Blockley is now in Gloucestershire and many parish records are on line, including baptisms up to 1812, on http://members.shaw.ca/panthers5/BlockleyRecords MAR in France. > Message du 13/03/10 17:18 > De : "Patricia A" > A : [email protected] > Copie à : > Objet : Re: [WAR] ADAMS Family > > > Hello Guy, > Thank you for your response and for the great information on SuF. Being an ex-Bristolian married to a someone from Redditch, I have visited that area often, but unfortunately at a time many years ago when we were still in the UK and family history was not a passion of mine! That being said, I had an idea that it was one of those places that "belonged" to a specific county depending on the time of the census, which does make things a little more convoluted, especially when researching out here and not being able to get to the register offices to check things out. > > On the marriage of James Adams and Mary Ann Grouman/Gromore, James at 26 was recorded as living on Tindal St. at the time of his marriage and was a police officer. His father was recorded as James Adams, farmer, which is stretching things a little as he was an agricultural labourer in SuF. I have that line going back quite some way as they were in the Honington, Stretton area for many years. Mary Ann was 24, living on Vyse St. and a servant. Father's name Nathan Gromore, Pawnbroker, who actually appears to be Nachum Grouman, travelling jeweller from Poland, who, on the 1851 census in lodging in Wedmore, Somerset, age 62 and recorded as single. His "wife" Mary GOURMAN on the 1851 for Dean Street, Birmingham, St. Martin, is recorded as "widow" from Shearston, Glos, and in lodgings with her youngest daughter, Elizabeth, born in Northleach. On the occasion of Elizabeth's marriage to John Bint in 1851, which is recorded on IGI, he is shown as John > Grouman, bricklayer, a convenient coincidence to the fact that John's father, also John Bint is a bricklayer! However, the Grouman saga is another problem for another time. > > I think I should check out the baptisms for Blockley so can you please tell me what county it is in today? > > Thanks so muc, > Patricia > Almonte, ON > Canada > > > ________________________________ > From: Gus Tysoe > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 10:28:33 AM > Subject: Re: [WAR] ADAMS Family > > Hello Patricia, > > I'm not entirely sure if this will be of great assistance, but Stretton > under Fosse and Aston Magna are in the administratively-tangled area where > GLS, OXF, WAR & WOR all used to meet and intermingle. > > Stretton under Fosse was the most southerly portion of an "island" of WAR > that was sandwiched between 2 "islands" of WOR and a pair of > "almost-islands" of GLS until as recently as 1931... In the Grand > Reshuffling of County Boundaries at that time, Stretton under Fosse remained > in WAR. > > Aston Magna was a hamlet within the [Civil] Parish of Blockley - SuF's > southern "island neighbour" - which was in WOR to 1931, and thereafter in > GLS. However, it was created as a separate Ecclesiastical Parish in 1847, so > there's a faint possibility he may have been baptised there or in Blockley. > > Both places were in Shipston on Stour Registration District. > > > One other question. Does their marriage certificate give their father's > names and occupations? These just might help in tracing James and Mary Ann > in earlier censuses. > > Gus > List archives are at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/WARWICK > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >