John Mitchell (Week 9 FMFFF)
 

Name - "official" name and what they were known as

John Mitchell

Date and place of birth

About 1795 somewhere illegible in Oxfordshire, possibly Witney?.

Here's the 1851 census link. Can you read it?

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?h...c=&pid=7514113

HO107; Piece: 1944; Folio: 600; Page: 16

Names of parents

No idea

Date and place of baptism - if applicable

Not found

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any

Not found. Wife was Elizabeth Flower from Farmborough in Somerset. First known child b 1817 in Keynsham, Somerset.

Occupation(s) - if any

1841 onwards beer seller/publican

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).

Probably in Keynsham from 1817. In Keynsham for censuses.
1851 address is The Victoria Arms, Keynsham.

Date, place and cause of death

20th Aug 1853 at Keynsham, Somerset of paralysis, 6 days.

Date and place of burial.

Unknown

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable

Probably none

Memorial inscription - if any

Probably none

Merry I tried the link and it just brought up an advertisement for Ancestry subs.

lol Beacuse you don't have one!! Sorry, I will post part of the image.

Here we are; it's the first line:

http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m...censuscrop.jpg

Merry, Is there another capital W on the page that you can compare it to? I thought I was doing well to read Innkeeper! What I am reading is ?itnesin or ?itnerin. The trouble is that he isn't consistent. Sorry I don't read Witney.

No, I don't read Witney either, but it's the only place I can think of in Oxfordshire that begins with 'Witne' and I don't think there's anywhere in Oxon that ends in 'sin' so I presumed the enumerator either couldn't read his writing, or just guessed at what was said if he was told the info.

I wasn't really expecting anyone to read what was written. I was just hoping that someone with an indepth knowledge of Oxfordshire might have a bright idea about what was meant!

The word Wife is repeated several times on the page and the 'Wi' part is identical to the beginning of this placename.

Have you come across this marriage on FreeREG, Merry?
All Saints, Farmborough, Somerset
6 Jan 1817 John Purnell married Grace Flower, witnesses John Mitchell and Job Gould.

Oooh, no! lol I doubt I've ever looked at FreeREG in connection with this line.


I think Grace is the name of Elizabeth Flower's sister, but I can't access my tree at present to check. I'm pretty certain, if that's right, that I only have a baptism for Grace.

The name Purnell rings a bell, but that might be because I had a teacher by that name when I was at school. (she was horrid!)

I'm going to go and look at a backup tree I've got on disc. Please hold the line.........................

I'm back!

Grace was bap 1793 in Farmborough and was Elizabeth's sister. Purnell is a surname of a non relatve on a completely separate bit of my tree, so I'll forget about that for a while.

Very interesting that John M was in Farmborough for this wedding as I had always fancied he never went there as he and Elizabeth didn't appear to have married in Farmborough (well, I had someone at the Somerset CRO look)

Thanks for finding that Kate :):)