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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Monday 23 September 19 17:03 BST (UK)  »
All I can say is WOW!
You are a fantastic tracker of facts.
Many thanks.
I only wish I knew someone like you who could dig out information like this about my paternal grandmothers family.
Anthony M.

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Sunday 22 September 19 15:58 BST (UK)  »
Hi again Chris. Have been working through all that information you and Deb have unearthed recently. Included was a link to the Friends of Newtown Road Cemetery and you are quite correct as well as John Totty Mayo there are a number of other Mayos who must fit into the Family Tree somewhere. Two immediately stand out, the first John Jolty Mayo in 1903. I would imagine that Jolty is a miss spelling of Totty somewhere down the line. The second is William Mayo 17/4/1875 aged 62, therefore born in 1813. This must be William, son of John Totty and Mary Dear.
Tony

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Sunday 15 September 19 00:31 BST (UK)  »
Hi Chris,
Coming to an end of our holiday so looking forward to piecing this all together when I get home. What a fantastic piece of field work you have done. Cousin Maggie  and I had been planning to visit Reading Records Office earlier this year though it never happened but even if it had part of a day at Reading would not have revealed a fraction of what you have achieved in Newbury. Thanks so much for your diligence.
Tony Mayo

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Monday 09 September 19 23:31 BST (UK)  »
In that case it's a couple of glasses of champagne we owe you!!!!!
I think from memory and will check when we get home, that the family lived in Northbrook Street in which case Mary may very well have been a family friend who our great, great grandfather turned to when his first wife died. Tony M.

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Sunday 08 September 19 01:02 BST (UK)  »
He certainly is. One day would like to meet. I think my cousin Maggie Howe and I owe him a pint or two!!!!!
Tony

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Saturday 07 September 19 23:19 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for that. Great stuff. Currently on holiday in a remote part of Costa Rica so will have to wait until l get home to really pick this up.
Tony Mayo

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Sunday 30 June 19 21:02 BST (UK)  »
Chris, I obviously totally agree with your comment re minor discrepancies in ages etc in this type of research. However I remain uncomfortable with the Mary Moulding story which of course if true makes her my great, great, great grandmother and not Mary Dear. There was a strong oral history in my fathers line, elements of which I have been able to establish from totally different sources, to have been true. This dates mainly to early to mid 19th century. I am almost certain of hearing of Mary Dear in these recollections but cannot think why she would have been remembered by our branch of the family if we were not descended from her. I also believed John Totty was a Newbury man all his life, born there, worked there both professionally and for the Church, died and was buried there. Never the less, perhaps I ought to try and find something about Mary Moulding!!!
Thanks so much for all your research.
Tony

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Wednesday 26 June 19 20:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi All,
Must admit am feeling more than a bit confused by all the information which you guys are unearthing. Initially I had a fairly simple story that Mary was born abt 1780 and died in 1861 being buried in St Nicholas Church Newbury. Then came the suggestion that there might well have been two Marys with the first Mary being born 1774 and possibly dying in 1821, she being the'true' Mary Dear and the second actually being Mary Moulding. The problems I have in linking the first Mary with the Oct 1821 burial in Greenham is an age discrepancy of 1 year 1821 -46  makes her dob 1775 whereas Mary Dear was born in April 1774 and then we know from the court account that husband John was a sexton of St Nicholas which makes it unlikely his wife would be buried in a 'foreign' church even if it was only a few miles away. A strong case of Confused.com!!!
Tony

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Berkshire Lookup Requests / Re: My Newbury/Berkshire family
« on: Monday 24 June 19 15:41 BST (UK)  »
Just been checking again. I have Mary Mayo's death as Feb 1861, burial 14th Feb in Newbury. If your thinking is correct, this would be Mary nee Moulding, not Mary nee Dear. The plot thickens!
Tony

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