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Diary entry: 21 Aug 2023
- We’ve been exploring Quaker records again and found a number of interesting burials in the record of the Banbury Meeting from 1795-18371
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Diary entry: 21 Aug 2023
- We’re still on the quest to find the parents of William Gilks. We have his baptism:
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Diary entry: 18 Aug 2023
- Tonight we continued looking for clues about the origins of John Gilks, father of William Jilks baptized 26 Sep 1749 in Lower Heyford.
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Diary entry: 17 Aug 2023
- Some Swalcliffe marriages transcribed from https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61056/images/PAR262_1_R1_3_039?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&pId=1546432
Richard Alcock of Epwell and Elizabeth Austin of Sibford by banns, 6 Oct 1737 Then earlier marriages from 1567 onwards from https://www.
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Diary entry: 16 Aug 2023
- We spotted some Gilkes of Swalcliffe in the parish register images starting at https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/61056/images/PAR262_1_R1_1_029?pId=901893455
Searchable at https://www.
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Diary entry: 8 May 2023
- We took another look at L’s DNA matches because I remembered seeing a possible match through George Lay (who we don’t believe is Bertie Herbert’s father).
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