Hi Sue, Here are the Bateman baptisms in Bloxham: 1732 Nov 4 BATEMAN Ann d Edward 1733/4 Jan 9 BATEMAN Moses s Edward 1735/6 Mar 8 BATEMAN Martha d Edward 1740 Apr 1 BATEMAN Elizabeth d Edward Alice 1742/3 Jan 3 BATEMAN Mary d Edward Lots of Coleman baptisms: 1692 Nov 11 COLEMAN Susanna d Richard 1695 Dec 6 COLEMAN Anne d Richard 1700 Apr 22 COLEMAN Anne d Richard 1703 Mar 19 COLEMAN Alice d Richard husbandman 1708/9 Jan 9 COLEMAN Martha d Richard 1715 May 29 COLEMAN Sarah d Tho: Milcomb 1721 Oct 22 COLEMAN Richard s Gascoign 1732 Dec 31 COLEMAN Thomas s Gascoigne 1735/6 Feb 8 COLEMAN Ann d Gascoign 1739 Sep 30 COLEMAN Thomas s Thomas 1740 Oct 10 COLEMAN Ann d Thomas Ann 1740 Oct 11 COLEMAN Susanna d Tho: Hannah Milcomb 1741 Dec 13 COLEMAN William s Thomas 1743/4 Feb 8 COLEMAN Anne d Thomas 1745 Sep 1 COLEMAN Thomas s Thomas 1747 Oct 16 COLEMAN John s Thomas Milcomb 1750 Dec 16 COLEMAN Elizabeth d Thomas 1751 May 19 COLEMAN Mary d Thomas Milcomb 1755 Apr 27 COLEMAN William s Thomas Milcomb 1767 Jul 5 COLEMAN Mary d Thos: 1780 Aug 20 COLEMAN William s Thomas Milcomb 1780 Nov 19 COLEMAN William s Thomas Milcomb 1782 May 12 COLEMAN Ann d Thomas 1782 Sep 29 COLEMAN Hannah [sic] d Thos. Elizabeth {sic} Milcomb 1783 Dec 28 COLEMAN Thomas s Thomas 1785 Jan 30 COLEMAN John s Thomas Milcombe 1785 Dec 6 COLEMAN Rich s Thomas weaver 1786 Feb 5 COLEMAN Jos s Thomas farmer Milcombe 1788 Sep 14 COLEMAN Susanna d Thomas 1788 Sep 21 COLEMAN John s Thomas Hannah Milcombe 1790 Aug 15 COLEMAN Charles s Thomas Hannah Milcombe 1791 Aug 5 COLEMAN John s Thomas 1794 Aug 11 COLEMAN Thomas s John Anne 1794 Dec 7 COLEMAN Samuel s Thomas Hannah Milcombe 1795 Jun 14 COLEMAN George s Thomas Anne 1796 Mar 25 COLEMAN Anne d John Anne 1796 May 3 COLEMAN Anne d Thomas Hannah Milcombe 1797 Jun 22 COLEMAN Hannah d William Hannah 1798 Apr 15 COLEMAN John s John Anne 1799 Mar 23 COLEMAN Susanna d William Hannah 1800 Jul 6 COLEMAN William s John Anne 1802 Oct 24 COLEMAN Sarah d John Anne 1804 Jan 22 COLEMAN William s John Anne 1805 Feb 3 COLEMAN John s Thomas Mary Milcombe 1807 Mar 8 COLEMAN William s Thomas Mary Milcombe 1809 May 7 COLEMAN Thomas s Thomas Mary Milcombe 1810 Dec 13 COLEMAN John s John Anne 1811 Jul 7 COLEMAN Hannah d Thomas Mary Milcombe 1817 Oct 19 COLEMAN Anne d John Mary lab 1822 Sep 6 COLEMAN Sarah Anne d George Anne weaver 1825 Jul 15 COLEMAN Eliza d George Ann weaver 1829 Feb 26 COLEMAN Mary Anne d George Ann weaver 1833 Jun 2 COLEMAN William s Susannah COLEMAN single 1834 Feb 9 COLEMAN William Jesse s George Ann weaver 1838 Jul 22 COLEMAN Martha Barnes d George Ann weaver 1844 Jun 30 COLEMAN Clarissa Hannah d Eliza COLEMAN single woman 1872 Jun 23 COLEMAN Vernon George s John Sarah carrier Bloxham born March 31 1874 Jan 25 COLEMAN Eva Septima d John Sarah carrier Bloxham born Dec 24 1873 Hope this is of helps to you. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Cox" <sueecox@rogers.com> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:45 PM Subject: [BAN] BATEMAN & COLEMAN > Hello Barb in Nova Scotia with the Bloxham book: Martha Batman/Bateman > was born in Bloxham in 1735, parents Alice Coleman and Edward > Bateman/Batman. Does the baptismal record have anything resembling this > pair baptised around, say 1700, give or take ten years? Does the Bloxham > record go back that far? I would appreciate a look-up if you can do it! > > Sue in TO > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005

