Eve Sorry to disappoint you but Strattons only entered my genealogical senses when one married a Lay in Milton Lilbourne (near Pewsey) in 1854. We traced him back to his birth in 1834 to a William Stratton and Sarah (nee Clements). After James and his Lay emigrated to Australia (to the same area where Pewsey Lays had previously emigrated), other Pewsey Strattons followed. From your remarks, it seems emigration was quite popular with Strattons of the time. As you will be aware pre1837 births can only be found in the Parish registers and Bishops Transcripts (which usually can only be seen in the Wiltshire County offices), and only some of those have been picked-up by IGI/LDS. There are also a lot of missing records from the Pewsey area. Good wishes Max ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:00 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada > Hi Max > Our Thomas came to Canada with wife Elizabeth Cole whom he married in > Dec. 1839 after his first wife Dina had died in 1836 > So they may have been cousins?? > How far back and to where have you taken your Strattons? I would like to > find the birth of Thomas 1790-1874 > Any ideas please?? > Eve > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "maxwell lay" <mmlay@bigpond.net.au> > To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:10 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada > > >> Eve >> Your memory is better than mine! My Strattons are in Pewsey in the 1851 >> census (William & Sarah and five children). I think you had mentioned a >> Thomas at one stage. They do have a widowed Thomas Stratton, aged 77, >> living with them. >> Max >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> >> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 2:45 PM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >> >> >>> Hi Max >>> I think we have "spoken" before, I did make contact with Jim Fuller. I >>> am just interested to know if there is a record of this family leaving >>> the Pewsey area. They are not on 1851 census. but are on the 1841. >>> Eve >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "maxwell lay" <mmlay@bigpond.net.au> >>> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:25 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >>> >>> >>>> Hi >>>> There were Strattons from the adjacent Pewsey area who emigrated to >>>> Australia in the 1850s. >>>> Jim Fuller was a Stratton expert but I haven't seen his name recently. >>>> Max >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> >>>> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:24 AM >>>> Subject: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi All >>>>> As I now feel the STRATTON Family in question must have emigrated to >>>>> Canada between 1841 and 1851 does anyone know of a site for migrating >>>>> Wiltshire people to Canada from this period please? >>>>> Eve >>>>> >>>>> ==== ENG-WILTSHIRE Mailing List ==== >>>>> Please keep messages to the list on topic. 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Hi Max Thanks, so some went to Australia, we seem to have the whole family 3 generations here in Canada of Thomas 1790-1874 Sadly the IGI is very slim in The area, but I can order films in. Thanks Eve ----- Original Message ----- From: "maxwell lay" <mmlay@bigpond.net.au> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:56 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada > Eve > Sorry to disappoint you but Strattons only entered my genealogical senses > when one married a Lay in Milton Lilbourne (near Pewsey) in 1854. We > traced him back to his birth in 1834 to a William Stratton and Sarah (nee > Clements). After James and his Lay emigrated to Australia (to the same > area where Pewsey Lays had previously emigrated), other Pewsey Strattons > followed. From your remarks, it seems emigration was quite popular with > Strattons of the time. > As you will be aware pre1837 births can only be found in the Parish > registers and Bishops Transcripts (which usually can only be seen in the > Wiltshire County offices), and only some of those have been picked-up by > IGI/LDS. There are also a lot of missing records from the Pewsey area. > Good wishes > Max > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> > To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:00 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada > > >> Hi Max >> Our Thomas came to Canada with wife Elizabeth Cole whom he married in >> Dec. 1839 after his first wife Dina had died in 1836 >> So they may have been cousins?? >> How far back and to where have you taken your Strattons? I would like to >> find the birth of Thomas 1790-1874 >> Any ideas please?? >> Eve >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "maxwell lay" <mmlay@bigpond.net.au> >> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 11:10 PM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >> >> >>> Eve >>> Your memory is better than mine! My Strattons are in Pewsey in the 1851 >>> census (William & Sarah and five children). I think you had mentioned a >>> Thomas at one stage. They do have a widowed Thomas Stratton, aged 77, >>> living with them. >>> Max >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> >>> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 2:45 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >>> >>> >>>> Hi Max >>>> I think we have "spoken" before, I did make contact with Jim Fuller. I >>>> am just interested to know if there is a record of this family leaving >>>> the Pewsey area. They are not on 1851 census. but are on the 1841. >>>> Eve >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> From: "maxwell lay" <mmlay@bigpond.net.au> >>>> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 9:25 PM >>>> Subject: Re: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi >>>>> There were Strattons from the adjacent Pewsey area who emigrated to >>>>> Australia in the 1850s. >>>>> Jim Fuller was a Stratton expert but I haven't seen his name recently. >>>>> Max >>>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Eve Ferguson" <Coyston@sympatico.ca> >>>>> To: <ENG-WILTSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> >>>>> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 1:24 AM >>>>> Subject: [ENG-WIL] Emigrants to Canada >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hi All >>>>>> As I now feel the STRATTON Family in question must have emigrated to >>>>>> Canada between 1841 and 1851 does anyone know of a site for migrating >>>>>> Wiltshire people to Canada from this period please? >>>>>> Eve >>>>>> >>>>>> ==== ENG-WILTSHIRE Mailing List ==== >>>>>> Please keep messages to the list on topic. 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Just incase its of any interest, as well as starting to add some new web pages for my Spanswick research, by county and by parish, I've begun with Pewsey and Aldbourne (plenty of other parishes to add) and as I'm doing so I'll be adding misc. transcripts of other records, containing a number of other surnames. So far there is a transcript of a letter in the Times, concerning Pewsey Workshouse (1840) with a number of names, a list of contributors to rebuilding Pewsey Church (1889) kindly sent to me by another family historian, and a couple of early C17th references to Aldbourne . I expect it will take a number of years (when I need a break from newspapers !) to add all I've got. The site will be re-indexed over the weekend, in the meantime feel free to have a look if of interest : http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dutillieul/SpansCounty/Wiltshire.html Regards Richard H