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Hello, I recently joined the list and am trying to trace my family tree. My Dad's family is all from Banbury, so I was just wondering, what records or archives are stored at Banbury library? Or are there any other websites that would be useful? I've been searching on ancestry.com and the census sites. Many thanks for any help, Hannah Tobin, Coventry --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!

HAPPY NEW YEAR from AUSTRALIA AULD LANG SYNE " to times gone by" Betty

Happy New Year everyone! Hope the New year brings you all the help you need with those brick walls. Come to think of it... I could do with a bit of that myself! Dorothy -- Dorothy Gibbs (in Hertfordshire UK)

Don't know if this is associated?I have a Joseph TUSTIN on the census in 1851 in Shutford with my ancestor Sarah KEMPSON (farmer).The name COLES also features:Sarah COLES aged 15 on the 1851 census again with my Sarah KEMPSON .The KEMPSONs married into the WINTER family of Shutford.(John WINTER married Elizabeth KEMPSON 1791 Binton WAR - they lived in Shutford)The WINTERs have been described as maltsers & sometimes farmers.I have not yet managed to establish where exactly Sarah KEMPSON lived in SHutford ( census 1851). Andrea andreajclark@balgowan23.freeserve.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan & Karen Hunt" <hunt.household@virgin.net> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [BAN] Balscote > Hi Anne > > I had a look at the Balscote and nearby Wroxton PRs to no avail. I then > looked at the 1881 census. Is this the correct couple:- > > Dwelling: Malthouse Lane > Census Place: W Shutford, Oxford, England > Source: FHL Film 1341367 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 1525 Folio 23 > Page > 11 > Marr Age Sex Birthplace > Charles GRAVES M 32 M Ilford, Essex, England > Rel: Head > Occ: Farmer > James WALKER M 20 M Shutford, Oxford, England > Rel: Serv > Occ: Farm Serv (Indoor) > Clara WALKER M 27 F Shutford, Oxford, England > Rel: Serv > Occ: General Serv Domestic > > If so, the following may answer your query:- > > Shutford Baptisms > > 1853 Nov 6 > TUSTAIN Clara Elizabeth d John, lab & Sally > > I then found this marriage which lists Clara as a witness:- > > 1880 JUN 12 > WALLING (signs WALLIN) James 22 bach engine driver SW s James lab > TUSTAIN Sarah Amy 20 sp SW d John lab > Wit Frederick COLES Clara TUSTAIN > Banns > > .................... so she was still single at that time. (Sarah was > bapt > in 1860 in Shutford and was the sister of Clara). > > I checked for the marriage of Clara and James but there was only the one > above and the next was in 1885. Unfortunately in 1881 no marriages were > recorded in Shutford would you believe. I then checked the banns but > nothing - the banns listed were only the ones not followed by a marriage > in > the parish. > > Neither were buried in Shutford/Wroxton or Balscote. > > I did find a possible baptism for James WALKER in Shutford:- > > 1862 Jan 5 > WALKER James s John blacksmith & Maria SW > > I can look further for siblings etc in the PRs if you need but at this > stage > I am not sure if I am on the right track as you have reason to think Clara > was from Balscote. > > HTH > > Karen > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elizabeth Calvert" <liz@ecalvert.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:27 AM > Subject: [BAN] Balscote > > >> Hello List. A Happy New Year to you all >> has anyone on list got the parish records for Balscot if so would some >> kin > d person look for the baptism of Clara E Tustain about 1854 >> and her Wedding please to James Walker about 1879-80 they were Married by > the census of 1881 >> thank you so much for any help Bye >> Anne Williams >> >> >> ============================== >> 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: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/2004 >> >> > > > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/2004 > > > ============================== > 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 > >

And A HAPPY NEW YEAR to you, Betty And to all the rest of you listers of Greater Banburyshire! May 2005 bring those brick walls tumbling down. Len

