BOON/LINSDAY/ROSS Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire

[teinesamoa]

I need help, please, tracing the parents of several of my ancestors, all from Newport Pagnell, as I can’t seem to go any further. Males were all agricultural labourers, females were all lacemakers and most lived their whole lives in Newport Pagnell (until my great grandfather James emigrated to Australia in 1857). The information I have so far is:
BOON, George b abt 1766 d abt 1833
•   m (1) Sarah Ann LINSDAY 24 Feb 1784 (she died between 1791 and 1805?)
•   children
o   Sarah b abt 1785
o   James b abt 1789
o   George b abt 1791
•   m (2) Susannah BABBINGTON 9 Oct 1805
•   6 children of second marriage are Thomas, John, James, Daniel, Christopher and Elizabeth) but I’m interested in marriage 1 as my line of descent is from third child above, George. That son George married
•   ROSS, Ann b abt 1791
•   m 5 Sep 1808
•   children
o   Robert b 1810 – not absolutely sure he was their son, as he’s living away from NP in 1841 census in Bolnhurst
o   Sarah b abt 1811
o   Mary b abt 1813
o   William b 9 Oct 1817
o   William b 11 Aug 1819
o   James E b Sep 1821
Thanks

[AntonyMMM]

Do you know for certain where the marriage in 1784 took place, and do you have confirmed records of baptism for the children of that marriage? According to a member tree on Ancestry you should be looking at Sherington, a parish slightly north of Newport Pagnell. The tree doesn't mention George's parents unfortunately.

You will need to get access to copies of the parish registers for Sherington (and maybe Newport Pagnell) , and if you can't find them there, work through the surrounding parishes.

The registers are held at the Buckinghamshire Archives in Aylesbury, but you may be able to order them on film via the LDS.

This site may also be useful - http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/shhs/  (has copies of the parish regsiters for Sherington and loads of other useful documents .... including a story of the murder of a James Boon in 1872).

You also need to consider that Newport Pagnell/Sherington are very close to the county boundary with Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire - so if necessary, your search may need to extend to their records.

[teinesamoa]

Do you know for certain where the marriage in 1784 took place, and do you have confirmed records of baptism for the children of that marriage? According to a member tree on Ancestry you should be looking at Sherington, a parish slightly north of Newport Pagnell. The tree doesn't mention George's parents unfortunately.

You will need to get access to copies of the parish registers for Sherington (and maybe Newport Pagnell) , and if you can't find them there, work through the surrounding parishes.

The registers are held at the Buckinghamshire Archives in Aylesbury, but you may be able to order them on film via the LDS.

This site may also be useful - http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/shhs/  (has copies of the parish regsiters for Sherington and loads of other useful documents .... including a story of the murder of a James Boon in 1872).

You also need to consider that Newport Pagnell/Sherington are very close to the county boundary with Bedfordshire, and Northamptonshire - so if necessary, your search may need to extend to their records.

Thanks a lot for your info. I confess I had been using Newport Pagnell and Sherington interchangeably, as I have assumed my ancestors must have been living right near the boundary between the two parishes as they seem to oscillate between the two.
I've looked again at the 1784 marriage - it is in Sherington, not NP, likewise the baptisms. I think I need to go back and distinguish more carefully what happened in which parish (as there are also Lathbury baptisms in the same family too.
Thanks also for the link to the Sherington resgisters and other docs. The James Boon who was murdered was the son of George Senior and his second wife Susannah - the perpertator David Sharp was transported.
Thanks again for your help

[AntonyMMM]

Newport Pagnell and Sherington don't actually border each other, The parishes of Lathbury and Chicheley both lie between them so you may also want to look at their records.

Ideally you need to gather all the records you can find for the name Boon from those parishes (and others nearby). Once you have them all you can try and reconstruct the family groups - as parish records often don't give much detail that may be the best way of determining if you have the right people or not.

The records office may also have other documents  from the parish records that will help tie the families together.

[flateric999]

My tree is local to this area too, and likewise where labourers. It seems to be the general case that the  locals didnt move far and would have stayed local, say 20 miles or so of a focal point. You can also follow a lot of family lines along the main routes that existed at the time.

I found familysearch.org has a lot of data and names so it may be worth using that. Trouble with using tree data is it can be very very wrong, not helped be a similar range of names being used locally. 

[teinesamoa]

Thanks for the tip - I must admit I have found it difficult to unscramble the Boon relationships, especially before the 1841 census, as the same families inter-marry in consecutive generations and usually use the same names for their children, not to mention remarriages and eldest children who have started reproducing before their parents have finished!
The Sherington site with the St Laud registers is going to be a great help - thanks for pointing me in that direction

[teinesamoa]

I found familysearch.org has a lot of data and names so it may be worth using that. Trouble with using tree data is it can be very very wrong, not helped be a similar range of names being used locally.

I have got a lot of info from family search but have been more cautious about using tree info as the accuracy is a bit variable, as you say. So I just use it to give me clues about where else to search, and who else to search for