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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Wednesday 02 March 11 17:51 GMT (UK)  »
I've only recently started to look into the family tree  - you seem to have done a lot of research. 
as for Charlotte Lay, there seems to have been two born in the area at that time and I assumed that ours was the younger one, but obviously the Census proves me wrong! 
There are two Frederick Mansells registered in Witney - one in 1882 and one in 1886.  Do you know which one is ours? 
I shall have to register with one of the Family History sites if I'm to make any real progress.

By the way, one of my uncles, whom I never met, supposedly went to live with an aunt when he returned from WWII.  It could easily have been an aunt on his maternal side, but I thought I'd mention it in case he happened to have gone to your Grandma.
Regards
Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Monday 28 February 11 16:13 GMT (UK)  »
Very many thanks, Nigel, for your help.  However, the John Mansell we're investigating was the son of James and Charlotte Mansell of Long Handborough.  There seems to have been a great many 'Mansells' in that area!!
Regards
Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Monday 28 February 11 13:47 GMT (UK)  »
I thought Charlotte Sarah Lay was born in 1861, but, as you say, there are so many that I could have the wrong one!!  I'll also try to find out when she died.

 By the way, I know that Kate was definitely called Woodley. 

Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Monday 28 February 11 11:55 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annette

I was really interested when you mentioned that our grandparents mother died when your Gran was young, because the photo I have, which I was always led to believe was their mum, is of an elderly lady.  Perhaps she wasn't their Mum at all, but could she be Charlotte Durran instead?  She's certainly wearing a late Victorian dress.

Do you know anything about their brother, Frederick?  Did he die young?

My Grandad did mention people working at Blenheim Palace, but I don't know who, when or in what capacity.

Regards

Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Saturday 19 February 11 14:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annette
Sorry I haven't replied sooner.
My Grandad was Thomas Mansell.  He married Ethel Rawins in 1905 and must have moved away from Long Hanborough.  My father was born in Maxtoke, Coleshill and they ended up in Leicester.  (I've often wondered if there had been a family dispute of some kind.)  Grandad had  8 children.
I only ever heard him talk of Kate and Minnie.  I didn't know he had a brother until I looked at the census. 
I do have a photo of his mother, Charlotte Lay and we did have another, sadly lost, of his grandmother.  He told us that she really brought him up.  Whether this was Charlotte Durran I don't know.
I have a copy of a will?  which was written by James Mansell and cites Minnie and Kate as executors and it mentions the following properties.  Do you know anything about them?  Millwood End,  Rose Cottage,  The Old school House in Long Hanborough and Stone Acre Piece nr Church Hanborough.   I wonder if these properties were sold as building plots and that might be why there is a Mansell road.
Regards
Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Monday 14 February 11 17:44 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Annette

Great to hear from you.  My grandfather was Thomas Mansell, born on 22nd September 1885.  I can remember going down to Long Handborough with him when I was a child.  We visited one of his sisters in her cottage, but I think it must have been Kate as she had an only son who, I think, suffered from cerebral palsy. 

How far back have you got in your search?

Margaret

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Tuesday 08 February 11 18:58 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for all the replies.  It does seem as though Charlotte was  indeed born at Steeple Aston. 

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Oxfordshire / Re: mansell family handborough
« on: Tuesday 08 February 11 09:39 GMT (UK)  »
I think we're looking for the same ancestors.  My Grandfather's sister was Minnie Mansell.  I've only got back to his grandmother, Charlotte Durran, born in Holywell, Oxford Parish,  around 1820. Her father was called James and her father-in law was William Mansell.  Do you have any more information?

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