Ten weeks and counting...(now in weeks)

Wow this time in 10 weeks we will be at the airport checking in for this once in a life time trip of discovery.

I spent some this morning getting my research in order, so I can have a print out of the Family Tree for the other tour members to read. Well really to get their heads around who is who in the family.

So with 70 sleeps left and Christmas over and New Year Eve a day away time is going to fly quickly now...

AB will working on her packing before we know it... I guess I will be in for a few phone calls regarding that...

Let me take this opportunity to wish everyone a fabulous 2011, may all your dreams come true.

Edward Currell 1857 - 2nd May 1936

Edward was the second child of Rebecca (nee Orchard) & Henry Currell born in 1857 and Baptised on 25^th March 1860 at Swanbourne Buckinghamshire England. Charles was first born with Emily Martha, George, James Harry, Mary Ann and Samuel William to follow. Emily Martha and Samuel are both noted to have died in March 1871 both being buried at Swanbourne. The family resided in Swanbourne up until 1873.  

It is presumed that Edward won a scholarship to attend the King Edwards School for boys in Godalming, Surrey. As he was listed as an inmate in the 1871 census, one also could presume he may have been there a couple of years. With Henry on an agricultural labourer wage it is hard to imagine he would be able to afford the tuition. What ever Edward was studying was obviously stopped by the move to Australia.

Henry was born circa 1827 in Swanbourne, to father Luke Edward Currell and Mother Sarah Waddup. He passed away on 3^rd February 1870 for reasons that are unknown to me. 

Luke Edward was born circa 1790 and is listed as being born at Clappill, Oxford England and Sarah born circa 1785 in Bicester, Oxfordshire. Luke and Sarah married on 3^rd October 1813 in Bicester with witnesses being Ann Massey and Samuel Brockliss. Luke was an agricultural labourer. Sarah had become blind later in life.

Clappill no longer exists, it was probably a tithing long since disappeared or swallowed up in agricultural expansion. Ron Currell GGGrandson of Luke who lives in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire has been researching the Currell family since 1980. And an extensive search by Ron through all the Oxfordshire Parish registers has produced nothing, as with Buckinghamshire.

The problem with ‘shifting’ county boundaries could mean that the part they new as Oxfordshire are now in one of the surrounding counties, but which one?

Luke and Sarah had a large brood to contend with:

William 16 Sept 1815 Bicester - 31 Oct 1815 Swanbourne Infant;

John 14 Dec 1815 Bicester - 1905 Swanbourne;

Martha 23 Sept 1817 - ?;

Thomas 2 Dec 1818 - ?;

Mary 12 Aug 1821 Swanbourne - 2 Oct 1860 Swanbourne age 39;

William 1822-1822 Infant;

Anne 31 Sept 1823 Swanbourne - -9 Nov 1849 Swanbourne age 26;

Henry 18 Oct 1827 - 3^rd Feb 1870 Swanbourne;

Charles 28 Nov 1829 - 1 July 1848 age 18;

Edward 23 June 1833;

          Jane 14 April 1836 - 18 April 1836 infant

Charles, Henry, Edward, George Currell

Edward Currell