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Originally Posted by kiterunner
I'm sure you know this already, but loads of people on ancestry have George's mother down as Elizabeth Bowden. Doesn't mean they're right, of course!
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I've been trying to get to the bottom of this.
I think the ancestry trees have all copied each other - look at the birth dates of the children to start with - (3 children, born in 1804, 1818 and 1822) a bit odd
n'est ce pas?
I've been on the familysearch site and found 8 children to James Willcocks and Elizabeth in Buckfastleigh:
1804 Mary
1805 Ann
1807 William
1809 Susan
1811 James
1818 George (probably my ancestor)
1821 another William possibly denoting another family - I can't find any burial records
1822 Thomas
The marriage that's been attributed to my James Willcocks (to Elizabeth Bowden) was in Staverton not in Buckfastleigh - there are Bowden and Willcocks families all over that area, including a marriage between Elizabeth Bowden & William Barns in Buckfastleigh also a christening of Elizabeth Bowden in 1792 (parents Richard & Dorothy) in Buckfastleigh.
I haven't seen the written records, which MAY state that James was from Buckfastleigh....although he married Elizabeth in Staverton, that's what's bothering me.... I can't see WHY they think that this marriage is the 'right one'.
Any thoughts, anyone?
PS - More checking reveals that they have him dying in Dorset in 1868..... I have his death cert, with the right occupation, in 1856, aged 78, in Buckfastleigh.