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    1. What is it about Tidcombe?
    2. ROBIN LOVELOCK
    3. I haven't paid particularly close attention to the new(ish) fragments on the Lovelock Family History website labelled 'Wroughton/Tidcombe' and 'Shrewton/Tidcombe', but it strikes me as interesting that these two lines both seem to involve Lovelocks 'moving in' from other parts of Wiltshire. PR/BT extracts 'for Tidcombe itself' (see 'Lovelocks in Wiltshire') go quite a long way back and are reasonably substantial, but appear to peter out (in terms of Lovelocks) in the mid/late C19th. I don't think a specific 'Tidcombe fragment' has ever been developed. It's also noticeable that lots of the Tidcombe PR entries have an 'of ...[elsewhere]...' dimension; this is true, for example, of at least two Lieflock line connections which 'pass through' Tidcombe, with the baptisms in 1841 and 1843 of two children of John L and Jane (nee Chouls) 'of Oxenwood' (see also Lieflock pdf Aug 04 pp. 8/9) and the baptisms in 1886 and 1889 of two children of Frederick L and Jane (nee Vockins) 'of Wexcombe' (in '86) and 'of Oxenwood' (in '89) (see also Lieflock pdf Aug 04 p. 9). I believe I'm right in saying that Frederick and Jane are your (paternal) grandparents Graham? And that your maternal line also goes through Tidcombe, in so far as John L 'of Tangley' and Elizabeth (nee Cruse) married there in 1761. Tidcombe's not very close (relatively speaking) to either Wroughton or Shrewton, although it should be acknowledged that Oxenwood, Wexcombe and Tangley are not so far away. Is there anything in any of this - beyond a string of coincidences? Maybe Graham - or someone else - has some thoughts. Regards to all Robin

    10/07/2004 12:50:59