With all this loose talk about a utopian AI text search in Ancestry, I am forced to remind the public that the old problems remain. Here the errors in the Ancestry catalogue cannot be fixed by some fancy dystopian AI tools. Remember the old computer adage: GARBAGE IN EQUALS GARBAGE OUT. #GenHour

For #OnePlaceWednesday l’m at the same place in Aylesbury starting a new parish -Datchet. (now in Berkshire.) On the lookout for #Colnbrook-OPS people who used adjacent parishes.

I’m at the Romany & Traveller event at Chesham Council Offices this afternoon. Do come along. #OnePlaceStudies

Apologies for being quiet about Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy as I have been working on not my #OPS to talk at Ley Hill School. Only 3 houses but there are links to Metroland, Chesham Co-op, Lord Chesham, Chesham Urban District Council and a particular tea plantation in Sri Lanka. 🤔

Today, from #OnePlaceStudy of Colnbrook's department of Silver Linings, a new set of maps of Colnbrook. Courtesy of the council as they issue Parking Orders to introduce charges & permits. Reason for parking restrictions? Too many people affording holidays & not parking at Heathrow Airport.

In Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy a mystery coaching inn has been found. There is only one source, the Horton parish register. For certain the Talbot Inn existed from 1601 to 1637 and the probable reason for its demise. In 1637 there were 7 deaths from the plague including Richard Reeve the Innkeeper.

#GenHour The other thing to report for those with a Buckinghamshire #One-PlaceStudy is the appearance on Ancestry of Bucks Electoral Registers.

#GenHour Now a project for Bucks FHS is done, I'm getting back to Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy. Getting involved in the murky history of farming the poor. One person paid £450 per annum to supply work for Datchet workhouse in 1794. That is a lot of money.

When the case was called on one of the magistrates exclaimed “Colnbrook again!” and well he might say so for the “neighbours” of that town, some of them at least, have several times figured before the bench for their “neighbouring" feuds. Windsor & Eton Express 18 Jul 1840 #Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudy

#One-PlaceStudies Ancestry. Oh Dear, what were you thinking! Always look at the film. I had to go to London Archives Catalogue to get the proper reference (DRO/106/A/01/001) The front cover of the register is missing from the film, probably in a half hearted attempt to hide their mistake.

#GenHour Now Colnbrook-OPS website is open www.colnbrook-ops.co.uk, I need to get the William Hammond Bailey's sorted out in who did what. There were three of them, Father, Son & Grandson. Which one ran the inn, Who became a lodging house keeper. And who lost another beer licence? #One-PlaceStudy

#Colnbrook #One-PlaceStudies After a quiet time on social media, I'm here to report that the Colnbrook OPS website www.colnbrook-ops.co.uk website is now an Open Site, not requiring a login to view the contents. There is still a lot of content to be created.

#GenHour All keyboard work today adding property details to Colnbrook people. Also a bit of adding random information to random people. 😉 Just done Edward Seymour Teulon who died in Colnbrook & buried in Islington. Confirmed by the address in the register. That will do nicely! 👍

This little gem came off the shelves today to help Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy by tracing a family. The Book was produced by WEA Slough & Eton in 1974 and reprinted in 1995. A great example of getting fine detail out of the records for just one year in 127 pages. Something to aspire to achieve.

This #OnePlaceWednesday I have finished the sampling the Land Tax Record for Colnbrook-OPS. Once every 10 years. Unfortunately they end in 1830, leaving a gap before the census. It also appears that the Victualler's Licensing records fall short only getting to 1828.

Hello #GenHour. Having made a breakthrough, finding Richard Blunt Guy owning a tenement in Colnbrook, the Land Tax Assessments put a spanner in the works by showing his property in Horton. While Poll books shows property in Langley, the other side of the street. Absentee Landlord he was in Islington

#OnePlaceStudies Colnbrook-OPS has at least 2 ppl who partook in the fatal meal at Castle Inn when 11 members of Colnbrook Turnpike Trust were accidentally poisoned by ill prepared Turtle Soup on 29 Mar 1773. Wm Burcombe was a Mercer & Draper & Henry Isherwood was brewer in Windsor who owned Inns.

