book of Berkshire surnames. There are some appearing in the 1841 and 1851 census for Berkshire, at Shillingford and area. The name or variant of this, as Casbeard, also appears on the Oxfordshire OXSIL surname list though and I have sent a message to the researcher, but so far without response. I searched for both Cakebread [ which I think Caseberd could be a variant of ] and Caseberd/e on ancestry.co.uk today and then decided to use the facility to 'Search All Records' and found there a James Caseberd died 1604 which seems to be the one I am interested in, within Probate/Glamorgan Wills, but he isn't shown on the National Library of Wales Wills Index that I could see. I am not sure how this index has been compiled. One has since been found by OFHS Surname Forename Parents Place Year CASBERD James John East Lockinge 1549 This may well be the forebear & baptism of 'my' James. I don't wish to add to my subscription plan at present, but wondered if anyone had come across this surname in Berkshire, or come to that anywhere, please? The adjoining parish of Longworth is the oldest place in the UK for Anabaptists, who seemed to have come from Glamorgan, so the tale goes, and a Cakebread researcher I have spoken to tells me that his family seemed to be Nonconformists, although the ones I am researching seem to be C of E. Many thanks, Best wishes, Jill http://longworth-district-history-society.org.uk ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------- 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