Hi Further to my recent enquiry about the death of Edmund KING I am wondering if I have stumbled across it but need more supporting information to be sure. There is definitely no Edmund KING burial for a man of the right age in Oxfordshire and at this time all his family were still in Sydenham/Chinnor or west London. At the baptism of a couple of his children (we know that they are his children because several of them migrated together and the family links are quite clear in the Australian records) and in his cousin's will Edmund is referred to Edward - though the receipt for the bequest is signed Edmund. What I have now found is: Edward KING, of Sydenham, buried Chinnor 6 Aug 1808 age 70 "who in a fit of insanity hung himself at the Windmill" In many ways it makes sense that this Edmund - there was no Edward of this age in Sydenham; the age is not far out for Edward son of Edward KING jnr baptised Chinnor 1740. I have checked Oxhist holdings on line come up empty - can anyone point in the direction of online newspapers that might have covered the story please. Wendy

Thank you Wendy and Paul for the very helpful advice. I certainly would not have thought to take passport photos to get a CARN ticket (never had to before). I have to confess I find the length of the journey between Cambridge & Oxford quite daunting so I may have to consider using the OFHS or RO search services in the short term until I can spend a few days nearer to Oxford itself. Whatever I do, the advice has been very gratefully received and will be put to good purpose. Best wishes Kim Hull, East Yorks Happy to do look-ups in Hull or Beverley for anyone needing them! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Semmence" <semmence@semmence.karoo.co.uk> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 4:17 PM Subject: [OXF] Visit to Oxon Archives > Hello all, > > I'm visiting Cambridge (!) in a couple of weeks and hope to make a trip > down > to Oxford on one of my days, with the sole intention of sitting in the > record office. As a non-driver with some limitation of my mobility, I > would > appreciate some advice from regular users about things like proximity to a > bus route (I shall be making my journey from Cambridge by bus), and where > I > can get a reasonable coffee/lunch and/or pint nearby. Is there a "better" > days to go, in terms of likely busyness or longer opening hours? I can't > find my CARN ticket - and it may have expired anyway - do I need one and > if > so, do they issue them on site? I shall, of course, be looking at their > website before I go and that will presumably answer the last question at > least but input from the list would be much appreciated. > > Thank you > > Kim > Hull, E Yorks > > Researching Allen, Dale, Keen, Sewell, Slatter, Webb & Woodward around > Chipping Norton, South Oxon & Woodstock > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock > www.ofhs.org.uk > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Yesterday the National Archives released new files from the Security Service spanning the Second World War and post-war eras http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/613.htm Radio Oxford featured a fascinating pair of interviews, one with Dr Ed Hampshire, Principal Records Specialist, Diplomatic and Colonial Records at The National Archives, talking about the releases, and the other by Tony Hadland, Vice-Chairman & Editor of Oxfordshire FHS. Tony discussed the Oxfordshire relevance of some of the data, and its links to family history, and went on to talk about the balance between private and family records with examples from his own family history. You can hear the program on "listen again" at http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jn8j0 It's a three hour programme, with the relevant interviews starting at 2hrs 7mins in - so slide the time cursor along to two thirds of the way across, and then look at the time count to tweak where you are timewise. Wendy

In a message dated 27/07/2011 19:18:40 GMT Daylight Time, rgadney@btinternet.com writes: Does anyone know what this means, is it some sort of process associated with bankruptcy? Is Mary Ann simply giving her business to Abel Quarterman (her brother in law)? Certainly by 1851 she has changed her profession, as have her two sisters who were in business with her in 1841 . Any insights will be gratefully recieved. Ray Yes, it was part of the bankruptcy process. There's a bit more in the London Gazette :- _http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/1845-01-01;1850-12-31/all=Gadney/sta rt=1_ (http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/1845-01-01;1850-12-31/all=Gadney/start=1) I've just downloaded the page and will forward it to you off-list. The National Archives "In-depth research guide" entitled "Bankrupts and insolvent debtors 1710-1869" might be worth reading :- _http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guide-listing.htm_ (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guide-listing.htm) Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk/)

>From True Briton (1793) ( London, England ), Wednesday, May 30, 1798; Issue 1695. COUNTRY NEWS. OXFORD, May 26. Yesterday morning a fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mary WESTON , a cottager, at Garsington, near this city, occasioned by carelessly throwing some hot cinders on a dunghill adjoining the dwelling, which in a short time kindled, and consumed that and another cottage, and communicated to a farm house and buildings belonging to Mr. J. MACANESS , which were also destroyed, together with several corn staddles, a large barn full of wheat and other grain, and several out-buildings.

