My Newbury/Berkshire family

[candrjm]

Deb,

Do you know if John Totty Mayo born c1777 was born in Newbury?

Chris

[LizzieL]

Perhaps the Totty Mayo baptised in 1723 was mistakenly recorded as female. If the record was recorded as d of  (for daughter of)  or s of (for son of)  the letter S could have been mistaken for the letter D.

If the original records were in latin then filius and filia look similar.

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Just as a side note ... Frederick Mayo Wade is buried in Wiltshire ... his daughter Isabella (my great grandmothers ... mother) is living there in 1901 ... I assumed Frederick moved there after his wife Harriet dies so I suppose it's possible there were members of the Mayo family there too?

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Chris ... according to the family tree in question he was but there is no record just his name with 1777 Newbury Berkshire?

[candrjm]

Ok Deb, next time I go to the library I'll see if I can find a baptism for him.

Chris

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Thank you :-) according to his tree he has John Totty Mayo 1777 he marries Mary and they have a son William Mayo born 1813 Wantage Berkshire? William marries Mary Butson 1839 and has several children including another John Totty Mayo Berskshire Newbury Berkshire 1839 then Mary, Sarah and William all born in Newbury.  He then descends from William (1844)

Blessings
Deb

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Oh .. Chris ... would those records show baptisms for Wokingham? I've never found a baptism for Frederick Mayo Wade ... I only know by his military records he states he was born 1832 near Reading Berkshire?

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Chris & Lizzie
Just another quick thank you for all your help yesterday ... it was quite late here in Australia so am digesting it all this morning and I do think between the two of you that you are in the right track.  The Wiltshire connection seems to make sense especially if the Mayo family are not in Newbury earlier.  And Totty Mayo seems more appropriate for a male.  I've added them in for now to see where it might lead.

The other thing I remember when filling in my great grandfathers side is that his history is very much in the Gloucestershire region and he has a lot of watermen and bargemasters etc plus landowners in Westbury.  Fortunately a lot of them left wills which made it easier to put families together.  But when I was looking at Westbury and other areas of Gloucestershire baptisms etc there were quite a few Mayo families in there too.  I only noticed them because of Frederick Mayo Wades name. 

So wish I could ask them in person :-)

I can't thank you both enough for all your help as it's just too far from here to pop down and check out the records :-)

Oh and I found another possible child for  Thomas and Dina ... Elizabeth Mayo 1726 fisherton ... father Thomas Mayo.

Blessings
Deb

[Deb Clark Rennie]

Found something else interesting today ... found an Elinor Totty marrying John Hinchman in 1677 Salisbury Wiltshire ... so I'm guessing the Catherine Totty marrying Thomas Mayo in 1693 might be a relative as their granddaughter Catherine Mayo is buried in Salisbury 1722.  I've just found a will for a John Totty 1698 and it mentions his daughter Elinor married to John Hinchman.  There is also a daughter Catherine Totty to be left a sum when she comes of age.  So not sure if this is same Catherine as there would be quite an age gap? 

But will see if I can decipher some more.

Deb