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Hi,
Could anyone help me determine the parents of william coxhead (born abt 1811 in reading), he went on to marry ann newbury (1810-1854, possibly mary ann???). I am also looking for her parents also.
Thank you.

there are lots of Coxheads christened at St Mary's Reading on the IGI but this is the only William:

10 SEP 1823 Saint Mary, Reading, Berkshire, England

Parents:
Father: WILLIAM COXHEAD Family
Mother: HETTY

Do you think that he married at 15?
WILLIAM COXHEAD - International Genealogical Index
Gender: Male Marriage: 25 JUL 1826 St Lawrence, Reading, Berkshire, England

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1841 England Census
about William Coxhead Name: William Coxhead
Age: 30
Estimated birth year: abt 1811
Gender: Male
Where born: Berkshire, England

Civil Parish: St Lawrence
Hundred: Reading Borough
County/Island: Berkshire
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation: View image

Registration district: Reading
Sub-registration district: St Lawrence
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members: Name Age
William Coxhead 30
Ann Coxhead 30
David Coxhead 11
Maria Coxhead 8
Mary Coxhead 6
William Coxhead 4
Fredrich Coxhead 2
Caroline Coxhead 7 MO

There is a Coxhead website but I cannot remember the address. Will try to look tonight.

These are from the St laurence Reading parish records

Baptism
25 April 1810 William & brother Charles sons of Charles & Martha Coxhead

Marriage
25 July 1826
William Coxhead to Ann Newbery
Witnesses Sarah May & Mark Wiggins

I think the site owner was Paul Sherrif.

Thank you rutlandbelle, I think he must have been born earlier than that, as as satnav and beejay has found they were married in 1826. He may have married at 15 but that is assuming I have year correct, may be a year or two earlier??

sorry da jean?? that is who im talking about but i want his parents.

thank you ladykira that would be great.

This should take you to it

http://www.sherriff-family.com/Sherriff-Family-History.htm

Thanks LadyKira have sent him a message to see if there is a link because I cant see one on his site but you never know! Satnav and beejay. I am looking to order a marriage cert for William and Ann but I cant find their marriage on ancestry even with the dates above???? How did you find that info? Thanks.

Hi Victoria
Certifcates can only be bought for marriages after June 1837.
You can find the marriage on Familysearch IGI but even if you can trace a copy of the marriage entry there will not normally be fathers names or occupations

Hi Victoria

The info I gave for the christening and marriage was taken from the St Laurence parish records. As SatNav says, there were no certs before 1837.

Have you considered that as William was christened at the same time as his brother Charles, William may have been older and not a baby as we usually assume.

Don't forget also that ages, particularly on the 1841 census were often rounded down, making him older possibly than the 30 shown

Bee

Thank you SatNav.
Bee I had never even considered that! Just assumed they were twins (lots of twins in our family!). I will now look for his birth earlier, you have all been really helpful! Thank you!

Ok, I have had a look on ancestry and cannot find any Williams born at all even with moving the birth year?? Could anyone help me please?

Hi Victoria

Bear with me as I'm off to work for a bit now but will get the St Laurence disc out again and look for a burial for William, and anything else I can find

Bee

Hi again Victoria

OK, if we're happy that the christening in 1810 is the correct one for your William, here is his parents marriage. All info is again taken from the St Laurence Reading parish registers

17 Oct 1799 Charles Coxhead to Martha Bren
Witnesses George Holmes & Joseph Lay

Christenings for the rest of Charles & Martha's children
23 June 1800 Sarah
14 July 1802 John buried 22 June 1809
6 Jan 1807 James buried 25 April 1807
2 Sept 1812 Bathsheba
10 Aug 1815 Thomas
6 April 1817 Martha
19 May 1819 James
For all the christenings they are living in West Street and Charles is a shoemaker.

I have a burial for Charles Coxhead
1 July 1847 aged 80 living in the Union Poor House, which makes his birth around 1767

I'll have a look for a christening for him and see if I can take youback further with his parents

Bee

Now for your William

Banns were to be read for his marriage to Ann Newbery in December 1825, but the entry in the parish register reads
"Dec 1825 William Coxhead/Ann Newbery - stopped by the above William Coxhead according to the request of his father, he being a Minor (2 readings, entry deleted)
so he was obviously under age then and didn't have his fathers blessing

I've found him on the 1841, 1851 and 1861 censuses, and on the 1861 he seems to be living with his daughter Rachael in Kingston Surrey. The birth years on each one are different, so in 1841 he was born in 1811, on 1851 in 1808 and 1861 in 1806, so he's obviously not sure when he was actually born.
Hope I haven't confused you too much with all this, tomorrow I'll look for christenings for his children.

By the way, I've found a marriage for a Charles Coxhead but I've no way of knowing whether he's yours

24 Dec 1830 Charles Coxhead to Elizabeth Restel
Witnesses William Murray & Mary Carter

Hope you can make sense of all this

Bee

Oh my goodness! Thank you so much! You have worked so hard for me and am ever so grateful! This is so exciting finding things out like the marriage being stopped at his fathers request. So does that mean they were never married?? Hate to be asking you questions when you have already been so helpful. Look forward to hearing from you again!

Vicky.