Hi Jill - By using the OFHS Search Services (see Surname Search Services at www.ofhs.org.uk), you will be able to build up quite a collection of CASEBERD & variants. The N Berks marriage index, for instance, has about 40 entries, going back to 1569, with Blewbury as the focus. The best match date-wise, though not good geographically, for James in the OFHS (not yet complete) baptism index is: Surname Forename Parents Place Year CASBERD James John East Lockinge 1549 Wendy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill Muir" <jill.muir@shottle.plus.com> To: <oxfordshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 9:07 AM Subject: [OXF] CASEBERDE, James died 1604 > Hello Listers, > I am transcribing a will of James Caseberde who died in my village of > Kingston Bagpuize in 1604. I have a 3 generation family tree for them > now. > > I have tried discovering where the surname appears in Berkshire and > Oxfordshire. It is not shown in the Surnames of Oxfordshire book and I > don't > believe that there is a book of Berkshire surnames. There are though some > appearing in the 1841 and 1851 census for Berkshire, at Shillingford and > area. The name or variant of this, as Casbeard, also appears on the > Oxfordshire OXSIL surname list though and I have sent a message to the > researcher. > > I searched for both Cakebread [which I think Caseberd could be a variant > of] and Caseberd on ancestry.co.uk today and then decided to use the > facility to 'Search All Records' and found there a James Caseberd died > 1604 > which is one I am interested in, within Probate/Glamorgan Wills, but he > isn't shown on the National Library of Wales Wills Index that I could see. > I don't wish to add to my subscription plan at present, but wondered if > anyone had come across this surname in Glamorgan, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, > or > come to that anywhere, please? > > The adjoining parish of Longworth is the oldest place in the UK for > Anabaptists, who seemed to have come from Glamorgan, so the tale goes, and > a > Cakebread researcher I have spoken to tells me that his family seemed to > be > Nonconformists. > > Best wishes, > Jill > http://longworth-district-history-society.org.uk >