Hello Ann and Michael, I must have missed your earlier mails, but my wife also has links with Able Beesley. Her grandmother Ada Spokes was related to Jacob Beesley, Abel's father. The photo of the reeds in a punt and out of the water is most interesting. Peter Drew-Clifton 3524 -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Anne Chapman Sent: 14 December 2011 05:36 To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Abel BEESLEY Thank you Michael, we have Beesley's connected to our Horne Family, and I will forward this onto that section. Anne On 12/14/2011 10:37 AM, michaelcoomber@aol.com wrote: > This site may be new& of interest to some listers. It is called View > Finder& the image shown at this link is Fisher Row, Oxford, > Oxfordshire& shows Abel Beesley& his rush punt in 1900. For more > photos return to the Home Page& choose. > http://viewfinder.english-heritage.org.uk/search/detail.aspx?uid=49378 > My wife found this whilst searching the Australian Trove Newspapers. > http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Interactive Oxfordshire parish map: http://searches.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/pardata.html ------------------------------- 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
Dear Ann, Peter and Michael, In case you do not have these here are the BEESLEY and the SPOKES MIs from St Thomas' Church, Oxford. The OFHS MI group which I ran at that time, transcribed these. INDEX 201 ABEL BEESLEY 1921 70 201 MARTHA [Martin?] BEESLEY 1934 80 192 ELIZABETH SPOKES 1880 33 192 CLARA ELIZABETH SPOKES 1872 3 192 BERTIE JAMES SPOKES 1886 infant 192 MABEL MAY SPOKES 1879 infant 192 THOMAS W.SPOKES 1937 62 TRANSCRIPT 192.IHS/ In loving memory/of/ELIZABETH SPOKES/died Oct 4 1880 aged 33 years/also/CLARA ELIZABETH SPOKES/died May 11 1872 aged 3 years/also of/MABEL MAY SPOKES/died May 16 1879 aged 1 year/also/BERTIE JAMES SPOKES/died Dec 16 1886 aged 7 months/and of/THOMAS W.SPOKES/died Nov 13 1937 aged 62 years 201.Art decor style headstone, with kerb surround In loving memory of/my dear husband ABEL BEESLEY/who fell asleep Dec 9th 1921 aged 70 years/Grant them O Lord/Eternal Rest/ Also in loving/memory of/his beloved wife/MARTHA BEESLEY/who died/Nov 6th 1934/aged 80 years. If you are located near to Oxford, you may be interested to know of the St Thomas' walk run by Liz Woolley you will find details on her website. http://www.lizwoolley.co.uk/ Hope this helps. My best wishes, Jill Muir OFHS # 651 http://www.muirfamily-genealogy-online.co.uk/ http://www.gravematters.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of P Drew-Clifton Sent: 14 December 2011 10:14 To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Abel BEESLEY Hello Ann and Michael, I must have missed your earlier mails, but my wife also has links with Able Beesley. Her grandmother Ada Spokes was related to Jacob Beesley, Abel's father. The photo of the reeds in a punt and out of the water is most interesting. Peter Drew-Clifton 3524