Walter Alexander of Avebury, Wiltshire - burial detail

[ElizabethHerts]

My Alexander line hails from Avebury in Wiltshire.

With the help of FMP and now the images on Ancestry I'm trying to piece together this line.

There is a burial of a Walter Alexander in 1711, and a baby named Walter was baptised to Thomas and Elizabeth Alexander in 1718.

I did a search on any Walter Alexanders from Avebury and found the following:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DrMyGQGmwmoC&pg=PA419&lpg=PA419&dq=%22Walter+Alexander%22+and+%22Wiltshire%22&source=bl&ots=Ht66Oj59Od&sig=-nl87_SWquvuCc-b1bsHhUXdl2E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi2hsOuzZDUAhUFJMAKHXRkC5UQ6AEIPjAG#v=on epage&q=%22Walter%20Alexander%22%20and%20%22Wiltshire%22&f=false

Unfortunately, this source doesn't give a date for the burial, which would have been helpful!

The PRs for Avebury are in a dreadful state before 1700 so I need all the help I can get.

[kiterunner]

I would say look at note 81 for chapter 18, but a lot of the "notes" pages are not shown in that preview and I can't tell whether that particular note is shown or not.

There is another Walter Alexander burial at Avebury, 24 Oct 1713:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/61187/45582_263021009496_1342-00090/105145?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dWiltshireEarlyParish%26gss%3d sfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26MS_Ad vCB%3d1%26gsfn%3dwal*%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln%3dale*%2 6gsln_x%3d1%26gskw%3davebury%26gskw_x%3d1%26MSAV%3 d2%26MSV%3d0%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

[kiterunner]

Ah, here's the story in another book and it says the February after Richard Bayly's burial, so it must be the 19 Feb 1710/11 Walter Alexander burial (Richard Bayly is a few entries before him.)
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nKWmAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT815&lpg=PT815&dq=%22walter+alexander%22+avebury&source=bl&ots=yHeFtIZ6B4&sig=6reuFYfrGATC4wnm5-2QRZmj21Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlyPCX25DUAhWmKcAKHf5hCiMQ6AEIIjAA#v=on epage&q=%22walter%20alexander%22%20avebury&f=false

[ElizabethHerts]

I've been searching for note 81, Kate!

Oooh, thanks!

I wish I could work out a relationship between him and Thomas Alexander who married an Elizabeth c.1701.

[ElizabethHerts]

I would say look at note 81 for chapter 18, but a lot of the "notes" pages are not shown in that preview and I can't tell whether that particular note is shown or not.

There is another Walter Alexander burial at Avebury, 24 Oct 1713:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/61187/45582_263021009496_1342-00090/105145?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dWiltshireEarlyParish%26gss%3d sfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26MS_Ad vCB%3d1%26gsfn%3dwal*%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln%3dale*%2 6gsln_x%3d1%26gskw%3davebury%26gskw_x%3d1%26MSAV%3 d2%26MSV%3d0%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults


Thanks for the other burial, Kate. I have downloaded the image but I am in the process of renaming them.

There was a page in the early PRs of dissenters. I'll post it when I can find it.

[ElizabethHerts]

This page is entitled a Register of Dissenters' Children:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/61187/45582_263021009496_1342-00241/106560?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3f_phsrc%3dgmj494%26_phstart%3dsucce ssSource%26usePUBJs%3dtrue%26db%3dWiltshireEarlyPa rish%26gss%3dangs-d%26new%3d1%26MS_AdvCB%3d1%26gsln%3dPontinge%26gsl n_x%3d1%26gskw%3davebury%26gskw_x%3d1%26MSAV%3d2%2 6MSV%3d0%26uidh%3d9p3%26fh%3d0%26fsk%3d%26bsk%3d%2 6rank%3d1%26pgoff%3d&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

[kiterunner]

Here is a Walter Alixander of Avebury (well, Abeuavy, but it has been indexed as Avebury, in the "Wiltshire, England, Marriages" transcriptions) marrying Luce Harbert, also of Avebury 19 Aug 1706 at Marlborough:

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interactive/61187/45582_1831109331_0542-00008/163639?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk% 2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3dWiltshireEarlyParish%26gss%3d sfs28_ms_db%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26msT%3d1%26MS_Ad vCB%3d1%26msydy%3d1706%26msydy_x%3d1%26gskw%3dmarl b*%26gskw_x%3d1%26MSAV%3d2%26MSV%3d0%26uidh%3dvm5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults

[ElizabethHerts]

Ooh, well spotted!

I will have to research this more closely tomorrow.