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Hello!

Thomas was my 4th g-grandfather, I descend from Jane’s younger brother, William. I have this branch filled out on Ancestry.com, are you a member? If you provide your email address I can send an invite. I received most of my parish information from a gentleman in Fenstanton some years ago, happy to share what I have!

Tracy
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Thanks!  I will have to check into those locations.  I have found out that Marston Sicca is now Long Marston.  It is about 5mi from Stratford-upon-Avon where the family wound up.  I have also found additional children (all girls except my 3rd great grandfather).  One never married.  Just today I found the other one after painstakingly going through census records - her birthplace had been transcribed incorrectly so she was hard to find!

I don't know if this will help me get any replies, but the family is William & Elizabeth Gibbs with children Sarah (b. 1812-1816, every census record is different), Henry (b. abt 1815), Mary (b. abt 1821-1822, married a Samuel Scott), and Ellen or Helen (b. abt 1825).  I have 2 census records with her, one says Ellen and the other says Helen.  I've researched both names but haven't found a marriage record or death record.  But, I just started on these today so I am hopeful that perhaps some of this information will get me somewhere!?!?  All these Gibbs children were born in Long Marston/Marston Sicca.  But I have found no birth records on Ancestry.com.  I've been given a site that sells CD's of parish records and Long Marston is listed.  I will probably give up and purchase that and hope that I find something. 

Thanks again!!

Tracy

Thanks for the link to this, David... I've been looking for it and now I will bookmark this page.  Don't know why I didn't think of that originally, duh!

Selina - I'm thinking about that Mary Ann Ward buried in Witchford in 1831.  I've run into that before, where a Mary Ann has gone by both names as well as one or the other.  Perhaps Edith, Thomas and William (b. 1818, 1826 & 1830 respectively) are the children of that Mary Ann Ward and Daniel and Rose Ann (b. 1835 & 1842 respectively) are the children of the second wife, Mary? 

Thomas Ward's brother was John Ward.  They were both born in Fenstanton and I found burial listings in Witchford for a Daniel Ward (b. 1757) and a Rose Ward (b. abt 1772) on David's link today... I think that might be their parents, Daniel & Rosamond Ward, originally from Fenstanton?  Daniel Ward (the elder) was the only Daniel Ward on the parish list a gentleman sent me from Fenstanton.  He was baptised in 1760, do you think he might have been born in 1757 but not baptised until 1760?  Did that happen, do you know?  His parents were listed as John & Edy Ward.  He also sent me the marriage entries - John Ward and Ede Muns.  When researching, I found an EDITH Muns.  I'm wondering if Ede/Edy is short for Edith?  It seems to me it would make sense that there are later generations with the same names - John, Thomas, Daniel, Edith, and Rose.... but then, everyone seems to be names Thomas, John, William, or George.  LOL.

My head is spinning! 

Oy!  You guys are amazing, first off - THANK YOU!  I don't know WHAT to think though!  I did "meet" someone on Ancestry.com who was descended from a Rose Anna Ward born in Ely in a workhouse - that is definitely NOT my Ward family (according to her and I think she was correct).  I'm most concerned with William's parentage, obviously, since he is my direct line.  Daniel Ward witnessed William Ward & Jane Golden's marriage (just got the certificate in the mail) in Witchford in October 1851 and he also is listed as the witness for their daughter, Elizabeth Ann Ward's marriage to John Thomas Washington.  Not that that helps in determining their mother at all.  :-(