Hi Bob Bristol & Avon FHS have published transcriptions on CD of various parish registers, including St James, and details of these are available on the Society website at www.bafhs.org.uk if you look under "Shop". All baptisms and marriages from 1754 to 1837 have been transcribed, and burials from 1813 to 1837. Burials from 1754 to 1812 are being worked on at present, and will be available in due course. The CD of Burgess Books lists a Richard Wodesdon, an apothecary, who became a burgess in 1581. There is a look-up service for memorial inscriptions, and details are on the website under "Services". All our publications, and the memorial inscriptions, will be available at the Society Open Day to be held on Saturday 27th September at Thornbury Leisure Centre from 10 to 4. Admission is free, and there are guest speakers and activities for children as well as the usual stands from commercial suppliers and family history societies. Details are at www.bafhs.org.uk. Bob Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: Bob Wilesmith [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 21 September 2008 05:57 To: [email protected] Subject: [GLS] Death & Monumental inscriprions St James Bristol Hi I have received data which has given me details of the Baptism of 10 members of the Wooddeson Family of Fane Wooddeson and Elizabeth De Blios married 26 may 1774 St James Bristol, as mentioned in previous postings within William Wooddeson "WfILL" Father of Fane indicates Fane & Elizabeth resided at Stoke Croft. This appears to be correct as all siblings were chr in St James between 1774 -1792. Of the children I have been able to possibly account for four. As mortality rates were high I am now suspecting some may have perished and were buried at St James.The Siblings were: 1. Elizabeth De Blios Wooddeson chr 1776; 2. John Wooddeson chr 1778 posible married in 1824 Basingstoke Hampshire same area where William Wooddeson died (grandfather); 3. William Wooddeson chr 1778 relocated to london became a Stationer; 4. Thomas DeBlios William Wooddeson chr 1780 married Harriott Weatherley Old St Pancras 1810 this is the line I am researching; 5. Fane Wooddeson Chr 1782 no further info; 6. Elizabeth Wooddeson chr 1784 no further info; 7. Maria chr 1786 no further info; 8, Elizabeth Ester Wooddeson chr 1787 mention in Grandfather William's Will married Joseph Rowe, London Middlesex 1817; 9. Harriott chr 1790 No further info; 10. Ann chr 1792 No further record; I beleive from my research that the site of Saint James is the subject of archology which is on going, My consern now is were burials recorded and if so are records available also what effect has the excavations having on the burial grounds. Also are there any marriage records of St James Available between 1700-1800. Regards B0b Wilesmith NSW Australia