Beauchamp - possible Huguenot connections?
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Re: Beauchamp - possible Huguenot connections?
| jap2c (View posts) | Posted: 2 Jun 2009 2:02PM GMT |
Classification: Query
Hi KA
Thank you for the help. I have only been researching for about one year, off and on, and have had to start with no experience and very little information.
I have managed to trace my great grandfather William Pepworth who married Susan Annie Button on the 31 Aug 1901. I have a copy of the marriage certificate. Her father is recorded as Frederick Button. I have traced back via the census records of 1881, to a Frederick Button born in Kilmersdon around 1856. This would be the weak link and I need to get extra source information to confirm that this is the correct Frederick Button, although I can find no alternatives and census records are consistent. I have ordered the birth certificate in the hope this will help. His father and mother are recorded as Elijah and Susan, Kilmersdon Somerset. I then undertook a search of the Kilmersdon parish files available on the web and was able to find their marriage date (25.12.1834). Susan’s maiden name is recorded as Beauchamp. Again I searched the parish records for a baptism, and was able to find Elijah Button and trace his family further back, but found nothing on Susan (possibly Suzannah). Census records place her birth year as 1813 in Kilmersdon. The Kilmersdon records include:
1826 - John Beauchamp, son of Zebedee and Harriet (also LDS marriage record 1826)
1836 - Richard Beauchamp, son of Isaac and Ann
1837 - Alfred Beauchamp, son of Isaac and Ann
There are also Beacham records for this period, including a Zebedee but as I can trace separate birth and marriage entries I do not think this is the same person.
It is possible that Zebedee and Isaac are siblings of Susan, but I am unable to find details of their parentage, despite some info being available on the LDS. I have also searched the LDS for Susan (or Suzannah) beauchamp and variants of spelling and can only find a pedigree record completed by another ancestry member who also could not trace this particular lady back. I think you are right in that it is highly unlikely that they are huguenots, more is a pity.
Is there anything else I can try?
Thank you
JAP
Thank you for the help. I have only been researching for about one year, off and on, and have had to start with no experience and very little information.
I have managed to trace my great grandfather William Pepworth who married Susan Annie Button on the 31 Aug 1901. I have a copy of the marriage certificate. Her father is recorded as Frederick Button. I have traced back via the census records of 1881, to a Frederick Button born in Kilmersdon around 1856. This would be the weak link and I need to get extra source information to confirm that this is the correct Frederick Button, although I can find no alternatives and census records are consistent. I have ordered the birth certificate in the hope this will help. His father and mother are recorded as Elijah and Susan, Kilmersdon Somerset. I then undertook a search of the Kilmersdon parish files available on the web and was able to find their marriage date (25.12.1834). Susan’s maiden name is recorded as Beauchamp. Again I searched the parish records for a baptism, and was able to find Elijah Button and trace his family further back, but found nothing on Susan (possibly Suzannah). Census records place her birth year as 1813 in Kilmersdon. The Kilmersdon records include:
1826 - John Beauchamp, son of Zebedee and Harriet (also LDS marriage record 1826)
1836 - Richard Beauchamp, son of Isaac and Ann
1837 - Alfred Beauchamp, son of Isaac and Ann
There are also Beacham records for this period, including a Zebedee but as I can trace separate birth and marriage entries I do not think this is the same person.
It is possible that Zebedee and Isaac are siblings of Susan, but I am unable to find details of their parentage, despite some info being available on the LDS. I have also searched the LDS for Susan (or Suzannah) beauchamp and variants of spelling and can only find a pedigree record completed by another ancestry member who also could not trace this particular lady back. I think you are right in that it is highly unlikely that they are huguenots, more is a pity.
Is there anything else I can try?
Thank you
JAP