Hi Lorraine, Do you mean the OFHS transcriptions? Go to http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ - and follow fiche or CD sales to see what they have. Cheers, Rosemary, Northumberland UK ............................................................ Webmaster for Banburyshire Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm Email: banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk ............................................................ In message of 3 Nov 2004 you wrote: | | Hi list | this might be a stupid question - but - where would i get access to the | banbury baptism index from up north here in st helens - is it available on | fiche??

Hello I am new to the list. I am resaerching the name BLOXHAM in Banburyshire,particularly in Tadmarton and Bloxham. Has anyane any information about Bloxhams before 1735? Thank you Eryl Bloxham

Hi list this might be a stupid question - but - where would i get access to the banbury baptism index from up north here in st helens - is it available on fiche?? 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, From: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D-request@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D@rootsweb.com Subject: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D Digest V04 #375 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 18:00:20 -0700 Content-Type: text/plain ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 375 Today's Topics: #1 COLEMAN/Shenington Query ["Jeannie Hodkinson" <jhodkinson@ho] #2 Re: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn f [WENTINKE@aol.com] #3 Girls School Book (Public Schools) ["Carole Jell" <ajell@btinternet.co] #4 Re: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn f ["Bill Watson" <bwatson27@comcast.n] #5 Re Back at last. ["pollyp" <pollyp@xtra.co.nz>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D, send a message to ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the ENG-BANBURY-AREA-D list administrator, send mail to ENG-BANBURY-AREA-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________ X-Message: #1 Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 20:27:22 +0800 From: "Jeannie Hodkinson" <jhodkinson@hotmail.com> To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY2-F404hh6nB2J4Xt00004ad3@hotmail.com> Subject: COLEMAN/Shenington Query Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Hello Everyone I am in Australia and hope that I have the correct group to ask this query - I hope Shenington comes within the area of Banbury. My GGrandmother Mary Ann COLEMAN (father's place of birth unknown) was born in Galway, Ireland but was apparently sent to Oxford by her brother when her parents died which was around 1873. I found her in Shenington on the 1881 census married to William Edward UPTON - they married Oct 1877. My main query is: Would she have had to report to anyone coming from Ireland to live in Shenington and if so would there be any records? I would love to know who she was sent to live with before getting married in case it was maybe a relative. Mary Ann married Walter BERRY when William Edward UPTON died in 1900 and they went to live in Coventry. Thanks for any help and if anyone is interested in the UPTON or SAVAGE names I would love to hear from them as I have traced both families in Shennington. Jeannie Email: jhodkinson@hotmail.com ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:05:29 EST From: WENTINKE@aol.com To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <1f1.2e8320d9.2eb8e019@aol.com> Subject: Re: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn family!! Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I have sent some information. Eleanor (Chacombe girl) ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:16:07 -0000 From: "Carole Jell" <ajell@btinternet.com> To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <002001c4c0f7$42c3f490$0501a8c0@CJlaptop> Subject: Girls School Book (Public Schools) 1960 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="Windows-1252"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I have copy of the above book which lists the staff members in Girls Public Schools in 1960. I know this is a fairly recent date compared with our normal research dates, but if anyone would like me to look up any information, I am happy to do so. Email off list ajell@btinternet.com Carole Jell Banbury, Oxon See my Family History website www.ajell.btinternet.co.uk for all my names ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 12:28:02 -0700 From: "Bill Watson" <bwatson27@comcast.net> To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <007401c4c112$11f138d0$4ce0ac43@Dads> Subject: Re: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn family!! Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit A quick look in the Neithrop PRs Index shows a marriage for Albert Edward BOSS in 1920 and also one for Alfred WILKINS in 1913. Not knowing the time period in question, I checked the index for Banbury baptisms 1839-1935 & found several BOSS and WILKINS entries listed. HTH, Bill Watson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Probert" <banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:29 AM Subject: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn family!! > > I've just spotted this on the Northants list - can anyone help her? > > > In a message of 1 Nov 2004 you wrote: > > | Being forwarded. Anybody assist them? > | > | Kevin Haddenham > | List Admin > | > | > | >From: Chrissiewebster@aol.com > | >Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:31:53 EST > | > > | > > | >I am desperately trying to track down my family for my TREE which seems > to > | >be stuck at twigetls as far as Northants is > concerned..................it > | >seems my main paternal side came from Chacombe, Neithrop and > | >Farthinghoe....... are there any WILKINS or BOSS in there > | >please................ > | >I am going to Banbury for a couple of days this week so if you can > point > | >me in right direct it would be appreciated please > > > > Cheers, > > Rosemary, > Northumberland UK > ........................................................... > Webmaster for Banburyshire Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm > Email: banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk > ........................................................... > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:42:32 +1300 From: "pollyp" <pollyp@xtra.co.nz> To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <002b01c4c124$dcc38100$4f2958db@MURIAL> Subject: Re Back at last. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi Angela, Gggggreat news------ you have been missed! Sorry to hear that you have ongoing problems re your computer. Good to have "an old faithful", ( the computer, I mean!), to rely on once again, eh? Funnily enough I thought of you, yesterday, and wondered how much longer you'd be off-list! I get these feelings, and then am not at all surprised to find a letter or email delivered that day, or a telephone call or a visit. A good job that "ducking stools" and "burning at the stake" is "out of fashion". I reckon that I'd be a prime candidate---and don't fancy either option!!! Today is quite full-on as granddaughter, Hannah, is five, and this auspicious day marks the beginning of her school career! She is keen as she has had school visits of varied durations, leading up to this; culminating in a œ day, last week. There is a to be family teaparty, once school ends, and two of her friends are invited---as well as the melee of cousins. It is a chance for us all to meet up. I will bring you up to date with my news and some chitter-chatter, a little later. Regards, Muriel. _________________________________________________________________ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today! http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger

