Where is Burchester (Oxfordshire?)

[ElizabethHerts]

I have found a marriage bond:

http://www.whipple.org/oxford/4_alpha_by_brides_names.pdf


Year 1711
Groom Parrott, Wm
Parish Burcester
Bride Eggleton, Sarah
Parish Wotten Underwood, Bucks

I've looked on GENUKI but it's no help.

[JessBow]

could it be Bicester?

[kiterunner]

Is it a variant of Bicester, maybe?

(edit - snap, Jess!)

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks, both of you - Bicester is where they married!

[Uncle John]

Can't be a pronunciation thing. Burchester doesn't sound anything like Bister.

[kiterunner]

It says Burcester (no h) in the bit that's copied and pasted, UJ.

[JessBow]

Bicester House (known as Burcester Hall in the17th century)

From: 'The market town of Bicester', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6 (1959), pp. 14-56. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63724 Date accessed: 02 March 2013.

Maybe someone woked at the hall?