Hi Jill There are quite a few Cakebreads in Suffolk. I had a quick look on the "IGI" site and there were 34 records in the 1600's, but not any more recent, that I could see, But I would have said it was a Suffolk name, Suffolk also having had a lot of non-conformists. Jennifer On 10 July 2011 09:07, Jill Muir <jill.muir@shottle.plus.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Have you considered joining, supporting, or becoming involved with, > Oxfordshire Family History Society www.ofhs.org.uk ? > To join, click on Membership at the left. > ------------------------------- > 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 >