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Dear Nigel,

I am over the moon with your response. Thank you so very much for spending the time to copy all the Dring information.  There is very little on this family :-( and almost no one researching it. I know there were some Drings in Bampton.  It is my understanding that the Drings were Norsemen.
The name Dring, I think, means a "worker".  I think the Drings started out in Yorkshire.  But as an American - don't hold me to it???

 I have quite a bit of the info you found, but you have more.  I am going to redo my Pedigree chart today and get it more accurate.  I had Simon Dring b 1540 the s/o a Thomas Dring and Margery.  Not sure this is now correct.  I knew there had to be a relationship between Marian Dring who m. William Trotman b ca 1555/60( in Stinchcombe GLO ) in 1584 in Black Bourton and Simon Dring b 1588 d. 1617 who m. Lucy Rogers of Clanfield in 1610 in Black Bourton.
There could not have been that many people in Black Bourton, but still a thriving community before the plague.  Oliver Cromwell stopped the record keeping :-(
There was a Robert Dring who died 1645 and left a will which is in the National Archives.  Probate: 11/193  I will google the Archives to see how I may get a copy.  Secondly!!!  how do I read it???

With great appreciation for your help and time.  Jane Trotman in Houston, Texas

Ali
Here is the link you will need to get the certs;

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/default.asp

You can also ask them at your local office but via their web site is so convenient but watch out they can dent the ole budget!!

So more info - mmm I shall wait a bi before I pass on more, I think I can take you can take a bit further but I reckon with all you have thus far you might benefit from just getting it all together and on to your tree before you start racing back in time and in so doing you may well miss some valuable clues to help you join stuff up later.
There are so many lines to bring down to living rellies, there is also all the anecdotal info, the social history of your family and we haven't even started to see how and where your family fit into other peoples trees. That is where you really do get in the red zone of info.
I have yet to talk to you about the DRINGS and COLLETTS from West Oxfordshire I have in my tree. Then there are all the web based sources of info, it really is all very overpoweringw hen you get started. So keep using us in here till you begin working things out for yourself, you seem to be starting really well anyway. Don't forget tat you can click on anyone's name in here - on the left of this message and select send PM and send another person a Personal Message - sometimes saves a bit of embarrassment for the daft questions!! It also facilitates sending more personal info should you need. Try it and test it out so you knwo how it works - send me a message as a test?

Do you know that you get all the PR's for Oxfordshire on CD from the Oxfordshire Family History Society, you can also join then for a very small fee and they are very helpful and also have an information center which is open some days of the week. Have a look at them;

http://www.ofhs.org.uk/


T ra for now

Nigel

Thomas Lightfoot Beckwith, b 1826, son of Robert William Beckwith b 1788, died in London in 1846.

Emma Haines Beckwith b 1860 in Adelaide  d/o James Beckwith m Thomas George Blackwell in 1881 and d 1929

Emily Haines Beckwith b 1864 in Adelaide  d/o Joseph Thomas Beckwith m. Henry Edwards in 1881 and d 1910 in Brisbane and had 8 children:  Arthur Henry, Alfred Ernest, Edith Emily, Henry Lionel, Olive Harriet, Elsie Gladys, Eloise Myrtle and Muriel Ivy

Hi Heather,
Thanks for your response.  I have just found out that Sarah Ann Williams, but may have been using the name WASBROUGH was living south of Bath in the parish of Lyncombe/Wyncombe.  Hope I spelled them correctly.  She would have had several children living with her:
Frederick, Elizabeth, Laura, Caroline and perhaps a newborn: William.
I would like to know if her "paramour" William Wasbrough was listed with her.  Sarah was born in 1815 in Saltford.  William was born in 1778 in Bristol.  I wonder what her occupation was?!

Hope this is enough info.  Thanks so much  Cheers  Jane

i am looking for harriet grant 1792/1793 amelia grant 1828/1829
butleigh somerset  .any help would be fantastic thanks josie