Hi Angela, Gggggreat news------ you have been missed! Sorry to hear that you have ongoing problems re your computer. Good to have "an old faithful", ( the computer, I mean!), to rely on once again, eh? Funnily enough I thought of you, yesterday, and wondered how much longer you'd be off-list! I get these feelings, and then am not at all surprised to find a letter or email delivered that day, or a telephone call or a visit. A good job that "ducking stools" and "burning at the stake" is "out of fashion". I reckon that I'd be a prime candidate---and don't fancy either option!!! Today is quite full-on as granddaughter, Hannah, is five, and this auspicious day marks the beginning of her school career! She is keen as she has had school visits of varied durations, leading up to this; culminating in a ½ day, last week. There is a to be family teaparty, once school ends, and two of her friends are invited---as well as the melee of cousins. It is a chance for us all to meet up. I will bring you up to date with my news and some chitter-chatter, a little later. Regards, Muriel.

Goodmorning everyone, I'm just passing on this message, that may affect a few of you: From: "FFHS Director of Computer & Internet Facilities" <internet@ffhs.org.uk> To: "FFHS-NEWS" <FFHS-NEWS@maillist.ox.ac.uk> Cc: "FFHS Administrator, Maggie Loughran," <admin@ffhs.org.uk> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:37:07 -0000 Subject: FFHS-NEWS Industrial Action on Friday 5th November We have been advised that the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has notified the government that a 24 hour national strike will take place on Friday 5th November. Consequently, it has been decided on health and safety grounds to close The National Archives at Kew on Friday. It will however be open again as usual on Saturday 6 November 2004. All their online services will be available as usual and they apologise for the interruption in their services It is expected that a number of staff at the Family Records Centre in Myddelton Street will take industrial action on Friday. Although it is hoped that the FRC will be open as normal on that day, there are likely to be few staff present to assist customers. Geoff Riggs, Director of Computer & Internet Facilities, Federation of Family History Societies

Hello Everyone I am in Australia and hope that I have the correct group to ask this query - I hope Shenington comes within the area of Banbury. My GGrandmother Mary Ann COLEMAN (father's place of birth unknown) was born in Galway, Ireland but was apparently sent to Oxford by her brother when her parents died which was around 1873. I found her in Shenington on the 1881 census married to William Edward UPTON - they married Oct 1877. My main query is: Would she have had to report to anyone coming from Ireland to live in Shenington and if so would there be any records? I would love to know who she was sent to live with before getting married in case it was maybe a relative. Mary Ann married Walter BERRY when William Edward UPTON died in 1900 and they went to live in Coventry. Thanks for any help and if anyone is interested in the UPTON or SAVAGE names I would love to hear from them as I have traced both families in Shennington. Jeannie Email: jhodkinson@hotmail.com

I have copy of the above book which lists the staff members in Girls Public Schools in 1960. I know this is a fairly recent date compared with our normal research dates, but if anyone would like me to look up any information, I am happy to do so. Email off list ajell@btinternet.com Carole Jell Banbury, Oxon See my Family History website www.ajell.btinternet.co.uk for all my names

