Hi Listers Sympathise, sympathise! I've just been trawling through film of the Bishops' Transcripts for Chilcompton. I found, in all, two entries for COX - one was the baptism of my 2GGF, Charles, in 1814, which I was very pleased about. The other was the child of another couple ten years later. Now, Charles's father, William, was a farmer. This suggests to me that you stay pretty much in one place for a long time, what with rotation of crops etc. It's not the sort of occupation where you flit about a lot. Many of the pages of the filmed documents had been sliced off, neatly severing the actual names of people. It wasn't that I had the film aligned badly; someone had whizzed through, not bothering to aim his camera properly. I am livid!! The very years in which COX activity could be expected are just the ones with useless film records. So - is it possible, kind listers, that these records have been more sensitively handled elsewhere? Might there be transcriptions hidden somewhere which might reveal the BMDs of my COX ancestors? Kind regards, amidst dabbing with tissues, Joy

Hi Joy Hope you have stopped crying by now! If no-one else has replied I am going to the Somerset RO next Thursday (I have a friend staying who is doing research in Somerset) and I could possibly look up the Parish Reords/Bishops Transcripts while I am there. I asked them to book a fiche reader for my friend and they have actually booked me one too. Is there is not much for me to do i could do your lookups instead. Let me know if this is of any help (some of my family come from chilcompton and are still living there) Regards Diana ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Hungerford" <m.hungerford@ntlworld.com> To: <WESSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 1:35 PM Subject: [WSX] COX tale of woe > Hi Listers > > Sympathise, sympathise! > I've just been trawling through film of the Bishops' Transcripts for > Chilcompton. I found, in all, two entries for COX - one was the baptism of > my 2GGF, Charles, in 1814, which I was very pleased about. The other was > the child of another couple ten years later. > > Now, Charles's father, William, was a farmer. This suggests to me that you > stay pretty much in one place for a long time, what with rotation of crops > etc. It's not the sort of occupation where you flit about a lot. > > Many of the pages of the filmed documents had been sliced off, neatly > severing the actual names of people. It wasn't that I had the film aligned > badly; someone had whizzed through, not bothering to aim his camera > properly. I am livid!! The very years in which COX activity could be > expected are just the ones with useless film records. > > So - is it possible, kind listers, that these records have been more > sensitively handled elsewhere? Might there be transcriptions hidden > somewhere which might reveal the BMDs of my COX ancestors? > > Kind regards, amidst dabbing with tissues, > > Joy > > > ==== WESSEX-PLUS Mailing List ==== > Practice safe text - do NOT spread virus warnings on the list. > Email the list administrators if you have any concerns > >