Earlier this week I posted a message about this family. Helpful replies both on and off list gave some import clues that are being followed up. Ended up they were not from Somersetshire. It appears that Clarey Ann HOUSTON who was married in Illinois in 1865 to Richard PAUL of Somersetshire was actually Clarissa Ann HEWSON, with birth registered in March 1847 in Wisbech registration district (Cambridgeshire). Further her parents appear to be Nathaniel HEWSON and Marianne BURTON married in Holbeach registration district (Lincolnshire) in September quarter 1846. The family seems to be the one on the 1850 census in Williamsburg, Kings County, New York with Nathaniel HEWSON, 27, ship caulker, born in England; Mary A. HEWSON, 25, born in England; Clarissa HEWSON, 3, born in England; and William HEWSON, 1, born in New York. Have not located Clarissa (Clara Ann) on the 1860 census nor her parents. Do have her on the 1870 census after she married. Nor can I find the parents on the 1870 census. Cannot find her brother William on any census after 1850. The 1880 census has a family that looks like her parents and younger siblings and indicates they likely moved from New York to Illinois by 1856. Nathaiel HEWSON, age 56, born in England; Mary Ann HEWSON, 56, born in England with four children ages 24 to 16 all born in Illinois. They are in Kankakee County, which is just south of the county in Illinois where Richard PAUL lived with his parents and siblings. Also helpful was the comment "HEWSON could easily be misheard as HOUSTON and misread as HENSON". Looking more closely at all the old handwriting this appears to be a definite likelihood. Have also found alternate spellings of HEWSON as Heuson, Van Heusen, Huson, and Hughson. Thanks so much Maggie and Celia for your help. Ruth Ann ____________________________________________________________ Make your vacation more memorable with a luxurious vacation rental. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nLySruqSPEQ6PCSvdNnzXkF9NwuF3nMRUmEOvNBMpeqZQb6/

Hi List, Having just subscribed I am trying to find the baptism of a Samuel WHITE who was born according to census records in Bath around 1815. I know his fathers name was James but that is about all I'm afraid. The family moved to London, I presume looking for work but haven't been able to trace them together on the 1841 census to get the Mothers name. If SKS has access to Baths records could they possibly do a lookup to see if there is a baptism there around this time or whether they could find a marriage of a James WHITE about 5 years earlier approx 1810, i.e.going on the fact that Samuel might not be the first son as he is not named after his father. Many thanks in anticipation Debbie

Morning all, http://wsomparreg.mysite.orange.co.uk has just been updated with Cannington marriages now brought forward to 1860. We will next be taking the Baptisms back further. Cheers, Martin Southwood

Hello everyone, Thanks to the wonderful efforts of Andy Phillips and Val Gray, we have added a number of marriage entries to the Crewkerne transcripts (see www.CrewkerneOPC.com). Most of the Crewkerne Transcripts have now been added to FreeREG and we hope to have them added to the Somerset OPC project very soon. Godfrey & Merry Ellis OPCs for Crewkerne & Timsbury in Somerset

Hi listers, I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has info on, or connections to, the MILKINS family of Long Ashton, in particular pre 1810. Best wishes, Jon Click here to meet my 3 Guide Dogs

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Hi Helen, I can back up one more generation. Charles Lee and Sarah Coombs were married @ Catcott 2 June 1824 and are Charles Lee's parents. He was born 1827. Still trying to dig further back. Thanks for any and all help. Richard Helen <peony23@comcast.net> wrote: Hi Richard, I can't really be of help to you but I have a ?G grandmother, Elizabeth Lee, born about 1694 in Westonzoyland, and I have a ?G grandmother, Mary Westlake, born about 1750, Middlezoy. Maybe someone could help us make a connection. Helen, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Lee" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:05 PM Subject: [ENG-SOM] Surname; LEE >I am Richard E. Lee from Oklahoma, USA. I am in search of SKS that can >help and/or direct me to locate my roots. I have traced them back as far >as my great-great grandfather Charles LEE. He was born in Somersettshire, >England on 23 July 1827. He was a taylor by trade in England. He married >Sarah Jane Westlake in England on 25 Dec 1851. Sarah was born 29 Dec 1832. >Charles died 8 Feb 1915 and Sarah died on 22 Now 1914. > This is as far as I have been able to go. > Thank you for your time and help in the matter. > Richard > > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1206 - Release Date: 1/1/2008 > 12:09 PM > > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1581 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Richard E. Lee

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: vallaw138 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.som.general/3420.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Paul, My great great grandfather was also Samuel Langley b1842/43 from Somerset.His occ;Coal Miner. Samuel had a nephew called Samuel Langley b1852 from Somerset.Could my great great grandfathers nephew be your great great grandfather. Samuel 1852; father was George Langley b1825 & mother Hester Moxam b1826 both from Somerset. Regards Val Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Welcome home, Tony! Helen, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony M" <somersetlad@gmail.com> To: <Eng-Somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 21, 2008 2:17 AM Subject: [ENG-SOM] ADMIN: I'm back! > After seven weeks of driving around England & Ireland, I have return to > the > helm of this fine list, > but I'm a little jet lagged so please be kind to me :o) > > -- > Tony M > List Administrator > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1510 - Release Date: 6/19/2008 > 3:21 PM > > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1818 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len

