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JOHN WOODMAN and ANN TERRY (9)

 

JOHN WOODMAN brought up his family in the Buckinghamshire village of Waddesdon, but we find his baptism in the neighbouring parish of Bieton, just outside Aylesbury.

Baptism. St James, Bierton with Broughton.
1715 Jun 6  John son of William and Hester Woodman.John was their fifth and last child.
His father was a yeoman, in this largely farming parish.
He was born a year after the accession of the first Hanoverian king, George I.

 

ANN TERRY. Ann was born in Waddesdon, where she later raised her family.

Baptism. Waddesdon,
1710 Apr 11 Anne daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Terry of Black Grove.
Blackgrove is named as John and Ann’s residence at the baptism of John and Ann’s eldest son John. The farm was close to the site of a medieval manor.
Her mother was Elizabeth Montague.
Anne was the fifth of seven children,
Like John, she was the child of a yeoman.

Although they were born in different parishes, the nearest marriage we have found for John is in Fleet Marston. Both John and Ann were living there at the time, and they continued to use the graveyard at Fleet Marston for family burials.
Fleet Marston is a parish 2 ½ miles NW of Aylesbury, on the Aylesbury-Waddesdon road. It lies of the banks of the River Thame.
John Wesley preached his first sermon there in 1725, after being ordained as a deacon in the Anglican church.

 Marriage. Fleet Marston.
1736 Feb 2  John Woodman and Ann Terry both of this parish of Fleet Marston.

We have no information about John’s occupation, but, since both were children of yeoman, and their son John also became a yeoman, it is very likely that John was a farmer too.

They raised their family in Waddesdon.

Baptisms. Waddesdon.
1737 Mar 6  John. Residence: Blackgrove.
On 3 Apr 1739 we have the burial in Fleet Marston of Robert, son of John and Ann Woodman.

1739 saw a severe winter, when intense frost caused damage to crops. This would have been a blow to a farmer like John.

1742 Oct 31  Elizabeth
1745 Mar 17  Ann
On 17 Aug 1746, we have the burial, again in Fleet Marston, of Ann, daughter of John and Ann Woodman. It seems that, despite the move to Waddesdon, they were still using the family graveyard at their previous home.
1750 Oct 24/29  Mary
This was also true for Mary, who was buried there on 21 Mar 1750/1.
1753 Apr 30  Robert
Robert was buried in Fleet Marston on 7 Oct 1753. Here, their residence is named as Waddesdon.

So, it seems that only two of their five children survived.

John Woodman was churchwarden of Waddesdon in 1745.

The mot likely burial for John is in Fleet Marston, where his children were buried.

Burial. Fleet Marston.
1767 Oct 26  John Woodman of Stone.

John’s son, John junior, had moved to Stone, and it seems likely that the older John had gone to live with him. The use of the Fleet Marston graveyard confirms this as the John Woodman, previously of Waddesdon. He was 52.

We have no information about Ann’s burial, but the fact that John moved to Stone makes it likely that she had died before him.

 

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