For #OnePlaceWednesday I’m back at in the Archives looking at Land Tax for Colnbrook. They provide a link between landowners & tenants some with a description. Although the tenants also sub-let parts of a of tenement to others. Inns are different, the real landlord of “the landlord” can be found.

#OnePlaceStudies I have just watched on YouTube a Gresham College lecture on the Pevsner Guides to English Buildings county by county. He describes the buildings with a touch of criticism where deserving. Example Aylesbury's Market Sq: "CLOCK TOWER, 1876 by Brandon, insipid Gothic with a spire."

#OnePlaceStudies Checking the images from an expedition to the archives. All appear to be in focus, so that’s a bonus 😀 These show the attempt to raise the status of Colnbrook by restarting the cattle market in 1833 and using the tolls over the years for paving the High Street and Gas lighting.

#GenHour Today in #Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy there has been a bit of organising as the records collected at Bucks Archives are checked. The Horton Land Tax is interesting a the Excise Officer's Spelling of names was very poor. I hope they could do sums better! The Image is just a partial list. 😃

Hello #AncestryHour I'm still working my way through licensing records for #Colnbrook with the land tax records. I have discovered 5 of them were owned by Messrs Thurbin & Co in 1798. They were brewers from Harmondsworth, Middx. #OnePlaceStudies

#Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy has a famous son William Bernhardt Tegetmeier who was born at Colnbrook End and baptised in Stanwell church 8 Dec 1816 He has a Wikipedia page His father was a Surgeon in Colnbrook for a few years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

#GenHour At the moment I'm trying to match the 1791 Land Tax with the properties in #Colnbrook High Street and the 1791 Licensing for the parishes of Langley & Horton. Also wondering if the wonderfully named Half Moon and Seven Stars is in my #OnePlaceStudy

#GenHour Just a quick Advert to say I'll be representing Bucks FHS at the East Surrey History Fair while looking for any excuse to talk about #OnePlaceStudies especially #Colnbrook.

#OnePlaceWednesday I'm looking for Nicholas Brokenshire who turned up in Colnbrook in 1790 to marry the recently widowed Elizabeth Stransom & become Licensee of the King's Arms. Then just as promptly disappear! All the baptisms appear to be from Cornwall or Devon. Has anybody lost a Brokenshire?

#GenHour It was quarter past and I'm late! On the other screen are some Quarter Sessions Licensing records I need to transcribe for #Colnbrook. In 1768 three of the five Inns in Horton are in Colnbrook. In Langley there are four pubs in Colnbrook, but there are two the name George. & Crown in Iver!

#OnePlaceWednesday It can be said that a #OnePlaceStudy is really a #HouseHistory that has slipped the leash & gone feral. In its defence I blame Manorial documents describing property “… adjoining to West Greyhound Inn, South the King’s Highway, East Mr Kimber’s occupied by Widow” I rest my case.😀

Reading Mercury Monday 30 September 1793 #OnePlaceStudies #Colnbrook

#OnePlaceStudies The existence of The Angel Inn, Colnbrook is only known due to nine burial entries between 1573 & 1741. Including: John CHRISTOPHER after plague out of the house of the late Gipe in the mark of the Angel, buried out of the house of God." Dangerous job, being Cleric! #Colnbrook

#FamilyHistory #Geneology Hambelden Bucks. Burial entry for 19 February 1681 : Widow CHIPES was the wife of six husbands, Deae, Strong, Tiler, Cooke, Leaver, & Chipes, buried at Turvell. Guess who is checking parish register indexes! 😀

#OnePlaceWednesday The Constable for Colnbrook sworn an affidavit in Midsummer 1785 saying he was charged 6d per Vagrant by local Magistrate for certificates. He has received £40 on account and the Magistrate has been “asked” to attend next Quarter Sessions to explain illegal fees #InTrouble

#Colnbrook-OPS #OTD in 1852 Thomas Ibotson Gent died and buried at Poyle United Reform Church. Shout out to @westmiddlesexfh.bsky.social for having the foresight to record the monumental inscriptions in 1986. The chapel was replaced with a block of flats. #OnePlaceStudies

You know when a Settlement Order of Easter 1793 provides a glimpse of a totally different world when Hammersmith, London is described as: "... hamlet of Hammersmith in the parish of Fulham in the County of Middx." The satellite image is the same place today. #OnePlaceStudies #History #LocalHistory

Back in @bucksarchives.bsky.social today. Not sure I reserved although the kind archivists will leave something on the table. #OnePlaceStudies #Colnbrook. Come to think about it, Quarter Sessions may be involved. Not only about crime, also the running of Buckinghamshire.

