For 'Linmey' re Woodhams from Bedfordshire

[tickle]

Hi all

Found this on the net.

o   " Jacques", Alexandre II de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1768-1835 & Susannah WOIDHAM †1805
o Caroline de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1800-1890 &1824 Victor Auguste GUESDON de LA BRIÈRE
o   " Jacques", Alexandre II de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1768-1835 &1811   Marie Dymphe TURPIN 1787-1835
o Marie Alexandrine de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1812-1814
o   Adrienne de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1814-1849 &ca 1837   " Edouard" Firmin RACINE 1808-1870 ...
o Louis Alexandre de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1817-1836
o Jean Baptiste Gustave de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1822-1891 &1847 Esther BIVEL 1827-1926
o Berthe de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1849-1926 &1873 Achille VIMARD 1839-1927 ...
o Louis Alexandre de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES 1770- & x BUNAUVILLE o Zoé de VAUDICHON DES TOURAILLES & x JORET DESCLOZIERES

Why was he in Bedford?

Tickle

[tickle]

Hi again

back to the 'who was John Woodham who married Sarah Cranfield at Bedford in 1744 there is a baptism at Oakley which would fit the timescale:

Name:   John Woodham
Gender:   Male
Christening Date:   30 Sep 1722
Christening Place:   OAKLEY,BEDFORD,ENGLAND
Birth Date:   null
Birthplace:   null
Death Date:   null
Name Note:   null
Race:   null
Father's Name:   Robert Woodham
Father's Birthplace:   null
Father's Age:   null
Mother's Name:   Ann
Mother's Birthplace:   null
Mother's Age:   null
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:   P00374-1
System Origin:   England-ODM
GS Film number:   599350
Reference ID:   null
Citing this Record:
"England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," index, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JQBZ-L9C : accessed 23 Jun 2014), John Woodham, 30 Sep 1722; citing OAKLEY,BEDFORD,ENGLAND, reference ; FHL microfilm 599350.

He married at St Paul Bedford in 1718


 Robert Woodham
England Marriages, 1538–1973
 marriage: 2 October 1713 Saint Paul,Bedford,Bedford,England
 spouse: Anne Finall

So Robert must have been born circa 1690. Mystery again!

Tickle
 

[linmey]

That's certainly another candidate Tickle. What a challenging family!!

[emilysiobhan]

Thistle,

Thanks for the further Woodham info. It is difficult isn't it the further one goes back to be 100% sure one has the "right" person, especially when they are all called things like John and Thomas. And when most people probably weren't very literate either to be able to check that their details were all written correctly by the priest/etc.

With best regards,

Emily

Oops just realised it says Thistle in the quoted post rather than Tickle (must have been some autocorrect or something)..sorry


The De Vaudichon connection is very interesting. I can't find anything on them other than has been posted. So is curious that he seemed to be briefly in the area but married a Woodham and then went back to France?

Emily

[linmey]

You get the impression they could have been a family of note Emily.

[johnP-bedford]

....back to the 'who was John Woodham who married Sarah Cranfield at Bedford in 1744 there is a baptism at Oakley which would fit the timescale......

Name:   John Woodham
Christening Date:   30 Sep 1722
Christening Place:   OAKLEY,BEDFORD,ENGLAND

Robert & Ann Woodham baptised children at Oakley....
13 Mar 1714/15 Elizabeth
28 Apr 1717 Mary
14 May 1720 Thomas - buried 20 May 1720, infant
30 Sept 1722 John
9 Jan 1725/26 Millicent - buried 23 Feb 1739, single woman

Burials at Oakley... (additional to above)
11 Jun 1733 Ann, wife of Robert Woodams
25 May 1744 Ann Woodams ? who is she ?
6 Jun 1754 Sarah, wife of Robert Woodams
7 Feb 1757 Robert Woodams

Marriages at Oakley...
26 Dec 1745 Robert Woodams to Sarah Mills (this doesn't say he's a widower)
23 Aug 1741 William Butlin to Elizabeth Woodams

The Bedford St.Pauls marriage on 2 Oct 1713 is of Robert Woodham of Wilhamstead to Ann Finall, by licence. There are no Woodham names in the Wilstead parish registers up to 1812.

Cheers John

[Margaret Hodder]

Hi, I see this thread ended over five years ago, but I am trying to help my mother-in-law (aged 94) to make some sense of her family tree.

Her grandmother was Mary Trustram Woodham who was married to a Hastings (who died when her father was six). The Hastings family ended up in Spalding. There is also some connection to a Harry Woodham, a journalist in London in the 1930s, who may have been Mary Woodham's brother or uncle.

There is also a link to the Savill's of Gamlingay, a name preserved as a middle name down the female line in the Hastings family.

Any help would be gratefully received.

Margaret H

Does anyone have any information on Mary Trustram Woodham.

[Galium]

Hi Margaret. Welcome to Rootschat!

Mary Trustram Woodham was born at Peakirk, near Peterborough in 1858 to William and Caroline Woodham (née Savill). 

Marriages March Q 1844
Savill    Caroline        Caxton &c    14   41   
Savill    Eliza        
Trustrum    William         
Woodham    William        

(I included the other marriage from the same page because Eliza is Caroline's sister)

Censuses show that William and Caroline were both born at Gamlingay.  (There is a fairly detailed public tree on Ancestry which shows that Caroline's parents were Joseph and Mary née Trustrum)

William was a farmer in 1851, but by 1861 the family had moved to Doncaster, where he was employed by the Great Northern Railway.

Mary had eight siblings. The last, Joseph Henry was born at Misterton, Nottinghamshire when Caroline was 47.

Joseph Henry Woodham married Sarah Clarke in 1891 in Chelsea, and had son named Henry Savil Woodham in 1892.

Henry Savil Woodham appears to have been a journalist:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ohu/