can you decipher ????

[243rose]

JAP.

I am really sorry i hadn't seen yr reply that told me the will was made in 1801..... for some reason the 'show new replies to yr posts' wasn't working correctly.
thanks for the translation of the margin writing insofar as you were able to pick out Harriets married name and her husbands.

Ann BAGG was 23 years younger than James, i wonder whether she was his 2nd marriage.
i had wondered whether joseph was his son from a first marriage. Mind you he probably would have provided for him in his will directly if this had been the case. James doesn't appear in the parish registers of Abinger, Wotton, or Oakfield prior to his marriage, tracking down joseph may be the key.

James describes himself as a 'Yeoman', i know that his daughter Louisa from whom i am decended married a bricklayer, i'll have to follow up Harriet and Ann who married a john BAxter. perhaps he had large debts, but certainly Louisa did not marry someone of the same status.

Anyway JAP.
Thanks

[DebbieG]

Hi - can I chip in   

from the register transcripts of Aston Rowant,  these are the only mentions of the surname Baggs

Baptisms
1771 Robert s/o Joseph & Ann
1787 FOXALL William s/o Phineas Foxall & Maria Baggs

Marriage
1787 Thomas Varnon of Sherbourn to Maria Baggs
witnessed by Thomas Hixon & James Crowford

Burials
1809 Joseph Baggs (no age given)
1823 Ann Baggs aged 84


I checked the Oxfordshire marriage index and there is no mention of a Joseph Baggs at all

 

Debbie

[JAP]

Hi Debbie,

The IGI has a few entries for the name (variously spelled) in Oxfordshire - though the IGI seems pretty poor on Oxfordshire records.

However, confusingly (in the light of the entries you found), it has the following baptisms:
William BAGGS, bap 4 Nov 1787, parents Phineas Foxell BAGGS & Maria
Wm BAGGS, bap 14 Nov 1787, parents Phineas Foxall BAGGS & Maria

Both extracted entries, both Aston Rowant, same batch number (C038311) and same film number (0095204).

JAP

[243rose]

Debbie.

thanks for this.
i suppose we can reasonably assume that the ANN in the burial register is the wife of joseph.
if she was born about 1739 then Joseph maybe 1735ish................ James was born in 1730 so perhaps brother then.
It's funny that the Baggs are not particularly prominent in surrey either...... although looking at the Surrey MArriage index there are only 3. one is a James BAGG though married in 1764 in FRENSHAM Surrey to an Esther Belemey..... could be the first marriage ??

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