William Talbot of Colnbrook, Labourer is staring at the camera. 6th Feb 1871 he was convicted of stealing wheat and sentenced to one month with hard labour. Description says he is aged 41 and is 5ft 4, with grey eyes. Looking at faces of people in your #OnePlaceStudy can be unsettling.

Back to School and work, holidays are over. Poyle Mills would be operating. The picture shows the Colnbrook Boy's National School. The yard was shared with the girl's school. In foreground the yard is divided from track leading to St Thomas' church behind the school. #OnePlaceStudies #Colnbrook

Happy New Year for 2025 from #Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy The first was also a new start for Eliza Irons baptised on the first day of 1809 in St Mary Chapel, Colnbrook. Her father, John, was a Labourer and probably came from outside Bucks. Ann his wife came from Hungerford, Berks.

#familyhistory #genealogy Considering the possibility that surnames of travellers were deliberately left off baptism registers. Too many just have Christian names only to be pure chance. The effect would stop a child being settled in a parish & getting any poor relief, due to lack of evidence. 1/2

Thursday 26th December 1816, Boxing Day. After a day celebrating Christmas, John Holderness, Petty Constable for Colnbrook in Langley Marish Manor received eleven vagrants with walking passes being sent to their home parishes by the Middx JPs. Cost to Buckingham £2 9s 6d #Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy

Old Public Rooms, Colnbrook. From 1855 it was used to distribute payments made by Town Houses Charity to the poor of Colnbrook. The rooms were used when non-conformists became charity trustees & there was a move away of using Inns & Beerhouses for the payouts. #OnePlaceStudies Now a private home.

Signatures in records play an important part in #OnePlaceStudies. Here those in Horton side are in that parish & lived on South side of the street. Langley was on the North. From Colnbrook Town Book dated 1690. There 15 men were running #Colnbrook and where farmers, innkeepers, & shopkeepers

A 1950s Christmas Card from a Colnbrook resident showing a route around all pubs, including Poyle & Longford. Many of the Inns and beer houses like the Swan, Royal Standard, Chequers, Green Man, Catherine Wheel, and others had closed. Merry Christmas to all viewers of Colnbrook #OnePlaceStudy

For any research my favourite record type are accounts & receipts. Where else would you find the cost of arranging the burial of Roger Farmer, vagant, in 1793. Henry Bullock JP signed the order to pay W Bailey 10s. But, I cannot find a burial record for the poor soul. #OnePlaceStudy

#GenHour - Merry Christmas to all. Christmas Eve in Colnbrook was the local Town Houses Charity made payments to the poor. Usually equivalent to two weeks wages for a labourer. #OnePlaceStudy

#GenHour During the last visit to @bucksarchives.bsky.social I discovered there was a Bucks Herald newspaper in 1792. 40 years before the earliest surviving copy. The Clerks to the Quarter Sessions paid over £58 on adverts that year. Need to discover what happened and if any examples exist.

#OnePlaceStudies #Colnbrook-OPS Brookmead, built in 1934 as a family home for and by Fred Sargeant. Extended over the years to become a guest house then later an Italian Restaurant. Being one to reuse material, the arched window must have been a bit of architectural salvage.

#familyhistory #genealogy #localhistory #history #oneplacestudies #genhour For those starting your England research journey.

#OnePlaceStudy #GenHour Colnbrook's link to history of Rowing is through the Vicar's son John Goldie, who was commemorated by name of Cambridge Boathouse and the name of their reserve crew. His father, Charles Goldie was a cricketer before becoming Vicar of Colnbrook & later moving to St Ives.

#OnePlaceWednesday Colnbrook, Bucks seen from Middx side of County bridge. Boundary with Coal Tax post on right. Kerb on left of road is Horton / Langley Marish parish & manorial boundary. Each elected their own Petty Constables & for a while different closing times for the pubs. #OnePlaceStudy