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Hello Martin, John, Reg, everyone!

Just wanted to say hello and see if you guys have found anything new on the Singletons from Chillington. Or the Winsham conexion... all my trails have gone cold.

Unfortunately for me DNA doesn't help for the Singleton purpose, because I've got the Singleton name from an unmarried couple back in 1780 when John Singleton was born, being his parents John Perry and Joan Singleton....

It had been a while since my last login in this page, somehow I bumped into it tonight and found out "new" or better said unread messages from last December.

Still in Mexico

Regards,

Carlos

Hi Reg,

Hope you recover soon, I have been trying to contact you for a while, I figured you were off the computer for some reason. And a head injury is definitely a serious one, take it easy and take care of yourself.

My e-mail is (*) but I'm not sure we should post e-mails here. We'll know soon enough.

I don't have anything beyond Joel. Martin did research the Somerset Heritage Center films for records prior to 1750 but there seems to be no one but one Singleton mentioned in 1678 "the birth of Edward Singleton, son of William and Jean? Singleton, March 2nd 1678. I wonder if this is the same Edward who married Joan Shole from Dowlish Wake (a neighbouring parish) in 1718. The date is interesting, as it may dispel the theory of the link with Southwell, Nottingham".

I made a tree of the Singletons in Chillington, with 3 main branches. 1.-- Edward Singleton born 1763 2.--Thomas Singleton born 1760 (son of Joel) and 3.-- Mary and Joan Singleton born 1754 and 1755 (this is my branch).

Now the relationship between these 3 branches is the big mystery... Don't worry about time, doing genealogy requires patience especially, the important thing is that you recover well.

Keep in touch.

Carlos Singleton

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Martin,

I only have Thomas (b. 1760) as son of Joel Singleton. But Thomas' sons were Thomas, Samuel, Joel, Francis, Benjamin and William which matches the ones you mention from Nottingham. Could be a possibility.

As for Chillington records. There are Bishop's Transcripts from earlier years at the London Family History Center (Mormon Church)

Note Location Film
Baptisms, marriages and burials, 1599-1641 (some years in Latin), 1678, 1689, 1707, 1785, 1790, 1801-1833. (Not complete for all years and some years in poor condition.) FHL BRITISH Film 1278918 Items 9 - 10

Other than that I don't think the Somerset HC has previous records (that I know of).

Regards,

Carlos.

Hi M Singleton,

My ancestors come from Chillington as well. Not from the Joel Singleton branch but from John Singleton born about 1733. I have identified all the Singletons from Chillington from the 1841 census and Parish records, and formed a family tree to try to identify how are they all related and where they came from. I have 8 different branches (3 main and 5 unidentified individuals).

Chillington Parish records start around 1750, I find really interesting your visit to the SHC in Taunton. I live in Mexico I wish I could do that trip and find out more.

So basically I'd like to ask you if you would like to be in touch an find out if our families are somehow related, or if we can have ancestors in common and share info.

Also, I found really interesting that you might have a clue of where did the Chillington Singletons came from ( Nottingham maybe).


Hope to hear from you. Regards, Carlos Singleton