Comments on: Quainton Reads – a bit of a quandary! http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com Discovering surprises, mysteries and brick walls!! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: rootsresearcher http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/coming-soon/quainton-reads-a-bit-of-a-quandary/#comment-523 Mon, 09 May 2011 22:23:36 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/#comment-523 Hallo Cousin Peter, Thanks for visiting my blog and for your comment – I’m so very pleased to hear from you. (Yes my name is Christine) :-) I am very interested to hear of your connection through Jane Read and George Samuel Massey. I’m sorry to say that I can’t help you too much with the info you have!! I have searched and searched for George and Jane but have not been able to find anything that could be them in the Censuses, or one of them if the other had died. I have tried searching for them all over the UK just in case they moved away from Middlesex or even Buckinghamshire if they stayed there for a while at first. I do not have any additional information either about their marriage and cannot find anything at all that points to when each of them died.

A long time ago I found some information on the IGI regarding George Samuel Massey. I have yet to check that info further but it looks like he was baptised in 1783 at St. Katherine Coleman, London along with seven siblings baptised at the same place between 1769 – 1787 their parents being William Massey and Mary.

I’m sorry I can’t be more helpful at the moment to you, but now we have found each other, I will let you know any new information should I come across it. Please do keep in touch.

Kind regards,

Cousin Christine (rootsresearcher)

]]> By: Peter Pond http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/coming-soon/quainton-reads-a-bit-of-a-quandary/#comment-517 Thu, 05 May 2011 03:26:13 +0000 http://rootsresearcher.wordpress.com/#comment-517 Hi Christine (is that your name?)

I am researching my family history and think that the George Samuel Massey that married Jane Read at Quainton on 12 July 1819 could be my ancestor.

We are descended from an Edward Massey, who was married in Sydney (Australia) in 1858. He was fromn Stoke Newington and the only son of the late George Samuel Massey of Stoke Newington. Edward Massey was born in 1820, which would tie in with the above wedding date.

We can seem to find Edward Massey in the 1841 Census in Middlesex, but no sign then of George Samuel Massey. There are two Jane Masseys in the 1841 Census in Middlesex (one born in 1781 and one born in 1796), but we are not sure if either are the ex-Jane Read.

We are also having difficulty finding out when Edward Massey came to Australia but he does not seem to have come as a convict (his occupation at the 1858 wedding was given as “Accountant”).

If you have any further details about that Jane Read (especially the 1819 wedding), I would be interested in finding out about it.

Cheers

Peter Pond

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