I will check my BETTS information to see if I can find anything useful. My ancestors do have a direct connection to the BETTS of Banbury Cake fame, and quite coincidentally I have come across an original newspaper article from 1908 which features Arthur and Samuel Betts - the cake makers. Because of a family matter which is occupying my time I have not had an opportunity to read the article yet. It is quite brown with age and bears a note written in my ancestor's hand - Samuel Betts. Fran Robertson ps - quite a lot of my BETTS line is online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/index.htm ----- Original Message ---- From: Jenna R. Twyford-Jones <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 6:05:38 AM Subject: [BAN] BETTS of Evenley Apologies if this is slightly out of the area of interest for this list, but since returning from Banbury on Saturday this has been bothering me no end! I have a couple, namely John BETTS and Mary ?, whose seemingly eldest daughter Hannah was baptised in Adderbury in Jan 1759. I can see no record of their marriage there, or in the parishes contained on the same transcription CD. Some time ago it was brought to my attention that a contender for this couple could be the marriage of John BETTS and Mary HARDEN in Evenley, who married there 8 May 1758. Seems reasonable. I'm not sure where John himself came from at this point...having looked around Banbury museum this week, we're now curious to see if there is any tenuous link to Betts and their Banbury cakes! Does anyone have any records for this parish? Or do you know where I could get my hands on them? I feel rather silly asking having just spent a week in the area, but I only recalled the mention of this marriage after I arrived back. Although we are going to Banbury at least once a month at the moment, it's usually at the weekend when the record offices are closed :-(. Thinking of you all there, many of my people on Dad's side of the family are from there, as well as Worcester and Hereford. Jenna, marooned back in Bradford Always looking for CHILTON, BETTS and WALTER in Adderbury; GUY and HOLLOWAY in Chipping Norton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.british-history.ac.uk/ British History Online ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message