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Hi People ! You were brilliant at getting me moving with one family block..so I'm going to be cheeky and try another one.
Richard Wills b 1761 Northamptonshire ( Probably Everdon or Weedon ) Married 9 Apr 1786 to Sarah Bazeley.
Details of their offspring etc are in my tree...but cant get any further back with either of them...Can anyone help ?

found this but you proberly got all this info ?


Northamptonshire

Place Everdon
Church St. Mary
MarriageDate 09 Apr 1786
GroomForename Richard
GroomSurname WILLS
GroomCondition Bachelor
GroomOccupation Servant
GroomAbode Everdon
BrideForename Sarah
BrideSurname BAZELEY
BrideCondition Spinster
BrideAbode Everdon

may be ?

County Northamptonshire
Place Welton
Church St Martin's
BaptismDate 28 Dec 1760
Forename Sarah
FatherForename James
MotherForename Susannah
FatherSurname BAZLEE

and ?


County Northamptonshire
Place Nether Heyford
Church St Peter & St Paul
Baptism Date 21 Mar 1762
Forename Richard
Sex M
FatherForename John
MotherForename Mary
FatherSurname WELLS

Yes have seen those archives..thank you. I think the Wells definitely isnt the chap.
Next question is...if and when one has exhausted online searches... What does one do next ?

Prior to 1837, the basic source is the parish registers (the IGI, like BVRI,
is a valuable but very incomplete and sometimes inaccurate index to these
and excludes vital information like marriage witnesses) but they are only a
starting point. Fill in the information from them with other material from
settlement papers, directories, parish rates, parish poor law payments,
bastardy papers, apprenticeship records, court proceedings, muster rolls,
protestation rolls, hearth tax, visitation records... Settlement and removal
examinations can be especially rewarding in providing a "mini-autobiography"
of the person concerned.

HTH Linell.

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