Tony

With a 1st edition Pevsner you know when he didn’t like something. Aylesbury market clock was described as “insipid gothic with a spire”.

Chesham council offices

I’m at the Romany & Traveller event at Chesham Council Offices this afternoon. Do come along. #OnePlaceStudies

I’m also concerned that the current government has run out of ideas, and land tax could happen. Although our predecessors doing #OnePlaceStudies in 100 years time would thank them.

Part of the Certificate of Musters for Colnbrook.

Anybody seeing the word Domesday should be reminded that any survey like this is usually followed by confiscation or taxation. Henry VIII had a Military Survey in 1522. The result was Certificate of Musters for the ordinary folk. Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy has its own entry.

I’m waiting to see the face of the teachers when I mention the Census is really about having enough soldiers to fight battles in Europe 🤭

Apologies for being quiet about Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy as I have been working on not my #OPS to talk at Ley Hill School. Only 3 houses but there are links to Metroland, Chesham Co-op, Lord Chesham, Chesham Urban District Council and a particular tea plantation in Sri Lanka. 🤔

Don’t believe what is said about the Ostrich in Colnbrook. There is a lack of tree ring dating evidence. There is also a lot of speculation based on an old book about fishing retold by the local Vicar.

Screenshot of map, part of Colnbrook showing building names curtilages and other details.

Today, from #OnePlaceStudy of Colnbrook's department of Silver Linings, a new set of maps of Colnbrook. Courtesy of the council as they issue Parking Orders to introduce charges & permits. Reason for parking restrictions? Too many people affording holidays & not parking at Heathrow Airport.

That’s why I like early parish registers where the spelling has a liberating amount of uncertainty.

I think it only means the paparazzi have forgotten what she looked like. Both the paps and news editors are not the best judges.

#OnePlaceSudy what happened? Did the town’s people board-up the building? So far no more evidence has been found in the archive catalogues including the insurance listings in London Archives. #ResearchCanBeHard

In Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy a mystery coaching inn has been found. There is only one source, the Horton parish register. For certain the Talbot Inn existed from 1601 to 1637 and the probable reason for its demise. In 1637 there were 7 deaths from the plague including Richard Reeve the Innkeeper.

You could go for multitasking with a robot cleaner for the house work while you get on with the research. The downside is the floor cannot be used for a litter of notes & books. The robot’s AI abilities only goes as far as chant of “Cleaning makes me happy” as the bot trundles along.

Could also be effective against AI harvesting (stealing) the information for their system.

I think Wing is not far from the road.

Working this Wednesday on another place Little Brickhill, also on a major road - Watling Street. Ancient place of assizes & denoted with burials marked “suffered death and were buried” #BucksFHS Register transcripts to be published soon.

There are many trying to see if London’s streets are paved with gold, or trying to escape agricultural poverty. I only find out about those who stop long enough to leave a record. Colnbrook was the last stop before London. I could claim Royalty as Elizabeth I stopped at the George Inn #OnePlaceStudy

With a transient population in Colnbrook, it is always an aim to find some. I’m also getting surnames that appear to have strongholds in Cornwall & Devon like Penrose. #OnePlaceWednesday

#OnePlaceWednesday Reporting on the discovery of Charlotte Heady born in #Wing Bucks and married into the strict Baptist Holderness family in Colnbrook The surname Heady is in the #Wing-OPS. Website #OnePlaceStudies

#GenHour I have used WikiTree and can produce good trees. Their use of referencing has problems as it is cumbersome.

#GenHour My #One-PlaceStudy Colnbrook was originally spelt Colebrooke which is also village in Devon. Many 17th century tokens were attributed to the wrong place. Great fun! Slapton (Bucks) is quite small it shouldn't be a problem... 😀

Must be something you said! 😱 #GenHour

#GenHour I'm leaving Electoral Registers alone for the moment. Too many side projects need sorting out first.

#GenHour The other thing to report for those with a Buckinghamshire #One-PlaceStudy is the appearance on Ancestry of Bucks Electoral Registers.

It's the whole murky world where there is no money to give proper relief and the income generated for the overseers by allowing this woollen manufacturer use cheap unwilling labour. Work like cleaning fleeces and carding wool could be the work involved.

#GenHour Now a project for Bucks FHS is done, I'm getting back to Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy. Getting involved in the murky history of farming the poor. One person paid £450 per annum to supply work for Datchet workhouse in 1794. That is a lot of money.

Just what a One-Place Study needs. Residents who help fill the years between censuses, even if they are in court.

When the case was called on one of the magistrates exclaimed “Colnbrook again!” and well he might say so for the “neighbours” of that town, some of them at least, have several times figured before the bench for their “neighbouring" feuds. Windsor & Eton Express 18 Jul 1840 #Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy

Parish Register of St Andrews, Hillingdon catalogued under St Peter Bethnal Green.

#One-PlaceStudies Ancestry. Oh Dear, what were you thinking! Always look at the film. I had to go to London Archives Catalogue to get the proper reference (DRO/106/A/01/001) The front cover of the register is missing from the film, probably in a half hearted attempt to hide their mistake.

There are not many choices as I'm looking about 1740 to 1830 - just before the first useful UK census. I have quite a number of associations through who was witnessing wills and the licensing records.