[WED]Wedmore baptisms 1813-1851 & SPEARING, AMESBURY and AISH families

[Mike Durtnall]

Hi everyone

I have just joined the list although I have been researching my family tree
for about 14 years now.

Firstly, of interest to everyone, I have transcribed Wedmore baptisms
1813-1851 and these can be viewed on my website at:

www.durtnall.org.uk/index

They are not indexed yet, although I am working on this. You can also find
transcripts for the neighbouring parishes of Huntspill, Mark and Pawlett,
which are all indexed. Please pay a visit and let me know if you have any
criticisms or find any errors.

On my family tree, my first connection with Wedmore is through the AMESBURY
family that were settled there in the mid 1600s. One branch moved to Bleadon
and from there to Huntspill and Burnham, from whom I am descended. My
grandmother was born on the family farm in the Heath/Watchfield area on the
borders of Huntspill, Mark and Highbridge in 1885. Her grandfather Charles
BAKER ran the New Fox Inn, which I believe is now a farm or private house. I
think it may have been run by the BOARD family at some time. If anyone has
any information on these families I would be really grateful!

I am also connected to the SPEARING/SPERRING family from Wookey. I have seen
messages from Matthew Ducket and others descended from this family and I may
be able to provide the link back to the Wookey Sperrings. My 3 x gt
grandmother was Leah SPERRING who was born in Wookey in 1804. She married
first, Robert Jones and secondly William BAKER (they were the parents of
Charles).

Her parents were William SPERRING and Celina SPRUD, who married at Westbury
11 Apr 1792. William was born at Wookey in July 1775, the eldest son of
William SPERRING and Mary ASH, who married at Wedmore on 19 May 1773. He was
not baptised until 19 Nov 1797 however. I hope you are following this!

William born 1775 had a younger brother Simon, born in April 1781 and also
baptised at Wookey 19 Nov 1797. This Simon married Mary WILKINS in 1802 and
was the father of the John who married Anna Lawrence.

Incidentally, Simon & Mary's son Paul was baptised Paul Wilkins SPERRING.

The bottom line is that I share common ancestors with all those descended
from John & Anna - John's grandparents William SPERRING and Mary ASH.

If anyone is interested, I have mapped out a family tree for the SPERRINGs
back to 1625. I won't claim that it is 100% accurate and indeed some of it
was supplied to me by a fellow researcher, but if anyone would like a copy
in GEDCOM or RTF text file format, please contact me off list.

For my part, I would love copies of any photos of family members or of the
inscriptions from the mill. I have ordered a copy of the book and await it
with interest. I also have a photo of Leah, nee SPERRING, taken in the 1860s
I think. I can supply a copy to anyone interested.

I think that's enough for one posting!

Best wishes

Mike Durtnall
Bracknell, UK