July update

The Wing One Place Study has been updated for July. Quite a lot of individual pages have new snippets of information added, and there's a couple of new pages.

* Researching before 1546, when the parish registers began
* Feet of Fines for Wing
* a new will extract (Henry STRATFOLD who owned land in Wing)
* a new link (to a CULVERHOUSE one name study)
* a new marriage stray (REEVES in Buckingham)
* a new bankruptcy for the Miscellany (George HEADY, one of Wing's straw dealers)

I've also made some small updates to the Non-Conformist pages (added a photo of the Union Chapel, a note about a collection amongst the Burcott Baptists, a link to an interesting Primitive Methodist book on Google books, and a few other Primitive Methodist snippets).

Feb update

I've uploaded the February update (technically it's not February for another five hours but tough!). There's new pages on the straw plaiting industry within Wing and a couple of pages about the Dormer family. Hope you like them!

Strawplaiting

I've finally finished my writeup about the strawplaiting industry in Wing. It covers a brief description of what the life of our strawplaiters might have been like, the rise and fall of strawplaiting as a source of employment in Wing, the proportion of Wing residents involved and some key individuals and families. If you have something to contribute then please let me know now. This page will be included in my February update.

I've also converted all the burial pages to the new look and uploaded those today. As part of that a few pages were renamed, so if you get a broken link you might need to refresh your browser.

1841 census

Immediately after my last post, I turned my attention to the straw plaiting summary. It was curious that I couldn't find local straw plait dealer Benjamin RANDALL in 1841. To my horror I have just discovered that he was definitely in Wing - it's just the page he is on was missing from the the original scans I transcribed the 1841 census from.

And what's worse, I have just done a full check and there's eight pages in Wing and another two in Littleworth all missing on the CD I originally used!

Suffice to say getting those transcribed and up is now my number one priority.

Tick Tock

It's the 18th and I have no idea what I will be posting to the site on the 1st. Time is ticking........

The plan was to finally have my overview of the straw plaiting industry in Wing for the December update (then the 1891 census transcription for the January update) but I'm not sure that's going to be achievable as I'm busy all next weekend. I seem to be running out of time!