The Fooks Family

[ErnieCG]

Hi Tazzie,

The Sarah you have mentioned in your post, is this Sarah Huckel, 1744 - 1777 as she married James Fowkes, 1740 - ?
I have  Thomas Fooks who was born on the 24th July, 1807, died about 1867 in Woburn.
I, also have Zilpah, born 1811 and Isaiah, born 1909. Also Jeremiah,1815, Sussanah, 1816, Sarah 1819 and Eli, 1821.

[tazzie]

  

  Hi Ernie....

 Do you mean 1825 for Jesse ?
 Baptisms for Fooks children to James & Elizabeth in Woburn 1813 onwards are ...
  Jeremiah   1814
  Susannah  1816
 Sarah 1819
  Eli 1821  & Jesse 1825.   all can be found on ..

  www.familysearch.org
  So including James Zilpah & Isaiah from my previous post 8 children so far .
 As John says no baptism in Odell for James senior but the age fits to the baptism in Husborne Crawley.
 There is an Elizabeth Lines bapt in Steppingley but age out slightly.
  Tazzie
 

[ErnieCG]

Hi Tazzie,

Yes Jesse was born in 1825, my mistake. Thnks for the other piece of information as I'll look into that. I got my information from another person's family tree in Ancestry.co.uk and I'm trying to verify all this to my tree.

[tazzie]

 Hi ..

 Thomas Fuks married Sarah Irons in H/Crawley in 1773.
  mine drive me mad with their spelling...also watch out for Foox/ Fox & Faux

  Tazzie

[tazzie]

  Always a good thing to verify other peoples findings. I found a tree that married off my grt nanna to someone else in America and she never actually left Bedfordshire!
  If you look on the resources page on the Bedfordshire page part way down are the transcribed records for Woburn Poll Book ..... all the hard work done by Steve Henley  James at 9 Leighton End Thomas at 1 Goodmans Court.

 Tazzie

[ErnieCG]

Thanks I'll do this.

[messy]

I married into the Fookes family in 1997 (now divorced) and have 2 children with the surname ! i have traced their line back to Bow-brickhill beds  in 1841 but the surname keeps changing folk, fooks etc. I visited the village last year trying to find the church. I stopped two ladies walking a dog who laughed and said it was behind the very large trees!!!!!!!! . I have a few pictures of a Frederick Charles Fookes if interested. will post more info about tree later if you are interested.

[ErnieCG]

Thank you so much for sharing with me this piece of information. I have no way of actually knowing if this is relevant to my tree or not. What I have in my tree  is that I haven't Frederick Charles Fookes in it but given the fact that there are Charleses in my tree of Fookes, my middle name is Charles and the other fact is that my ancestors were born and brought up in Beds during the period. Could you tell me their parent's names or any brothers and sisters that you know of? I am very interested to hear anythging at all about the Fookes or whatever pronunciation of it whether it is in my tree or not. There might be a slight chance we could be linked in some way. I'd be so glad to hear from you again.

Ernie Gray

[messy]

In my chidrens family tree  thier g-grandfather was Sidney Charles Fookes 1910-1985 born in luton.
His Father was Frederick Charles Fookes born abt 1879 in leighton buzzard he married Maud Edith Gaylor.
Freds father was Thomas Fookes  born about 1841 in Bow-Brickhill he married Mary Ann Perry 1846. They had 10 children!! Albert 1871, Catherine L 1873,Annie 1876,Fanny 1877, FREDERICK CHARLES 1879,Walter j 1880,Thomas 1882,Lily 1885, James 1887 and i think its louise 1888, all in Bow Brickhill.
Thomas Fookes father was John Fookes 1809 who married Fanney ? they had i think 9 children , joseph 1833, louisa 1836,Ann 1838, Eliza 1840,Thomas 1841,sarah 1845,James 1848,john1850,Frederick 1855.
Thomas and John were builders/bricklayers.
Also the FOOKES name changes in the census s  fooks folk and fookes!!!!!!!!!!!
hope this helps?
regards
chrissie