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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Friday 10 June 22 14:35 BST (UK)  »
Wow that’s an amazing thought!

Best wishes
Vanessa x

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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Thursday 09 June 22 11:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Margaret, that’s amazing, and yes it’s difficult when the surname keeps changing.  I don’t know what our relationship is - cousins numerous times removed lol.

Best wishes
Vanessa

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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Wednesday 08 June 22 16:29 BST (UK)  »
Hi Margaret.  I’m descended from Esdras & Constance Dennythorne, then through their son Thomas Giddy & Elizabeth Garland, then through their son Thomas and Ann Harris, then through their daughter Elizabeth Giddy who married Thomas Abbott Jeffery.  Then right through to my Mum, who was a Jeffery.  Who are you descended from?

Best wishes
Vanessa

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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Tuesday 07 June 22 15:22 BST (UK)  »
Today I have spoken to the Cornwall Family History Society who tell me that many of the early parish books were either destroyed or damaged. They also advised that it is highly unlikely that Esdras married Honour Prideaux as the Prideaux family were a titled family from Prideaux Place.  I doubt we will ever know who our Honour was but I hope people will stop listing her as Honour Prideaux.

Vanessa

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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Tuesday 07 June 22 05:52 BST (UK)  »
They are my 7th great grandparents too.  According to Cornwall Family History Society a lot of records were destroyed in Liskeard from around that time, so we may never find out Honour’s maiden name. The parents of Constance are John Dennythorne b 1643, and Blanch Dout b 1645 both in Cornwall.

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Cornwall / Re: Honour Prideaux / Esdras Giddy
« on: Monday 06 June 22 14:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank goodness I’m not the only one looking for the wife of Esdras Giddy born circa 1640 in Liskeard. His wife, and mother to his children, is Honour, no maiden name, no marriage found.  I have had so many run ins with people on Ancestry and Family Search who insist on listing her as Honour Prideaux, without any proof.  Like all of you, I have searched for many years and agree that it’s highly unlikely our Honour was a Prideaux.  I have looked at their offspring in the hope one of them had a middle name that might have been a clue.  So let’s hope one day we might be able to confirm who Honour was.  Thank you Cousins

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Oxfordshire / Re: Headington Workhouse
« on: Friday 06 September 13 13:54 BST (UK)  »
I have been in contact with Oxfordshire Records Office and they do not have any records for the Headington Workhouse and tell me that they do not know where they might be.  However, there is some information on the Internet about Headington Workhouse so someone must have some records somewhere?  I am also looking for relatives that were in the workhouse in 1861 but I cannot find anything out except what it says on the census for that year.

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Oxfordshire Lookup Requests / Re: Nuneham Courtney Parish church
« on: Friday 06 September 13 13:48 BST (UK)  »
I am also a descendent of Jubilee George HENWOOD (married to Fanny POUND) of Nuneham Courtney.  His son, Willoughby Bertie HENWOOD was my g. grandfather, and his daughter, Caroline HENWOOD, was my grandmother.  I know Fanny died shortly after Willoughby was born, but I when Willoughby is 9, and his sister Mathilda is 13, they are listed as being in Headington Workhouse - but Jubilee George is not.  Does anyone know what happened to this family and why they were split up when they had older brothers and sisters?  Look forward to hearing from anyone who can help.  Many thanks

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Devon / JEFFERY - Plymouth
« on: Thursday 07 April 11 14:45 BST (UK)  »
Hi - I'm desperately trying to find Thomas Abbott JEFFERY (Abbott being middle name).  Born circa 1790.  Sons - Edward 1816, Frederick 1819, Thomas 1817 and William Abbott born 1821. All born in Plymouth.  I can find nothing on father Thomas Abbott JEFFERY.   Curiously, there is another William Abbott JEFFERY born in 1821 in Linkinholm, Cornwall !!  I believe Abbott to be a family name.  Can anyone please help?

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