Hi Anne I had a look at the Balscote and nearby Wroxton PRs to no avail. I then looked at the 1881 census. Is this the correct couple:- Dwelling: Malthouse Lane Census Place: W Shutford, Oxford, England Source: FHL Film 1341367 PRO Ref RG11 Piece 1525 Folio 23 Page 11 Marr Age Sex Birthplace Charles GRAVES M 32 M Ilford, Essex, England Rel: Head Occ: Farmer James WALKER M 20 M Shutford, Oxford, England Rel: Serv Occ: Farm Serv (Indoor) Clara WALKER M 27 F Shutford, Oxford, England Rel: Serv Occ: General Serv Domestic If so, the following may answer your query:- Shutford Baptisms 1853 Nov 6 TUSTAIN Clara Elizabeth d John, lab & Sally I then found this marriage which lists Clara as a witness:- 1880 JUN 12 WALLING (signs WALLIN) James 22 bach engine driver SW s James lab TUSTAIN Sarah Amy 20 sp SW d John lab Wit Frederick COLES Clara TUSTAIN Banns .................... so she was still single at that time. (Sarah was bapt in 1860 in Shutford and was the sister of Clara). I checked for the marriage of Clara and James but there was only the one above and the next was in 1885. Unfortunately in 1881 no marriages were recorded in Shutford would you believe. I then checked the banns but nothing - the banns listed were only the ones not followed by a marriage in the parish. Neither were buried in Shutford/Wroxton or Balscote. I did find a possible baptism for James WALKER in Shutford:- 1862 Jan 5 WALKER James s John blacksmith & Maria SW I can look further for siblings etc in the PRs if you need but at this stage I am not sure if I am on the right track as you have reason to think Clara was from Balscote. HTH Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Calvert" <liz@ecalvert.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: [BAN] Balscote > Hello List. A Happy New Year to you all > has anyone on list got the parish records for Balscot if so would some kin d person look for the baptism of Clara E Tustain about 1854 > and her Wedding please to James Walker about 1879-80 they were Married by the census of 1881 > thank you so much for any help Bye > Anne Williams > > > ============================== > 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: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/2004 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.6 - Release Date: 28/12/2004

Hello Anne, Clara was neither baptised nor married in Balscote, but there is a baptism of a Clara Elizabeth Tustain in Shutford which is more or less next door to Balscote: Nov 6 1853 TUSTAIN Clara Elizabeth d. John, lab. & Sally I can't find her marriage in Shutford, but it must be after June 12 1880 because she is a witness at her sister Sarah Amy's marriage in Shutford. I have just looked on the FreeBMD site and there is a marriage in the March quarter 1881 Reg district Banbury Vol 3a, page 880 of Clara with James Walker's name on the same page. Hope this helps. Janet Booth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Calvert" <liz@ecalvert.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 10:27 AM Subject: [BAN] Balscote > Hello List. A Happy New Year to you all > has anyone on list got the parish records for Balscot if so would some > kind person look for the baptism of Clara E Tustain about 1854 > and her Wedding please to James Walker about 1879-80 they were Married by > the census of 1881 > thank you so much for any help Bye > Anne Williams > > > ============================== > 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 >

Hello List. A Happy New Year to you all has anyone on list got the parish records for Balscot if so would some kind person look for the baptism of Clara E Tustain about 1854 and her Wedding please to James Walker about 1879-80 they were Married by the census of 1881 thank you so much for any help Bye Anne Williams

----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Connell" <Subject: [BAN] Another memory .. > included a Sunday afternoon walk to the bluebell woods. . > -- > Smokey > Bluebells, Cowslips, Buttercups & Daisys' Very Nostalgic Joe. If you ever get near *Everdon Stubbs (Northants)during the season - re-live "Bluebell Woods".. Very Romantic..?. Still unspoiled..!!! betty .. > > ============================== > 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 >

Just to advise new email - old mdjdlm@kelcom.igs.net - new mdjdlm@sympatico.ca . Best wishes to all for a Happy New Year! Dolores Maycock-Jones

In message <41D1B127.5020909@virgin.net>, Joe Connell <jfc.public@virgin.net> writes >Walking was the big activity. Walking to school, walking to the shops, >walking to church. Hi Joe, Thank you for that... more good memories. I do enjoy your writings. I had a bonus form my short trip to Coventry this time. My sister and brother in law got out all the stuff that they had been given to look after that had belonged to my Father. Newspaper cuttings, diaries, letters etc. Some of this stuff may be useful to other Banburyshire people as many other names are mentioned. As soon as I get a chance I will go through it and let you all know. I brought it back with me to scan and enter into my family tree programmes and narrative. Dorothy -- Dorothy Gibbs (in Hertfordshire UK)

