TOOMEY Family from Churcham (General)

by peteressex , Sunday, February 06, 2011, 08:24 (5044 days ago) @ m p griffiths

Also, Alison, it might be worth searching the parish records on here for links in neighbouring parishes using all the spellings noted by m p griffiths plus "Toommy." In those days it didn't matter so much how a name was spelt as how it sounded. I'm not a mine of information but happened to know that next door at Minsterworth on 29 Dec 1794 Ann "Toommy" (the only record or transcription by that spelling) married Richard Sterry, both said to be of that parish. They were my gt-gt-gt-gt-grandparents. The family website referred to may have confined itself to Churcham and/or limited spellings and timespan - I don't know. Richard Sterry (signing as "Steery" and some of the family today using "Sterrey") is the earliest identified ancestor up that line but might have been connected to much earlier Sterrys of Longhope and Ruardean. I'm not aware of any earlier Toommys or similar related to me, whether at Churcham, Minsterworth or elsewhere but then again I haven't looked very hard for them.