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Hi Printer 

I'm finding bucket loads about the BESFORDS....

MARRIAGE: Can't find?
Jane BRUCE or BREWIS
Anthony BESFORD or BEDFORD

The Surname is oft-recorded as BEDFORD, and from 1900 onwards, seems to take that form in most records I found.......

In short many of them ended up in the State of Indiana in the  US, including the parents, Anthony and Jane.

Anthony eventually made his way back to England and died there 1919.
Jane died in the US in 1909.

I'm trying to keep it all straight and comprhensible,  so will try and put all the information up in some sort of order :-)

Cheers
AMBLY

This is true - they came  and settled in Shelbourne, IN, and then John and Annie settled in Vincennes, IN, where they raised their family.   My grandfather, John, and his brothers worked in the coal mines in that area.  Jane is buried in Shelbourne, IN.  My grandparents are buried in Vincennes, IN.   I am the daughter of Martha Bedford, their youngest daughter.   My grandmother, Anna, was a wonderful, hard-working woman. She was known as Anna Bedford, not Annie.  She passed away in Bevier, Missouri, in 1973.  I never knew my grandfather.  He was a lot older than grandma.   I do know that my grandmother dearly missed England and her siblings ( Ethel, Minnie and Wiliam).   My grandfather and grandmother took excellent care of his first wife, Barbara Potts, when she was ill and dying.   My grandma was a young woman who worked as a maid at the Blue Bell Inn.  Thusly, how she met my Grandfather.

Lots more to share with you, but we never knew Elizabeth's maiden name or much about her so now we do!  Thanks!

Hello there.  My name is Janet Theriac, and I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA!   My grandfather was the John Besford/Bedford you are writing about, and my grandmother was Jane Ann Walker, his second wife, also called Annie Walker!

My sister has done extensive research on our family so it was nice to see this post as it filled in some missing links for us!