<< http://www.jump.net/~salter/bretforton/bretforton.html >> I found Richard Pettitt's resource to be quite interesting - loaded with Washburn(e)'s. Has anyone worked with this parish register before and knows the connections to the Washburns that came to America? Regards. TK (Tom Kolepp, Bethlehem, PA)

Hi, I tried to access the site you referred to, but all I get is a message telling me I don't have permission to access the site on this server. Any suggestions ???? Thanks, Jane Washburn washburnfam@mindspring.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <TKolepp@aol.com> To: <WASHBURN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 10:06 PM Subject: Washburn's in Bretforton Parish Register > > << http://www.jump.net/~salter/bretforton/bretforton.html >> > I found Richard Pettitt's resource to be quite interesting - loaded with > Washburn(e)'s. > Has anyone worked with this parish register before and knows the connections > to the Washburns that came to America? Regards. TK (Tom Kolepp, Bethlehem, > PA) >

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Jane and Tom, I have abstracted all the Washborne births, marriages and burials from the Bretforton Parish Registers. The connection with the American branch is this... William Washborne, second son of John Washborne (the first) and his wife Emme, of Bengeworth, Worcestershire, married Margaret Harward, daughter of Thomas Harward of Weston-sub-Edge on 2 Oct. 1541 in Badsey, Worcestershire. Badsey is a little village that lies directly in-between Bengeworth and Bretforton. William and Margaret made their home in Bretforton, where they had apparently 13 children. (Baptisms were found for 12 children, and another was buried there. The father was not named in the burial, but is assumed to have been William because he was the only Washborne in the town at that time having children.) Out of the 13 children of William and Margaret Washborne, the only son to marry and have children in Bretforton was William, baptized on 9 Jan. 1556/7 in Bretforton. The oldest surviving son, William married twice, first to Frances Wagstaffe on 27 July 1581 in Bretforton, and secondly to Agnes Marres on 17 June 1594 in Bretforton. He had 6 children by Frances Wagstaffe, and 4 more children by Agnes Marres. Marriages were also found in Bretforton for 6 of the daughters of William and Margaret Washborne. The only other son of William and Margaret Washborne to survive was their youngest son, John, baptized in 1562, but I have not been able to trace him any further. Five of their children were buried in Bretforton, which accounts for all except John, mentioned above. The Bengeworth line to our New England and New York immigrant ancestors follows through John Washborne (Jr.), eldest son of John and Emme Washborne, who married first to Jone Bushell on 27 Apr. 1542 in Bengeworth and secondly to Jone Whitehead on 8 March or May 1561 in Bengeworth. His only son, also named John Washborne (3rd), baptized on 31 Jan. 1551 in Bengeworth as "John Franklon alias Wasborne," apparently married twice, the first marriage record not yet found, and the second being to Martha (Timbrell) Stevens, a widow, and sister of John Timbrell and Edward Timbrell. The eldest son of John Washborne (3rd) by Martha Timbrell was yet another John Washborne (4th), baptized on 2 July 1597 in Bengeworth. He married Margery More, daughter of Robert and Ellen (Taylor) More, "glover" of Evesham, on 23 Nov. 1618 in Bengeworth. They were the immigrant ancestors to Plymouth Colony. The second son of John Washborne (3rd) by Martha Timbrell was William Washborne, baptized on 9 Nov. 1601 in Bengeworth, who married and had children in Bengeworth before immigrating to Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherlands Colony. So you see the connection to the Bretforton Washbornes is rather distant, and the family name dies out in Bretforton after 1603. I have all the Bretforton Washborne abstracts stored in my computer if anyone is still interested. The website posting was very accurate with the one fault being that because of the change in the year occuring on March 25th instead of January 1st, those dates occuring between January 1st and March 25th carried only the previous year's dates, but according to our calendar would have occured in the following year. This could only be learned by following the parish registers carefully, and I have indicated those dates by using the double-dating system, i.e., "15 March 1586/7." The date was posted on the website as 15 March 1586, but according to the parish registers, this date occured after December 1586, and would have been therefore in 1587 according to our calendar. Since the dates on the website were sorted according to year then month then day, William and Margaret Washborne's son Richard was shown as baptized 18 Mar. 1594, and their daughter Mary was shown as baptized 7 Apr. 1594, which of course is rather impossible if the baptisms were of infants. When I read the parish registers, however, it became very clear. Mary was baptized first on 7 Apr. 1594, and then Richard was baptized on 18 Mar. 1594/5, almost a year later. Hence the importance in using double-dating during the period of January 1st through March 25th! John A. Maltby Redwood City, CA jamaltby@creative.net At 07:44 PM 8/13/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Hi, > >I tried to access the site you referred to, but all I get is a message >telling me I don't have permission to access the site on this server. Any >suggestions ???? > >Thanks, >Jane Washburn >washburnfam@mindspring.com > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <TKolepp@aol.com> >To: <WASHBURN-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Sunday, June 27, 1999 10:06 PM >Subject: Washburn's in Bretforton Parish Register > > >> >> << http://www.jump.net/~salter/bretforton/bretforton.html >> >> I found Richard Pettitt's resource to be quite interesting - loaded with >> Washburn(e)'s. >> Has anyone worked with this parish register before and knows the >connections >> to the Washburns that came to America? Regards. TK (Tom Kolepp, >Bethlehem, >> PA) >> > > John A. Maltby Redwood City, CA jamaltby@creative.net