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Hi,

I have just done the same and found trees on Ancestry - most private but there is at least one suggesting father is Charles Lester. This shows her as Claire not Clara.

Burial 6 Oct 1908, Acton Cemetery, Ealing - grave no N88/G, interment no 6353

Marriage in June Qtr 1905 - Brentford - Vol3a Page 320 -  to Thomas Arthur Wilkins (born 1877)

Alan

Hi,

Not sure if this will help but..........

On line found a Aug/Sept 2024 pdf issue of The Padbury Parish Pump magazine - on Page 4 it refers to "Padbury Through the Years" and says that only 50 copies of the book will be reprinted and there will be a few spare copies available - it says contact the Parish Clerk for further details. It suggests a minimum donation of £20 per copy which would go towards a new zip wire at Padbury Play Area.

The contact name for the Parish Clerk is shown but as living I don't want to show details - an e-mail to parish.clerk@padburyparishcouncil.com may provide you with an answer.

Alan 

Hi,

Whilst waiting for a response from Buckingham Archives, I wondered if there were any records for 3 of the children with potential marriages as follows -

a) Elizabeth (1748) married Thomas Buckland 5 Jan 1770 - two children William Buckland (31/1//1770) and Henry Buckland (14/4/1779).
b) Henry (1750) married Susannah Ray 10 June 1776 - no known children
c) Susannah (1752) married Samuel Harris 31 August 1895 - Did she have a child Thomas born 11 June 1780 - can't immediately see mention of a father.

Alan

Hi,

Thank you all for your replies - It will take a little time to assess all the details and try to bring the tree forward.

In my tree I have previously come across a Henry being called Harry in various censuses so I think I can, with good precedent, consider Henry and Harry to be one and the same person - working on this basis, the tree seems to be building up nicely.

I agree the death of Henry in 1747 is John/Mary's child  - so far i think there are two Bent families in Whaddon - Henry/Elizabeth is one with John/Mary as the other.

I did find mention of Henry as a Carpenter and think this is the father who now seems to have been married three times. Some details on the father of Henry (1713) - the 1713 Poll Books show him from Whaddon cum Nasshe (pt Stony Stratford)  with him also referred to as Henery.

It is a challenge going back so far but am very grateful for your information.

Alan

Hi,

There are several trees on Ancestry which you may like to investigate. The only trouble is that you cannot be sure how accurate they are. You could contact the tree owners to discuss further, but to me it looks a very confusing picture without much actual evidence.

Most have Thomas Walmsley baptised 30 Sept 1763 at Hest Bank Lancaster with a marriage in Liverpool to Elizabeth Corbett (also from Lancaster baptised 19 March 1764) - the 1780 marriage records show both from the parish of Liverpool at the time of marriage (his occupation shown as a Joiner) with the children you mention being attached to this couple. They would have been 16 or 17 at date of marriage so possibly suspect?  Other trees show the couple from Liverpool itself (born c1760) and not from the Lancaster area so it is confusing. Their first born James was a wheelwright at time of marriage in 1814. Another son Thomas (1785) was married in 1808 and was a cooper at his marriage.

If you are sure your Thomas Walmsley was born in 1755 in Walton-Le-Dale then he supposedly died in the Preston area circa 1839 and the trees have linked his marriage to both Elizabeth Corbett and Elizabeth Beatson. My own thought pattern is that births in Liverpool are very unlikely to be linked to the Walton-Le-Dale/Preston areas.

There is another Thomas Walmsley born in Ormskirk c1755 (nearer Liverpool than Walton-Le-Dale) whose parents were James and Betty - James was the name of their first child born 1781 and another of Thomas's children was named Betsey - perhaps relevant - who knows?

My "guess" is that the couple from Lancaster/Hest Bank moved to Liverpool but I am concerned that they were very young at date of marriage that without real proof (such as DNA details) it really looks like an impossible task to get absolute certainty of the position. 

Unless someone else has some bright ideas?

Alan