A quick look in the Neithrop PRs Index shows a marriage for Albert Edward BOSS in 1920 and also one for Alfred WILKINS in 1913. Not knowing the time period in question, I checked the index for Banbury baptisms 1839-1935 & found several BOSS and WILKINS entries listed. HTH, Bill Watson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rosemary Probert" <banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 2:29 AM Subject: [BAN] Re: [NTH] Fwd: my darn family!! > > I've just spotted this on the Northants list - can anyone help her? > > > In a message of 1 Nov 2004 you wrote: > > | Being forwarded. Anybody assist them? > | > | Kevin Haddenham > | List Admin > | > | > | >From: Chrissiewebster@aol.com > | >Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:31:53 EST > | > > | > > | >I am desperately trying to track down my family for my TREE which seems > to > | >be stuck at twigetls as far as Northants is > concerned..................it > | >seems my main paternal side came from Chacombe, Neithrop and > | >Farthinghoe....... are there any WILKINS or BOSS in there > | >please................ > | >I am going to Banbury for a couple of days this week so if you can > point > | >me in right direct it would be appreciated please > > > > Cheers, > > Rosemary, > Northumberland UK > ........................................................... > Webmaster for Banburyshire Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm > Email: banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk > ........................................................... > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx >

I've just spotted this on the Northants list - can anyone help her? In a message of 1 Nov 2004 you wrote: | Being forwarded. Anybody assist them? | | Kevin Haddenham | List Admin | | | >From: Chrissiewebster@aol.com | >Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 14:31:53 EST | > | > | >I am desperately trying to track down my family for my TREE which seems to | >be stuck at twigetls as far as Northants is concerned..................it | >seems my main paternal side came from Chacombe, Neithrop and | >Farthinghoe....... are there any WILKINS or BOSS in there | >please................ | >I am going to Banbury for a couple of days this week so if you can point | >me in right direct it would be appreciated please Cheers, Rosemary, Northumberland UK ............................................................ Webmaster for Banburyshire Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm Email: banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk ............................................................

Angela nice to have you back online; I have also been out of circulation thanks to XP service Pack 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Barry Marriott barry@archerslawn.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: angela allen [mailto:angela.allen72@btinternet.com] Sent: 01 November 2004 21:17 To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAN] Hi all - back at last :>) Hi gang, With my newly acquired 2nd hand oldie confuser - (the new XP is still the subject of discontent between us & the retailer!) here's hoping I'm back in the land of cyber friends :>) Thank you so much Helen, Rosemary, Ian & *all other members* (too many to mention) for keeping Banbury list going. For the first time since Sept, this weekend I could actually take a peek at the list archives/web site or use e.mail again. I knew I was missing the list (so did hubby, hence the 'oldie') but surprising just how quick one can become 'out of touch'. Muriel, how's that new grand baby & Ian your new little lady too? None of you ever stop writing your memories - it will be 'our' loss if you do - Smokey/Joe - wish I'd been part of your childhood group I'd loved to have been in 'your adventures' as you tell them :>) Dawn, Muriel & cuz Len, you keep typing, we'll enjoy reading. Rosemary the web site is beyond anything I dreamed of -- thank you so, so much - bless you :>) Helen - all your help stepping in as admin, has been much appreciated by everyone - please stay - we'll miss you if you leave! (I know you like the folks on this list & would miss them anyway :>) SO -- how is everyones research going? Who needs look ups? Any requests? PS (Betty*>) Postcode here is for Somerset - but we are on the Dorset/Somerset border - bit like Banbury, Oxon/N'hants border - but with cider :>) Just have to finish unpacking boxes before we find the 'local' -- or the hair dryer - or the TV control - or the cat!!!!!!!!! Angela :>) list admin with much help from Helen ============================== New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx

I have sent some information. Eleanor (Chacombe girl)