Barb, Thanks so much for your help. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb VanderRoest" <vanderb@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [BAN] Bloxham Baptisms > Hi Pam, > There are no DEWS in the Bloxham baptisms but I did find the following: > 1776 June 30 Mary Jellyman d John > > There are lots of Jellymans & varients but this is the only one that is > close for Mary. > Barb > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pamela Cosper" <dcosper281286MI@comcast.net> > To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 9:13 AM > Subject: Re: [BAN] Bloxham Baptisms > > > > Hi Barb, > > Could you check John DEW and Mary JELLYMAN born 1773 and 1774. thank you > > so > > much. > > Pam > > Michigan > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Barb VanderRoest" <vanderb@ns.sympatico.ca> > > To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:32 PM > > Subject: [BAN] Bloxham Baptisms > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> Just thought that I would let everyone know that I have all Bloxham > > baptisms > >> transcribed from 1630 to 1911 and would be glad to do lookups for anyone > >> with an interest there. > >> Barb > >> Nova Scotia > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> No virus found in this outgoing message. > >> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > >> Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 > >> > >> > >> ============================== > >> Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > >> Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >> > > > > > > ============================== > > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this incoming message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 > > > > > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Can anyone help me locate William and Ann IZZARD in the 1851 census, posssibly living in Boddington? They married Jun 1849 but did William have an existing son born in the West Indies? Ann (GILBERT) was christened in 1812. -- Joe Confirmed virus free by Norton 2005 before transmission with Mozilla Thunderbird

Hello, Many thanks for your help and welcome notes! I've managed to find quite a lot of info over the past few weeks! I'm now stuck on one root line. I've found information on a John Tobin of Banbury, who was born in 1855 and I believe he has a brother called Francis (1844), but I can't find anything on their parents. John was born in Banbury and Francis was born in Reading. I found most of their details on the 1871 Census. If it's any help, John's main job throughout the years was as a hawker and a fish hawker If anyone has any clues or hints as to where to look next.... Many thanks, Hannah --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

Look for North Stoke.. the old village Mongewell is close just along the Bridle Path.. betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hester Moore" <familyhistory@optusnet.com.au> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 8:17 AM Subject: [BAN] ANy idea where Mongewell is/was? > Hi > This may not be strictly Banburyshire, but I was hoping someone may be > able to tell me where Mongewell is/was in Oxfordshire. > I have looked in my British Atlas and on several map sites, but can't find > it. > > TIA > Hester > Queensland, Australia > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 6/01/2005 > > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >

Hi all, Well it's great to know you are still all out there & lovely to see some new names responding :>) But can you please remember to change the subject line to reflect the content of your own posts Thanks Angela:>) List admin