Walking was the big activity. Walking to school, walking to the shops, walking to church. The war was ended, and family routine included a Sunday afternoon walk to the bluebell woods. I’m touched now to remember that my parents walked behind us, hand in hand; we two being instructed to walk ahead. (‘And don’t go out of sight’) My younger sister is quite happy with this; she has Virginia, an invisible friend, for company. This involves a running commentary on current features in her life and its many injustices. Chief among these are her brother, and the nightly experience of standing on a chair for submission to ringlets. I myself am wearing the latest gear of dubious street credibility. Brown plastic button sandals, offset with knee length grey woollen socks. Elastic garters leave an engraved indentation around the leg. The critical fashion statement is light brown dungarees, the shoulder straps tastefully exposing a very fancy short-sleeved white shirt. Any suggestion that this had previously been a girl’s blouse would be strenuously denied. Hair was worn short. Very short. Trimmed weekly with large pinking scissors. I’m not happy - nowhere does it say that William and the Bandits were accompanied by parents. There was an unwritten convention of behaviour when walking in public. No one ate in the street; this implied that one had no home. An ice cream was an honourable and rare exception. One did not walk with hands in pockets - this offence was punished by the pockets being sown closed. Scuffing the toecaps of footwear was a capital offence. Not acceptable behaviour now, but on return our arms would be filled with bluebells, their long cool stems later being fitted into empty jam jars, lighting the kitchen with colour for a few hours. Those narrow tracks we walked along are now busy highways, and the bluebell woods lie beneath piers of the M6 motorway. Progress. -- Smokey

Is anyone researching the family of WARD of EYDON? I have an interesting marriages where the two parties share the same surname, I know not that uncommon. Richard WARD of KISLINGBURY to Jane WARD of EYDON on 7 February 1775 witnesses were George DOUGLAS and Elizabeth DANIEL Richard was born in Rothersthorpe in 1745 but in 1775 was living in Kislingbury. There is a WARD family going back to the 17th century in Eydon, but apart from this marriage I do not know of a connection to the Kislingbury / Rothersthorpe area. Can anyone help? Graham

Dear friends, Wishing you & yours all a wonderful Christmas & peace, love, light & happiness for 2005. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to either Ban. list or web site in 2004, both reflect your kind, generous & warm nature, within what I think has become more than just a 'gene' mailing list, purely because that is how 'you' all are :>)) It's also a place where friend's keep in touch from the world over & share things above & beyond strictly research - recent family events, a joke/leg pull or two, wonderful memories, the weather. (oh, forgot house moves*>) Don't ever change, it's a privilege to be part of such a congenial group of folk in today's world. Leaves me to say (before I ramble anymore & it turns marathon!) *Many thanks & Much appreciation* Rosemary, Helen & Ian, for all your help & hard work on our behalf this year --------- We couldn't have done it without you guys :>))) Seasonal blessings & love to all Angela xx Admin Banbury Area List angela.allen72@btinternet.com

May I wish all of you and your loved ones a very peaceful Christmas and the happiest of New Years. Thank you to all who have contributed to our new website: without you, it wouldn't have been possible. It has been great fun getting it up and running, and I have 'met' some wonderfully kind and generous people through it. But there is far more to do with it than I ever anticipated - it could almost be a full time job! And for those of you who still have spare time there are several more contributions in the 'Christmas Miscellany' on the website, and a couple more to come, hopefully later this afternoon, Love and best wishes to you all, Rosemary, Northumberland UK ............................................................. Webmaster for Banburyshire Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm Email: banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk .............................................................

Friends I hope Ian hasn't signed off completely yet, as I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a Blessed Christmas and Successful Hunting in the New Year. Christmas to me is a religious festival, but also means Family gathering together to celebrate - this year Christmas will be different for our family , as our son will not be with us - he is celebrating with his fiancée's family in the South Island. I would like to share with you all, a Christmas Carol which is to me the epitome of Christmas. "All poor men and humble All lame men who stumble, Come haste ye, nor feel ye afraid; For Jesus our treasure, With love passed all measure In lowly poor manger was laid" A free translation of the Welsh Carol- 'O Deued Pob Cristion' Thanks to all for being so helpful, when I took over the List to aid Angela, when Computer suffered the hic ups, I am happy to stay with you all, ( she really didn't twist my arm!) Merry Christmas Helen From Lower Hutt "Aotea -roa " The Land of the Long White Cloud.

