I am researching Joseph GILLETT and his family. Evidence points to my Joseph GILLETT originating in Oxfordshire (at Swyncombe)about 1778 but it is possible that he  married Lydia KITSON at St Pauls in Norwich on 16 March 1798 and some of their children were baptised in Norwich. If these are my people and not namesakes, the family then moved to Swyncombe where Lydia's name appears as Sidey (in transcript). There is some census information which is consistent with Norfolk/Norwich births for some of the children. Joseph was a tailor by occupation. In the Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcript of marriages for St Paul, Norwich, it gives Joseph Gillett's home parish as St Lawrence, Ipswich which rather clashes with the (limited) evidence for the Oxfordshire origins of this GILLETT line. Have any listers any interest in these GILLETTs or the KITSON family of Norwich? Is the St Pauls, Norfolk marriage register (not the Archdeacon's transcripts) accessible online for me to check the accuracy of Joseph GILLETT's home parish? I would be grateful for any pointers - such as is it likely that a tailor from Oxfordshire would move to Ipswich, then Norwich and then back to Oxfordshire around 1800? Best wishes to all listers, Robert Hillier, Poole, Dorset

Look at FamilySearch.org if you haven't already. They have the images of the Norfolk Registers, AT's and BT's available online. I don't know if St Paul's Norwich is there but it is very comprehensive. Rosemary On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:23 PM, robert hillier <roberthillier@yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > I am researching Joseph GILLETT and his family. Evidence points to my > Joseph GILLETT originating in Oxfordshire (at Swyncombe)about 1778 but it is > possible that he married Lydia KITSON at St Pauls in Norwich on 16 March > 1798 and some of their children were baptised in Norwich. If these are my > people and not namesakes, the family then moved to Swyncombe where Lydia's > name appears as Sidey (in transcript). There is some census information > which is consistent with Norfolk/Norwich births for some of the children. > Joseph was a tailor by occupation. In the Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcript of > marriages for St Paul, Norwich, it gives Joseph Gillett's home parish as St > Lawrence, Ipswich which rather clashes with the (limited) evidence for the > Oxfordshire origins of this GILLETT line. > > Have any listers any interest in these GILLETTs or the KITSON family of > Norwich? > > Is the St Pauls, Norfolk marriage register (not the Archdeacon's > transcripts) accessible online for me to check the accuracy of Joseph > GILLETT's home parish? > > I would be grateful for any pointers - such as is it likely that a tailor > from Oxfordshire would move to Ipswich, then Norwich and then back to > Oxfordshire around 1800? > > Best wishes to all listers, > Robert Hillier, > Poole, > Dorset > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Robert Certainly tailors could be "on the move", most likely at the actual journeyman stage. This does look like a possibility, in view of the suggested age (20-ish) at marriage in Norwich. It might be worth finding out whether there are any Trades Guild records available in Oxfordshire (as there are in Perth - Scottish records in this area very useful, don't know yet about England). Tailoring, like many trades, can run in families. Could he have returned to tiny Swyncombe on the death of his father or another relative I wonder? My own gggrandfather, John Wheeler, was also a tailor, in Over Norton/Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, hence the interest. Tailors must have been a well-respected breed, because of the unusual insertion of occupation in his children's baptismal records from 1818. Jill ----- Original Message ----- From: "robert hillier" <roberthillier@yahoo.co.uk> To: <NORFOLK@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:23 PM Subject: [NFK] GILLETT and KITSON family in Norwich 1790s to 1817 "I am researching Joseph GILLETT and his family. Evidence points to my Joseph GILLETT originating in Oxfordshire (at Swyncombe)about 1778 but it is possible that he married Lydia KITSON at St Pauls in Norwich on 16 March 1798 and some of their children were baptised in Norwich. If these are my people and not namesakes, the family then moved to Swyncombe where Lydia's name appears as Sidey (in transcript). There is some census information which is consistent with Norfolk/Norwich births for some of the children. Joseph was a tailor by occupation. In the Norfolk Archdeacon's Transcript of marriages for St Paul, Norwich, it gives Joseph Gillett's home parish as St Lawrence, Ipswich which rather clashes with the (limited) evidence for the Oxfordshire origins of this GILLETT line........................................... I would be grateful for any pointers - such as is it likely that a tailor from Oxfordshire would move to Ipswich, then Norwich and then back to Oxfordshire around 1800?" Best wishes to all listers, Robert Hillier, Poole, Dorset