HEADs of West Berkshire

[matgeorges]

Newberry Chap
I re read your Head information and remembered the Head family are mentioned in the Victorian
County History book for Berkshire and a book about Compton in the Berks record Office. John Head bought the Manor of Compton as well. There are varoius wills in the Berks RO and the PCC.

[newburychap]

I presume the Compton book is The History & Antiquities of the Hundred of Compton, Berks - available online at http://www.archive.org/details/historyantiquit00hewegoog

[matgeorges]

Ys. That is the book.

[isthisme]

Hi,
I am related to Sarah Head. 4xGGM
Is the word doc showing ancestry etc still available. Only just started researching the family.

[matgeorges]

On a previous message to your one it mentioned a connection for the book. I could not open it.
The only book I have seen in Reading Library is by Cherry and this does not give family trees only
general information on the families. My Elizabeth Head was born in 1730 and she was an heiress and married John Pottinger. Mat

[ribbo39]

Hi,
I could not open it.
If you click on the address by Newburychap, then click on read on line (PDF) it will open so you can read it.
You can then save it as a "web archive" to your desktop which is what I have done.

Alan

[matgeorges]

Sir Thomas Head 1667-1758 was knighted whilst he was high sheriff of Berkshire. In his will he also left money to Sarah Puckeridge, nee Head. Elizabeth and Sarah were siblings.
I think the premises mentioned in the Archives are pubs. The Saint Thomas Head, The Golden Key, The Ship and the Black Boy. Thomas Head was living in London but moved to Berkshire. He purchased Roden House for £2000 from John Vande Bemside in 1714.
I have another will which I cannot tie up to my family as yet.. It is Prob11/222 23 June 1652. Thomas Head of Breedon.. He had a brother called Francis and a wife Katherine.

[sammons]

Hi again
I'm still struggling with my ancestry but have sorted out the  (they seemed to have worked for William Fisher a gentleman farmer at Winterbourne Farm) and the Beesleys.

Your work on the Chancellor line was pretty exhaustive and interesting (just been reading it again).

Would appreciate anything you have on the Heads and Puckeridges. These areas seem quite a maze.

Thanks

Eddie Sammons from Spain but connected via the Pococks and (moving backwards) through the Chancellors.

[matgeorges]

 
I have a Richard Puckeridge who married Sarah Head. Richard was of Compton. They had Henry, Thomas, Sarah, Elizabeth, Rachel, Richard, Mary and Henry. Is this your line?