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

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Marlene

You are doubly right. Christmas just isn't Christmas without a fairy.

And right again, Samuel Pashler married Ann Dickens at Catworth in 1826, so that probably explains Thomas Dickens Fairy. There's a burial in Catworth on 17 Dec 1829 of Samuel Pashler age 23.

You really are Miss Right today! I married my Miss Right some years ago. It was only after we were married that I discovered her first name was Always.

Less of the old fella if you please. He's younger than me!

Kah lua

David

[Keith Sherwood]

Now look here, Marlene,
In a couple of months I will have caught up with David on the age thing, but I do remember as a smallish boy in the mid 1950's, when we lived in Wiltshire, there was a plane that used to regularly fly overhead - in fact I think at one time it was the fastest plane in the world.  It was called the Fairy Delta, and flew from Boscombe Down, I believe, on various test flights.
Two things, the first being that I don't suppose you're going to claim any kind of FAIRY family ownership on THAT; secondly, imagine my progress up the hill being more in the mode of that one-time graceful plane!
Keith

[Dale]

Gidday Mate
Kahlua & milk ... now that brings back memories of many a student party! Nuff said.

Glad I'm getting something right at last! Many thanks for clarifying the Dickens/Pashler prob I had everything else now falls into place! Amazing how it all makes sense once you get a missing piece of the puzzle!
Delighted with that wee gem thank you.
IF only we could link Gill's Faireys with mine I'd be really happie chappie!
I s'pose your poor wife married Mr Neva Rong??
Cheers
Marlene (whose 86 year old mother was sent home from hospital today after requesting gin in her intravenous drip!)

[Dale]

Ok I'll confess to the Fairey aircraft connection with Sir Richard - just have to prove all these family rumours which have been floating around the Shakey Isles to which my Elizabeth aka Betsy/Lizzie escaped in 1878!

My suspicion is that a certain Nathaniel Farey (a dissenter of regular court appearances in Beds in the late 1600s) sent out his sons to multiply in the hinterlands of Hunts, Cambs & Northants. Many of them appear to have been Methodist or Baptists. (I have about 2000 of the little beasties on my tree) .

Unfortunately although the "family rumours" exist of Sir Richard ( he had a Hunts connection) I have been unable to prove it! However with your help, and David's,  Gill and I are gradually piecing bits together which MIGHT eventually lead back further than 1788 which is as far as I can go at present. Hence I am filling in the details of the cuzzies in Gt Catworth of my 4x great grandfather always hoping that sometime the magic of the Faireys   will give me the breakthrough I need! Finding Gill has meant nne of our Fairy rumours has proved correct - we did have the husband of a Fairy in Queen Victoria's court! So it ain't all bull!

Delighted to know that your brain cells haven't been destroyed by the wine and that the 50s are clear in your memory.
What do they say about long term memory....?

Marlene

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi again, Ian (Chambers re your last posting 159 on this thread!),
They had to get the original Whittlesey St. Andrew register out for this one, and at first when I homed in on 1864, I could find no entry for your James CHAMBERS.
So I began in 1860 and went through to 1872.  Baptisms:
27-05-1860: John son of John and Ann CHAMBERS of Broad Street
12-01-1862: Ellen daughter of do   do    of Eastrea? (handwriting atrocious)
then a double whammy: 19-07-1868: Thomas and James sons of John and Ann CHAMBERS of St Andrews (just bothering with name of Parish now)
So, no middle name, but the handwriting of the clergyman was so poor you couldn't even read HIS name - and he obviously couldn't be doing with the bother of any middle names even if they'd existed.  All entries had the father John CHAMBERS as a labourer.  Then one last baptism:
07-07-1872:  Lucy Anne daughter of Ann CHAMBERS.
Not sure where husband John has vanished to, but there were 10 baptisms to put in the book that day, a crossing out or two, practically illegible scrawl - so he might just have forgotten to put the father's name down.
Query not answered, but as near to info from the horse's mouth as you're likely to get, Ian...
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

and now David, a.k.a. Bedfordshire Boy,
Tidying up those loose ends:
Feb 10th 1818: the marriage between William SPARKES and Ann GATTES
March 28th 1784: the baptism of Samuel GATES, son of Ellis and Ruth...

...and that marriage you asked me to look up in Longstowe was written/inserted in pencil with a note that said "AA 6-12-94".  I asked, and was told that this was the archivist Alison Ackroyd in 1994 putting in a marriage that must have been in the original book, but for some reason had not been transcribed.
It was the only marriage between 1775 and 1780 (so Longstowe wasn't exactly a busy place then):
26-01-1778: Ellis GATES of Bourn and Ruth REYNOLDS otp (unsigned).  No witnesses.  By vicar of Great Gransden.

Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Dale (Marlene).
I looked up that Gt. Catsworth 1812 baptism for William FAIREY, and it still says parents: Thomas and Mary.  Looked, but couldn't find a marriage for them.  I looked up an Ann FAIREY baptism for c. 1835, but there wasn't one; the Eliza FAIREY c. 1837 baptism turned out to be 31-10-1836, parents William and Ann (Tailor).  There was a double baptism that day, as George FAIRY son of Thomas Mitchell FAIRY (Shoemaker) and wife Ann was also entered.
The only other nearby FAIRY baptism was:23-12-1838: Joseph son of William and Ann (Tailor).
The only FAIRY wedding in Gt. Catworth of this period was 30-11-1808 between James FAIRY of March and Ann PEACOCK otp.

Now, the Downham look-up: A marriage on 31-01-1831: Aunger BURGESS bachelor and Sarah TINGAY spinster.  Witnesses Robert Aspland and John Aspland.  No baptisms thereafter until a series:
17-07-1853: Esther Sarah BURGESS d. of Anjier and Elizabeth (farmer)
14-12-1857: A triple occasion, Robert John, Elizabeth Ann, Caroline Mary children of Ainger and Elizabeth of Oxlode (private)
Two more baptisms: 16-01-1862:  Alberta Jane d. of do   do.
30-03-1864: Fanny Ann d.   of   do   do.

Strangely, in the Banns listing there was a 30-01-1831: Austen BURGESS bachelor and Sarah TINGET spinster.
Surely someone must have misheard badly...what do you think?
Finally, I spotted a 1725 reference to a William FAIRY in Sawston, which turned out to be details of a title deed.  Will PM you later with this...
Keith

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Keith

Thanks very much for sorting out those details, and for finding that first marriage.

Unfortunately Ellis's father was conspicuous by his absence so that's another line I won't be following.

Kind regards

David

PS Just been Googling for Ellis Gates - the second result was The latest posts of Keith Sherwood, but a subsequent hit was an American, James Ellis Gates whose father was, wait for it.........................


Perley Gates

[Dale]

Kia Ora Keith
Delighted with the Burgess info thanks very much indeed. I'll need to concentrate the aging brain cells once I deal with a few more immediate probs.
I am very grateful indeed to the Beds Boy and yourself for all the advice, direction and your resources - wouldn't have sorted it without you 2.
I'll shout you a cold one when I win the Lotto and visit!
Orange juice of course!
Ka Kite apopo
Marlene