On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:12:36 +0100 Nigel Gerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday 25 August 2007 01:57, Dorothy Jones wrote: > > 'Snipped' from Nigel: > > > I don''t have the parents of Mary Ann Drewett born ca 1825 > > > Hannington > > > HANNINGTON MARRIAGE > > No 12 14 May 1847 after Banns > > William DENES (sgd) ofa bach lab of Hannington Father: > > Thomas, lab > > Mary DRUET (sgd) ofa spin of Hannington Father: Charles, > > lab > > Witnesses: George HYTHE (sgd); Mary BROWN (sgd). > > > > Dorothy J. > > Dorothy, > > Many many thanks. You are a star. I will finish off the Drewett > Hannington line and get the details over to John so he can put them > on the Kingsclere Families website for everybody. A lot is there > already but I have been able get further back. There is a cottage > in Hannington still standing that the Drewetts were occuping in > 1675. My great grandfather George Smith bought it ca 1895. What is > now a nice home for one family had three families living in it > during late Victorian times. Now back to the puzzle of 'too many' > Joseph Smiths in late 18th century Kingsclere! Will I ever find > the birthplace of nx grandfather Stephen Smith b ca 1775 > somewhere! A Joseph & Mary had 2 Josephs, bapt 26 Oct 1766 and 21 Jun 1767,their first child (possibly) Ambrose in May 1758. As usual it isn't that simple as there is a bapt of Edward to Joseph & Mary (Munday) in 1770 who could be parents of one of those Josephs. There was a Joseph with wife Elizabeth (of Sidmonton) having children from 1769-1784. going back further Joseph bapt 1748 to Thomas & Mary Foster alias Smith is one of my ancestors and there was a Joseph son of Widow Smith bapt in Jul 1740. The first Joseph I listed was the one bapt 9 Apr 1727 to Thomas & Martha. There is no sign of a Smith with first name Stephen at all. -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package