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Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« on: Monday 29 June 09 13:04 BST (UK) »
In the wills index that is on the Bucks archives site I believe I located a will for an ancestor (At first glance it appears promising.)  Anyway, the index gives the place as Tyrfield. I haven't been able to locate this place after using google search, mapquest or an old map I have. I used the will index search again and typed Tyrfield in alone to see how many "hits" I would get. I just got one which was the person I was interested in. The only place that comes up using "google" or mapquest is Therfield in Herts. Would a will from Herts be in Bucks? I'm supposing that Tryfield is a small village. Does anyone know?
Thanks!

Donna

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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #1 on: Monday 29 June 09 13:15 BST (UK) »
http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/Tyringham/

 :-\ Thought maybe this would help... not so sure now...

Kind regards, Lesanne.
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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #2 on: Monday 29 June 09 14:22 BST (UK) »
 PARLOC  has Tyringham Bucks which is a couple of miles from Newport Pagnell and Olney.

No others beginning with Tyr in County, that I can find

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Dorset: Ackerman,Bungey,Bunter Chant,Hyle
Islington:Bedford, Eaton,Wilkins
Beds,Fulham: Brazier
Shoreditch: Burton,Coverdale
Essex ,Clerkenwell:Craswell,Cresswell
St.Lukes Middx:Doughty, Dunkley
Andover/IOW/Fulham:Gasser
Fulham: Neal
Bucks:Putnam,Wingrove
Bullwell.Notts:Wilkinson
Clerkenwell/Islington:Wyllie
Herts/ Tottenham/Walthamstow:Young

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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #3 on: Monday 29 June 09 14:58 BST (UK) »



   How about ..... Turville...... say it quickly and very alike .
  Also comes up in relation to St Albans Abbey having a grant of land at either.. Therfield Hets or Turville Bucks.

    Tazzie
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Walker/Foulkes/Fookes/Fooks/Hedges/Lamborne-Bucks.
Stanton/Pattrick/Cooper/Fitzjohn/Holland/Spalding-London
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 Casbolt-London/Cambridge
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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #4 on: Monday 29 June 09 15:34 BST (UK) »
Everyone, thanks so much for your help! I think the best thing for me now is to check out the deaths in these places and hope one of them pans out. Again, thanks!

Donna

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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #5 on: Monday 29 June 09 17:17 BST (UK) »
Hello Donna

Don't bother looking at Tyringham - it's most definitely Turville.

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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #6 on: Monday 29 June 09 20:42 BST (UK) »
Thanks Orpheus!

I'll check Turville first. I was leaning towards there, especially with its connection to Therfield in Herts.

Donna

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Re: Where is Tyrfield? Please, help!
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 15 February 11 16:34 GMT (UK) »
Hi Donna
Just found this site -

http://www.lutonparanormal.com/buckinghamshire/popups/turville.html

"Turville is a long thin village at the bottom of a deep valley which has a long association with film crews. On top of the hill overlooking the village is Turville Windmill which was the home of Caractacus Potts in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The church, dedicated to St Mary the Virgin, also has some notoriety as it appears in the TV series The Vicar of Dibley.

Over the years the village has had various names including Therfield, Tyrefield and Tyrefold and in the Domesday Book Tilleberie. The name is believed to derive from the Old English words thyrre and feld which mean ‘dry open land'. In the 2001 census the population was 317."


Looks as though it's definitely Turville you're after.


regards
Rich
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