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Title: DEXTER ONS
Post by: Rick608 on Saturday 11 October 08 21:03 BST (UK)

Hi,

Im doing a One Name Study for the surname DEXTER which is registered with the Guild of One Name Studies.  I have amassed a lot of information on DEXTERs from all over the world (mostly for the 19th -20th centuries). Maybe I can help find your ancestral "missing link"? All you need to do is ask!

I look forward to hearing from you.

Rick

Title: Re: DEXTER ONS
Post by: forte on Monday 19 July 10 15:59 BST (UK)

Do you have a John Dexter b abt 1779 in Stretton Rutland?
He died there in 1849 aged 70

Title: Re: DEXTER ONS
Post by: ARDEXT on Monday 19 July 10 22:44 BST (UK)

Hi Forte

I dont think he was born in Stretton. There are no DEXTER births in IGI for Stretton and since his wife seems to be from Manthorpe LIN ( if I have the correct Mary) it might be reasonable to look in that direction.  Again I could find no DEXTER births or marriages that would fit for Grantham in IGI.  Any more clues? 

Rick

Title: Re: DEXTER ONS
Post by: forte on Tuesday 20 July 10 17:34 BST (UK)

Hi Ardext
Thanks for a swift response.  I worked his birth year from his death in Stretton aged 70 in 1849 but I now see on a record of his marriage to Mary Roberts of Manthorpe in 1813 he gives his age as 31, therefore b abt 1782. I have a John bp in Braunston in 1782 so this could be him as on his marriage cert it says he is Widwr of Braunston in Rutland.   I would really like him to be John b in Colsterworth Lincs and I could then tie him in to my family.    This John has a brother William who sometimes says he is b in Stretton and sometimes in Colsterworth.  I live in  hopes!