Hi,wonder if anyone can help please?I am looking for the parents of Joshua Simmonds,born in Frampton Cotterell.He married Margaret Chesker in 1760.They had a son,Samuel,born 1769(who married Betty Peake).
I have come to a dead end on tracing Joshua's parents and also those of Margaret Chesker.

Frampton Cotterell is outside the Forest of Dean and it does not fall within the area covered by Gloucestershire Family History Society. You would be best served by making contact with Bath and Avon FHS or placing an enquiry on Rootschat

Thank you for your reply,I will try both of these.

Although Frampton Cotterell is outside the Forest of Dean - under the Resource Section there are

Gloucestershire Marriage Allegations 1847-1837 and Marriage Bonds 1730-1802

Frampton Cotterell a marriage by Licence - 2 March 1768 (which is 6 years after Joshua SIMMONDS married)

Thomas SYMONDS age 62, Widower, residence : Frampton Cotterell

Elizabeth NEAVEN - age 60, Widow, residence: Frampton Cotterell

Marriage by: Licence

He marks

Event type: Marriage Allegation

Memoranda: To marry at Frampton

Licence issued by John GABB

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Also a Marriage Bond - 2 January 1748 at Frampton Cotterell

Walter SOMERTON - Blacksmith
residence: Ledwell in the parish of Sanford in the County of Oxon

Ann CHESTER, spinster, residence: Frampton Cotterell

by Marriage Bond.

he signs

Witness one: William GINGELL a Feltmaker of Frampton Cotterell
Witness two: Jno SHELLARD

Memoranda: The groom and William GINGELL are bound in the sum of £100. To marry at Frampton COTTERELL

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? The CHESTER family may be non-conformists i.e.

Non-conformist CLDS: Thomas & Margaret CHESTER - daughter Hannah - 11 November 1733 Bristol

Thank you MPGriffiths for this info,maybe Joshua remarried then.I wondered if Chesker may be Chester instead.

Although Whitchurch records are on the Forest of Dean records - I can't see this baptism, but it is on the CLDS

Margaret CHESTER - christened 6 May 1746 - at Whitchurch, Shropshire - parents: Thomas & Margaret

As girls could marry at 14 and boys at 12 - this could be a possible.

CLDS

Thos. CHESTER married Margt HIDE - 1 June 1730 Bisley, Glos

I think the surname appears to be CHESTER on a number of other records from CD's - Fod has 60 records for this surname

If Joshua married late, or remarried, there is this from CLDS,

Name: Joshuah Seymons
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 11 Jan 1711
Christening Place: Frampton-Cotterell, Gloucester, England
Father's Name: Richard Seymons
Mother's Name: Hannah

Thank you Mike,things are beginning to look a bit clearer!

Amongst others there is a Whitchurch just south of Bristol, a Whitchurch in Shropshire and a Whitchurch in Herefordshire. The Parish Records on this site are for the latter.

Mike