If you are not already aware the Coleman family can be found in Shotteswell 17th - 18th century. David Judd ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Stacey" <barb@forward15.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:00 AM Subject: [BAN] RE: Brick Walls/COLEMAN > Hi Lorraine. > In the 1841 Census there's a George COLEMAN with children corresponding to > those born to the George & Ann m 1822. His date of birth would be 1795, not > 1785, but he certainly looks like yours? Hope he is. > Frog Lane, Bloxham > George COLEMAN 46 , Weaver > Ann 38 > Mary Ann 12 > William 8 > Charlotte 9 > Martha 3 > Caleb 1 > All born in County. > > This George's baptism is recorded in Bloxham > 1795 June 14 George s Thomas & Anne > > While I was looking at 1841 Bloxham for you I almost jumped out of my chair. > Hiding there, where I would never have thought of looking for him was George > SODEN, one of my own brickwalls. Just made my day! > > Barb Stacey > Solihull > > > I have several brick walls but one in particular is my COLEMAN people > > > > George coleman brn abt 1785 not known where havent yet located him in 1841 > > census - he mrd Ann Barnes in 1822 at St Marys Bloxham and was shown of > > this parish - they lived in bloxham and raised at least 6 children found > > so far > > > > He died at aged 60 in 1845 a plush weaver of typhoid fever in Neithrop > > workhouse? which i believe was on the warwick road in banbury cant tie in > > the informant present at death an Elizabeth Birt but assume she may have > > been a nurse there? > > > > so if anyone sees him please let me know > > > > > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

My first choice of career was to be the man who emptied the gas meter. This was clearly a position of some importance in society. Once issued with a company vehicle, (black bicycle equipped with large wire basket), and a large leather shoulder bag, he was authorised to enter any home and be treated with the utmost respect. It was unfortunate, but the location chosen for gas meters usually meant that they were either tucked away under the staircase or hidden behind piles of bulky household items which had to be removed to allow access. Exasperating to a conscientious meter man in his search for efficiency. Using his special key, a large tin box was removed from the base of the gas meter, and a pile of pennies poured onto the table. These were counted by sliding each one with a finger into the other hand, until the pile had been transformed with a pleasing symmetry into little towers of coins. All members of the household watched -- with skill the operation could be conducted at impressive speed. The total value was agreed, entered into a ledger, the empty container returned to the meter, and a cup of tea accepted. A more delicate question concerned the mysterious appearance in the meter of foreign coins. Quite inexplicable. We were obviously being visited during any absence by Irish people, who were quite happy to pay for any gas they consumed. Dark rumours circulated concerning ‘him at 23’ and his collection of washers. As an avid collector myself, I assumed that the gasman would have a personal penny collection, one for every year, in good condition. On reflection, by the time he had completed even our small street, the gasman must have been carrying quite a weight in pennies. Did the corner grocer shop exchange these for paper money - the familiar ten-bob notes or the legendary five-pound handkerchief? Did he stagger back to base, bicycle wobbling under the weight of pennies? How many pennies were being held in gas headquarters at Abbots Lane, having been collected from all over the City? A penny for them …? -- Smokey Confirmed virus free by Norton 2005 before transmission with Mozilla Thunderbird

Hi Lorraine. In the 1841 Census there's a George COLEMAN with children corresponding to those born to the George & Ann m 1822. His date of birth would be 1795, not 1785, but he certainly looks like yours? Hope he is. Frog Lane, Bloxham George COLEMAN 46 , Weaver Ann 38 Mary Ann 12 William 8 Charlotte 9 Martha 3 Caleb 1 All born in County. This George's baptism is recorded in Bloxham 1795 June 14 George s Thomas & Anne While I was looking at 1841 Bloxham for you I almost jumped out of my chair. Hiding there, where I would never have thought of looking for him was George SODEN, one of my own brickwalls. Just made my day! Barb Stacey Solihull > I have several brick walls but one in particular is my COLEMAN people > > George coleman brn abt 1785 not known where havent yet located him in 1841 > census - he mrd Ann Barnes in 1822 at St Marys Bloxham and was shown of > this parish - they lived in bloxham and raised at least 6 children found > so far > > He died at aged 60 in 1845 a plush weaver of typhoid fever in Neithrop > workhouse? which i believe was on the warwick road in banbury cant tie in > the informant present at death an Elizabeth Birt but assume she may have > been a nurse there? > > so if anyone sees him please let me know > >

