Lookup Request - Parish Records - Williton or Wooten Courtney - PUGSLEY

[elaine 63]

Hi Rhondda,
I have recently found your interest in John Pugsley of Wootton Courtenay on these pages, going back several years.
I am a descendant of Hannah Pugsley through her illegitimate son James.
I had thought that John was the son of John born 1746 to Samuel but it seems that you have a copy of the wedding of John to Elizabeth Pasmore where it says his father was in fact Richard born 1752.
Some correspondence you were having several years ago seemed to have missed some of the children of John and Elisabeth; I think I have found 9 children of theirs.
I am also interested in the second wife of John, as during the 1861 census she might have been living with Hannah, my g-g-grandmother.

Because all my ancestors had so many children, I usually only work on my direct ancestors, that has given me enough to do.


It would be nice to exchange some information

Elaine 63

[RebeccaNZ]

Hi Trevor Paul - do you still do look ups of these Parish registers? I know that these posts go back about 5 years

I am also related to the Pugsleys and I am also stuck in a few places. I can't go back further than Samuel Pugsley and Elizabeth Lydson.

I was wondering if you were able to check for a birth of either thes two - I think that they could have been born abt 1720 Cutcombe, although someone on ancestry has Samuel's birth as 1711 in Elworthy, Somerset.

Do you have access to the Brompton Regis records?

It has been great reading through this thread, thanks for all the useful info

[Trevor Paul]

Hi Rebecca, I don't know how certain you are of the ages of Samuel and Elizabeth as I have found a Samuel PUGSLEY as baptised on 5 November 1732 son of Richard and Jane at Cutcombe.  I have also found a baptism for a daughter to William and Ann LIDSON, on 13 April 1742. Unfortunately the first name is missing and this is how the surname has been transcribed. . There are no other baptisms for LIDSON/LYDSON in the CUTCOMBE register. However, there is a marriage for William LYDSON and Ann BENNETT on 23 December 1739. Is this yours because if it is it more or less verifies the baptism for you. There is also a burial for a William LYDSON on 3 May 1752 at Cutcombe. This is a very rare name in the registers so there is a good chance this one is yours. I cannot find any further info on the marriage of Richard and Jane PUGSLEY. Hope this helps.   I have the following registers, CUTCOMBE, SELWORTHY, LUCCOMBE, WOOTTON COURTENAY and STOKE PERO.  If you enter this link (at end of this message)  into your browser address bar it takes to a site with many other Somerset Parish registers.  Once on the site click on Parish registers. If you need anything else let me know.  Regards Trevor      http://www.wsom.org.uk

[RebeccaNZ]

Hi Trevor,

Thankyou for the reply and doing the lookup for me.

It looks like Samuel & Elizabeths first child was born 1741 - so both of those births are too early. Perhaps, they moved to Cutcombe?

Thanks for the link, I will check that out now

ETA: I just looked at the Elworthy registers for the birth of Samuel Pugsley and there is one born 1711, with only the father, John listed. It looks like there are a few Pugsleys in Elworthy too, so perhaps that's where they originated from. I will look for Elizabeths birth there too.