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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Re: Frederick Craft
« on: Sunday 12 April 15 18:04 BST (UK)  »

Thank you for your help.   I've looked at one in Winslow in the period 1774-1776 & am now checking deaths of possibilities & then moving to the 1881 Census for further evidence although Frederick's name was then Craft since his mother married John Craft in 1880.   I am assuming that if the child appears in the 1881 Census as Frederick WRIGHT it is not the child I am looking for.   Laborious but I'm determined!

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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Re: Frederick Craft
« on: Saturday 11 April 15 15:08 BST (UK)  »

Thank you!  We are of the same opinion re Frederick'd birth but proving it is difficult.   I am going to try to find the unmarried mother & baby home but an added difficulty is that of his birth,whether 1874 or 1876, falling between 2 Census records

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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Re: Frederick Craft
« on: Saturday 11 April 15 11:40 BST (UK)  »

Thanks for reading my request, Ray.  Yes, the Darvill/Darvell family do appear in my tree by marriage. Ruth Wright, the mother of Frederick Craft, gives her father's name as DAVID Wright [deceased] on her marriage cert. to John Craft in 1880.    I know about Frederick Craft's Army career & his settling,after 1919, in Canada & then New Zealand where he died, but his birth & the name of his father is an absolute mystery.  Even though he may not have been baptised I'm sure he would have to be registered in England . Some records show his birth as 1874 & some as 1876 but there is no proof that I can find.  He had a chequered life which, again, leads me to believe that John Craft, from a steady farming background, was not his father   A mystery I probably will not solve but I don't intend to give up!!   Again, many thanks.

                             Cee

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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Re: Frederick Craft
« on: Friday 10 April 15 16:18 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for such a speedy response!.   I have looked for a Frederick WRIGHT without success. Frederick Charles is not the right person.  I found him too.    I believe the registration district at that time to be Amersham but I could be wrong.   The 1881 Census shows Frederick as CRAFT with his mother, Ruth, who is newly married to John Craft.   Ruth Wright was an only child of  mature parents.  Her father was a widower prior to marriage to his second wife, Ruth's mother, who was a spinster of 40+ years.  Ruth had step siblings from her father's first marriage but I don't think Frederick would belong to them since they were already  living away from  home.

The comment about a birth of a Frederick Wright in another area of Buckinghamshire rings a bell about the existence of an unmarried mother & baby home.   I'll investigate the dates of its history.  I took the Gt. Missenden birth link from the Census records.

  Very many thanks to you all for your help .   I really am most grateful for any links/ ideas

           Cee

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Buckinghamshire Completed Look ups / Frederick Craft
« on: Friday 10 April 15 14:41 BST (UK)  »
Frederick Craft b. Gt Missenden 1874 or 1876.  Mother Ruth Wright b.1851.   Ruth married John Craft b.1856 in 1880 at Penn Street, Bucks

Trying to find Frederick's Birth registration or Baptism.   I wonder why Ruth & John did not marry until 1880  since both partners are listed as single on their marriage certificate?

One of my "brick walls!"

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Buckinghamshire / Re: Surname Interest - DARVELL - Chesham
« on: Friday 17 April 09 01:32 BST (UK)  »
 Hi Oldsplice, the George Craft married to Rachel Darvill is also my relative  along with his brother

Thomas & sisters Ruth & Mary.              Any clues to the maiden name of Sophia Darvill ?

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Buckinghamshire / Re: Surname Interest - DARVELL - Chesham
« on: Tuesday 13 November 07 20:57 GMT (UK)  »
Hi! Just seen your posting re George CRAFT & Rachel DARVILL, Buckinghamshire. We are researching some ancestors in common. I am a descendant of James 1790  -1867 and Ruth. Ruth was the 2nd wife of James but I am now trying to find the name of his first wife plus any offspring. Have you any information on this? Perhaps we have findings we can share?

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