Colin Thank you for sharing that !! There is Village in the Cotswolds ? ( near a wartime Aerodrome ) in the Graveyard are buried many NZ Air men both from the RNZAF and the RAF, I know there each Anzac Day a Memorial Service is held in the nearby Church. No need to apologise for being off topic. Remembrance of men and woman who died in defence of all our lives is International and I hoped I had conveyed this in my original message to the List. Lest we Forget Helen New Zealand -----Original Message----- From: Colin Harris [mailto:colin.harris4@btinternet.com] Sent: Monday, 1 November 2004 10:10 a.m. To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [BAN] Remembrances - on website Hello Helen and all ANZAC day is still marked by some communities in the UK, in the village of Harefield, Middlesex local children still lay flowers on the graves of the ANZAC soldiers who are buried in the graveyard of the parish church, these men and one woman (a nursing sister) died in the Hospital established for the treatment of ANZAC troops in the village. I have pasted below a desciption of the funeral of one of these soldiers, that appeared in the Times during WW1, a year after the landings at Gallipoli. Sorry if this is not strictly Banburyshire related but as there are a number of list members from the Antipodes I thought it might be of interest. Regards Colin Harris FOR AN IDEAL THE VILLAGE FUNERAL OF A FALLEN ANZAC (From a Correspondent) Two long lines of blue figures moved with slow tread behind the hearse, showing that free-swinging movement peculiar to the Australian troops. But some were on crutches, and some moved with a cruel limp, yet marching bravely nevertheless - a relic of the first splendid fighting force who had gone forth from Australia and landed a year ago on that rocky peninsula. Behind the row of wounded came the staff of the hospital in khaki and bringing up the rear hurried the village of Harefield - shaky perambulators being whisked along, cyclists, old women bobbing as they went, mill girls in gay hats, and last of all some lumbering farm carts. To which, if either stopped to think, must this spectacle have seemed more strange - to the villagers, these tall heroes of Australia, seemingly at home in their typical English village? Or to these men, this funeral in English surroundings amidst English village people? But the war has brought stranger things to pass than this spectacle. Nothing seems impossible now and even an Australian soldier's death in a quiet English village is accepted as natural. Through the village the cortege moved, headed by a military band; past the Elizabethan almshouses, looking out so cosily to the western sun. It passed on down to the old church, which lies in a hollow between green meadows and tall elm trees now touched with a film of greyish green. Such a glorious April afternoon as it was! The fruit blossom in a neighbouring field smiled in the sunshine after the last heavy shower. There was a feeling of spring warmth - spring loveliness over everything. As the procession moved on through the meadow up to the old church it looked like some cleverly arranged pageant - some historical drama re-acted. The priest, his white surplice blown in the wind, coming forward to receive the coffin borne on the shoulders of four stlwart Australians - his return to the church at the head of the procession; the blending of the khaki figures against the khaki shade of plaster on the church tower; the blue of the wounded and the red and grey of the sisters - all seemed unreal. Then the quiet words in the church, and the moment of anxiety when the coffin was again lifted, a little waveringly out of the dim interior into the laughng sunshine without. Even when the coffin was laid in the earth, and the rifles rang out once - twice - thrice - it was difficult to realize what it all meant. Then the bugle sounded the Last Post. The notes rose clear, hopeful, on the still air. They struck a chord between the scene here in this English country churchyard and the country over the seas. One felt that these notes, dying away on the spring air , would re-echo far off, over there, in Australia. They answered the question why these men standing round with bare heads were here, in this English churchyard, and not in distant Australia. They explained why this young soldier was being laid to rest in the brown soil miles away from the land which had given him birth. These men were here because of an ideal; and for it they had given up their homes, their health, their lives. For these men had heard that England, the country few of them had seen, yet for which all had an instinctive love, was in danger. And so they had come from the other end of the world , and this man was being laid to rest on this fair April afternoon in a quiet English churchyard, in the very soil, and among the very things for which he had died. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.786 / Virus Database: 532 - Release Date: 29/10/2004 ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx

Hi gang, With my newly acquired 2nd hand oldie confuser - (the new XP is still the subject of discontent between us & the retailer!) here's hoping I'm back in the land of cyber friends :>) Thank you so much Helen, Rosemary, Ian & *all other members* (too many to mention) for keeping Banbury list going. For the first time since Sept, this weekend I could actually take a peek at the list archives/web site or use e.mail again. I knew I was missing the list (so did hubby, hence the 'oldie') but surprising just how quick one can become 'out of touch'. Muriel, how's that new grand baby & Ian your new little lady too? None of you ever stop writing your memories - it will be 'our' loss if you do - Smokey/Joe - wish I'd been part of your childhood group I'd loved to have been in 'your adventures' as you tell them :>) Dawn, Muriel & cuz Len, you keep typing, we'll enjoy reading. Rosemary the web site is beyond anything I dreamed of -- thank you so, so much - bless you :>) Helen - all your help stepping in as admin, has been much appreciated by everyone - please stay - we'll miss you if you leave! (I know you like the folks on this list & would miss them anyway :>) SO -- how is everyones research going? Who needs look ups? Any requests? PS (Betty*>) Postcode here is for Somerset - but we are on the Dorset/Somerset border - bit like Banbury, Oxon/N'hants border - but with cider :>) Just have to finish unpacking boxes before we find the 'local' -- or the hair dryer - or the TV control - or the cat!!!!!!!!! Angela :>) list admin with much help from Helen

HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi Angela. I was going to ring your old telephone number today. Just to see if it was active. Got so bolody busy at work though. New baby is fine. Beautiful and looks like me!!!! House move is off for now. I will explain off list as I must not swear on list! I am moving, possibly into rented for a short while, but hopefully after Christmas. Have to see how our buyer pans out. Research? What bolody research? Been busy with the books, new baby, work, house moves and more. Just had three days "en France". Up the Eyefull, round the Louvre, cross the Champs and all that jazz. Anyway, you have my number, so call any time. Hope you buttered the cats feet! Ian XX

Can anybody help with finding the marriage of RICHARD MIDDLETON who was baptised at Tysoe, Warks in 1694. Parents were HENRY and MARY. Other siblings appear to be the following including Richard. If these are the same parents, then she was producing for nearly 40 years! Surely not? Any ideas? 1686 May 15 Sarah D Henry & Mary 1688 Sep 4 Thomas S Henry & Mary 1691 Mar 30 John S Henery & Mary "1694 Dec 14 Richard S Henry & Mary" 1697 Dec 27 Mary D Henry & Mary 1700 Sep 23 Esther D Henry & Mary 1703 Oct 9 Dorothy D Henry & Mary 1706 Jul 14 Henry S Henry & Mary 1708 Jan Walker S Henry & Mary 1713 Apr 19 Henry S Henry & Mary Although the marriage below is shown, according to the dates this must be an earlier generation. 1651 Apr 3 Middleton, Henry m Mary Tasker. I would appreciate any ideas for Richard as he would have married in wife's parish and this may not even have taken place in Warks. Also the marriage for Henry and Mary c1685. I have traced my Richard Middleton m Elizabeth Shepherd at Stoke Lyne in 1725. Then lived at Stratton Audley with family plus a John Middleton and family and stayed for approximately 68 years. No Middletons before or after this time. How can I check if this is the "Richard of Tysoe"? Many thanks, Maureen Short, Buckinghamshire.

Brenda I have to also add that remembrance Day is kept , not so much now as it was when at school, ( Primary ) we gathered around the Flag Pole at 10.55am. sang the National Anthem then at 1100hrs stood in silence for a minute. AT Secondary we remained in our classrooms and school bell rang at 11am and we stood , silent for a minute. Parliament still keeps the observance .A lot of these observances have not lapsed. But at ALL War Memorials there is a Wreath Laying Ceremony on the Sunday nearest 11th Nov. There is an Official Govt. and Diplomatic function with full Military Representation at National War Memorial, behind "The Carillion ", in Buckle Street, Wellington, on the Sunday nearest 11th. Watch TV news on Sunday 13th they are sure to report on the Ceremony at either Wellington or Auckland. BTW My School Days went from 1948 - 61 !!! Helen New Zealand Temp List Admin. FYI Links to events for Remembrance Day 2004 -( NZ) http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/unknown_warrior.html General info. on Remembrance/ Armistice Day in NZ http://www.rsa.org.nz/remem/armist_intro.html -----Original Message----- From: Brenda Anderson [mailto:curiouskiwi@orcon.net.nz] Sent: Saturday, 30 October 2004 2:27 p.m. To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BAN] Remembrances - on website Here in New Zealand, the state holiday commemorating veterans is Anzac Day. This nzhistory.net page gives a good summary & history of the holiday. http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Anzac/Anzacday.htm Regards, Brenda. -- Brenda Anderson ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ www.curiouskiwi.com ______________________________

