Hi Ann I too am descended from Wilmers and Wilmores. My lot though I can only trace back to a John Willmer of Little Horwood, who married there in December 1757. His wife Martha Richardson was baptised in Padbury. The name lived on in my family as a middle name: my cousin Walter Wilmer Rutland was the last person to have this "unusual" name; he died in 1961. I have also met the familiar barrier of too many Johns, Thomases and Williams and not enough of the more esoteric names that occasionally appear in the parish registers. In all honesty I haven't looked into this line to such a great extent. You asked about Padbury in the early 1800s. Genuki has the population of the parish listed from 1801 onwards, in 1801 it was 459, then it grew to a peak of 708 in 1831, before tailing off to 439 in 1901. The link for that information is here: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Padbury/Index.html Graham Taylor-Paddick Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK -----Original Message----- From: bucks-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:bucks-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of marr794@aol.com Sent: 02 May 2009 16:51 To: BUCKS@rootsweb.com Subject: [BKM] Willmore/Wilmer and variants I have made a database using parish records for births and marriages, census data, and whatever I could find on Ancestry.com, etc. for my family, the Willmores (and variants) in Bucks, mostly in the 1800's. I have not looked for wills because the vast majority were poor laborers. Now, I want to add in parish records for deaths,?hoping to end up with?something of a mini one name study for the family so I can identify certain persons, but I am not doing well at matching individuals with their deaths. I assume that?some marriages will be second marriages, but?the family?repeatedly used the same first names for children and I can't seem to sort them out. I have a few specific questions, all about the 1800's: Were all marriages entered in the parish registers??I know that not?all births were and obviously?not all deaths were recorded. How many people lived in?Padbury in the early 1800's?? Were all marriages entered in parish records?in the 1700's? Does anyone have tips to share for identifying second marriages in the early 1800's? If I ever manage to come to some conclusions, I will share the data. Thanks, Ann Marr ? *************************************** BGS Website: http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ BFHS Website: http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ Bucks Genuki Website: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BUCKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message