>From The Times, Monday, Jul 02, 1883; pg. 1; Issue 30861; col A MARRIAGE On the 28th June, at St. Mary de Crypt Church, Gloucester, by the Rev. Mowbry TROTTER , assisted by Rev. Murray SYMONDS , cousin of the bride, John Henry Mathews , second son of Isaac MULLINS , of Duncastle, Gloucestershire, to Bessie Emily, eldest daughter of the late W. DREWITT , of Egrove, Oxfordshire.

Hi Wendy I know where Bridge Street is. I live in the area, and visit Banbury quite a lot with my job. Castle Quay has a lot to answer for in terms of my family! Mill Lane AND Factory Street were demolished to make way for it! Factory Street was where a lot of canal boat owners seemed to live. The name crops up a lot in my ancestors records. (A lot of Canal history) That Google Map is quite strange (but helpful), in that it overlays the old streets that were under where the shops are now - so it shows Mill Lane, which actually ran West/East and in to another North/South section, which is the bit that remains, and is now the Bus Station, with the Pawpaw on the corner. Not sure what 1901 page you are referring to?   I've also found a the old maps website very helpful (http://www.old-maps.co.uk/index.html), that show Banbury in various eras. On some I can just about make out property numbers.   Neil   ----- Original Message ----- From: Wendy King <wendyking37@hotmail.com> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2011, 22:31 Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler If you check google earth (google Bridge Street Banbury) you get a marker for the Pawpaw pub/restaurant which is  on the corner of Bridge Street and Mill Lane at No 59 - in 1901 this was a Temperance Hotel. It is possible that the living quarters was on Mill Lane. This would work with the positioning of the house. Have you looked at the 1901 page - it is very strange in adjoining properties you have a pub landlady, a publican (John Grantham) then Edwin Grantham - which would his property nearest to the Wharf. Mill Lane now runs into what looks like a shopping complex and the properties behind the Pawpaw have been demolished Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Neil Grantham Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:18 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler Wendy Many thanks for checking that for me (and the photo evidence sent separately). Quite unexpected. I guess that someone got it wrong when writing the registers, as the Old Wharf Inn (from all other evidence I've seen) was in Mill Lane (or Street depending on the record!!!) Neil From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2011, 12:26 Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler Neil - You said: > To answer Hugh, the marriage record, from the Christchurch, Banbury > Register is: > 17 August 1901 at Christchurch > Alban ROOT, 35, bachelor, Butcher, 25 Castle Street, son of Jonathan > (deceased), Butcher > Hannah Maria GRANTHAM (made her mark), 26, spinster, The Old Wharf Inn > Bridge Street, daughter of Edward, Licensed Victualler. > Witnesses: Fred. ROGERS & Mary Ann GRANTHAM > Seems to be a discrepancy in the street, yet I could have sworn it was > Mill Lane where he had ran the Inn. > The 1901 Census lists the Grantham family at 5 Mill Lane, Banbury, and > Edwin is shown there as "Innkeeper (Publican)" > His Death Certificate of 6th June 1902 states only "Mill Street, Banbury" > !! > Maybe the PR entry is wrong? I'm at Oxfordshire History Centre, & I've ordered up the original register. It's exactly as you've written above, ie as the OFHS transcription.  Sorry that's not the answer you wanted ! Photo on its way as proof! Wendy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If you check google earth (google Bridge Street Banbury) you get a marker for the Pawpaw pub/restaurant which is on the corner of Bridge Street and Mill Lane at No 59 - in 1901 this was a Temperance Hotel. It is possible that the living quarters was on Mill Lane. This would work with the positioning of the house. Have you looked at the 1901 page - it is very strange in adjoining properties you have a pub landlady, a publican (John Grantham) then Edwin Grantham - which would his property nearest to the Wharf. Mill Lane now runs into what looks like a shopping complex and the properties behind the Pawpaw have been demolished Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Neil Grantham Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 8:18 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler Wendy Many thanks for checking that for me (and the photo evidence sent separately). Quite unexpected. I guess that someone got it wrong when writing the registers, as the Old Wharf Inn (from all other evidence I've seen) was in Mill Lane (or Street depending on the record!!!) Neil