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Pieces of England interest: History
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Ratley Banbury June 06
Banbury Sept 07
Beautiful
Muskoka Emma
Birmingham
England
pictures Ancestors
of Sophia England
Shakespeare's
country Ratley
Roll of Honour Upton
House
Victorian
Servants
Art England's
summary of his research Byfield Northamptonshire
The Moravian
Genealogy of the England Family
Sources:
Sophia England was my grandmother. Most of the information I have on
her family has come from the research efforts of Art England. There
was also information from Lorna Bennett and from the back of a
photograph of Emma Woodward that now belongs to Marcia Clark. Jack
Beeching has added information. Recently Barry Hitchcox has made
contact, adding and confirming information. A book on Ratley had
interesting background. I have much less history of this grandparent
then on the other three.
Recent: Sophia's
parents, Richard England and Emma, immigrated to Ontario from England
on the Morovian docking at Quebec 18 May 1875. The family was then 7
members: Richard 43, Emma 34, George 18, Walter 16, James 12, Mary 7
and Henry 5. These children were from their previous marriages of both.
Richard's brother David England and sister-in-law Elizabeth with
their children Agnes, Owen and Laura came the previous year on the
Prussian.
The two brothers
first lived in London Ontario where Sophia was born in Richard's
family and Mark in David's. They then homesteaded on adjacent farms
in Chaffey, in the Huntsville district of Ontario. Here Richard A was
born. Emma raised the children alone after Richard died in an
accident. Walter and Richard A both homesteaded in the Milestone
area, and their sister Sophia married John Barmby who knew the
England brothers from working with them. They all homesteaded in the
same area.
Of these children:
Sophia is grandmother to me and my Barmby first cousins, Walter is
grandfather to Lorna Bennett and my other Campbell second cousins
(Walter was a son of Richard England from his first marriage to Mary
Hannah Golby). Richard A is grandfather to Art's branch of the family
and Mary is the great grandmother of Jack Beeching.
Looking for the
parents of the brothers Richard and David, leads to their change of
name. They were originally called Hitchcox, but changed to their
mother's maiden name of England. A sister of Richard and David called
Mercy is the great grandmother of Barry Hitchcox. Barry believes that
all of the siblings, children of William Hitchcox and Mary England,
changed their names from Hitchcox to England. Mercy had a son,
William Hitchcox, who was raised by her parents and therefore had the
name Hitchcox although Mercy had changed hers. William, the son, had
a family of 17 children including Barry Hitchcox's father.
The parents of
Emma Woodward were George Woodward and his wife, possibly a Spanish
bride according to the note on the back of the photograph of Emma
(but the dates are very problematic). Emma's name from her first
marriage was Joyner.
Distant: I
have almost no early information on Hitchcox, England and Woodward
families. They were living in the Edge Hill area near Banbury and the
Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border.
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