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Oxfordshire / Re: The Keen family from Stoke Lyne
« on: Saturday 17 January 26 11:26 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Saturday 17 January 26 11:17 GMT (UK)
Quote from: rosie99 on Friday 16 January 26 16:56 GMT (UK)
I think you may need to be browsing Bicester records, the images are online.  I have not looked further back than this baptism for Thomas.

I have now looked at the original and the letter taken as 'o' is the same as the presumed 'e' in Potter, Turner and Baptized on that page and in that case is definitely Keen and not Roon so most likely your Thomas Keen.  There are other examples of transcription errors in Bicester for Keen around the same time with father Thomas.

Marriage at Bicester 6 May 1759
Thomas Keen and Sarah Archer
An Isaac Archer was one of the witnesses
Indeed. Writing can be very difficult to read and transcribe. I've seen it as Heen as well.
Thanks for taking the time. The Boss says I have jobs to do today so I'll have to have a look when she's not about!

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Berwickshire / Re: George Johnston Berwickshire
« on: Friday 16 January 26 18:31 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Neale1961 on Friday 16 January 26 17:21 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Forfarian on Friday 16 January 26 17:03 GMT (UK)
Quote from: gajjer on Friday 16 January 26 16:03 GMT (UK)
I don't know why but I would have thought it unusual for a young man to come down from Scotland and join the Met.
I am not surprised at all. Young men from all over the Highlands moved into Scottish cities and became police officers, so it would be quite reasonable for them to go a bit further south and join a police force in England.

You are aware that other members of his Durno family came to, and were married in London?

Am I? Who would they be? Some of the entries in the Durno part of my tree were gathered from a DNA match to someone in Australia.

Are you suggesting George went down to London with some of the Durno family?

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Berwickshire / Re: George Johnston Berwickshire
« on: Friday 16 January 26 17:20 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Millmoor on Friday 16 January 26 16:57 GMT (UK)
There is a baptism for a William Johnstone in Edrom - Born 9 Mar 1826 Baptised 27 Apr 1826.

Residence - Middlestots.

Parents - Adam Johnstone and Christian McLean.

William
The only thing there would be that that William would be 8 years younger than Jane. But then again, you never know! I believe that William may have died just before George was born. So he wouldn't be around for the 1851 census.

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Berwickshire / Re: George Johnston Berwickshire
« on: Friday 16 January 26 17:15 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Forfarian on Friday 16 January 26 17:03 GMT (UK)
Quote from: gajjer on Friday 16 January 26 16:03 GMT (UK)
I don't know why but I would have thought it unusual for a young man to come down from Scotland and join the Met.
I am not surprised at all. Young men from all over the Highlands moved into Scottish cities and became police officers, so it would be quite reasonable for them to go a bit further south and join a police force in England.

I actually know someone of similar age to myself who did exactly that, and served in the Metropolitan Police for the rest of his career.

It also would not surprise me if someone had studied the topic, but I have no idea how one might find out.
That's encouraging. Thanks for that.

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Berwickshire / Re: George Johnston Berwickshire
« on: Friday 16 January 26 16:52 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks. That looks interesting.

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Oxfordshire / Re: The Keen family from Stoke Lyne
« on: Friday 16 January 26 16:51 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: rosie99 on Friday 16 January 26 16:10 GMT (UK)
Have you discounted this mistranscribed entry on Ancestry

Name Thomas Roon
[Thomas Keen]
[Thomas Keen]
Baptism 10 Feb 1760
Place   Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Father Thos Roon
It's not one I recognise but my memory isn't that good these days!
I'll have a look.
Thanks

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Oxfordshire / Re: The Keen family from Stoke Lyne
« on: Friday 16 January 26 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
No. I don't have that record.

To be honest, this is something I mainly do in the winter months. Initially I only wanted to find cousins on the Keen side! It has got bigger!! So, initially I wasn't interested in going back too far but as time has gone on and I started to get DNA matches, it has been necessary to go back further.

It's only now that I'm delving further back. I have gone back through the baptism records on Ancestry. I found by scrolling through the pages I could get a complete picture of baptisms, but I've not done the same thing for marriages.

I also find it quite difficult to get my head around some of these things. Ancestry has provided me with quite a few useful hints and other peoples trees have been useful, but I've also found they can be completely wrong on a monumental scale!

Any thoughts you have or assistance would be welcomed.

I'm still finding my way round the site too.


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Berwickshire / Re: George Johnston Berwickshire
« on: Friday 16 January 26 16:03 GMT (UK)  »
That's an interesting thought. I never take dates in a census too seriously but as it was a date in a Police record tended to believe it.
His joining the Met has me wondering too. I don't know why but I would have thought it unusual for a young man to come down from Scotland and join the Met. I am assuming that he had no previous experience. Are there records of people serving with the Scottish police? Could he have been a mason, with connections?
So many questions.

Thanks everyone for your help. I think I have a reasonable idea of the facts now.

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Oxfordshire / Re: The Keen family from Stoke Lyne
« on: Friday 16 January 26 15:18 GMT (UK)  »
My tree is on Ancestry if you want to compare.
I've also got my DNA with GedMatch.
Swindon is a good contender.

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