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My families from the county of
Wiltshire
Redman, Sims,
Giddings and Davis |
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Above:
St Martin's Parish Church,
Salisbury
Right:
The School, Urchfont |
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Earliest known
Redman from Wiltshire
We have traced the Redman family name back
to Alexander Redman from St Martin's Parish, Salisbury in about 1685.
In fact the whole branch of the Redman family came from Wiltshire
until John & Mary Redman moved to
London with their son, William.
Click
here for the origins of the name Redman
Elizabeth with her brothers and sisters
grew up and lived in the school at Urchfont [pictured below] - their parents being
head master and mistress.
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Croucher, Woodford and Pasby
Alexander Redman
married Mary Croucher. Dates and parents unknown.
Elizabeth Woodford
(daughter of James Woodford and Elizabeth Pinkney)
married William Redman on 27 Mar 1754. Sarah Pasby married John
Redman in 1783 - her father, John Pasby 1750.
The
Sims
Mary Sims also from St Martin's, married
John Redman in St Edmund's Parish Church, Salisbury [right] in February 1811.
The Sims have been traced back to William Sym(e)s, Christened
in 1615.
St Edmund's Parish Church,
Salisbury |
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The
Giddings ( and Davis )
The entire Giddings family
seems to have originated from, and lived in, Urchfont.
It
is purported that 5 Giddings Plague victims were buried here
in about 1550. The family has been traced back to John Giddings
[or Geyddings],
born about 1530.
Urchfont Parish Council
Urchfont
village, St Michael's in background |
A few useful links:
Wiltshire Family History Society &
Wiltshire & Swindon Records Office
Other Family History Researchers
in Wiltshire
The
Redmans since the late 1800s
John Redman with his wife Mary had moved to Agar
Town, London,
with their family by 1851.
William, their son married Elizabeth Giddings in
St Pancras and had 12 children; -
they lived in a four storey house in Marchmont Street
during the 1860s and 1870s.
Alice and Walter are the only two
of their descendants who are known about.
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