Ethelbert WASTY - baptised 1695 at Rodborough

[Pennie]

Researching all instances of the WASTIE (and variants) surname, I've just come across the following baptism on the Family Search website:

05 JUN 1695 - Ethelbert WASTY, s. Ethelbert

In my own family tree of WASTIEs I have two Ethelberts (father and son), plus a third one who is nephew/cousin of the other two - but they have all died by the mid 1600s.  In another family tree (which I'm trying to amalgamate into my own) there's an Ethelbert who married in Burford - but again back in the mid 1600s.

My own WASTIEs come from the Berkshire/Oxfordshire and I've traced them back to the late 1500s, but there are also some in Nottinghamshire (dating from the mid 1700s) and London (from the early 1700s).

WASTIE (and its variants) is such an unusual name that I feel sure there must be a connection ... somewhere ... between all these Ethelberts!

Can anyone with access to Gloucestershire records help at all?  Any information - however slight - may give me a breakthrough.  Many thanks.

Pennie

[CCRAIL]

Hi,
I cannot help with the baptism but found the following marriage in Minchinhampton which is about 4 miles from Rodborough.

Ethelbirtt Wastly & Elizabeth Parchar - 4 May 1691.  This comes from Philimores so no further info.

Hope this helps
ccrail

[Pennie]

Yes, that helps ENORMOUSLY!  I'm not too worried about the slightly different spelling of the surname as you would not believe some of the variants I've come across.

Now "off" to Minchinhampton to pursue this.

Very many thanks for finding that marriage for me.

Pennie