Helsdon, Helsden, Hilsden, Elsdon, Elsden genealogy

 

HELSDON FAMILY TREE at Chedburgh/Chevington    01 September 2006

 

                                                        b=born m=married d=died            Dr G.M.W.Mann    Baytrees

                                                        C=Christened   B=Buried            Burnhams Rd,   Lt.Bookham

                                                                                           Surrey, U.K.     KT23 3AU

                                                                                           geoff.mann@btinternet.com

 

                                                                                             HELSDON family summary

                                                        BO=Belchamps Otten ESS

                                                        Ch=Chedburgh SFK

                                                        Cv=Chevington SFK

                                                        D =Depden SFK

                                                        LY=Little Yeldham ESS

                                                       

  9           Edmund ELSDEN-m-Alice SMITH

              bc1635?       | m 4Oct1659Ch

              B6May1695Ch   | B28Jny1711Ch

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                            |              [1]

                     1------^-2-ELSDEN-3--------------------4----------5--------6-----------------------7-------8----------9

  8                  Alice    Edmond   John--?-m-Magdalene  Stephen    Mary     Robert--m--Mary GOYMER  Mary    Catharine  Arthur

                     bc1663?  C1666Ch  C1672Ch |            C1673Ch    C1675Ch  C1677Ch |  m1698Ch      C1679Ch C1681Ch    C1684Ch

                     B1685Ch                   |            B1674Ch    dc1676?          |                       B1683Ch    B1686Ch

                                               ?                                        |

                                               |                                        |

                [2]                            |                                        |

     1-------2-----------------3---------4-----^-5-ELSDEN-6-------7-------8           1-^------2--------3----ELSDEN--------4---?----5

  7  Robert  Edmund-?m-Mary    William   Mary    Abraham  Isaac   Mary    Thomas      John     Robert   Robert-m-Margaret  Sarah    Joseph

     C1704Cv C1705Cv | mc1728  C1707Cv   C1709Cv C1712Cv  C1714Cv C1717Cv C1719Cv     C1698Ch  bc1700   C1702D | WEBB      C1704D   C1716D

            ?B1759BO | B1782BO ?m1727Cv  B1711Cv          B1714Cv B1718Cv B1719Cv              B1701D          | m1726D    B1704D

                     |         ?Elz.SALISBURY                                                                  | 

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             [3]     |                                                                                         |         

     1--HELSDON--2---^---3-------4-------5-------6-------7-------8---------9                              1----^--2--ELSDEN----

  6  Mary        Edmund  Ann     Susan   Henry   Sarah   Ruth    Elz’th    Elz’th                         Mary    Robert   

     C1729LY     C1733BO C1734BO C1736BO C1740BO C1743BO C1745BO C1750BO   C1752BO                        C1726D  C1731D

                 church                                                                                   B1751BO ?m1746Ch           

                  clerk                                                                                             Fr.SOUTER                 

 

 

[1]     John & Magdalene ELSDEN baptised their children at Chevington from 1704 to 1719, but their marriage has not been found and there is no confirming evidence that John was John, the son of Edmund baptised at Chedburgh in 1672.  However Chedburgh and Chevington are only 2 miles apart, and John named his second son Edmund

 

[2]     It is very speculative to identify the Edmund who baptised his children at Belchamps Otten in Essex with the Edmund baptised at Chevington in 1705.  The parishes are about 12 miles apart.  However, no burial or marriage of the Chevington Edmund was found in that parish and this forename is relatively uncommon

 

[3]      Edmund ELSDON was church clerk of Belchamps Otten from 1754 to 1761 so is likely to be Edmund junior rather than his father who was buried in 1759.  Edmund was succeeded as parish clerk by Isaac HELSDON.  Isaac however came from Haverhill in SFK (see HELSDON tree T0) and no connection between Isaac and Edmund has been established though it seems too much of a coincidence for successive clerks to bear the same surname without some link between them.  Haverhill is about 9 miles East of Belchamps Otten; Chevington is about 12 miles North.