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24-06-14, 12:30
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Thanks, Shona.
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24-06-14, 12:55
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Sorry, Lindsay, forgot to say thank you for the burials. They look promising. Off to check them out now...
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24-06-14, 13:05
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Lindsay, following up those burials, I have come across this (below) which says that Anthony Wood was buried 7 Apr 1686 at St Matthew Friday Street, which I first thought would rule him out as being my Anthony as he would be living in Bristol by then, but my Anthony's will was proved 8 Apr 1686! And it was written on the 24th Mar 1685, so surely it must be him! The will doesn't specify where he should be buried.
https://histfam.familysearch.org//ge...24&tree=London Now it seems I need to look at Boyd's Residents of London...
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24-06-14, 13:13
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So this is the information given in Boyd's Inhabitants of London:
Anthony Wood of S Matthew Friday St Married 1654 Oct - Nov 16 at S Matthew Friday St - Twickenham Wife Joan Chambers Died 1686 Apl 7 Buried at S Matthew Friday St Children: Humfry bap 1655 Jan 3 bur 1656 Jun 21 Anne bap 1656 Feb 5 Mary bap 1657 Jan 21 Edward bap 1660 Oct 18 bur 1661 Apl 25 Elizabeth bap 1662 Apl 30 John bap 1664 Aug 17 Humfry bur 1660 May 14
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24-06-14, 14:04
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On the assumption that either Anthony's father or Joan's father was called Humphrey, since they gave two sons that name, I had a look at the will of a Humphrey Chambers from 1663 and he mentions his son in law Mr Anthony Wood!
PCC wills He is a Doctor of Divinity, and Ancestry have indexed his residence as "Penffey, Kent", but TNA says Pewsey, Wiltshire. I would never have thought of looking there! Edit - he has a son in law Mr John Smith, and a granddaughter Sarah Strange, so hopefully John Smith is the husband of Mrs Ann Smyth, and Sarah Strange will turn out to marry Jonathan Buttall to tie up a few loose ends! The will was written on the 31st Aug 1662 and says that the Woods had three children at that time, so I suppose that would be Ann, Mary and the first Elizabeth. This must be him and it says he was the rector of Pewsey: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A31...1.001?view=toc Seems odd that his daughter became a Baptist? Oooh, here is his biography: http://www.apuritansmind.com/the-pur...hrey-chambers/ Looks very useful!
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24-06-14, 15:06
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A big thank you to Lindsay and Shona! I should maybe rename this thread now as it looks as though I now have half of the solution - Joan's half of the tree. Hopefully I can now figure out who some of the people mentioned in her will are, and then those who are left should be Anthony's relatives.
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24-06-14, 16:06
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I've found the marriage of John Smith and Anne Chambers in the Wiltshire Marriage Index on ancestry - John Smith of Christopher's parish in London married Anne Chambers 8 Dec 1647 at Pewsey.
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24-06-14, 16:09
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Quote:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f...verton&f=false
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