Penny - > 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. I'm happy to look at the marriage bond for you after the Oxfordshire History Centre has opened. WAST(E/A)LL does occur at that period in some of the OFHS databases. Wendy