Tony M wrote: > After seven weeks of driving around England & Ireland, I have return to the > helm of this fine list, > but I'm a little jet lagged so please be kind to me :o) Welcome home!! :)) I hope you enjoyed your travels. Did you remember to bring pressies back for us all? Fine Irish cheddar, genuine clotted cream, excellent Somerset cider and scrumpy and so on? <VBG> -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk

Welcome back Tony. I hope you had a grand time in "Merry Ole England" & Ireland. Hope you were able to accomplise everything you had set out to do. Diana Nowell 2008/6/21 Tony M <somersetlad@gmail.com>: > After seven weeks of driving around England & Ireland, I have return to the > helm of this fine list, > but I'm a little jet lagged so please be kind to me :o) > > -- > Tony M > List Administrator > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: edithpeters10 Surnames: Cozens, Hole, Lewis Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.som.general/12909.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: My ggrandmother was Jane Cozens, born in Bath 1844, her father was Leonard Cozens born in 1812, Chippenham, Wiltshire. He married mary Ann Hole Dec 1832, in Bath Somerset. Leonard Cozens father was Samuel Cozens I have no birth date for him, but I have a marriage to Mary Lewis 13 Oct 1799 in Chippenham, Wiltshire. I am looking for any information on this line. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

If Clara emigrated to America in 1849 or 1850, you will not find her on any census in England. She wasn't born in 1841 and they were in America by 1851. There are 2 people with the name Nathanael HENSON in the whole of England in 1841. It is very unlikely that either of them are yours because they would have been about 70 in 1851! There are 5 people with the name Nathan HANSON in England in 1841. One is already married and one is too young, so that leaves 3 who could possibly be yours. There are 0 people with the name Nathan HENSON. As for Mary BURTON. She probably wasn't married in 1841. There are over 800 people with the name Mary BURTON in just about every county in England, about 20 of them in Somerset, thought they didn't have to come from Somerset at all. Do you know if Nathaniel and Mary had any other children before Mary? That would help to know when they were married and would help narrow the search. There are no people called Nathanael HENSON at Free BMD. You would need to try over and over with different name variants. Kind regards, Maggie On Jun 19, 2008, at 7:35 AM, Ruth Ann Baker wrote: Information we have is limited. Have been unable to locate a marriage for the parents of Clara Ann, a census in England for any of them, or a census in United States for Clara Ann before her marriage. One problem is the surname. Do not know if she had other siblings. Also have not found ship on which she came to the United States--she would have been quite young, like 2 or 3 years old. Originally we thought her maiden name was Clarey Ann HOUSTON, from the record of her marriage to Richard PAUL in 1865 in Illinois. The name Houston was written in (added) on the original, perhaps because writing of name was hard to read. Richard PAUL came from Isle Abbotts, Somersetshire, England with his parents and nine siblings in December of 1841 when he was almost four years old. He died in 1892 and interestingly his death certificate indicates he lived in Illinois all his life, even though he was clearly born in England on other records and the family lived for a short time in New York state before settling in Illinois. Clara Ann married again twice in 1893 and in 1899, both in Illinois. Just received her Illinois death certificate for 1928. On it her parents are listed as Nathaniel HENSON and Mary BURTON. Nathaniel, Mary, and Clara were all born in England. Only know that Clara was born about 1847, possibly November 14, 1847. On the U.S. Census records for Illinois have found Clara only AFTER her marriage: (1865 marriage as Clarey Ann Houston) 1870 as Clarissa Paul 1880 as Clarissa or Clarisea Paul 1900 as Clara Wright (date came to U.S. not shown) 1910 as Clara A. Wright (came to U.S. in 1850) 1920 as Clara Wright (came to U.S. in 1849, possibly naturalized in 1870--hard to read) (1928 death certificate as Clara Ann Wright) Can you find Clara Ann HENSON or her parents Nathaniel HENSON and Mary BURTON in England, on a ship passenger list, or in Illinois before 1865? Or suggest places to look for them? Ruth Ann United States ____________________________________________________________ Summer Spa Sweepstakes Enter for your chance to WIN a Summer Spa Vacation! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7UbfMaznWDoPGpXz06Usq7gniRT8WS2mfsGUj7Qyr3P0f4g/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Information we have is limited. Have been unable to locate a marriage for the parents of Clara Ann, a census in England for any of them, or a census in United States for Clara Ann before her marriage. One problem is the surname. Do not know if she had other siblings. Also have not found ship on which she came to the United States--she would have been quite young, like 2 or 3 years old. Originally we thought her maiden name was Clarey Ann HOUSTON, from the record of her marriage to Richard PAUL in 1865 in Illinois. The name Houston was written in (added) on the original, perhaps because writing of name was hard to read. Richard PAUL came from Isle Abbotts, Somersetshire, England with his parents and nine siblings in December of 1841 when he was almost four years old. He died in 1892 and interestingly his death certificate indicates he lived in Illinois all his life, even though he was clearly born in England on other records and the family lived for a short time in New York state before settling in Illinois. Clara Ann married again twice in 1893 and in 1899, both in Illinois. Just received her Illinois death certificate for 1928. On it her parents are listed as Nathaniel HENSON and Mary BURTON. Nathaniel, Mary, and Clara were all born in England. Only know that Clara was born about 1847, possibly November 14, 1847. On the U.S. Census records for Illinois have found Clara only AFTER her marriage: (1865 marriage as Clarey Ann Houston) 1870 as Clarissa Paul 1880 as Clarissa or Clarisea Paul 1900 as Clara Wright (date came to U.S. not shown) 1910 as Clara A. Wright (came to U.S. in 1850) 1920 as Clara Wright (came to U.S. in 1849, possibly naturalized in 1870--hard to read) (1928 death certificate as Clara Ann Wright) Can you find Clara Ann HENSON or her parents Nathaniel HENSON and Mary BURTON in England, on a ship passenger list, or in Illinois before 1865? Or suggest places to look for them? Ruth Ann United States ____________________________________________________________ Summer Spa Sweepstakes Enter for your chance to WIN a Summer Spa Vacation! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/JKFkuJi7UbfMaznWDoPGpXz06Usq7gniRT8WS2mfsGUj7Qyr3P0f4g/