Rosemary There is a Roman Catholic Family History Soc. Linked from the main FFHS Page, they may be able to help. I am not sure how far east Birmingham Archdiocese goes but I know West it covers WAR/SAL/STS/WOR /HEF and I think DBY. Archbishop's House, Archdiocese of Birmingham Catholic Repository, St. Chad's Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6EX Tel +44 (0)121 236 2251 Email: archives@rc-birmingham.org The staff there are very knowledgeable and helpful, and if they do not have the info. will advise where you can locate it. Mind you, you could always write to Mike Gandy :-) Cheers Helen Temp. List Admin. -----Original Message----- From: Rosemary Probert [mailto:banbury@prob.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, 30 October 2004 4:49 p.m. To: ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Church Dedications - ever wondered what they were? Hi All, on a Saturday morning that hasn't arrived over the horizon yet, but the rain has! We have an amazing new page on the website this week on the Dedications of Churches (CofE & RC) within about 15 miles of Banbury, based on Genuki's parish locator. Believe it or not that includes 6 counties (just!) : Buckinghamshie, Gloucestershire (1), Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. It's a marvellous resource already, thanks entirely to the hard work and committment of Frances Bishop, beavering away in British Columbia. The sources already tried have been listed at the bottom of the page, by county. But there are some gaps: Both in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire we can find very few Roman Catholic Church Dedications -can anyone find the others - they must be there :-) And there are some &quot;unknowns&quot; - can anyone help. And if we've missed your favourite church - write to me :-))) Go to the front page and follow the 'What's New' link. Good 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 ............................................................

Hello Helen and all ANZAC day is still marked by some communities in the UK, in the village of Harefield, Middlesex local children still lay flowers on the graves of the ANZAC soldiers who are buried in the graveyard of the parish church, these men and one woman (a nursing sister) died in the Hospital established for the treatment of ANZAC troops in the village. I have pasted below a desciption of the funeral of one of these soldiers, that appeared in the Times during WW1, a year after the landings at Gallipoli. Sorry if this is not strictly Banburyshire related but as there are a number of list members from the Antipodes I thought it might be of interest. Regards Colin Harris FOR AN IDEAL THE VILLAGE FUNERAL OF A FALLEN ANZAC (From a Correspondent) Two long lines of blue figures moved with slow tread behind the hearse, showing that free-swinging movement peculiar to the Australian troops. But some were on crutches, and some moved with a cruel limp, yet marching bravely nevertheless - a relic of the first splendid fighting force who had gone forth from Australia and landed a year ago on that rocky peninsula. Behind the row of wounded came the staff of the hospital in khaki and bringing up the rear hurried the village of Harefield - shaky perambulators being whisked along, cyclists, old women bobbing as they went, mill girls in gay hats, and last of all some lumbering farm carts. To which, if either stopped to think, must this spectacle have seemed more strange - to the villagers, these tall heroes of Australia, seemingly at home in their typical English village? Or to these men, this funeral in English surroundings amidst English village people? But the war has brought stranger things to pass than this spectacle. Nothing seems impossible now and even an Australian soldier's death in a quiet English village is accepted as natural. Through the village the cortege moved, headed by a military band; past the Elizabethan almshouses, looking out so cosily to the western sun. It passed on down to the old church, which lies in a hollow between green meadows and tall elm trees now touched with a film of greyish green. Such a glorious April afternoon as it was! The fruit blossom in a neighbouring field smiled in the sunshine after the last heavy shower. There was a feeling of spring warmth - spring loveliness over everything. As the procession moved on through the meadow up to the old church it looked like some cleverly arranged pageant - some historical drama re-acted. The priest, his white surplice blown in the wind, coming forward to receive the coffin borne on the shoulders of four stlwart Australians - his return to the church at the head of the procession; the blending of the khaki figures against the khaki shade of plaster on the church tower; the blue of the wounded and the red and grey of the sisters - all seemed unreal. Then the quiet words in the church, and the moment of anxiety when the coffin was again lifted, a little waveringly out of the dim interior into the laughng sunshine without. Even when the coffin was laid in the earth, and the rifles rang out once - twice - thrice - it was difficult to realize what it all meant. Then the bugle sounded the Last Post. The notes rose clear, hopeful, on the still air. They struck a chord between the scene here in this English country churchyard and the country over the seas. One felt that these notes, dying away on the spring air , would re-echo far off, over there, in Australia. They answered the question why these men standing round with bare heads were here, in this English churchyard, and not in distant Australia. They explained why this young soldier was being laid to rest in the brown soil miles away from the land which had given him birth. These men were here because of an ideal; and for it they had given up their homes, their health, their lives. For these men had heard that England, the country few of them had seen, yet for which all had an instinctive love, was in danger. And so they had come from the other end of the world , and this man was being laid to rest on this fair April afternoon in a quiet English churchyard, in the very soil, and among the very things for which he had died. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.786 / Virus Database: 532 - Release Date: 29/10/2004

