Can a DNA match help us?
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.
And that is all that is known with any certainty of great-great-great-grandmother Ann Woolgrove.
Daisy May White is a DNA match on Ancestry with one of my two cousins, both of my sisters and myself, all at 9 or 10 CMs over one segment. Daisy May White has reliably traced her furthest ancestor to a John Woolgrove who was baptised in 1810 at Whitfield, Northamptonshire about 16 miles north-east of Rousham, up through Ardley on the present-day A43, to about 3 miles beyond Brackley.
Another researcher on Ancestry, Paul Gold, helps us extend Daisy May White’s tree. John Woolgrove was the son of Joseph Woolgrove who was baptised at Deddington on the 11th November 1770, the son of Nathaniel Woolgrove, also of Deddington. The identification of Joseph and his father Nathaniel depend very largely on parish register entries and the coincidences of names and dates. Nevertheless, lacking other confirming evidence, the identifications look reasonably sound. Daisy May White, by this account, is descended from Nathaniel Woolgrove of Deddington.
Nathaniel Woolgrove and his wife Ann baptised five children at Deddington, the youngest of whom was Joseph. Their second eldest child was baptised as John Woolgrove in 1757. It may be, as seems to be the case, that John married an Elizabeth Sharman at North Aston on the 31st January 1780 and that after having baptised their first two children at Deddington in 1780 and 1781, they settled in North Aston where they baptised 8 more children. One of the two children they baptised at Deddington was a Thomas (1781) who went to marry and settle in North Aston where 4 children were baptised between 1803 and 1811.
So in 1805, when Ann Woolgrove, probably about 29 years of age, married John Perrin at North Aston, Thomas Woolgrove was raising his young family there. Perhaps, also, some of his brothers and sisters – young William, for instance, just 5 years old – were still in the family home there.
Could this be the reason why Ann Woolgrove was living in North Aston at the time she married there? They were her relatives? If so, might she have been connected with the large extended Woolgrave family at Deddington? This is a line for research that might have to wait for another DNA match.
I’d be glad to hear from any fellow family historians who can help.