>From The Winnipeg Evening Tribune ( Canada ) February 10, 1943 CASUALTY LIST - WESTERN ONTARIO REGIMENT Previously reported Missing, now reported Prisoner of War:- STEERS , James William, Pte., Iffley, Oxfordshire, Eng.

would answer to be to obtain death certificates to get an address check for wills check local papers for obituaries ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Knibbs" <don.knibbs@btinternet.com> To: "Oxfordshire Genealogy Mailing List" <OXFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:58 AM Subject: [OXF] HARRIS, Cecil and Pamela, Chipping Norton District > I'm hoping someone on the list is able to help, please. I've received a > request from a lady in Australia to help find where a couple of her family > are buried, we presume, in the Chipping Norton District. The couple were > brother and sister, Cecil and Pamela HARRIS who both died in the Chipping > Norton District in 1938. Pamela died during q1 aged 71, and Cecil a few > months later during q2 aged 69. > > The lady who has asked for help is planning a visit to England in August > and would dearly like to visit the grave. > > Regards, > > Don Knibbs > _____________________________________________ > > Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your > names of interest? > ------------------------------- > 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 >

I'm hoping someone on the list is able to help, please. I've received a request from a lady in Australia to help find where a couple of her family are buried, we presume, in the Chipping Norton District. The couple were brother and sister, Cecil and Pamela HARRIS who both died in the Chipping Norton District in 1938. Pamela died during q1 aged 71, and Cecil a few months later during q2 aged 69. The lady who has asked for help is planning a visit to England in August and would dearly like to visit the grave. Regards, Don Knibbs

The bible for this type of detective work is the two-volume opus 'A Comedy of Errors' by Michael Whitfield Foster. I have no relationship or connection with the author and thoroughly recommend his work to all genealogists from professionals down to my own level. The author was given unprecedented access to GRO records, and these books summarise his recommendations to the GRO concerning the estimated error content of their records and his recommendations for corrective policies. [ISBNs 0-473-05581-3 and 0-473-07480-X] -- Joe Connell Firefox & Thunderbird portals Sunbelt Vipre Premium protection

On Sat May 14, the Bucks Genealogical Society present a talk on (BUCKS) COACHING INNS with a wealth of information about ancestors travelling around. by Julian Hunt, always an interesting speaker. (This is a change to the previously advertised subject, owing to Julian's television commitments) Venue is Sir Henry Floyd School, Oxford Rd (main A418), Aylesbury (same site as Aylesbury College, which is signposted.) Time 3pm. Also open from 2pm for an hour's research and problems, with usuaql basic research material plus SURREY speciality. Easy parking, BGS library for members, plus good bookstall, tea/coffee. details eve@varneys.org.uk or 01844 391631

Hello Wendy Agree the UKBMD sites are great. 90% of my marriages for COPPOCK are Cheshire, Lancashire, Oxfordshire, & Yorkshire so I'm on course to record all pre 1911 marriages, complete with marriage info. Promised myself I will buy the last ten certificates. Howard Benbrook, who gave the Cardinal Points talk to the OFHS, has contacted me to say that the Guild of One-Name Studies is putting the information from its marriage index on a new FREE access website, and whilst its early days, its hoped it will be a very useful resource. http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk Best Wishes Dave David F. Coppock Blaby Leicestershire England Guild of One-Name Studies 2750 Oxford Family History Society 922

Hi Wendy It wasn't an option , freebmd is transcribed from the GRO index which does not contain that kind of local information Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > One comment on the excellent freebmd site - its is a pity that they chose to > go down the GRO route rather than the local RO route that the UKbmd sites > use as this gives you place of marriage. Check out www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk > (www.ukbmd.org.uk has details of participating counties) for a view of > this. > > > Wendy

One comment on the excellent freebmd site - its is a pity that they chose to go down the GRO route rather than the local RO route that the UKbmd sites use as this gives you place of marriage. Check out www.yorkshirebmd.org.uk (www.ukbmd.org.uk has details of participating counties) for a view of this. Wendy -----Original Message----- From: Dave Coppock Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 9:16 PM To: OXFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OXF] Headington Registration District Thanks to Wendy, Brad, Paul & John for feedback. I looked back at Howard Benbrooks presentation on Cardinal Points, as Paul suggested, and it was interesting. One thing was that new was that each Church began its page with an odd number (RH page). The other was that "doing Cardinal Points is is laborious". Whilst there is loads of information on the Volume & Pages, there none is available for content of the pages i.e. where the marriage took place. OFHS has probably the best Marriage Index of any society and as Wendy says a real bonus where one is available. The Guild of One-Name Studies, of which I am a member, does this sort of Cardinal Point project as an aid to marriage identification. If you look at 1st Qtr 1838 I supplied earlier, (almost completed for Headington District) it has most of the churches identified. However most quarters have about one third of the total in other than C/E churches. Spent the last two days checking out and logging Headington marriages 1837-1900. Why? Not sure. So there are approx (uncorrected) 22,000 individuals, which when tidied up should give between 10500/11000 marriages, of which two thirds should be in the Marriage Index. As no one responded to my list of marriages, (probable chose the worst possible), how about a any KNOWN register office marriages 1837 - 1851 inc? I feel that FreeBMD are owed a debt of gratitude for their superb index. As I find problems I always supply feedback. The census team on FmyP must really hate me after just completing, and correcting all the COPPOCK/COPPACK/COPPUCK entries over the last year. Best Wishes Dave David F. Coppock Blaby Leicestershire England Guild of One-Name Studies 2750 Oxford Family History Society 922 _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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