Hi George, Can't help very much I'm afraid, but your George TIMMS of Cropredy is still in Cropredy aged 14 on the 1851 census together with father George, mother Catherine and siblings. Both George snr and jnr give their professions as Nail Makers. I also looked through Banbury 1851 but could not find a George Timms there, although there were a few female TIMMS who were servants at various houses. There is a FreeBMD record showing the marriage of a George TIMMS in Jan-Mar quarter of 1859 in Banbury Reg district, but that doesn't really clarify anything as the Reg District covers both Banbury and Cropredy. Sorry not to have been of more help. Good luck. Janet Booth Cheshire. ----- Original Message ----- From: "George T Tkach" <jurajtkac@juno.com> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [BAN] Roll call for all members - Angela > Angela ... Thanks for the encouragement ... My One and Only Brickwall is > ... > > GEORGE TIMMS born circa 1837 in Oxfordshire ... hometown unknown but > ...through the process of eliminating all other George TIM(M)S by > marriages or death ... we are left with one each from either Banbury or > Cropredy. I can follow their lives up to marrying age but then lose them. > > Mine "married" (can't find their marriage either) Eliza BILLS of Tipton, > WOR, in Dudley, WOR. He was a canal man when they married. I found her on > the 1851, 61, 71, 81 and 91 censuses ... and he on the 71 and on up but > not the 1851 or 61. > > If I can connect mine to either the Banbury or Cropredy George Timms I'd > jump back three or four more generations. Any help out there? > > George Timms Tkac, USA > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Happy New Year to all I have several brick walls but one in particular is my COLEMAN people George coleman brn abt 1785 not known where havent yet located him in 1841 census - he mrd Ann Barnes in 1822 at St Marys Bloxham and was shown of this parish - they lived in bloxham and raised at least 6 children found so far He died at aged 60 in 1845 a plush weaver of typhoid fever in Neithrop workhouse? which i believe was on the warwick road in banbury cant tie in the informant present at death an Elizabeth Birt but assume she may have been a nurse there? so if anyone sees him please let me know The coleman children married into the CLIFTON lines and CARTER theres a few HAWTINS and LOVELLS knocking about so anybody with these might like to compare notes bye for now Lorraine franzipan27@hotmail.com researching: Warwickshire: knowle/solihull WHITE,TIDMARSH,COLLEDGE,WIMBLETT Birmingham:READER,BROWN,GOODE,BIDDLE COLES,SMITH,COPE,FIRTH,WHITE Oxfordshire: BARNES,CARTER,CLIFTON, COLEMAN,GRIFFIN, Staffordshire: DICKINSON,MILLWARD,READER, ROLLASON,STRIDE,WORMINGHAM,WHITE Buckinghamshire: - Olney - HARRIS,READER Tingewick/Preston Bissett CARTER,ALLEN Lancashire: WEBSTER,BURNS,EARLAM, DEARDEN,FOSTER,DINGSDALE,WILLIAMS, BRADSHAW Westmorland: HALL,DAVIS,GOAD,

Hi Barb Could you see whether there is a WSilliam Hall, baptised around 1795? Ros -----Original Message----- From: Barb VanderRoest [mailto:vanderb@ns.sympatico.ca] Sent: 12 January 2005 01:32 To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAN] Bloxham Baptisms Hi all, Just thought that I would let everyone know that I have all Bloxham baptisms transcribed from 1630 to 1911 and would be glad to do lookups for anyone with an interest there. Barb Nova Scotia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx

Hi This may not be strictly Banburyshire, but I was hoping someone may be able to tell me where Mongewell is/was in Oxfordshire. I have looked in my British Atlas and on several map sites, but can't find it. TIA Hester Queensland, Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 6/01/2005

Hi Everyone Well, I seem to have quite alot of Families from this area and probably heaps of Brick Walls as well!! FOWLER - Descendants of John FOWLER and Catherine Jane BAKER originally from Uplyme, Devon and Lyme Regis, Dorset. LE[A]THERBARROW / ENDALL - Interested in Descendants and Ancestors of Charles LE[A]THERBARROW married Eliza ENDALL 1832 Banbury. Charles was a widower, but so far I have not been able to find his first marriage. Other names related to these are PRATT and WALKER. JENNINGS - I have back to Francis buried at Hethe in 1752. He married Catherine EVANS 1705 Middleton Stoney. So far, don't know where he came from. My branch moved to Bicester and then Moreton-in-marsh, Glos and further. There were other JENNINGS around, but so far I cannot find the link. CLARKE - married into the JENNINGS in 1774 at Bicester, but family originally from Tysoe/Oxhill area in Warks. would be interested to hear from anyone researching them, as they are a direct line. Other Families - EPPS, FOSTER, SO[U]THAM. Sorry its so long. Hester Qld, Australia -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 6/01/2005

