Hi Alex, Thank you. I will send a lengthier reply off-list. Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexandra Coles" <ahcoles@yahoo.co.nz> To: <eng-buckinghamshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-Buck] 1841 census search please - MEAD > Hi Nancy > > I do have access to the early Wing registers, but no > luck I'm afraid, now that I know the approximate > timeframe. There's only one MEAD baptism in the late > 1600s (1673, then nothing until 1719), and that's an > Anne daughter of Thomas & Dorothie Mead "of Fenni > Stratford". Another parish you can check out, if you > haven't already? And no marriage for a Joseph Mead in > that pre-1729 period. > > I haven't seen a copy of The Ploughman, so now I'm > very intrigued! Would you mind letting me know the > full publication details? > > Regards > Alex (in Auckland NZ, so I know what you mean about > waiting for films!) > Visit the Wing One Place Study at > http://www.wing-ops.org.uk/ > > --- Nancy Watson <nwatson4@matra.com.au> wrote: > >> Hi Alex, >> >> Thank you for your reply and the search. I have >> already gone through the >> films for the parish registers for Olney. No sign >> of Joseph there >> unfortunately. >> >> Yes, 1796 is too late for Joseph. He had arrived in >> Weedon Beck, Northants >> by 1729 when the first child I know of was baptised. >> Joseph died there in >> 1781 but unfortunately his age wasn't given. I >> imagine that he was born in >> the latter part of the 1600's. >> >> I haven't looked at the parish registers for Wing >> but I do have a copy of >> the book "The Ploughman" by Ian Bowrey, which you >> probably know of., tracing >> the life of George Mead born 1830, the son of Joseph >> Mead and Susannah of >> Wing. I would think that this is the Joseph born >> 1796. I looked at your >> wonderful site Alex (congratulations) but couldn't >> see anything to help >> apart from the really early registers you have >> noted. Maybe I will be lucky >> and find a baptism there. There might even be >> Joseph's marriage to Mary ? >> prior to 1729. They definitely didn't marry in >> Weedon Beck as I have looked >> at the registers from commencement in the 1500's. >> >> Do you have ready access to the early registers >> Alex? I can order them from >> the LDS otherwise but it can take a month or more >> for films to arrive here >> in Australia. >> >> Thank you again for your trouble. >> >> Regards >> Nancy > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com > _____________________________________________ > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BUCKINGHAMSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message