You caught me in time. I am checking before I dismantle, but I am gone now. Thank you Helen for your kind words. I hope you have a great time and that the long white cloud stays dry!! I am going now - honestly!! Ian

Although it is common for people to talk about the real meaning of Christmas, what do they mean? Do they mean the Biblical sense? The real meaning of Christmas, to me anyway, is and has always been, family. Our own families and those of others. My brother will be here from down under with children. My own will be up with the little ones or be cut out of the will!!!! We will be visiting family members too. But there is more to family than that. I am privileged to come from the worlds biggest and most widespread family - The Fire Service family. Difficult to explain, but to put it simply, I can walk into any Fire Station anywhere in the world and be treated like a brother. Closer knit than the Freemasons!! And now, I am also a part of this little family, which is widespread. So thank you all for the time, effort and patience you all expend on making this fun, informative and friendly. Have a great Yuletide and catch you all very soon I hope. Signing off for a while so my nephew can have a bed!! Back in the New Year. Ian

Hi All, I am just taking a minute or two from my crazies- this moving across the pond is something else. I thought about the Christmas memories everyone has shared and at first thought oh! mines not that interesting but then I think it is a bit different. So here goes. We had the usual Christmas's in Aynhoe hanging our pillowcases at the foot of the bed (representing Father Christmas's sack). In the morning finding gifts in it in the morning along with nuts and apples, after the war there were also oranges. I am sure we played with them until dinner was ready & showed them to our grandparents. It was after we moved to Oxford Dec 27th 1948 that Christmas was different. By the time the next Christmas came around we had got to know the Boys (patients) up at the hospital very well, they were our friends. It was really a rehab hospital for head & spinal injuries from WWII. There were about 50 men getting rehab ranging in age from late teens to late middle aged. None of them were able to go to their homes for Christmas so the celebration was made as home like as possible with lots of good food. The only thing missing was children. It was decided the 3 children in my family would do just nicely. We were told the Boys would really like to see us open all our gifts from Father Christmas. We were told that if we opened our gifts before going up to the hospital we had to open them carefully and rewrap them so we could open them in front of the Boys. We would always wake up very early around 4am and meticulously open our gifts & rewrapped them put them back into the pillowcase. We would be up at the hospital by 8am sacks in toe. The hospital was what is now the Brooks University at Headington Hill Hall. The main entrance hall where the wide sweeping staircase enters was about 40 x 40 feet they had at least a 20 ft high Xmas tree in there. We would sit in front of the tree and open our gifts. The Boys would sit on the stairs or in the hall in chairs or wheelchairs and exclaim with excitement as we opened each gift. When all was done then they gave us gifts they had made for us. They were things like leather cases with combs in them, purses, or wooden things that had made in shop. One of the things I got one year was a wooden pot with a lid that Jimmy Brennan had turned on a lathe for me; I still have it. Off of the main entrance hall was two very large rooms one was for TV in the evenings the other was a game room. After all the gifts were exchanged then the Boys and we 3 children went into these rooms to play with our toys. Of course my brothers toys were usually much more interest to them than my sister and mine were but it didn't make any difference they played with us all. There was hot drinks and little mince pies to snack on in the rooms until dinner was served about 1pm after the King's and later the Queen's speech had been heard on the wireless. Then we all went into the Boys dining room for dinner. We stayed at the hospital all day, only going home before it got too dark to walk home and after we had had the Christmas Tea. Boxing Day we stayed at home and Mum usually cooked a cockerel she had raised all year for the dinner. In reality we had 2 Christmas Days. This is the way we spent our Christmas's from 1949 to 1955, it was different but it was fun. I started nursing in March 1956, by that time most of the original Boys had gone home and the others were able to get home for the holidays. The hospital closed in 1959. Merry Christmas to you all & Happy New Year. We will be flying to England Jan 18th I start my new job in Cheltenham 24th. Dawn