Hi Barb, Could you check John DEW and Mary JELLYMAN born 1773 and 1774. thank you so much. Pam Michigan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb VanderRoest" <vanderb@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 8:32 PM Subject: [BAN] Bloxham Baptisms > Hi all, > Just thought that I would let everyone know that I have all Bloxham baptisms > transcribed from 1630 to 1911 and would be glad to do lookups for anyone > with an interest there. > Barb > Nova Scotia > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.9 - Release Date: 1/6/2005 > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

QUOTE. "My first choice of career was to be the man who emptied the gas meter.' Yes a good choice Joe, but I think a hot cross bun maker would be a better choice, you would only have to work once a year !!! ha ha. This was clearly a position of some importance in society. Once issued with a company vehicle, (black bicycle equipped with large wire basket), and a large leather shoulder bag, he was authorised to enter any home and be treated with the utmost respect. It was unfortunate, but the location chosen for gas meters usually meant that they were either tucked away under the staircase or hidden behind piles of bulky household items which had to be removed to allow access. Exasperating to a conscientious meter man in his search for efficiency. Using his special key, a large tin box was removed from the base of the gas meter, and a pile of pennies poured onto the table. These were counted by sliding each one with a finger into the other hand, until the pile had been transformed with a pleasing symmetry into little towers of coins. All members of the household watched -- with skill the operation could be conducted at impressive speed. The total value was agreed, entered into a ledger, the empty container returned to the meter, and a cup of tea accepted. A more delicate question concerned the mysterious appearance in the meter of foreign coins. Quite inexplicable. We were obviously being visited during any absence by Irish people, who were quite happy to pay for any gas they consumed. Dark rumours circulated concerning �him at 23� and his collection of washers. As an avid collector myself, I assumed that the gasman would have a personal penny collection, one for every year, in good condition. On reflection, by the time he had completed even our small street, the gasman must have been carrying quite a weight in pennies. Did the corner grocer shop exchange these for paper money - the familiar ten-bob notes or the legendary five-pound handkerchief? Did he stagger back to base, bicycle wobbling under the weight of pennies? How many pennies were being held in gas headquarters at Abbots Lane, having been collected from all over the City? A penny for them �? -- Smokey Confirmed virus free by Norton 2005 before transmission with Mozilla Thunderbird ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 250MB free storage. Do more. Manage less.

Sarah Ann Wyatt born c 1852 in Adderbury OX daughter of Samuel and Sarah Wyatt Other children Mary Anne, Louisa, Edward and John Samuel son of John Wyatt and Maria Deeley all of Adderbury as far as I know... Maria born c October 1787 daughter of Thomas Deeley and Elizabeth? Maria Bushell daughter of Nathanial Bushell born c 1765 and Elizabeth Jackson born c 1770( both of Banbury Ox) other children - Henry, Thomas, Kitty, Martha, Hannah, Mary, Elizabeth, James, Nathanial and Sarah. Elizabeth Jackson the daughter of John and Mary Jackson Any connections?? advice?? help ??? all info gratefully received... Best wishes and a belated Happy New Year to all Mo --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

I have Inn(e)s at Padbury in Buckinghamshire where Ann Inns married Robert Merry in 1703 and Inns became a christian name within the Merry family. eg Inns Merry (1707-1794) of Padbury married Elizabeth Whitehall Inns Merry (1783-1855) of Steeple Claydon married Charlotte Clarke Ann Johnston --- Original Message ----- From: "alec" <alec@ajisi.demon.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:03 PM Subject: [BAN] Roll Call for all members > Hi Angela & all Listers, > Do you have any INNS connections in your family trees. I am one of four inns descendants who are collectively keeping a database of INNS (with some INNES). We have family trees mostly starting in Bucks, Oxon and Northants and my own family tree traces a path from Preston Capes, thro' Charwelton and Wardington to Sibford Gower. We would be pleased to exchange information on any INNS family connections you may have in your family tree. > > My brick wall is in Preston Capes and the origins of Thomas Inns who married Sarah Smith in 1777; take a tour around the Preston Capes village web site where a large slice of Inns Genealogy was derived from our database. My next task is to re-visit Wardington and research a outlying family link from INNS to WALTON to FENNEMORE and then WATTS; can you ever look in Wardington's past without finding a connection to the Watts'. If that sounds too familiar, I went to school with a Thomas Watts and worked with a Ted Watts! > > Best Regards, > Alec J Inns > ex Banburian living in Abingdon > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >

