Thank you for explaining everything Howard Regards Maureen Cook -----Original Message----- From: oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:oxfordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Howard Fuller Sent: Thursday, 17 May 2012 5:18 PM To: oxfordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [OXF] Huckvale - Over Norton Hello Maureen, On 15/05/2012, you wrote: > Could SKS please help with the following, possibly at Over Norton or > maybe at Chipping Norton:- > > John Huckvale born about 1543 at Over Norton died 1606 at Chipping Norton. > John married Alice- no surname. Would like to find the marriage if possible. > > Had a son Cutberb (sic) at Over Norton 1566, he was buried on 4 Aug > 1636 at Over Norton. > Cutberb - 1566 (sic) married Alice, no surname, Would like to find the > marriage. > > Cutberb (sic) and Alice had the following children and they were > baptized at Chipping Norton :- Margaret - 24 Aug 1591 William - 4 May > 1595 Richard - 11 Feb 1600 Thomas - 25 Sep 1602 Marcus - 11 Dec 1605 > Judith - 9 Nov 1608 > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Maureen Cook > Port Kennedy > Western Australia > Member's number 3168 There are several difficulties in finding answers to your enquiry. 1: there are many variants for the name HUCKVALE: HUCKVEAL, HUCKVEL, HUCKVAILE, and even HUCKWELL. 2: although there is a church (St.James) at Over Norton, it did not keep separate registers. All B M D events were recorded in the Chipping Norton registers. 3: parish priests were not required to record BMD events in registers until 1538, but they did not do so consistently until the following century. The only earlier records were pedigrees (sometimes rather fanciful) commissioned by 'landed gentry' to keep track of who owned what land. 4: early records were written in 'Secretary Hand' which can be difficult for an untrained eye to read. You asked for information about a marriage of John HUCKVALE (etc) to an Alice in the 1560s. However, the OFHS Index to marriages in Oxfordshire [1538-1837] shows that the earliest HUCKVALE (etc) marriage recorded at Chipping Norton was in 1611. And the earliest marriage of a HUCKVALE (etc) to an Alice was that of Arthur HUCKVAILE to Alice BRUCE at Lower Heyford in 1580. There is a simlar problem with the marriage of Cutberb (sic) to an Alice ---. First, I think that Cutberb (sic) is a misreading of Cuthbert. There is only one entry for a Cuthbert etc in the OFHS Marriage Index and that is not to an Alice and it is too late: Cuthbert HUCKVEL married Lucy ALING at Chipping Norton on 7 Jul 1667. As you quote full baptismal dates for the children of Cuthbert and Alice, I assume you have access to transcriptions of the Chipping Norton registers. Not much help I'm afraid, but I suspect there is no extant record of those two marriages. Best wishes, Howard Fuller ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2176 / Virus Database: 2425/5005 - Release Date: 05/17/12