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From: "Elizabeth Duke" <>
Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] COLLINS/CHAMBERS was Re: Theme - Who am I and why am I here?
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 22:56:50 +1200
References: 412258270 <013301c57fad$46927400$1eecadcb@meshpc> 413459425


Thanks for this, Jim.

I have one line of Baptists in my family, so no infant baptisms, of course;
perhaps this is another lot. Alternatively, they were somewhere else, or
the records were poorly kept.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Duke
752 Highgate
Dunedin 9001
New Zealand

+64 (0)3 467 5367
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Parsons" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 11:59 PM
Subject: [ENG-SOM] COLLINS/CHAMBERS was Re: Theme - Who am I and why am I
here?


> Although AMEY COLLINS married GEORGE CHAMBERS in St Mary's MARSHFIELD Glos
> by licence on 20 Dec 1823, there does not appear to be a record of her
> Baptism.
>
> Likewise for CELIA COLLINS who married CHARLES CHAMBERS 22 June 1819.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Elizabeth Duke" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [ENG-SOM] ADMIN - Theme - Who am I and why am I here?
>
>
> > Hi to all!
> >
> > I'm Elizabeth DUKE, originally SLADE, living in New Zealand, though
having
> > started life in Birmingham.
> >
> > My family seem to have dipped their toes in and out of Somerset.
> >
> > a) George CHAMBERS, from Langham, Rutland, and his wife Amey (COLLINS),
> > from Marshfield, Glos, baptised their first three children in Shepton
> > Mallet
> > (1826, 1828, 1830) before moving to Warminster, Wilts, where George was
an
> > innkeeper.
> >
> > b) George & Amey's youngest son, Humphrey CHAMBERS, and his wife Annie
> > (WITT), married in Warminster and moved to Frome where they baptised
three
> > children (1872, 1873, 1875) before moving to Brimingham and producing my
> > grandmother.
> >
> > c) Annie WITT's mother, Elizabeth BEZER, had an elder brother John
BEZER,
> > born in Warminster where he is recorded as a gunmaker in the 1840s. In
> > the
> > 1851 census he suddenly appears as a farmer with 136 acres at Hassage &
> > Baggridge, Wellow, Somerset. John married in Bristol in 1840. His wife
> > was
> > Sarah HARDING from Little Somerford, Wilts, and they had one daughter,
> > Ellen. Sarah and Ellen, according to later censuses, remained in
Somerset
> > heading a school and teaching music respectively.
> >
> > My unanswered questions are: What were George and Amey doing in Shepton
> > Mallet? What were Humphrey and Annie doing in Frome? How on earth did
> > John
> > BEZER get hold of a farm? He didn't necessarily own the land, of
course,
> > but what was the connection? (His father was an innkeeper in
Warminster.)
> > So far I haven't done any serious research to find the answers, as I'm
> > still
> > establishing family lines.
> >
> > A helpful person on this list pointed me to the census references for
> > Sarah
> > and Ellen. I like the idea of a topic for the month - it broadens my
> > imagination.
> >
> > Elizabeth
> >
> > Elizabeth Duke
> > Dunedin
> > New Zealand
> >
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