Blenheim Palace

[Maggott]

Yup  Blenheim owns (or owned) virtually all the farms round about.  I'll have a look later to see whether your chap got a tombstone in the churchyard
Maggott

[Maggott]

Hi again - your man was TolleT not TolleY??  The Tolleys register on the local radar
(last of the line died twenty-odd years ago) but I don't remember Tollets.  Not to say they're not there, of course...
Maggott

[DJFRENCH]

hello maggott....wow how clever are you !

yes he was Richard Tollet born about 1718 , off the top of my head,  his surname shoul be Tollet as the name was Tollit, Tolett ,Tollett until 1900's


Thanks for your interest

debz 

[Maggott]

Hi DJF  I've just got back from the churchyard - no luck yet.  But it was a grey afternoon & the 18th cent tombstones are badly eroded  & covered with lichen.  I might have more luck on a sunny day, perhaps.  Quite a lot of the stones have been tidied up round the edge of the churchyard, so it might, anyway, not be possible to find the actual grave.
The Woodstock records went to Oxfordshire RO years ago. so it might be worth contacting them.  I know there was a (tatty) plan of the old cemetary (different from the churchyard) and there might be one of the churchyard as well.  Too dark to look in the church itself - I always feel it's a bit of a cheek to turn the lights on, but will try on a sunny day.
Maggott 

[DJFRENCH]

ah...how sweet of you    i have all the Tollet history so i will see if i have more info ...
thank again.....

those gravestones are impossible to read once the lichen takes hold i'v tried in the Old Marston parish cemetry.


but many thanks anyway...
Debz

[Maggott]

Hi Update on the Tollet search:  I got into the church this afternoon & had a look at the plaques on the wall - no Tollets, I'm afraid.  Two at the very top I couldn't see but it doesn't seem very likely they'll relate to your chap.  Sorry - did b***** best
Maggott

[DJFRENCH]

thanks so much for trying...have a gold star 


All these places which we would love to visit.(have been many a time but not since i've been a roots hunter ) so we can visits churches etc

Debz 

[chocbox]

hello maggott....wow how clever are you !

yes he was Richard Tollet born about 1718 , off the top of my head,  his surname shoul be Tollet as the name was Tollit, Tolett ,Tollett until 1900's


Thanks for your interest

debz 

Dear Debz,
 
Richard, of Blenheim Park, I think is also a relative of mine.
I have Tallott, Crawford, Green, Bishop, Whitley, Leaver, Dean, Frewin, Akerman and more.

May I ask who your photo is of? GGGF?

Look forward to a reply.

Kind regards

[cello]

John Forster the archivist at Blenheim is on BBC Radio Oxford right now if you can listen in.