From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2011, 12:26 Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler Neil - You said: > To answer Hugh, the marriage record, from the Christchurch, Banbury > Register is: > 17 August 1901 at Christchurch > Alban ROOT, 35, bachelor, Butcher, 25 Castle Street, son of Jonathan > (deceased), Butcher > Hannah Maria GRANTHAM (made her mark), 26, spinster, The Old Wharf Inn > Bridge Street, daughter of Edward, Licensed Victualler. > Witnesses: Fred. ROGERS & Mary Ann GRANTHAM > Seems to be a discrepancy in the street, yet I could have sworn it was > Mill Lane where he had ran the Inn. > The 1901 Census lists the Grantham family at 5 Mill Lane, Banbury, and > Edwin is shown there as "Innkeeper (Publican)" > His Death Certificate of 6th June 1902 states only "Mill Street, Banbury" > !! > Maybe the PR entry is wrong? I'm at Oxfordshire History Centre, & I've ordered up the original register. It's exactly as you've written above, ie as the OFHS transcription. Sorry that's not the answer you wanted ! Photo on its way as proof! Wendy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Wendy   Many thanks for checking that for me (and the photo evidence sent separately). Quite unexpected. I guess that someone got it wrong when writing the registers, as the Old Wharf Inn (from all other evidence I've seen) was in Mill Lane (or Street depending on the record!!!)   Neil From: Wendy Archer <wharcher@cvd.co.uk> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, 25 August 2011, 12:26 Subject: Re: [OXF] Licensed Victualler Neil - You said: > To answer Hugh, the marriage record, from the Christchurch, Banbury > Register is: > 17 August 1901 at Christchurch > Alban ROOT, 35, bachelor, Butcher, 25 Castle Street, son of Jonathan > (deceased), Butcher > Hannah Maria GRANTHAM (made her mark), 26, spinster, The Old Wharf Inn > Bridge Street, daughter of Edward, Licensed Victualler. > Witnesses: Fred. ROGERS & Mary Ann GRANTHAM > Seems to be a discrepancy in the street, yet I could have sworn it was > Mill Lane where he had ran the Inn. > The 1901 Census lists the Grantham family at 5 Mill Lane, Banbury, and > Edwin is shown there as "Innkeeper (Publican)" > His Death Certificate of 6th June 1902 states only "Mill Street, Banbury" > !! > Maybe the PR entry is wrong? I'm at Oxfordshire History Centre, & I've ordered up the original register. It's exactly as you've written above, ie as the OFHS transcription.  Sorry that's not the answer you wanted ! Photo on its way as proof! Wendy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Kim - Adding to Paul's points ... >> As a non-driver with some limitation of my mobility, I would appreciate > some advice from regular users about things like proximity to a bus route > (I shall be making my journey from Cambridge by bus) > > You''ll arrive from Cambridge on a Stagecoach X5 that terminates at > Oxford's Gloucester Green bus station. The number 5 bus to Blackbird Leys > stops > immediately outside of the Oxfordshire History Centre - formerly the > Oxfordshire Record Office. But you'll have a walk of five minutes or so > to get from your coach stop to the bus stop. Well, the bus turns right at the History Centre before you can get off, but not to panic - it stops shortly thereafter, and that's your clue you've got there. The bus drvers are very helpful too. >> where I can get a reasonable coffee/lunch and/or pint nearby. > > "The Original Swan" immediately opposite the History Centre is fine - and > there's a Wetherspoon pub about five minutes walk away. There's also a > decent Wetherspoons between the coach station and the bus stop in town. The History Centre has a friendly reception area with seating for eating. You can buy tea & coffee. About 5 minutes walk away is a baguette & sandwich shop, which sells excellent food, with lots of choice. You can eat food you've bought or brought in the reception area. >> Is there a "better" days to go, in terms of likely busyness or longer > opening hours? > > All days are 9am to 5pm. The quiet day is Saturday. Not quite right - Tuesday it opens at 10am. On Tuesdays & Thursdays Oxfordshire FHS has an advisor on site very willing to show you what's where, on the shelves, in the catalogues & on the computers. >> I can't find my CARN ticket - and it may have expired anyway - do I need > one and if so, do they issue them on site? > > Yes and yes - bring a (or is it two?) passport sized photies with you ! Only if you want to consult original records. Two photos, and official evidence of your address and signature (for example, a bank statement and credit/debit card). My additional advice is that, if, like me, you feel the cold, you'll feel cold at Oxfordshire History Centre! Bring an extra layer of clothing! The staff there are all very friendly & welcoming. Wendy

