Gloucestershire and Bristol

Part III · 🇬🇧

The archive's oldest claim is a Gloucestershire yeoman born in 1654. The line it called untestable is tested here against the registers at Berkeley, the hamlet the name comes off, and a muster of 1608; beside it are the Wakefields, a mason from Stroud who married a Berkeley woman in Bristol, the 1841 census page that holds the family, and two pages kept as wrong.

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1. III.1Six generations at BerkeleyThe line this archive called untestable, tested.
2. III.2Berkeley, GloucestershireThe oldest claim: a Gloucestershire yeoman born in 1654.
3. III.3Hannah was a Berkeley womanThe oldest open question in the archive is closed.
4. III.4One vowelThe document twice declared missing was indexed under another spelling.
5. III.5Thomas SinegarA labourer from Berkeley living a mile from Hannah Wakefield in Bristol.
6. III.6The Sanigers, reconstitutedEvery Saniger record in Gloucestershire, assembled into households.
7. III.7Saniger is a placeSaniger is a hamlet in Berkeley parish, and the name comes off the land.
8. III.8Every Spelling of One NameIndex entries under twenty spellings of one surname.
9. III.9The name in its own centuryA printed pedigree of the Swonhungers, checked against the deeds.
10. III.10The muster of 1608Eleven men of this surname, counted by the Crown in 1608.
11. III.11Chew MagnaKept as a wrong page: a Somerset birth that the Berkeley baptism contradicts.
12. III.12CottonThe name on the direct line; born at Ashton under Hill and Berkeley.
13. III.13JonesThe name on the direct line; born at Wotton-under-Edge.
14. III.14The WakefieldsA mason from Stroud who married a Berkeley woman in Bristol and took six children to Queensland.
15. III.15Drivers Fields, 1841One page of the 1841 census holding the whole family the oldest claim depends on.
16. III.16The Bristol chapelsKept as a wrong page: a catalogue of every Bristol chapel register.
17. III.17WakefieldThe Wakefields of Bristol.

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