The Bloxham/Bloxam family

This page tells the story of one of my paternal grandmother's ancestral lines, the Bloxham family (spelt Bloxam in earlier generations).

The surname is a habitational one (meaning it is derived from a location) and their are two locations from which it derives.  The first is the English hamlet of Bloxholm in the county of Lincolnshire.  The second is the English village of Bloxham in the county of Oxfordshire near the cotswolds. 
This second is the more likely origin for my ancestors as the furthest ancestor I have traced at once point lived approximately 3 miles east of Bloxham in the Oxfordshire village of Adderbury.

The family in Oxfordshire, England

So far I have traced my Bloxham’s line back to my farm labourer four x Great Grandfather William Bloxam born c. 1804 in the English county of Oxfordshire just south of the market town of Banbury.

While the family name appears to derive from the village of Bloxham in this area the first record I have is of William being born in the nearby village of Wigginton.  I have minimal information about how far back the family were in Wigginton but by the time he was married Hannah Edden in 1829 he was living in the nearby village of Adderbury.  He moved again and by the 1851 census they had travelled to his wife’s home village of Gaydon in the neighbouring county of Warwickshire approximately 16 miles from Adderbury where they had at least six children.  Their new home village is where subsequent generations of my Bloxham ancestors were born.

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The family in Warwickshire, England

My 3 x Great Grandfather, Thomas Bloxham, was the first of my Bloxham ancestors to be born in the village of Gaydon in the English county of Warwickshire and like his father he worked as a farm labourer.  He married Elizabeth Shepherd and had at least four children.

My 2 x Great Grandfather, Ernest Alfred Richard Bloxham, also lived in Gaydon, Warwickshire.  He was in the army (details unclear) and later became post master before returning to his farm labourer roots.  He married Florence Louisa Brisker and together they had at least eight children.

My Great Grandmother, Ada Ethel Bloxham was also born in Gaydon, Warwickshire.  She married William Thomas Tew and had children including my maternal grandmother.

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