George Walford (Week 4 - father of MFMMMM)

[kiterunner]

That's going to keep you busy for a while, Merry!

[Merry]

I'm just deciding whether to purchase a fiche of Swalcliffe PRs for £4 or a CD (presumably searchable?) of about 15 parishes including Swalcliffe for £17.50 where I have about five of them already on fiche. I am tempted by the CD mainly because I won't have to sit on the (unheated) floor in the dining room where the fiche reader is!

Why do they (in this case, Oxfordshire FHS) insist on selling CD PR transcripts for groups of parishes that are not all together, on the same CD? The CD I'm looking at has a ring of parishes (the two in the middle are on a different CD) and then two other slightly distant parishes are included! I know what will happen - I will need the CD for the two parishes in the middle! lol

[kiterunner]

You could buy the fiche and put the heating on in the dining room for a little while?

[Merry]

lol!

I was quite shocked when I told OH the price of a CD, expecting him to say to get it over the fiche as it's easier to work with, but instead he said "ooh, that's expensive" (he who is always buying things!). Maybe I should ask him how much it will cost to heat the room!!!

[Merry]

Well, I never bought the fiche or the CD, but thanks to fmp Oxon wills database, I now have the will for George and he says in it he is of Sibford Ferris which may well mean he is buried at Swalcliffe! (as SF is in that parish).

The will has given me his surviving children and some other relatives:

John Walford
George Walford
Catherine Bennett (in that 1791 list of marriage witnesses, but not known to me before)
Mary Prue (who doesn't seem to appear on the marriage witness list. Her name could be Price but there's never a dot over the 'i')
Son-in-Law Samuel Woolgrave
Daughter Hannah Woolgrave (they must have married after 1791)
Granddaughter Hannah Woolgrave

I haven't added any of this to my tree yet, so will do it right now!