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

[liverpool annie]

Hi Gar! Happy New Year!

I wonder if you have seen the Godmanchester Web site ......

http://www.godmanchester.net/index.htm

There is some history within the pages - old families etc ! maybe you'll find some of yours!! I go to that site when I need an England fix ..... not just Liverpool!!

Annie 

[g a r]

Hi Annie! Happy New Year!

Thanks for the Godmanchester site! Here's another if you need a quick England fix:

http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/

I hope that link works.

Just type the name of the place you want to see and voila, pics galore!

cheers,
g a r

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, Rosalie,
I managed to get down the CCRO for an hour today (hope to go again tomorrow, for those waiting further down my list), and tried to clarify your FORDHAM family in Whittlesea - but I think I've only managed to muddy the waters; that's family history research for you!
However, I looked in the St. Mary's Whittlesea registers, and details of the marriage you wanted were:
05-01-1841: Joseph STACEY (x) full age bac. lab. of Foster Lane, Whittlesey, his father Joseph STACEY lab. to
Sarah FORDHAM (x) minor, spinster ser.(servant?) of Crab End Whittlesey, her father Robert FORDHAM lab.   Witnesses: Henry FORDHAM (x), Ann FORDHAM

Now, looking for Sarah FORDHAM's siblings, I noticed baptisms here for 1811, 1813, 1815, 1817, 1821, 1827 and 1832.  But when I looked them up they were all, apart from the 1832 one, FORDHAM children born to William FORDHAM and Elizabeth ADDISON who were married here on 12-06-1810.
These children, in order, were Elizabeth Addison, Thomas Addison, Ann, Alice, William Henry and George William (all with FORDHAM surname of course, Alice's spelt as "Foredom")
On 08-06-1832 a William FORDHAM was baptised, s. of Robert and Elizabeth, of Northside, Whittlesea, lab. (Your Sarah's brother?)
There were several further marriages involving this generation of FORDHAM's until 1846, and if you want these I'll PM you...
I looked then briefly in Whittlesey, St Andrew, and found one baptism of a child of Robert and Elizabeth FORDHAM:
11-06-1826:  John Hare FORDHAM s. of Robert and Elizabeth of North Bank.

There were also some other baptisms here at St Andrew's for William and Elizabeth FORDHAM - will PM them if you want them.

So no sign of a baptism for Sarah FORDHAM in Whittlesey St Mary's or St. Andrew's and her other brothers and sisters - she's probably lurking in a nearby parish, no doubt.  Sorry I haven't been more successful...
Very best wishes,
Keith
p.s Couldn't find an elder sister Mary, either, as the last FORDHAM entry was in 1846...

[Keith Sherwood]

Gar,
Very sorry to be a bringer of bad tidings - especially after all that anticipation building up over the Christmas break, but when I went in the drawer at the CCRO to fish out the microfilm with your Godmanchester entries on it, there was an annoying little note that said that it had been borrowed by the Huntingdon Record Office, and no news about when it would be returned.
Those parishes that are close to the Hunts/Cambs border and maybe were once in the other County are often subject to this kind of cross-border skirmishing.
You'll just have to be a little more patient, or order a film through the LDS, maybe...
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Hello again, Jeannine,
I managed to get to the CCRO today, and have basically looked at all the MUSTILL/MUSTEL/MUSTALE/ MUSSELL/MUSTLE entries for Over Parish.
A marriage, first of all in Willingham on 02-01-1820 between Joseph MUSTILL bachelor of Over and Lydia SMITH spinster o.t.p. by licence, with consent of George Smith, her father.  Witnesses: Phebe Smith and Lydia Thody

Then a marriage in Over on 17-01-1827:  Joseph MUSTILL widower to Sarah JOHNSON (x) spinster b.o.t.p. by licence.  Witnesses: James Mustill and Wm. Ingle Robinson.

None of the baptisms and marriages seem to fit together, I'm afraid, but as you said you wanted as much about the MUSTILL family as there was in Over, I'll simply list them as follows: Baptisms:
08-03-1761: John MUSTEL son of James and Ann
08-02-1764: Thomas MUSTALE s. of James and Ann
24-03-1765: Robert MUSTALE s. James and Ann

25-12-1812: John MUSTILL s. of Joseph and Sarah
04-10-1818: Ann MUSTILL d. of John, tailor, and Rebecca born Sept. 7th
13-05-1821: James s. of John and Rebecca  b. April 19th
13-04-1823: Isaac s. of John and Rebecca b. March 18th
14-08-1825: Samuel s. of John and Rebecca b. July 16th

I've got to stop for some supper now...Will give you the marriages and burials for the MUSTILL's by PM.  Have fun trying to fit this complicated jigsaw together...!
Keith

[Rosalie Ryan]

 :DHello Keith,
Well you have unveiled, I suspect, a poss sibling line to Robert Fordham being William. If it is not too much trouble could you relay more on William's line.

Henry and Ann Fordham who were witnesses to Sarah Fordham's marriage,  may have been her sibs.

I notice on the Cambs FHS site that the 1841 census indicates an Ann Fordham 22 living with Elizabeth 45, Rebecca 9 and William 7. No sign of father Robert.

My next quest is find a marriage for Robert and Elizabeth Fordham.  Are you able to assist Keith?  Hopefully her maiden name is unusual.

Thanking you
Kind regards
Rosalie

[Keith Sherwood]

Rosalie,
Glad to have opened up one or two new possibilities on your family.  Have made a note of your further queries, and will look into these next time I'm at the CCRO...
Keith

[Rosalie Ryan]

Thx Keith
Just noticed on another thread of mine in the Rootschat Hunts section where I was asking for assistance into the Stacey family.  Ruth had made reference to the 1841 census of Elizabeth Fordham that she was not born in the county!!! Ann, Rebecca and William were.  So this may poss delete Cambs.  I am aware that the goal posts (borders) have been moved around over the years.  Some of Sarah Fordham and Joseph Stacey's children were born in Newborough.  This is not far from Whittlesey, correct?  I may have to look at this area for clues.


Rosalie

[Rosalie Ryan]

Just on another note, Keith.
Also advised to me from David on Hunts section.
Rebecca Fordham (sister to Sarah) married James Glover in Dec Qtr of 1832 at Whittlesea.  Can you add this to list?
Witnesses to this event could indicate more.
Much obliged
Rosalie