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Ann Woolgrove was very probably born about 1776. She married John Perrin at North Aston, Oxfordshire on the 10th June 1805 and went to live with him at Rousham where she had 7 known children and where she died in 1827.
Continue readingDNA shows C.H. (a living person; name protected) is quite closely related to myself (70cM), my 2 sisters (109cM & 67cM) and an aunt (98cM) – in the range 3rd – 4th cousin. C.H.’s father is not known. The match with our aunt (for reasons other than relevant here) evidences that our ‘Most Recent Common Ancestor’ with C.H. is an ancestor of our maternal grandmother, Nellie Plant (1902-1968).
Continue reading23 June 2020. Going forward, a fresh start. I intend to use this blog for reporting what aspects of the family history I am currently researching. I will also be including all the and any family history research whether or not Perrin Family. For instance, I have undertaken a great deal of work on the Beckitt family tree.
Posts to the blog will be brief. I welcome interest and enquiries from fellow family historians and will help where I can.
For anyone happening to pass this way, the Perrin Family Tree connected with this blog has today been transferred to Ancestry.co.uk where it will be updated in future.
That a couple should marry far from home, their marriage possibly witnessed by strangers, is not unknown. We may never know the particular circumstances but the marriage in 1838 of Hannah Miller (née Mallin) and William Cooksey raises questions about some curious circumstances.
Why did they marry nearly 100 miles away from home? Who were their witnesses?