On Sunday 24 June 2007 10:07:55 john lewis wrote: > see http://startx.co.uk:2317/Kingsclere?m=NG&n=Flower&t=N > > for what I have on this family. > > I suspect that the Flower family moved to the Kingsclere area sometime > before 1750 as I couldn't find a baptism for William in the St. Mary > Register. > Hi, The surname FLOWER is quite common in the Bath area, where I now live. The family were yeoman and in some cases quite wealthy and records of them go back a very long way. They owned the manor house at Saltford (four miles west of Bath) in the mid-17th century. It might well be worth following up to see if a William FLOWER of the right age was born in North East Somerset or Wiltshire. Regards, Nigel Gerdes

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:03:08 +0100 Nigel Gerdes <[email protected]> wrote: > The surname FLOWER is quite common in the Bath area, where I now > live. The family were yeoman and in some cases quite wealthy and > records of them go back a very long way. They owned the manor house > at Saltford (four miles west of Bath) in the mid-17th century. It > might well be worth following up to see if a William FLOWER of the > right age was born in North East Somerset or Wiltshire. There seems to have been a cluster in Romsey as well and I think the Sarah Flower who married George Wort was bapt. at the Abbey on 10 Nov 1768 to John & Ann Flower. There are also siblings in IGI batch C136692. Whilst the Bishop's Transcripts for Romsey Abbey are very extensive, extending from the 1500s to the 1900s there seems to be a gap in the marriages from 1755-1780 which would cover the period when John & Ann married. I haven't looked for a William Flower born ca1730 as yet in those BTs but the IGI does have a William bapt. 1 Jan 1730 to John & Elizabeth - but is he the one who married in Kingsclere? The IGI doesn't have anything else to offer. -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package