Samuel Norman of Woburn

[jonwarrn]

Some baptisms at All Saints Bow Brickhill to George and Phoebe Norman
Also to an Edward and Elizabeth Norman
https://www.mkheritage.org.uk/bbh-files/visitorPages/registerPage.php?bookID=10&page=30&panel=transcript

You can use the arrows to go back or forward a page (not sure yet if there is an easier way to do this!)
They also have a possible George baptised 7 March 1794, transcribed as Harmon

I noticed that both your Samuel and Ann Bodsworth had daughters called Phoebe, I think born within a year or so of each other.

[jonwarrn]

You can search the site from here (I think this may be just for Bow Brickhill?)
https://www.mkheritage.org.uk/bbh-files/visitorPages/personSearch.php

Mind you, I would have missed the Harmon entry just using that!

Curiously there is
Burial 1801
Phyllis, Daughter of George & Phoebe Norman, buried February 4

[Norfolk Nan]

Hi, jonwrrn

Thank you for those links.  The irony is that I lived in MK and was a stones throw from Woburn for years and did so much research on site. But of course there’s never enough information in family history, is there!

I've noticed the common names and think the George in the Posse Commitatus must be a dad because they only listed adults.  Question is, whose?  Joseph seems to be the odd one out, I think, which is a shame as I like to pair people up. 

I'll keep beavering away

NN

[jonwarrn]

Hi
I think maybe there is no sign of George and Phoebe in those Bow Brickhill register transcriptions after the burial of Phyllis in 1801. They also had a daughter called Phyllis baptised in 1786 (buried same year)
Is there a baptism of a second Phyllis?

Anyway theoretically they could have moved to Woburn.
But then why no baptisms there?

The last baptism at BB may be daughter Phoebe, 22 May 1798.
A Phebe Norman, lacemaker, had an illegitimate son George David baptised there in 1822. Abode Bow Brickhill.

[jonwarrn]

One more thing..
Phoebe, daughter of George and Phoebe, baptised in 1798
She may have married a Bodsworth.

24 March 1828, Little Brickhill
David Bodsworth + Phoebe Norman
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:685N-2QK4

Just like Ann Norman in Woburn! I see that Ann's husband John says he was born in Little Brickhill.

Phoebe was a widow in 1851
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:685N-2QK4

he claims to have been born in Bow Brickhill which in Bucks but very nearby.

Yes, Woburn is so close to Bow Brickhill, and to Little Brickhill as well!

[Norfolk Nan]

It's coming together!  I love it when it does. So satisfying.

I'll get cracking on finding more links in the morning.  Thank you John, as always, your help is much appreciated.