The mystery of John Field

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by ElizabethHerts

Do you read this as Sarah being deceased, or just John Field?

I can't make up my mind.

Not sure - if they wanted to say she was deceased would they say "widow of the said William Hemmings, deceased, deceased"? Seems unlikely. It would have been easier if they put "the late" instead!

[Merry]

and Joseph Ashby Gillett, Brailes, Warks., gent

One day we will be related, Elizabeth (or I will be related to your husband!)

What with all those Lambs on my tree and Quakers in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire etc and now another tiny connection...... I do have Joseph Ashby Gillett on my tree but only because he is the ancestor of one of mum's neighbours when she lived in Broxbourne in the 1930s, and also because one of JAB's siblings married in to my tree. I suppose as a banker he would appear in lots of legal documents!

Certainly some of our ancestors most likely knew each other and many of them would have known JAG!!

[Merry]

Sarah Field, Compton

I think that should read "Campton".

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Merry

One day we will be related, Elizabeth (or I will be related to your husband!)

What with all those Lambs on my tree and Quakers in Oxfordshire and Warwickshire etc and now another tiny connection...... I do have Joseph Ashby Gillett on my tree but only because he is the ancestor of one of mum's neighbours when she lived in Broxbourne in the 1930s, and also because one of JAB's siblings married in to my tree. I suppose as a banker he would appear in lots of legal documents!

Certainly some of our ancestors most likely knew each other and many of them would have known JAG!!

It is my family, Merry! Through my grandfather, Cecil Henry Jeffcoat Purkis.

We are getting closer with the Brailes connection.

I thought too it must be "Campton" as when I looked for "Compton" on GENUKI it wasn't there.

[ElizabethHerts]

I've found William Hemming's will on Origins.net:

HEMMINGS WILLIAM HEMMING 1802
yeoman, Broomhill Farm, Epwell, Oxfordshire, previously Brailes, Warwickshire
Oxford: Bishop & Archdeacon Will, Commission, 219.240; 263/1/7; 306/3/5

[ElizabethHerts]

I also found his burial:

Name: William Hemmings
Gender: Male
Burial Date: 17 Jun 1801
Burial Place: Brailes
Death Date: 15 Jun 1801
Death Place: Warwick, England
Age: 42
Birth Date: 1759
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B02361-0

[ElizabethHerts]

I've found this will on the National Archives website:

Will of John Field , Gentleman of of Flitton cum Silsoe , Bedfordshire

Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers. Will of John Field , , Gentleman of of Flitton cum Silsoe , Bedfordshire.

Collection: Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
Date range: 08 July 1815 - 08 July 1815
Reference:PROB 11/1570/241
Subjects:Wills and probate


The name is correct, we know that John Field was deceased by October 1818, so is it worth a punt (or £3.34)!

Edit: I should say that Flitton and Campton are just 6 miles apart!

[kiterunner]

If you can check on the Index to Death Duty Registers on FMP it might give you the name of the executor before you decide whether to fork out for the will.

[ElizabethHerts]

Ooher!

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/Misc/Manors/

Location CAMPTON

Estate/house Campton House

Period from 1590+

Family names Ventris - Field - Osborne

Brief history
Acquired by John Ventris in 1560. Probably built by Sir Francis Ventris (d. 1627). Passed to John Field in 1743. Sir Charles Ventris Field sold to Sir George Osborne ca. 1800. VCH Bedfordshire.

I don't know if there is any connection, but interesting nevertheless.

[ElizabethHerts]

Kate, I've been trying to check the death registers on FMP but the site is no playing up and won't let me see the images.