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    1. Re: [BRK] [OXF] Where is Wales in North Berkshire or Oxfordshire?
    2. Wendy Archer
    3. Jill - > I keep coming across people mentioned 'of Wales' in these wills of > Draycott > Moor (Southmoor), in the Longworth PR even the baptism of one, Richard > Southby has Wales besides his name. Two wills dated 1570 and 1628 use > this phrase. Is this a place in Bampton or Burford I wonder? Colin Harris's "Oxfordshire Parish Registers & Bishops Transcripts" references Wales to Hinton Waldrist. The introduction to the OFHS Hinton Waldrist parish register transcript on CD FAR03 gives: "It included the hamlets of Duxford, Wales and Burgage, of which only Duxford now remains." Wendy

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