Thanks to Wendy, Brad, Paul & John for feedback. I looked back at Howard Benbrooks presentation on Cardinal Points, as Paul suggested, and it was interesting. One thing was that new was that each Church began its page with an odd number (RH page). The other was that "doing Cardinal Points is is laborious". Whilst there is loads of information on the Volume & Pages, there none is available for content of the pages i.e. where the marriage took place. OFHS has probably the best Marriage Index of any society and as Wendy says a real bonus where one is available. The Guild of One-Name Studies, of which I am a member, does this sort of Cardinal Point project as an aid to marriage identification. If you look at 1st Qtr 1838 I supplied earlier, (almost completed for Headington District) it has most of the churches identified. However most quarters have about one third of the total in other than C/E churches. Spent the last two days checking out and logging Headington marriages 1837-1900. Why? Not sure. So there are approx (uncorrected) 22,000 individuals, which when tidied up should give between 10500/11000 marriages, of which two thirds should be in the Marriage Index. As no one responded to my list of marriages, (probable chose the worst possible), how about a any KNOWN register office marriages 1837 - 1851 inc? I feel that FreeBMD are owed a debt of gratitude for their superb index. As I find problems I always supply feedback. The census team on FmyP must really hate me after just completing, and correcting all the COPPOCK/COPPACK/COPPUCK entries over the last year. Best Wishes Dave David F. Coppock Blaby Leicestershire England Guild of One-Name Studies 2750 Oxford Family History Society 922

In a message dated 07/05/2011 14:25:50 GMT Daylight Time, brad@fineby.me.uk writes: An interesting project you're doing. I wonder if the info you require could be obtained from the GRO? After all, they allocated the volume and page numbers so, presumably, they have a record of what they are and which church, RO or whatever each page range refers to. try this link: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/CivilRegistration.html has information and links or go straight to the http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/DG_175464 scroll down the page to the find a download for the 'Index of County Information' and under the 'Other Help' heading two useful downloads: the District Book and the Abolished List which tells you were records went when a registration office closed Wendy Dave/Brad This sounds like a presentation given to this society by Howard Benbrook on 23 March 2009 :- "Cardinal Points - Cracking the Code of the GRO Marriage Index" Howard's notes can be downloaded from our "Past Meetings" webpage ! Enjoy ! Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk) _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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

In an earlier email Dave Coppock wrote: This has thrown up a few problems including 12 marriages (so far) which are not included in the GRO index. 8 of these are early Cuddesdon. I will send these in on a separate message in case they are marriages you want. As far as my research goes this is a fairly common problem as are incorrect transcriptions. A few years ago transcribing death records for one of the UKbmd sites I realised that a whole quarter had not been included in the GRO - I came across the entry for my great grandfather (not in the GRO at the time) so I cross checked a sample of the rest of the entries. In the last year I have found several entries with the wrong first name; missing marriage partners; whole entries not there that are on parish records and in one case two brothers married in the same quarter same place - one brother given on GRO as married to other brother's wife; his wife and his brother both missing from the GRO. So I am with John - if the local records have been transcribed buy the CD and be grateful you are researching a county where these are available. Wendy _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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

Must add to Paul's comment: Not only would this be great info to have, but might lead to sales of some OFHS transcriptions, once folks knew where to look... John -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of PaulGask@aol.com Sent: 08 May 2011 12:55 To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Headington Registration District In a message dated 07/05/2011 14:25:50 GMT Daylight Time, brad@fineby.me.uk writes: An interesting project you're doing. I wonder if the info you require could be obtained from the GRO? After all, they allocated the volume and page numbers so, presumably, they have a record of what they are and which church, RO or whatever each page range refers to. Dave/Brad This sounds like a presentation given to this society by Howard Benbrook on 23 March 2009 :- "Cardinal Points - Cracking the Code of the GRO Marriage Index" Howard's notes can be downloaded from our "Past Meetings" webpage ! Enjoy ! Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk) _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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

Hi Paul,    there are so many variants on the spelling of maddox and ishmael but WEndy has now given me what I wanted   thanks pete                 From: "PaulGask@aol.com" <PaulGask@aol.com> To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 8 May 2011, 12:54 Subject: Re: [OXF] Headington Registration District In a message dated 07/05/2011 14:25:50 GMT Daylight Time, brad@fineby.me.uk writes: An  interesting project you're doing. I wonder if the info you require could  be obtained from the GRO? After all, they allocated the volume and page  numbers so, presumably, they have a record of what they are and which church,  RO or whatever each page range refers to. Dave/Brad This sounds like a presentation given to this society by Howard Benbrook on 23 March 2009 :- "Cardinal Points - Cracking the Code of the GRO Marriage Index" Howard's notes can be downloaded from our "Past Meetings" webpage ! Enjoy ! Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History  Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk) _____________________________________________ Oxfordshire Surname Interest list - www.oxsil.org.uk Have you entered your names of interest? ------------------------------- 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