I'd love to hear from anyone with any links to either the JARVIS or CAPORN families of Banbury. These lines are unrelated to each other (except through me!). My brick wall at the moment is the Faulkner family of Adderbury. John Faulkner married Mary Watkins in 1811, and they had children Caroline, Charles and Mary Anne, that I know of. Cheers Julie Fitzgerald Melbourne -----Original Message----- From: Angela Allen [mailto:angela.allen72@btinternet.com] Sent: Tuesday, 11 January 2005 9:11 AM To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAN] Roll call for all members - Angela Hi all, Re previous post (Thumb twiddlers) It's New year, we always have a 'roll call' for names/brickwalls & any research interests at this time. Previous 'list lurkers' are especially encouraged to participate:>) Any chance some of you can post your requests - just to update us 'long time' members, (who will otherwise just get fat on 'Dough cake/Banbury cakes' swapping recipes, while our research material gathers dust ;>) & of course so all our newer members can see we do actually have 'gene interests' *>) To start the cake - sorry, ball rolling - my research includes ......... ARIS/WHEELER/YOUNG/BULL/WATTS/GASCOINGE/HAWTIN/ HERITAGE plus others - all so far from around Banburyshire, apart from YOUNG which comes from Antrim, Ireland. Time span I'm stuck with is going back from John ARIS married Mary BULL @ Middleton Cheney 7/11/1785 - need Baps & parents for them Maybe then I can connect to other ARIS/S researchers & join another link in the long chain George YOUNG son of Charles YOUNG & Mary DUNLOP born/bapt 18/7/1880 Antrim, Ireland - siblings? any other info a huge bonus! Who's next to tell their's ........... PLEEEASE! Angela:>) Admin Banbury list ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Hi Everyone, Newcomers will wonder at the subject title, whilst aficionados will recall an earlier one! I assure you the expression does occur in the dictionary, which surprised me almost as much as you, the first time that I looked it up! Firstly, to appease Angela---MY INTERESTS---just the Banbury Area ones, this time. Most are of Claydon-, Oxfordshire.---------- PARRITT (variously spelt), WYATT, ASTELL, and now, PAXTON. You see a chance remark brought an immediate response from alertand kindly listers a few months back, and a brick wall came tumbling down! I am also hoping to follow up on the PREW family, first cousins ofmy grandfather's, too. His brothers and sisters scattered to all points of the compass, so no longer have a local presence, as far as I am aware. Thankyou Joe for the great story, Did your mother end up with white hair? I spent some time perusing my streetmap, but it was too recent, as it showed only the obliteration of the wonderful "cartwheel" roading system, in which major roads had fed the city's traffic north, south, east or west so efficiently! At least you knew which way you were heading! So, thanks for the location of the "playground" site.Got it!-------- But by the time I frequented the area, when I taught at the Parkgate Schools for 3 years, redevelopment had occurred. I also lived opposite a huge bombed site. The factory, which had been a ribbon weaving one, where my mother rose to become a foremistress before her marriage, met its "Waterloo", I think, in April 1941. I remember walking up the street after a night in a deep shelter, and seeing it ablaze. The devastated area stretched from Webster Street to Broad Street, extending behind the small shops and housing of the Foleshill Rd. and St Paul's C.of E. church. It was tidied up, as I suppose it would 've had a deadly tangle of burnt and ruined machinery, as well as the bales of stored silk, and all the partitioning and fallen girders. It made a fine spacious playground for the local children, who only had miniscule gardens and backyards, anyway. Daily the neighbourhood dogs were exercised there----with the result that you had to watch your step! I was too busy keeping up with my homework, when my head wasn't in a book, so I only used it for a short-cut. It has remained vividly in my memory, for one reason. I was by then at Wheatley St School and in Art, one day, we were set the homework subject of, "The view from my bedroom window". Hmmm. It necessitated raising the sash to its full height, as otherwise I had a fine view of the stiff cream crackly material we were issued to replace broken glass! It was some time before we had glass in the windows again and then it was that miserable semi-transparent stuff, until supplies flowed again some years after the war. It was to