Three cheers for Wendy - she's solved my latest conundrum! Just goes to prove ... never give up. (Wendy - images received safely, will reply to you direct by email.) Penny

----- Original Message ----- From: <PennyEves@aol.com> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2011 11:18 PM Subject: [OXF] A WASTIE/WASTELL Muddle! > My ancestor, Richard WASTIE, had five children baptised at Eynsham between > 1668 and 1679 (no mother's name recorded), before his death in 1681. The > most likely looking marriage for Richard was to Joane GREENE in > Stonesfield in 1666. > > However, I now have a copy of Richard's will (dated 1677) in which he > refers to his "loving wife, Margery". > > There are no burial records at Eynsham for either Joane or Margery. > > I can find no record of a marriage between Richard WASTIE (or variants) > and > a Margery, but the Oxfordshire Archdeacon's Marriage Bond Index has an > entry in 1665 for a Richard WASTELL (of Ensham) and a Margery BOWLES (of > West > Hanney). (Coincidentally, West Hanney is very close to East/West Hendred, > where WASTIEs are recorded in the late 1500s and early 1600s.) > > What I would really like to ascertain is whether WASTELL is a > mistranscription of WASTIE. The latter surname is quite rare - but is > regularly > mistranscribed as WASTY, WAISTIE, WACE, WASLIE etc. etc. Pennie - This has been an interesting chase! A bit of history (copied from the introduction to the current index at Oxfordshire History Centre) to the Archdeaconry Marriage bonds and Affadavits. An index of Oxford Archdeaconry marriage bonds and affadavits, 1634-36, 1665-1849, was compiled in about 1850 when the records were housed in the offices of Messrs. P. Walsh and G. Dayman, solicitors and archidiaconal registrars. This index listed the documents by years and within each year alphabetically by bridegroom's surname, giving just the names of both parties and their places of residence. Most of the original bonds & affadavits were depostited in the Bodleian library in 1920, with a continuation of the series to 1856, by Messrs. A. M. Franklin & Son, the firm of solicitors which succeeded to the practice of Walsh and Dayman. The original index was also deposited in the Bodleian by Messrs Franklin in 1980. It had been reproduced by the National Register of Archives in about 1960, and has been familiar to Oxfordshire genealogists in that form since then. The current index is described as a "cumulative index", comprising all the enries for both bridegrooms and brides, 1634-1849, contained in the 1850 index, and new entries for the afadavits of 1850-56 which had not previously been indexed. ... The cumulative index was compiled by Colin Harris & Miss Maude Wheeler. Reverting to your query (hoping to find WASTIE) - the index listed under WESTELL, WASTELL, WESTALL, WESTILL Richard 1665. I've looked at the bond. The name is mentioned three times. At the start of the bond it's WASTEE, later in the document the same, and signed WASTIE. Photographs sent separately. *However*, the bonds are all bound consecutively by bridegroom's name in years. At some stage, and possibly before the handwritten first index (1850), perhaps as an aide to assembling them alphabetically, the names of the parties were written on the backs of the bonds. And that's the stage where the WASTIE entry went wrong. The writing on the back is Wast - and then two generously loopy characters. They were intended to make WASTEE, as in the bond, but my theory is that that's the stage at which the WASTEL name was "born" for the document, and subsequently read as that. My theory rang true for the duty archivist, who's changed the master cumulative index accordingly. Wendy

Neil - You said: > To answer Hugh, the marriage record, from the Christchurch, Banbury > Register is: > 17 August 1901 at Christchurch > Alban ROOT, 35, bachelor, Butcher, 25 Castle Street, son of Jonathan > (deceased), Butcher > Hannah Maria GRANTHAM (made her mark), 26, spinster, The Old Wharf Inn > Bridge Street, daughter of Edward, Licensed Victualler. > Witnesses: Fred. ROGERS & Mary Ann GRANTHAM > Seems to be a discrepancy in the street, yet I could have sworn it was > Mill Lane where he had ran the Inn. > The 1901 Census lists the Grantham family at 5 Mill Lane, Banbury, and > Edwin is shown there as "Innkeeper (Publican)" > His Death Certificate of 6th June 1902 states only "Mill Street, Banbury" > !! > Maybe the PR entry is wrong? I'm at Oxfordshire History Centre, & I've ordered up the original register. It's exactly as you've written above, ie as the OFHS transcription. Sorry that's not the answer you wanted ! Photo on its way as proof! Wendy

off subject a little but does anyone have any recommendations for accommodation near Cowley preferably self catering? Eryl Bloxham -----Original Message----- From: PaulGask@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 10:05 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com ; semmence@semmence.karoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [OXF] Visit to Oxon Archives Kim If you e-mail me off-list with your 'phone number, I'll talk you through this in more detail at the weekend. But quickly..... > As a non-driver with some limitation of my mobility, I would appreciate some advice from regular users about things like proximity to a bus route (I shall be making my journey from Cambridge by bus) You''ll arrive from Cambridge on a Stagecoach X5 that terminates at Oxford's Gloucester Green bus station. The number 5 bus to Blackbird Leys stops immediately outside of the Oxfordshire History Centre - formerly the Oxfordshire Record Office. But you'll have a walk of five minutes or so to get from your coach stop to the bus stop. > where I can get a reasonable coffee/lunch and/or pint nearby. "The Original Swan" immediately opposite the History Centre is fine - and there's a Wetherspoon pub about five minutes walk away. There's also a decent Wetherspoons between the coach station and the bus stop in town. > Is there a "better" days to go, in terms of likely busyness or longer opening hours? All days are 9am to 5pm. The quiet day is Saturday. > I can't find my CARN ticket - and it may have expired anyway - do I need one and if so, do they issue them on site? Yes and yes - bring a (or is it two?) passport sized photies with you ! As you know, the Centre's website will answer lots of your questions ! Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock www.ofhs.org.uk ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1392 / Virus Database: 1520/3854 - Release Date: 08/24/11

Kim If you e-mail me off-list with your 'phone number, I'll talk you through this in more detail at the weekend. But quickly..... > As a non-driver with some limitation of my mobility, I would appreciate some advice from regular users about things like proximity to a bus route (I shall be making my journey from Cambridge by bus) You''ll arrive from Cambridge on a Stagecoach X5 that terminates at Oxford's Gloucester Green bus station. The number 5 bus to Blackbird Leys stops immediately outside of the Oxfordshire History Centre - formerly the Oxfordshire Record Office. But you'll have a walk of five minutes or so to get from your coach stop to the bus stop. > where I can get a reasonable coffee/lunch and/or pint nearby. "The Original Swan" immediately opposite the History Centre is fine - and there's a Wetherspoon pub about five minutes walk away. There's also a decent Wetherspoons between the coach station and the bus stop in town. > Is there a "better" days to go, in terms of likely busyness or longer opening hours? All days are 9am to 5pm. The quiet day is Saturday. > I can't find my CARN ticket - and it may have expired anyway - do I need one and if so, do they issue them on site? Yes and yes - bring a (or is it two?) passport sized photies with you ! As you know, the Centre's website will answer lots of your questions ! Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)

