Hello Eunice, You may find Pickard's Pink Pages on Warwickshire family and local history useful (at http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/index.html), and also the Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks pages (at http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html). Unfortunately there is no OPC for Burton Dassett, nor do there appear to be any online data, except for an index of the names on the MI fiche sold by the Birmingham and Midland Society of Genealogy and Heraldry. The IGI, however, is supposed to be complete for baptisms (probably up to 1837), and also for marriages, except for a gap between 1685 and 1694. Best wishes David David Franks Researching Castle and Tallis in Warwickshire and Oxfordshire, and Thomas Castle, convict transported to Tasmania in 1841 Warwickshire Online Parish Clerks http://www.hunimex.com/warwick/opc/opc.html Eunice Cubbage wrote: > Hi, > > This is my first foray into Warwickshire, although I have been > researching my family history for a long time now. > > I am trying to help a friend with his BLOXHAM ancestors, who came from > Burton Dassett (mostly Knightcote). They were farmers and included John, > Samuel and Thomas BLOXHAM. They were the sons of Richard BLOXHAM and > Elizabeth LEDBROOK, who were married at BD in 1837. > > Samuel and Thomas married 2 sisters, Lucy & Phoebe GURDEN. The Gurdens > originally came from Marston in Oxford, but moved to Burton Dassett and took > various family members with them ! Lucy's marriage to Samuel was her second, > her first husband, William Seney YARDLEY died after they'd only been married > a few years. > > I'm hoping someone on the Warwickshire list might be able to help me with > these families, I know nothing about Warwickshire research, and would > appreciate some advice about whather they are any Warwickshire resources > available for searching online. I have an Ancestry subscription, so censuses > are not a ptoblem, but if there are any Church records available online, I'd > love to know about it. > > Thanks for reading ! > > Eunice > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WARWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Can anyone help with some more recent history? I have a very elusive grandfather who was born in London and is shown in the 1901 census as a cyclemaker aged 24 Its a long involved story of at least two marriages if not three and his last wife after his death being estranged from his family My motivation for the request is that he and his first/second wife Emily G L nee KEMPSON have the birth of two daughters Elizabeth and Violet registered in Aston This wife appears to have died in 1914 in Staines, Bucks Does anyone have access to a relevant Trade Directory for this period who could please check to see if he ran a business in the Aston area and if so where the premises were. I am a little unwilling to purchase certs at the moment but realise that that may very well be my only way forward. Any help and ideas most welcome Maisie