be a pencil sketch and although I had never done anything similar before I evidently made a creditable job of it and got duly commended. The other day reading Betty's reference to sugar mice made me realise that they were one of the things that spelt Christmas to me. Not the decorations, or Xmas trees, the carols or Santa Claus---- but the pink or white sugar mice that appeared in the sweet shops. A stocking wasn't complete without at least one or two.! A-n-d fast forward a bit! Around 1970 or so, I saw, in a magazine the instructions to make sugar mice. My interest was kindled and I determined to make some. The Pelorus Sounds Christmas Party was in a day or so, so I sent to a Havelock store for any supplies that I needed; having due regard to the fact that besides basic groceries it stocked gumboots (Wellingtons!), farm clothing and hardware, also garden supplies! Not much in the way of accessories for sugar mice!!! Living in the back of beyond, and with no road access or launch of our own it is as well that my English genes made me pretty inventive! I needed to make several dozen mice if each child was to receive one. Ears had to be thought out as I hadn't got large pieces of almond. Tails and faces were easy! On the day of the party, by 8am. we were in our dinghy out on the water awaiting the mail launch.We were laden with many cardboard boxes-----the prize mice and oodles of baking, plus my contributions to the lunch we were having at Keith's cousin's. We boarded it and anchored the boat, (well out because of the tidal drop). We reached our relative's an hour or so later and after lunch we wentacross the sound to the party at Homewood Hall. There were games and activities; Santa Claus arrived in his boat, and then weset out the goodies. It was worth the fiddly task I'd set myself to see the faces as the mice were arranged. The other thing that IS Christmas to me is "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", from the Nutcracker Suite. I can remember, as a very small child, hearing it for the first time,"on the wireless" . To me the sweet tinkly tune was sheer magic and fairy-like and I have never lost my joy in hearing it. Just prior to Christmas I was wrapping parcels----and chalk it up, I had it all done in time this year! My struggles with the tape, when I stuck everything except what I wanted to do----and in great danger of self-mummification, I wondered what we used before sellotape? Yes, I know about various paper tapes, but there must've been something else! It turned out that I had put myself through a needless ordeal, as when my roll ran out I replaced it with the real Sellotape. Everything went swimmingly after that! Which goes to show that my cheap stuff had been a false economy. Another lesson learnt , Muriel! In the later 1940s I would spend a couple of December evenings at Gran's making several sizes of Christmas bags and envelopes forthe Xmas gifts that Auntie Florrie gave to her staff. Once these receptacles were made, it was a simple matter to slip the gifts inside. It was quite a task as at the time Primary schools were bursting at the seams. To explain--- besides her main building she had to visit two annexes, each ½ hour's walk from the main building, and in different directions. In the circumstances a bike came in handy! Oh, I nearly forgot! Prewar memories of Mum receiving a hefty volume through the post. It was a Christmas card catalogue and friends and neighbours came to inspect and order. They ranged from simple cards to the ornate. There was a range of sentiments or verse, and you could select from these. There was also the form in which you personalised them with your name and address, to decide upon. I loved to turn the pages, revelling in the rich colours or perky motifs, feeling the embossed ones and enjoying the texture of the cards themselves. I can see Mum, now, laboriously filling in the forms to send away and the pleasure people derived at being able to afford, (perhaps only a few), good cards. It was a matter of prestige. Afterwards we had the album to play with. A prized possession. This Christmas watching my granddaughters play with dolls that were so up with the latest trends, I thought how lucky they were that the hair could be styled and still retain its original freshness and bounce. No sweetly pretty doll whose hair had become a blonde "mat" after a day or so's play for them! What a disappointment for us---and one that they will never know. Long live progress! Regards, Meandering Muriel. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.6.10 - Release Date: 10/01/2005