Hi Maureen, 1686 to 1713 is only 27 years... If she married at 18 or even 20 she still would have only been 45 to 47 at the time of the last birth...If the last child was born in 1713...And we all have heard of surprise's after we think we are done.... Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Short" <mas@totdes.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:14 PM Subject: [BAN] Tysoe Middletons' > Can anybody help with finding the marriage of RICHARD MIDDLETON who was baptised > at Tysoe, Warks in 1694. Parents were HENRY and MARY. Other siblings appear to > be the following including Richard. If these are the same parents, then she was > producing for nearly 40 years! Surely not? Any ideas? > > 1686 May 15 Sarah D Henry & Mary > 1688 Sep 4 Thomas S Henry & Mary > 1691 Mar 30 John S Henery & Mary > "1694 Dec 14 Richard S Henry & Mary" > 1697 Dec 27 Mary D Henry & Mary > 1700 Sep 23 Esther D Henry & Mary > 1703 Oct 9 Dorothy D Henry & Mary > 1706 Jul 14 Henry S Henry & Mary > 1708 Jan Walker S Henry & Mary > 1713 Apr 19 Henry S Henry & Mary > > Although the marriage below is shown, according to the dates this must be an > earlier generation. > > 1651 Apr 3 Middleton, Henry m Mary Tasker. > > I would appreciate any ideas for Richard as he would have married in wife's > parish and this may not even have taken place in Warks. Also the marriage for > Henry and Mary c1685. > > I have traced my Richard Middleton m Elizabeth Shepherd at Stoke Lyne in 1725. > Then lived at Stratton Audley with family plus a John Middleton and family and > stayed for approximately 68 years. No Middletons before or after this time. > > How can I check if this is the "Richard of Tysoe"? > > Many thanks, > > Maureen Short, > Buckinghamshire. > > > > > > ============================== > New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx >

Hi Maureen, The OFHS OMI shows; Richard MIDDLETON of Stratton Aud marr. Elizabeth SHEPHERD of Stratton Aud in Stoke Lyne on 1 Jan 1725. The Stoke Lyne PRs only add that they were married by Lic. I don't have Tysoe or Stratton Audley PRs to check further. You may have to try to find Richard's father's will to see if Richard was mentioned as living at Stratton Audley. Also, ALOT of women were having children at 40 in those days. Swerford PR's list a baptism of a baby whose mother was 50! Quite the surprise! HTH, Bill Watson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maureen Short" <mas@totdes.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-BANBURY-AREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 5:14 PM Subject: [BAN] Tysoe Middletons' > Can anybody help with finding the marriage of RICHARD MIDDLETON who was > baptised > at Tysoe, Warks in 1694. Parents were HENRY and MARY. Other siblings > appear to > be the following including Richard. If these are the same parents, then > she was > producing for nearly 40 years! Surely not? Any ideas? > > 1686 May 15 Sarah D Henry & Mary > 1688 Sep 4 Thomas S Henry & Mary > 1691 Mar 30 John S Henery & Mary > "1694 Dec 14 Richard S Henry & Mary" > 1697 Dec 27 Mary D Henry & Mary > 1700 Sep 23 Esther D Henry & Mary > 1703 Oct 9 Dorothy D Henry & Mary > 1706 Jul 14 Henry S Henry & Mary > 1708 Jan Walker S Henry & Mary > 1713 Apr 19 Henry S Henry & Mary > > Although the marriage below is shown, according to the dates this must be > an > earlier generation. > > 1651 Apr 3 Middleton, Henry m Mary Tasker. > > I would appreciate any ideas for Richard as he would have married in > wife's > parish and this may not even have taken place in Warks. Also the marriage > for > Henry and Mary c1685. > > I have traced my Richard Middleton m Elizabeth Shepherd at Stoke Lyne in > 1725. > Then lived at Stratton Audley with family plus a John Middleton and family > and > stayed for approximately 68 years. No Middletons before or after this > time. > > How can I check if this is the "Richard of Tysoe"? > > Many thanks, > > Maureen Short, > Buckinghamshire. > > > > > > ============================== > New! OneWorldTree. Building Trees. Connecting Families. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13970/rd.ashx >