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Title: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: AncestryNeeded on Tuesday 03 December 19 15:05 GMT (UK)
I cant find Marston Meysey on the list of parishes on Ancestry marriages for the period

Please can someone confirm for me what this record says?:

Woolawell
1631 Marriage
Marston Meysey, Wiltshire

Title: Re: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: Milliepede on Tuesday 03 December 19 15:57 GMT (UK)
I was just about to say it's in Gloucestershire but checked first and it is in Wiltshire - must be near the border.

Only a transcription but it's between

Agnes Woolawell and John Bye

10 Aug 1631

Maisey Hampton Glos
Title: Re: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: AncestryNeeded on Tuesday 03 December 19 16:38 GMT (UK)
Excellent thank you
Title: Re: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: ribbo39 on Tuesday 03 December 19 22:10 GMT (UK)
Hi,

You can see the original on Anc...y for Meysey, Hampton, Gloucs. 1578-1812

It's written on what looks like a piece of crumpled parchment.

Alan
Title: Re: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: KGarrad on Tuesday 03 December 19 22:17 GMT (UK)
From GenUKI:

"MARSTON-MAISEY, a parish in the hundred of Highworth, county Wilts, 3 miles N.E. of Cricklade, its post town."

"Alias Meysey Hampton. Marston Maisey (Wilts.) was formerly a tithing and chapelry of (Maiseyhampton), and there are some documents relating to Marston Maisey with the parish records."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)

"MEYSEY HAMPTON, (or Maiseyhampton), a parish in the hundred of Crowthorne, county Gloucester, 6 miles E. of Cirencester, and 2 W. of Fairford, its post town.
Title: Re: Lookup request 'Woolawell'
Post by: youngtug on Tuesday 03 December 19 23:24 GMT (UK)
Yeah, 2 different villages,

            https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol18/210-224