Joe, John, and list, For those who have been following the thread which has been progressing on and off list, Joe TWITCHIN is looking to prove or disprove a link between TWITCHER and WHITEAR, to TWITCHIN. It is assuming TWITCHER is a misrecording of TWITCHIN. In the 1851 census one Benjamin decides to be a TWITCHER but ten years before and ten years after he was a WHITEAR. The main TWITCHIN line is well researched and recorded. Joe (Single name study) and I (Hampshire ones) have the details if anybody needs information. What is new is that the DOWDEN who married Mary TWITCHIN b ca 1773 turns out to be the brother in law of Henry WHITEAR who married Catherine DOWDEN in 27 Nov 1798 at East Stratton and also the brother in law to Sarah WHITEAR who married William DOWDEN on the same day in a double wedding. All from large farms in the East Stratton and Micheldever and Deane area. There is an account of disturbance on the farm of Henry WHITEAR in the trial records of the 'Swing Riots'. Now we know the families are linked, but we are no wiser as to the parents of Benjamin WHITEAR/TWITCHER b ca 1806 Overton. John has reported a nil return form the Overton BT. While TWITCHIN is a Kingsclere name, I suspect this branch at the time of the start of the 19th century came from elsewhere. Later some of this branch did move into the Kingclere area. As John has indicated the name WHITEAR appears in Kingsclere, they were a wealthy family of millers and farmers (judging from the extensive trail of wills and admons in the CALM database) from central Hampshire between Winchester and Alton so would have been more mobile than the usual ag lab family at the time. Regards, Nigel

Nigel said; > While TWITCHIN is a Kingsclere name, I suspect this branch at the time of > the > start of the 19th century came from elsewhere. Later some of this branch > did > move into the Kingclere area. ...................................................... The detail that I have suggests that John TWITCHIN (1736) was a son of William and Elizabeth (GREEN) who were wed at Gt.Farringdon 1726. They started their family at Inkpen with two sons William 1726 and Archer 1728. Another researcher said that there was a 3rd son John also born at Inkpen but no record has been found ......... BUT .... there is a record of a John born at Kingsclere to William and Elizabeth in BVRI which records him as 'TUTCHIN' (groan) so they must have moved to Kingsclere sometime after the birth of Archer (who disappeared from the face of the earth). and I believe that John (1736) married Elizabeth DORNEY in 1778. The Twitchin's were well established at Inkpen since Frances Twitchin was born in 1637 with parents Andrew and Frances (MONEY) married 1635 at Hurstbourne. I am of the opinion that the Andrew who married Frances MONEY was born in Andover son of Andrew and Elizabeth (GOLLOP) .......... but what clouds this is that they had son Andrew born 1621 and there is a parish burial record at Andover 1625 which is torn showing ".............. ew TWITCHIN" which could be construed as Andrew. But the point I am making is that the TWITCHIN families in both Hampshire and Berkshire seem to well related into the early 1600's. Joe