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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.
I am turning once more to Rousham.
From 1770, when William Perrin married Sarah House at Chastleton, until his son John died in 1847, two generations were settled at Rousham; a period of nearly 80 years that spanned the introduction in 1837 of the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths and in 1841 of the first census. Although John was the last Perrin by name to live at Rousham, his youngest daughter Sarah, who had married the local shepherd Charles Day in 1847, lived there until she died in 1874.
Edward John Bishop Perrin was born at Silverstone, Northamptonshire in 1854, the eldest son of William Perrin and Catherine Bishop, my great-great-grandparents. He served in the Army Hospital Corps and died in 1878, aged about 24,of wounds, it was later said, received in the Ashanti War of 1873-74. Continue reading