Hello all, I'm visiting Cambridge (!) in a couple of weeks and hope to make a trip down to Oxford on one of my days, with the sole intention of sitting in the record office. As a non-driver with some limitation of my mobility, I would appreciate some advice from regular users about things like proximity to a bus route (I shall be making my journey from Cambridge by bus), and where I can get a reasonable coffee/lunch and/or pint nearby. Is there a "better" days to go, in terms of likely busyness or longer opening hours? I can't find my CARN ticket - and it may have expired anyway - do I need one and if so, do they issue them on site? I shall, of course, be looking at their website before I go and that will presumably answer the last question at least but input from the list would be much appreciated. Thank you Kim Hull, E Yorks Researching Allen, Dale, Keen, Sewell, Slatter, Webb & Woodward around Chipping Norton, South Oxon & Woodstock

Mike - > In the OFHS transcription of Enstone burial there is an entry for the > burial of a Fredericka TAPLIN age 2 Neat Enstone. > The TAPLIN's did not appear to baptise their children in Enstone and in > the GRO indexes the entry gives Frederick. > > Can anyone check the entry in the parish register please ? I'm at Oxfordshire History Centre. It's not wonderful writing, but the entry is of Frederick TAPLIN. I'll send you a photo of the entry, plus one from the opposite page where John SMITH died at his residence in Park Lane, London, to see another "k" in the vicar's hand. Wendy

----- Original Message ----- From: "David Beames" <dave.beames@ntlworld.com> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 8:58 AM Subject: Re: [OXF] Viewing Original Parish Registers > Wendy said > >> Richard - > >> The entry in MSS. D.D. Par. Witney c4 Register of Baptisms and >> Burials for 30 Jan. 1809 is William WRIGHT aged 56. This is >> perfectly clear and confirms the transcription. There are no other >> WRIGHT burials in the register within a year. > > Richard had said: > >>> Could I add to your list of check-ups? The OFHS for St. Mary's >>> Witney has burial of William WRIGHT, aged 56, on 30 January >>> 1809. This is a puzzling entry. I have the will of Thomas >>> WRIGHT the elder of Curbridge, proved 28 Jan. 1809, and its >>> codicil was made on 20 Aug. 1808. >>> >>> It may be that there is a glitch in the transcription of the >>> January 1809 entries and two or more entries and dates >>> compressed into one in error;, a portmanteau entry, "William" >>> Wright actually someone else with a >>> different surname and Thomas Wright somehow left out though the >>> Wright surname is included. > > A "portmanteau entry" might also have come about when the parish clerk > copied his rough book up into the Register, maybe months later. > If that was the case, you'll never know :-( I've photographed the entry, & will send it to you. Dave's theory is a possibility - the entries on that & the next page are very consistent writing & ink. Wendy

Thank you Tom, for reminding me of this excellent website. What a wonderful film of Ewelme watercress gatherers. I searched for Cowley, which is quite amazing, showing the strike of 1956. It is really wonderful how you are taken back to how the road looked prior to all the road changes. Towards the end of this film you can see a glimpse of St Luke's Church - these people in the film would never have thought that this building would become a Record Office/ Library would they? I am now off to view:- http://www.britishpathe.com/results.php?search=Abingdon Kind Regards, Jill -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Thomas Stevenson Sent: 22 August 2011 20:03 To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Ewelme Photographs Bit of a very long shot but interesting nevertheless the following is a short piece of film from 1933. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=19149 Enjoy Tom

Bit of a very long shot but interesting nevertheless the following is a short piece of film from 1933. http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=19149 Enjoy Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "rosemary hicks" <rosemaryhicks@hotmail.com> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:19 PM Subject: Re: [OXF] Ewelme Photographs > > > Dear Carmela > Thank you for the offer, we are looking for ones of the time when she was > young > Regards > Rosemary Hicks > > >> From: CLSmith009@aol.com >> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:15:07 -0400 >> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [OXF] Ewelme Photographs >> >> Hi Rosemary, >> I don't have any photos from 1925-40, but I do have some postcards from >> c1900, if that is any help. I would be happy to scan them for you. >> >> Regards, >> Carmela Smith >> Vancouver Island >> B.C. >> Canada >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock >> www.ofhs.org.uk >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > OFHS Open Day - 1 October in Woodstock > www.ofhs.org.uk > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OXFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message