Completed My Visit to Cambridgeshire County Record Office - will do simple Look-ups

[Dale]

Might as well rein in the horses fellas, and the sneaky camera men (probably from "Playgirl" if the truth be known), and console yourselves with  the olds who showed a bit of spark (?) and haven't a show of being in the wright (?)
Will watch with glee as your team is run over by a herd by a team of rampaging stallions.

A newspaper article about the untimely death of one of one of mine stated and I quote

"...it is surmised that it occurred while Mr  W was in the act of getting into the saddle".

In explanation he was thrown from his horse  and died of massive head injuries!!!!!!!!!!.
How language changes! Another idea for a link Keith?

"(Nicely humorous events recorded in the) Lives of our Ancestors?"
Guess who
Aotearoa

[liverpool annie]

Seems to me Keith Sherwood -

you have WAY too much fun - going up to Shire Hall!!

 

[Keith Sherwood]

Actually, while I dodge those tracer bullets from Colorado and Kiwi Country, I've just noticed that I've missed a vital piece of evidence that David must have spotted.  That Ann SPARKES is entered as "w.", which I imagined meant "widow".  Which would mean, surely, that her husband's name was indeed SPARKES too.  Unless she had another child after Mr SPARKS died by another man (could indeed have been by her eventual Mr WRIGHT, as David suggests)
But yes, I do have fun up there when I go entry spotting...But not for a while now, as my mum's 80th birthday celebrations need to be organised from tomorrow.
Keith

[liverpool annie]

If I can just hijack your thread for a minute - who is the Director of Education these days??

Annie

Happy Birthday Keith's MUM !!

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Keith

Thanks for your additional thoughts.  I've found a burial of a William Sparks age 24 in 1820 at Longstowe, and a baptism of John Sparks in Longstowe also in 1820, parents William and Ann, so I'm thinking this is probably the mother of Jane. Longstow is only a mile across the fields from Lt Gransden. According to censuses Jane was born c1822/3 so she was probably baptised age 3 - 4 in 1826. Whether or not Thomas Wright was Jane's father I shall probably never know, although at some stage I'll have a look at Longstowe parish chest to see if there were any bastardy proceedings.  If Thomas was her father I'd have thought that the baptism would have mentioned him, and also that they would have married earlier than Dec 1825. So at the moment I'm leaning towards the father being an unknown local ag lab consoling the young widow.

Thanks for your help

Regards

David

[Keith Sherwood]

Annie,
It took a while to find out the answer to your question - I used to know such details like the palm of my hand a few years ago - but the gentleman in question is apparently called Andrew Baxter.  Now, where did I put those birthday candles...?
And David,
Good to see that you're making further progress with your enquiries on your ancestor Ann on another thread here.
Keith

[dollylee]

Being new to this board I thought I should read through all the posts to get a feel for the board

I was very quickly swimming in Del Rivo juice while dodging All Blacks (?) and a multitude of Fairy's! stopped dead in my tracks by "Airey Fairey" who was a good chuckle, waded through the "juicy"puns, was taken aback by Keith regularly "seizing a window and running up Shire Hall 

And it all quickly became clear why I have so much trouble with searching in England.  I just don't understand the language.

I am almost afraid to say too much and give away my ignorance of your shires, hundreds, parish's etc.  It seems that there is just so many levels squeezed into such a small area I get lost.  But then I am a Canadian and we are pretty spread out here and also quite new.

So right to it!

Keith, would it be possible if the next time you are seizing your window and running up Shire Hill, if you could tuck my gggrandfather Robert Whetstone and his siblings under your arm and see if they were indeed born in Sutton.

I only know that his fathers name was William, born either 1792 or 1796 depending on the early census.  I was told he was born in Wentworth (the old census don't show birthplace) but a very nice fellow who owned a copy of the parish records could not find him there. Would it be possible that William Sr. was also born in Sutton?  Whetstone seems as common as Smith in the Cambridgeshire area and this family is really stumping me. I have joined GenesReunited but have been unable to find out any new information.

Children of William Whetstone and Elizabeth Yourguessisasgoodasmine are/were all born in Sutton according to Family Search IGI:
Thomas b. 1822 died 1825
Jane b. 1823
William b. April 16, 1825
Mary Ann b.  September 02, 1827
Sarah b. March 14, 1830
John b. November 04, 1832
Robert b. October 06, 1834  my gggrandfather

Thank you and I don't even know enough to know if this request is unreasonable or not, if it is I  apologize and would request a BIG nudge in the right direction.

Dollylee

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Dollylee, and welcome to Rootschat!
I think you've provided a splendid paraphrase to all the mayhem that has been going on here on this thread.  We do like to enjoy ourselves while we're going about the serious business of chasing up those elusive ancestors.
And of course I'll look up those WHETSTONE's of Sutton for you, once I find where I put my window - there's a special technique about running up steep hills with a piece of glass under your arm, but I think I've just about mastered it now.
Interestingly, when I taught at Ely, closeby Sutton, for 30 years through the 70's and 90's, there was a very nice family of Whetstone's whom we taught at the school.  So perhaps the descendants of those you are researching are still in the area.
Not sure about this week, though, but definitely next week for this look-up...
Very best wishes,
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Well, Hello again, Dolly! (Sorry, couldn't resist that...)
Are you sitting comfortably?  Then I'll begin...
Managed to get to the CCRO a day early, and headed for the Sutton registers.
Confirming what you already knew, though one or two added "extras":
Baptisms to William WHETSTONE, labourer, and Elizabeth:
06-12-1818: Jane, daughter of William and Elizabeth.  (Burial Jane WHETSTONE, 26-02-1822 aged 3)
07-03-1822: Thomas, 2 years, son of     ditto               (Burial Thomas WHETSTONE 03-04-1825 aged 5)
28-05-1823: Jane, d. of                           ditto
16-04-1825: William, s. of                        ditto              (Burial William WHETSTONE 02-08-1826, infant)
02-09-1827: Mary d. of                            ditto 
14-03-1830: Sarah, d. of                         ditto               (Burial Sarah WHETSTONE 02-01-1832, infant)
04-11-1832: John, s. of                            ditto
06-10-1834: Robert (Your ancestor!), son of ditto

So as you can see poor William and Elizabeth WHETSTONE did not have much joy with raising their family, as only Jane, Mary, John and Robert survived into adulthood.  The final burial is for their mother, I presume:
Burial: 11-06-1869: Elizabeth WHETSONE, 78

There's lots more, Dolly, as I had my map with me and had to search in nearby Parish Registers, but I'm being shunted off this computer by my daughter for a while.  But I'll return with the rest shortly, perhaps via PM...
Keith