Hi Graham. Many thanks for all your time and effort regarding the Bickley families. I have printed off the information to take back to Nova Scotia after having spent a wonderful 2 weeks in Shropshire with my friends. They will keep an eye on the Shropshire list and pass on any more information to me. I hope one day to tie up the Bickley's with the Dodds. Thank you again. Brenda. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Price" <genetree@pacific.net.au> To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] BICKLEY & DAVIES Hordley & Ellesmere. > At 02:13 AM 11/10/2006, you wrote: >>Have been reading with interest the posts regarding Bickley and Davies. I >>have a Samuel Bickley on the 1841 census in Hordley, ...Malster, aged 40, >>living with his wife Mary (Dodd) age 40. This Samuel Bickley witnessed the >>death of my grgrgrgrandmother, Martha Parry (Dodd) in 1872, in Tetchill, >>Ellesmere. I am enquiring whether Joseph, mentioned in past posts, might >>be >>a brother to Samuel. > > Hello Brenda > The sad thing is that the Ellesmere St. Mary parish records were not > transcribed by the Shropshire Parish Record Society, but the good > news is that they are on the IGI and also I have had the good fortune > to have been able to transcribe Bickley baptisms, burials and > marriages, so should, hopefully, be able to answer part of your > question. This would almost certainly appear to be the family: > > Baptisms at St. Mary Ellesmere > 28 April 1896, born 12 Apr, Joseph s/o Robert & Martha Bickley of > Ellesmere > 11 Jan 1899, born 10 Sep 1898, Samuel s/o Andrew & Margaret Bickley > of Ellesmere > 4 May 1800, born 26 Apr, Martha d/o Robert & Martha Bickley of Ellesmere > 2 Jan 1801, born 9 Nov 1800, Hannah Maria d/o Andrew & Margaret > Bickley of Ellesmere > 21 Apr 1802, born 6 Apr, Sarah d/o Robert & Martha Bickley of Ellesmere > 24 Jun 1803, born Jan 25, Andrew s/o Robert & Martha Bickley of Ellesmere > 1 Jan 1809, born 9 Nov 1807, Sarah d/o Andrew & Margaret Bickley of > Ellesmere > > T'would appear that Samuel and Joseph may have been first cousins. As > you can see the names at baptisms are rather interchanged between the > two families, so they were certainly close. I would tend to consider > that Andrew and Robert were brothers. Unfortunately the St. Mary > Ellesmere parish records do not allow a tie up between Joseph & > Samuel in baptisms, so other close parishes or the chapelries of > Ellesmere would need to be researched to find the connection. I am > sure there is a connection. Perhaps there might be some clues on the > IGI. I have not followed this up, perhaps you might. Earlier records > of St. Mary Ellesmere reveal two other families from the 1750s - John > & Mary Bickley of Hardwick, John & Margaret Bickley of Cockshut, > (could be the same as Mary and Margt sometimes scroll much the same > in old writings) and Andrew & Elizabeth Bickley of Cockshutt, also a > Phillip & Catherine of Ellesmere. > > The following may be of use: > Marriages, St. Mary Ellesmere: > p20/81 Thomas Bickley of Hordley & Mary Jones (X) both otp by banns 5 > Feb 1787. Witnesses John Reeves (X) and Wm. Gough. Ceremony by John > Breck, vicar. Gough was a churchwarden so probably nothing to do with > the family. > > The Bickley folk, in general, did not seem to choose St. Mary, > Ellesmere as their main church for marriages, though there were > plenty of baptisms there in the later years after the turn of the century. > > Cherrio > Graham > Melbourne > Oz > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SHROPSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >