Category: Somerset and Dorset
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Following four brothers from Somerset
Merriott to Australia, and NZ
Merriott to Australia, and NZ Back to filling out the foreign connections ‘down under’. The trip to Tonypandy in April resulted in acquiring a copy of ‘Descendants of Joseph Osborne’, compiled by Sue Osborne in Brisbane, Australia. This is referred to as JOT (Joseph Osborne Tree) in my notes. Sue has traced her husband’s line back to Joseph, born around 1803 in Merriott, Somerset, who was my 4 x great grandfather. Much of the information is available on the Merriott Families Genealogy website, also created by » »
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Open Daw(e) in Dorset
And the headings just get worse. I’m delighted that Ancestry.co.uk has just released a whole range of Dorset parish records available to search and view, with the help of Dorset History Centre. The Osborne side of the family comes from the Somerset/Dorset border, and although most records are likely to be on the Somerset side, the connected Daw (or Dawe) family was definitely in Dorset, around Beaminster. Only thing is I really could do with getting out and enjoying the sunshine more, rather than sitting » »
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South Somerset
The Osbornes and connected families come from south Somerset/ Dorset borders, mainly the Seavingtons/ Whitelackington (Scott family), Misterton, Merriott, Crewkerne. Populations 1861: Seavington St Mary 330, Seavington St Michael 244. Merriott 1,413, Misterton 588, Crewkerne (town rather than parish) 3,566. The Seavingtons Extract from 1868 Gazetteer on both Seavingtons: Seavington St Mary church info on Churches Conservation Trust website. Seavington St Michael church, June 2015 Both parishes have sections in Volume 4 of the ‘Victoria County History of Somerset’. See the text at British History Online: » »