Completed - John Luxton birth and marriage

[Jane Masri]

Michael, I would think poor law records/settlement certificates etc would be at the Devon Records Office for the area you seek.  I'm not familiar with Devon but if like Sussex, which is a large county, they have two records offices, one for the west & one for the east.
You can also search ARCHON on the TNA site, that might reveal where certain things are kept.  What's your thoughts on Sue's Luxton/Cole marriage at Exeter?

jane

[Jane Masri]

http://localhistory.kingston.ac.uk/db_forms/LocalHistoryForm.asp

Have you seen this, Michael?

jane

[suffolk*sue]

Yes Jane, thats on Ancestry.


The Luxton links that Michael have links to probably have the Luxton/Cole marriage on record and may have followed them up.

 

[Jane Masri]

Thanks 

jane

[Michael J]

Jane,

Yes, the Kingston University site is where we found that Ursula was buried in the same cemetery as John - previously we only knew of her burial service at All Saints Kingston but couldn't find a grave there. Also, the birth you found of John Q3 1844 is the ninth and youngest child of John and Ursula that we know of.

Sue,

The problem we have with the Robert/Hannah marriage is that neither of these names are in any of the subsequent families. However, we have to try to find whether they had a son John around 1800 - 1805. There are other instances of Luxton/Coles marriages in Devon; William Luxton son of John Luxton and Ann Down had a second marriage to a Mary Coles on 10 Jan 1824, ref correspondance with Brian Luxton.

Michael J.

[Michael J]

It might help clarify everything if we could find when John and Ursula arrived in Kingston, and where their eldest children were born, in the hope that this might give some clues.

John is shown in the census for 1851 & 1861 as a Farm labourer, and lived in the cottages called The Wanderings at Wanderings Farm. The farm was on the eastern corner of the junction of Cambridge Road and Hampdens Road (Bonner Hill Cemetery is at the bottom of Hampdens Road). Are there likely to be any surviving records of this farm, and are they likely to show any details of their workers?

Michael J.

[Jane Masri]

Michael, I think you need to get as close to the source as you can.  Try the Kingston Museum & Local History site, they might have the answers you need.  As you say, finding births/baptism's for John & Ursula's children should be a priority.

http://www.kingston.gov.uk/museum

jane

[Jane Masri]

Just been looking at Familyhistoryonline for clues as to baptism's
http://www.familyhistoryonline.net/  Several in Wiltshire of the right time-line.  Could they have stopped off there before fetching up in Kingston?

Charlotte Jane LUXTON found in Wiltshire Baptisms , 1824

Fanny LUXTON found in Wiltshire Baptisms, 1822

Jane LUXTON found in Wiltshire Baptisms, 1828

John LUXTON found in Cornwall Baptism Index 5 entries in Cornwall between 1636 and 1857

Thomas LUXTON found in Cornwall Baptism Index 3 entries in Cornwall between 1810 and 1861

Thomas James LUXTON found in Dorset Baptisms. 1824

jane

[Michael J]

Hi Jane,

We did think they might have stopped off between Cornwall and Surrey, but couldn't find anything on the IGI fiches for any of the counties in between.

I've just checked all the 6 names you found on Familyhistoryonline, but sad to say none of them have John or Ursula as a parent.

The 9 children and approximate dates we have are:

Maria b.1826 m.1845
Elizabeth b.1830
Thomas b.1833 m.1861
William b.1835
Sarah b.1837 m.1861
Mary Anne b.1839 m.1859
George b.1841
Emma Charlotte b.1844
John b.1844 d.1845

We will have to try the Kingston Local History museum when it's open.

Michael J