HEADs of West Berkshire

[Pejic]

The Heads of Winterbourne, Chieveley and Boxford are all linked and are also (later) linked to Heads in Newbury, Greenham, and Thacham. However I haven't yet found a link to those in Kintbury although I think a link must exist.

Matt

Thomas Head married (Jo)hanna(h) Maskell 14-7-1783 at Yattendon, they had 3 children baptised at Chievely (Isaac, Amy and George).  Isaac (my interest) had a large family including Isaac (Winterbourne) and George (Hungerford) (my interest). George married Harriet Leader 14-10-1841 in Kintbury and they had 6 children all baptised at Kintbury.  I can let you have more names and dates if they are of any interest to you in linking the families up.

[MattD30]

Hi MatD30,

I am related to Richard head as follows:
Head (7 Gen.) → Puckeridge (1 Gen.) → Chancellor (3 Gen.) → Sheppard (4 Gen.)

I would be exptremely grateful if you would send me coppies of any Head Wills that you have. any other information on the Head Line would be very helpful also.

Thanks in advance

Malshep

Hi there

I quite literally have boxes of info on the Heads as I am trying to compile a book about them. I have several wills although not all these are transcribed. If you let me know if there is anyone in particular you want a will for I will see if I have it, or I can send you a list of all the wills I have. I also have various Chancery records and other documents involving the Heads.

One name which links with the Heads (not through my direct line but through a side branch) is the name Buckeridge and this may well be a variation of Puckeridge. I also have some information relating to links between Buckeridge/Head as well if you are interested.

Matt

[MattD30]

The Heads of Winterbourne, Chieveley and Boxford are all linked and are also (later) linked to Heads in Newbury, Greenham, and Thacham. However I haven't yet found a link to those in Kintbury although I think a link must exist.

Matt

Thomas Head married (Jo)hanna(h) Maskell 14-7-1783 at Yattendon, they had 3 children baptised at Chievely (Isaac, Amy and George).  Isaac (my interest) had a large family including Isaac (Winterbourne) and George (Hungerford) (my interest). George married Harriet Leader 14-10-1841 in Kintbury and they had 6 children all baptised at Kintbury.  I can let you have more names and dates if they are of any interest to you in linking the families up.

Do you know where/when this first Thomas was born or who his parents were?

Matt

[Pejic]

Do you know where/when this first Thomas was born or who his parents were?

MattD30.  Afraid not, though Isaac seems to be a fairly persistent name for first born son.  His children were baptised 25-11-1787, 19-11-1790 and 10-5-1795.

[MattD30]

Do you know where/when this first Thomas was born or who his parents were?

MattD30.  Afraid not, though Isaac seems to be a fairly persistent name for first born son.  His children were baptised 25-11-1787, 19-11-1790 and 10-5-1795.

I have a Thomas Head born in Newbury in 1758 but so far have not being able to prove that he is the same Thomas. However the Heads of Newbury did originate in Chieveley so it is possible he moved back there.

The name Isaac does not seem to appear on any other branch of the Head family tree which is interesting.

When did your Thomas die?

Matt

[Pejic]

Matt re "When did your Thomas die?"

Sorry - I only know of him from his children's baptisms

[cjtu]

I am looking forward to Matts book- the Head dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries is complex and confusing, spread as it is over different manors and parishes.A real Headache ! I for one  would welcome a definative understandable  work on them,to add to those of Cherry, and Horton Smith already mentioned.The latter is part on line-
"The Heads of Newbury and of Winterbourn" (ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata.../BAJ051-A06- horton-smith.pdf)  and  "The
earliest Head of Winterbourne and his second sons descendants.   "(ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch.../BA048-A02-horton smith.pdf.) A full copy appears to be in Reading library reference section.
From these sources and various on line trees it would appear most branches stem from Richard Hede ca1475-1530.Horton Smith gives his will as 25/5/1530 held in Arch Berks A131.I hope this helps others in  this most difficult quest. Chris

[MattD30]

I am looking forward to Matts book- the Head dynasty in the 16th and 17th centuries is complex and confusing, spread as it is over different manors and parishes.A real Headache ! I for one  would welcome a definative understandable  work on them,to add to those of Cherry, and Horton Smith already mentioned.The latter is part on line-
"The Heads of Newbury and of Winterbourn" (ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata.../BAJ051-A06- horton-smith.pdf)  and  "The
earliest Head of Winterbourne and his second sons descendants.   "(ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch.../BA048-A02-horton smith.pdf.) A full copy appears to be in Reading library reference section.
From these sources and various on line trees it would appear most branches stem from Richard Hede ca1475-1530.Horton Smith gives his will as 25/5/1530 held in Arch Berks A131.I hope this helps others in  this most difficult quest. Chris

I agree that most, in fact probably all of the Head families in Winterbourne, Chieveley and Newbury, descend from Richard Hede/Head (1475-530) but finding where he comes from is more of a puzzle as I have found no clues in his will or in the Wills of other Heads in Berkshire.

Another set of Heads were based in Compton, and nearby parishes and these married into the Winterbourne/Chieveley Head  lines via the Pococke family of Langley (it gets very complex at this point) so Richard might have come from around that area.

I have most of what I have established on the Heads written up as a Word doc so if anyone wants more details it might be easier to pm me and I can send you the details directly.

I have a lot of wills relating to the Head family [included in the Word document where I know who they relate to] and can put a list on here if it helps.

Matt

[newburychap]

It the age old problem for family historians - there just isn't enough information before parish registers.  I can take my HEAD line back in Peasemore/Leckhampstead to 1538, the first year of PRs.  Earlier than that I am fairly convinced there will be a link to the Winterbourne line, but have no data to prove it.  Horton-Smith believed that the executor named in Richard Head's will of 1530 was Raffe/Ralph Head of Leckhampstead - again with no proof.

Incidently Horton-Smith wrote several articles on the Winterbourne line as well as the book.  The book itself is usually to be found on second hand sites such as bookfinder (I suspect he had a lot printed). Several of the articles appear in the Berkshire Archaeological Journal:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-787-1/dissemination/pdf/BAJ047_PDFs/BAJ047_A03_horton-smith.pdf

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-787-1/dissemination/pdf/BAJ048_PDFs/BAJ048_A02_horton-smith.pdf
 
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/arch-787-1/dissemination/pdf/BAJ051_PDFs/BAJ051_A06_horton-smith.pdf