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Dear Gwendoline

I have only just encountered your post - and hope that it is not too late.

I too have been trying to track the Parkinson family - I am a descendant of John Thomas Parkinson's first marriage to Emmeline Frances Mills, as you may be, given your interest in Maude Esme Guise.

Happy to exchange details - but for now just checking that we can make contact.

I also have some details on the Meneaud family too.

Best regards

Peter

Orpheus

Thanks for looking for me

Best regards

Peter

Bev

Thanks for looking.  The relevant Elizabeth LAND was born in 1713, so no chance of it being a second or third marriage - like the Sarah LAND/TANNER/BOWERMAN before.

It may have to remain a mystery for the moment.  I have tried various checks on IGI (not always reliable) but no hints either.

Peter

Orpheus

I may need your help again.  Where is your source for these wills?  TNA has only William's (1815) and an earlier Richard LAND of Middleton (1642).

I have bought a copy of the parish registers for Middleton Stoney, which has enabled me to piece together a lot of the LAND family tree.  However, there is a gap of about 20 years where the vicar fails to record the parents of the children being baptised, so I have about five LAND children without immediate parents.  I know that they are children of either an Anthony LAND or of John and Joan LAND.  I was hoping their wills might shed some light.

My last puzzle is over the BOTTERELL connection: the 1742 will mentions Elizabeth BOTTERELL, but the only marriage I can find (as noted by Bev) is Elizabeth LAND marrying William BOTTERELL of Ambroseden on 22nd April 1767 - after the will! That doesn't prevent the earlier Elizabeth LAND from marrying a different BOTTERELL

Any thoughts?

Peter

Bev,

Thank you very much.  I really think that gives me what I need.

From the more reliable bits of IGI/LDS, I have:
SARAH LAND   Christening: 25 APR 1761     Deddington, Oxford, England
Father:    RICHARD LAND      Mother:    SARAH

Kitty Adkins called her daughter, Elizabeth, I am guessing after her mother

So it would looks as though I have:

1743 23 Nov - LAND Richard of Mid. Stoney / ROBBINS Elizabeth of Bucknell at St Mary Magdalene, Oxford
1756 Jul ..     - LAND Richard of Mid. Stoney / STILGOE Sarah  at Deddington

which fits pretty well with the little indication I have of ages for William and Kitty Land

I was tempted to tie in

1761 Mar 14 - LAND Richard (widow) / HUNT Elizabeth at Middleton Stoney

as a third wife, but there is a bit of a time conflict with Sarah's birth (if that is right).  Unless the new wife said 'it is about time you had that child christened'?  On the other hand just how many Richard Lands at Middleton Stoney might there be?


Thanks for all your trouble

Peter