Completed - John Luxton birth and marriage

[Jane Masri]

Good luck, Michael.  They might have a dusty document tucked away in their archives 

jane

[Michael J]

Hi Jane,

Not much progress yet; Kingston Local History Centre have nothing in their archives.

I found the Exeter Cathedral registers on line, but as thought Robert & Hannah are not ours. The only John Luxton mentioned there was married in 1717.

Surrey History Centre could be more promising, they have quite a bit re Norbiton Farm including correspondence from the Farm Bailiff around the right dates. We now have to find whether Wanderings Farm on Norbiton Common was renamed Norbiton Farm - also the Kingston Workhouse had an outlying site on Norbiton Common, in Marsh Lane New Malden, called Norbiton Farm . . . .

The workhouse minute books and other records are at Woking.

Michael J.

[Jane Masri]

Woking will make a nice day out, Michael    The staff are very helpful there.

jane

[nally]

Hi, I have (somewhere) a copy of the original birth certificate of Sarah Luxton, I know that the address given is for The wanderings Kingston. Also I remember that there was some mix-up with the surnames, Pett and Luxton. Will root it out and send it through. Sarah was my GG grandmother, I also have a photograph of her.
Regards
Brenda

[Michael J]

Hi Brenda,

It's nice to hear from you, which Sarah is the certificate for - is it Sarah born 1837, who married James Wells in 1861?

Thomas b.1833, an older brother of the Sarah above, married Louisa Pett (in 1861 also) and one of his children was Sarah, b.1857, who married James Bone.

We must be cousins somewhere along the line, but I get confused with all the various 'removed' numbers.

Regards Michael.

[nally]

My sarah Married James Bone, will forward certs and photo on later. Do you have any photo's if so would love to see them
Regards
Brenda

[nally]

as promised certs of Sarah Luxton birth and marriage. On the birth it shows Sarah's father to be Thomas Pett and her mother Louisa Luxton and on her marriage her father is Thomas Luxton. I feel this is a mistake as neither were literate. I might have to send seperately as large files
Brenda

[nally]

Sarah's birth
Brenda

[Michael J]

Hello Brenda,

Thanks for posting pics of the original certificates - the birth certificate names are definitely a mis-understanding at the registrar's office which wasn't corrected as the happy father couldn't read what had been written!

I have found Louisa in various census returns, did you know she re-married a Christopher Baker after her husband Thomas died? In 1901 she and and second husband are living in just one room in the house of a John Bone and another Sarah Bone.

Sorry, I don't have any photos earlier than 1945 - if there are any they may be with a cousin.

Regards Michael.