In a message dated 07/05/2011 14:25:50 GMT Daylight Time, brad@fineby.me.uk writes: An interesting project you're doing. I wonder if the info you require could be obtained from the GRO? After all, they allocated the volume and page numbers so, presumably, they have a record of what they are and which church, RO or whatever each page range refers to. Dave/Brad This sounds like a presentation given to this society by Howard Benbrook on 23 March 2009 :- "Cardinal Points - Cracking the Code of the GRO Marriage Index" Howard's notes can be downloaded from our "Past Meetings" webpage ! Enjoy ! Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)

On Sat, 7 May 2011 11:41:44 +0100 "Dave Coppock" <davidfcoppock@o2.co.uk> wrote: Hello Dave, > Note the 84A entry, some have A,B,C etc pages? Why? I don't know. Usually, that indicates that the allotted pages where insufficient to cope with that quarter's usage. An interesting project you're doing. I wonder if the info you require could be obtained from the GRO? After all, they allocated the volume and page numbers so, presumably, they have a record of what they are and which church, RO or whatever each page range refers to. Whether they have that information in an easily extractable form, I have no idea. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" He signed up for just three years, it seemed a small amount Tin Soldiers - Stiff Little Fingers

Hello Brad I learn something every day and that will be very useful in future. I achieved the same result by different means as I wanted the names as well. All the Headington marriage entries were pasted into a spreadsheet. Then I sorted each quarter on page numbers. There were a lot of wrong entries where Headington is mixed with Haslingden (Lancashire). What I am trying to do is to identify which churches etc are on which page. So that anyone having a GRO marriage and its reference will know where to look for the marriage. The GRO entered marriages in the following order. Marriages in Anglican Churches (in alphabetical order of place) Other marriages Register Office, RC, Non-conformist, etc (in no particular order) For instance 1st Quarter 1838 is almost complete less 87 which may be Iffley which I have not yet checked. Note the 84A entry, some have A,B,C etc pages? Why? I don't know. 16 83 Beckley Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church 16 83 Beckley Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church 16 84A Cuddesdon All Saints 16 84A Cuddesdon All Saints 16 84A Cuddesdon All Saints 16 84A Cuddesdon All Saints 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 85 Headington St Andrew 16 86 Headington St Andrew 16 86 Headington St Andrew 16 87 16 87 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 89 Oxford St Clement 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 91 Oxford St Giles 16 92 Oxford St Giles 26 92 Oxford St Giles 16 92 Oxford St Giles 21 92 Oxford St Giles error but as recorded in GRO index 16 93 Wood Eaton Holy Rood 16 93 Wood Eaton Holy Rood This is the most complete quarter year. Many quaters have 5 or 6 unknown pages. Bes Wishes Dave David F. Coppock Blaby Leicestershire England Guild of One-Name Studies 2750 Oxford Family History Society 922

>From Brandon Daily Sun, ( Canada ) March 27, 1915. CANADIAN CASUALTIES. Ottawa, March 27. - The following Canadian casualties were announced yesterday afternoon :- Wounded - No. 220, Private Edward TRINDELL , admitted to Rawal Pindi British general hospital, Boulogne, gunshot wound in thigh and hand. Next of kin, Margaret TRINDELL , Instead, Goring-On-Thames, England.

Hi there Richard, The normal procedure for transcribing MIs in the field is to carry a copy of the Burial Register with you, as in this way, you are able to look up a person's burial and get what the last number of his date of death is etc.,. We are then able to write under our transcription [BR= 1934] for example. Mistakes happen even so, but just to say that is what normally happens. HTH Jill http://www.gravematters.org.uk/ -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Crgoulden@aol.com Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:40 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Viewing Original Parish Registers Dear Wendy, 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. Would you be so kind as to check the January 1809 entries in case some names and dates were erroneously transcribed or left out, again in error? Richard Goulden

On Fri, 6 May 2011 15:53:52 +0100 "Dave Coppock" <davidfcoppock@o2.co.uk> wrote: Hello Dave, > In order to identify VOL16 page numbers (1837-1851inc) I would like to > know I'm not 100% certain about what you want, but FreeBMD maintain a database of page ranges. For Headington RD see; http://freebmd.org.uk/cgi/district-page-map.pl?file=Headington.csv Marriages start (unsurprisingly) about 1/3rd of the way down the page. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" It's not your heart, it's your bank I want to break It's Yer Money - Wonder Stuff

Hi, Can someone tell me if it is possible, and if so how, to view the original parish register documents ? I am hoping that the Northmoor PR has a mistake in it in and that the original might be illegible for the entry I'm concerned with and the transcriber made a "best guess" at it. Therefore, I'm hoping to somehow view the original so that I might solve one of my dead ends. I'm hoping a WEALE can become a WEAKE !!!!! Many thanks Chris