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The Bloxham/Bloxam Family

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...

The Cartner Family

This page tells the story of one of my wife's paternal ancestral lines, the Cartners. The family name originates from the same German source as the word gardener, however originally it referred to a market gardener which was someone who grew food on a small patch of land. So far I have found the following variants of the name; Cartner, Gaertner, Gartner, Kartner, Cartener, McCartner, McCartener and McCarton. Looking at the parish registers from the 1600s shows only 10 Cartners, all of which were in the Northern English county of Cumberland bordering Scotland. 6 were in Rockcliffe in the ward of Longtown & Rockcliffe, north of the city of Carlisle and just south of the Scottish parish of Gretna Green. 3 more Cartners were found in the nearby Cumberland village of Beaumont and one just south of Carlisle in the village of Dalston. Between 1700 and 1750 the number of births on parish registers jumps to 72. Of these the vast majority, 69, were born in Cumberland. ...

The Fordham Family

The Fordham family This page tells the story of my paternal line, the Fordham family. The family name itself is derived from one of three English villages of the same name, one in Cambridgeshire, one in Essex and one in Dorset. The village name comes from Anglo Saxon english meaning ford (the shallow point of a river where you can cross) and hamm meaning a pasture or meadow. I have traced my branch of the Fordhams to the village of Hadstock approximately 20 miles from the Cambridgeshire village of Fordham. Family legend One family legend (and almostly definitely unprovable) I received from my father was that one of our Fordham ancestors was second in command to 11th century Anglo Saxon resistance leader Hereward the Wake who fought against the Normans after their conquest of England in 1066. However unlikely I enjoy the fact that Hereward and his follows were the source of many of the later stories of Robin Hood and his Merry Men - which wou...

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