I’ve recently done some research on Thomas Boffin b 1831 of Bicester, Oxfordshire. Although this is a working document I’ve put it on a PDF as there is quite a lot of detail.
The PDF can be found at https://baughen.co.uk/PDFs/Thomas Boffin research plus descendants report.pdf
Yesterday we joined Banbury Historical Society’s visit to Adderbury (Oxfordshire). This is the home of my 3 times great grandfather (Robert Baughen 1816 – 1876 who married Sarah Isles Dearing 1811 – 1882). They had 8 children, all born in Adderbury. Robert was a tailor by trade. Robert and Sarah are buried in Adderbury. Robert’s nephew Henry Baughen/Boffin was the organist at Adderbury church at the time of the 1861 census.
The photos at
https://adobe.ly/3ziYTjZ are from the visit.
Photos 1 – 15 and 23 are of the parish church. I’m waiting to hear about the age of the organ but suspect that it would have been the one Henry played although the location of the organ in the church may have been different. The church has had many alterations over the centuries but there are many old parts remaining. The carvings in photos 10, 11, 13, 14 and 15 show mainly musicians (of old); there is only 1 depicting religion. Photos 16, 17 and 18 are of the old Rectory.
Phot 20 is of the girls school but now the library. It originally had a thatch roof. Robert’s girls would have attended this school.
Photo 21 is of the old tithe barn. At one stage it housed the fire engine but the horse used to pull it was kept 1/2 mile away.
Photo 22 is the entrance to the original infants school.
Photos 24 – 26 are of the Adderbury Quakers Meeting House, which was originally located outside of the village. Quakers were active in this part of Oxfordshire, especially in the 17th century.
We thank the committee of the Banbury Historical Society for organising the visit and for the Parish Council for allowing us to see the Quaker Meeting House.
Users to my website may have noticed that there is a major change. I have moved all previous content to be under the Blog (or WordPress) part of the website. In addition, using the old entry point of the website (index.html) it now automatically transfers after 1 second to the Blog part.
The reasons that I have made this change are lack of future support for the data base I use under Adobe Dreamweaver and supported levels of software under WordPress. At a near future point I will be updating to a more secure level of WordPress supporting software.
In the meantime if you have any website issues please email me at cliff@baughen.co.uk
Last week we went in our campervan to the Lake District followed by the Peak District. It rained most days but I did manage to take some photos. The house at the beginning is Wordsworth House (National Trust) in Cockermouth, Cumbria. Photos can be found at https://adobe.ly/2A52FRm
