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Showing posts with label Stapleford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stapleford. Show all posts

Monday 12 June 2023

Henry Wilton and Maria Frogg

St Andrew, Stapleford, Cambridgeshire
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Salmon - geograph.org.uk/p/334044


Henry Wilton (bap. 1733), son of Henry Wilton and Martha Douse, farmer, married Maria Frogg on 12 Jun 1762, in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire

They had 3 children, baptised in Stapleford:

  1. Martha Wilton bap. May 1763
  2. Henry Wilton bap. 24 Dec 1769
  3. Maria Wilton bap. 29 May 1774

Monday 3 May 2021

Henry Wilton and Martha Douse

Saint Mary the Virgin, Great Shelford

Henry Wilton (bap. 1702), son of Henry Wilton and his wife Elizabeth, farmer, married Martha Douse (bap. 8 Jul 1711, daughter of Philip Douse and his wife Constantia) in 1732 in Great Shelford. Henry and Martha Wilton had the following children baptised in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire:  

  1. Henry Wilton bap. 2 Sep 1733 
  2. Richard Wilton, bap. 16 Oct 1737 
  3. Martha Wilton bap. 21 Oct 1739

Henry Wilton died and was buried, on 21 Oct 1739, at Stapleford. Martha Wilton died and was buried on 24 Oct 1766, also at Stapleford.

Wednesday 20 January 2021

On the origins of Presidents, Pilgrims and Dissenters

Stapleford church on a winter morning. The remains of President Barack Obama’s ancestor might rest in this cemetery near St. Andrew's church in Stapleford, England. Mine certainly do.
cc-by-sa/2.0 - © John Sutton - geograph.org.uk/p/2841826

So here we are on very the day of the Inauguration of the 46th President of the United StatesJoe Biden, who, as we know, was Vice President to Barack Obama. Having just finished writing about the third of the three Wilton brothers, Henry, Richard (my 3rd great-grandfather) and Joseph, last night I decided to research the area where their ancestors had come from. 

What's the link? Apparently, both Barack Obama and I can claim links back to the same two villages in CambridgeshireGreat Shelford and Stapleford

Barack Obama's link to Stapleford is, according to genealogists (please understand, I haven't seen or checked their research for accuracy), as a direct descendant of one Thomas Blossom, who grew up there towards the end of the 16th century before emigrating to the Plymouth Colony in 1629

The Blossoms had lived at Great Shelford, then possibly in Little Shelford, and moved to Stapleford, probably about 1582. My Wilton ancestors may have been there at the same time. A baptism record from 1695 shows we were in the village of Stapleford then and later ones were in Great Shelford. 

Six degrees of separation? If I have to have a claim to a celebrity connection, this one could not be better. It might even Trump (pun intended) Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family. True or not, the timing though was eerie.

The earliest records I can find for my ancestors [so far], are for the baptisms of the children of Henry Wilton & Elizabeth (maiden name unknown) - that's 10 generations: they were my 7th great-grandparents - in Stapleford:

  1. Sarah Wilton bap. 14 Jul 1695 (presume died in infancy)
  2. Martha Wilton bap. 27 Dec 1696
  3. Sarah Wilton bap. 14 Apr 1700
  4. Henry Wilton bap. 12 Apr 1702
  5. Richard Wilton bap. 7 Oct 1705

Elizabeth Wilton died and was buried on 15 Oct 1705. (I think we can guess the cause.) Henry does not appear to remarry and there are no other children listed born to a Henry in that period with a different mother. Henry Wilton Snr died and was buried on 30 Jun 1726, in Stapleford, Cambridgeshire.