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

[Nancy Hill]

Noelene,

Hello,

I am researching the Redman family in Wedmore.  My gr-gr-grandfather was
John Redman who married Hester Hamm.  I am descended from their son, George,
who came to America in 1852 and settled in Iowa.  I thought, perhaps, you
might have some information on the Redman family.

Thanks.

Nancy Hill
Liberty, Missouri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Noelene Redman" <navajo@ecn.net.au>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: [WED]Wedmore baptisms 1813-1851 & SPEARING, AMESBURY and AISH
families


> Hi Mike and welcome to the Wedmore List!
>
> Talk about serendipity, because I have just spent the afternoon at the
> Tutton Wedmore site re-checking names and dates and contemplating what was
> the best way to get those missing Wedmore baptisms?  Lo and behold I d/l
my
> messages and here is your note telling of your new
transcriptions.......Mind
> you I have not yet gone back online to check for names etc. but I am sure
> there will be plenty there of interest to me, but probably more
importantly
> in your view is the fact that my connection to Wedmore is
> also.......AMESBURY!
>
> Now I have been researching for more than 20 years but gone little
distance
> with this difficult to find and connect family despite much looking and
> working on it over that time.  I may have even chatted with you at some
> point but not sure as I had a huge computer crash early in the year and
lost
> all of my records that were not printed out.  This also included my large
> database of 20,000 family records, which had been dutifully backed up to
> floppies, but sadly when I needed them.......they would not read to allow
me
> to put back into the system.
>
> Ironically this all happened as a friend was helping me to install a CD
> burner so that exactly this would not happen.  We got the Burner in okay
but
> the software just froze the whole system and corrupted all of my files,
but
> I did not panic knowing that I had been diligent and had the floppies.
> Needless to say since then I have been very busy trying to get everything
> back into my new database from a card system that I commenced when I first
> began researching, and fortunately had kept it more or less up to date and
> cross referenced to the PAF database.
>
> Now have changed to Legacy (more for variety to ease the boredom of
> re-typing everything than anything else) and have just put 8000 back in
and
> growing.  For this reason I have not been doing a huge amount of new
> research recently, but today was checking a few entries as I was typing
and
> wandered to the Wedmore site and had another look at this A......lot!
>
> Over the years I have built up a ONS of Amesbury which I encountered
> anywhere in my research, and seem to have found everyone else's family and
> not very much on my own.  Over time have swapped some details with
different
> people but never really found anyone working on my particular branch it
> seems, and by your names I doubt that you are directly doing that either.
>
> My 2 x gt grandmother was Sarah Amesbury b. 1835 Bristol d/o George
Amesbury
> and Charlotte ?
> Found George and a new wife Elizabeth living in Bristol in 1851 census
with
> the children, but not found Charlotte's surname or their marriage.....or
the
> second marriage for that matter either?
>
> George Amesbury was bapt 20 Nov 1805 Wedmore s/o Robert Amesbury who
married
> Elizabeth Barret in Wedmore 1799.  Elizabeth died 1810 and Robert then
> married Praxey Toogood of Wedmore.
>
> Robert was born about 1774 from records of his burial 1850 aged 76 years
in
> Wedmore, but I have never been able to find a Robert in SOM or even GLS as
a
> possible connection......despite having quite a number of R's.  If only he
> could have survived another year for me to find him in 51 census would
have
> been a godsend, because I do not know whether he was of the Wedmore family
> or his parents came there from another town.
>
> I have been on the Wedmore List for a couple of years and there appears to
> be very few with interest in the Amesbury name, except perhaps as a side
> line from a connecting marriage, so really gained little except for
working
> further on Toogood's and other connecting families.  Do you know anything
of
> this family of mine, or can you add anything to suggest what direction to
> take to find them in or around Wedmore.  I thought perhaps they may
connect
> to the Burnham, Huntspill or even Mangotsfield groups but so far nothing
to
> confirm where Robert fits into a family.
>
> Anyway, Mike that's my family in a nutshell and I look forward to hearing
> your comments, but in the meantime I shall continue to sort out what I
have
> here,check your very welcome website later and many thanks for the hard
> work, and hopefully we can help each other to work out this elusive
family.
>
> Warm wishes, Noelene
>
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