Wilces of Ruardean

by joss, Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 14:12 (6010 days ago)

This message relates to a previous thread "William Wilce born 1790 died 1837" but I'm starting afresh here.
Basically a whole group of us have been frantically emailing each other, contacting each other on Genes Reunited, checking and rechecking the FOD parish registers on this site and generally going bonkers over this for weeks!
We have agreed (I think!) that William Wilce bap 12 May 1790 Ruardean with parents John and Elizabeth was the son of John Wilce bap 1 Jan 1757 Ruardean and Elizabeth Blakeway and that they were married 19 Sep 1779 Ruardean.
This 1757 John's parents acc to bap were John and Sarah, and we have a suggested marriage of John Wilce and Sarah Rudge 25 Feb 1754 by licence BUT despite the specific information are unable to trace it.
There is also an ongoing debate as to who John-who-married-Sarah-Rudge was, with several candidates, all of whom are convincing in their own way, but none are conclusive.
So far it has all been a question of A getting information from B, who got it from C etc, with each new version giving rise to a flurry of PR checking, but so far the oldest sources, given by Graham who posts on this site is "Wilces of Ruardean, Maude Barrett, (based on "The Wilce Family of Ruardean, Gloucestershire" by David Wilce".
Is Maude, or David or indeed anyone else around here able to provide evidence of the 1754 Wilce/Rudge marriage or help at all?
We do realise that making connections during this period, especially with common names, is an inexact science and Ruardean was heaving with Wilces and their variant spellings, but I think we will be satisfied if we can come up with a workable version that we can all agree on!

Thanks

Joss