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: joetomnat Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.som.general/12903.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Gasper is a small Hamlet in the Parish of Stourton Wiltshire. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Hi Listers, Does anyone have a copy of Dwelly's that covers Baltonsborough. I believe that it is Vol II. Bob

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: anitamorley1949 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.england.som.general/1939.2.2.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, You may have this information now, Frank Howe Ling was baptised 8th may 1836 in westonzoyland,He is the Son of John Howe Ling and Elizabeth Nicholas, Elizabeth Nicholas was Baptised 20th October 1803 Westonzoyland, Elizabeth was the daughter of Joseph Nicholas and Sarah Lynham, Frank Howe Ling is my 2nd cousin 2 times removed, All my records are from the parish records, Regards, Anita Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.

Seeing the name PRIDEAUX... its a name for Northumberland.... one of the families I am researching out here in NZ, Lady Jane Tancred was a Prideaux of Twizel. Northumberland... maybe no connection, but maybe worth just checking it out... Tancred is from Yorkshire.. Adele Pentony-Graham Carterton District Early Settlers Researcher Carterton Cemetery Clareville Taphophile Group

Maggie The farm still exists. Poplar Farm Back Ln, Kingston Seymour, Clevedon, North Somerset BS21 6UN, UK A letter may elicit some information 2008/6/14 David & Maggie Mattock <david.maggie@dmattock.co.uk>: > Hello, I wonder if anyone can help with some information, please. We > have just received a death certificate for one of my husband's MATTOCK > ancestors, showing that he died at POPLAR FARM in KINGSTON SEYMOUR. > > Robert Southwood Mattock, died aged 78 at this farm, and it seems that > it was the home of his son, John Victor Mattock. Previous to this the > last information we had about John Victor Mattock was of his service > in the First World War. > > We would be very interested in any information about the farm, or > indeed about either of these people. > Many thanks, Maggie Mattock > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Jim - http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Owner - Somerset Hundreds Groups (Contact Off List for Details) see also: http://www.fromeresearch.org.uk and http://www.opcdorset.com

I just received this email. Who can say what lurks in cyberspace. I have been in touch with a Rebecca Denos Mann in, I think, Virginia. She hasn't gotten me back another generation: George Godfrey, abt 1650, N. Petherton Joan Waterman, abt 1650, N. Petherton married: 11 Jul 1673, N. Petherton their daughter, Ann Godfrey, chr 13 Feb 1680, N. Petherton Her daughter, Ann Beake, abt 1707, Middlezoy. That's all the further I've gotten. Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: "HELEN" <helenh48@westnet.com.au> To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] BEAKE-GODFREY > Hi Helen, > > My husband has Susan b1830 32, All Cannings, Wiltshire, we are still > trying > to find her family. > > Have you contacted Barbara BEAKE? She seems to have lots on the family. > > Sorry can't help. > > Cheers > Helen > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Helen" <peony23@comcast.net> > To: <eng-somerset@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:55 AM > Subject: [ENG-SOM] BEAKE-GODFREY > > >>I have possibly found another branch on my family tree and would be most >>appreciative of any verification. >> >> John BEAKE, abt1675, Middlezoy >> >> wife: Ann GODFREY, abt 1680, Middlezoy >> >> mar: abt 1699, Middlezoy >> >> children include: >> >> Mary, 1701 >> Amandus 1703 >> Ann, my ancestor, 1707 >> >> Ann married John JENKINS in 1728. >> >> Helen, USA >> >> >> >> -- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >> It has removed 1717 spam emails to date. >> Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >> Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.3/1354 - Release Date: 4/1/2008 > 5:38 AM > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 1812 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len