Joseph Finden was born in 1723 in Old Warden, Bedfordshire, England. In 1749, at the age of 26, he married Ann Buckingham in Haynes, Bedfordshire, on 24 December 1749.
They then appear to have produced four children, although I do wonder if they lived somewhere other than Old Warden between 1749 and 1755 as that's an unusually big gap for people in my tree before producing their first child!
Well, wherever they were between 1749 and 1755, they produced four children that were baptised at Old Warden, Bedfordshire - at St Leonard's Church (the photo above is St Leonard's, Old Warden).
- 1755 Mary Finding
- 1757 Thomas Finding
- 1761 Sarah Finding
- 1764 Ann Finding
This information was gleaned from the Familysearch website. However, you do have to take a leap of faith that you've chosen the right family when you're this far back and people move about a bit! If this family turns out to be the correct Finding family, then my interest in in Thomas Finding, who would be my GGGGG-grandfather. Joseph and Ann Finden would be my GGGGGG-grandparents.
Finden/Finding: When families move parishes or vicars change, as they can't read/write, it's up to the local vicar to spell names in the baptism records. The parents of these four children are listed simply as Joseph and Ann. This could explain the apparent change in spelling of the names between parents and children.
I don't have a transcript of these parish records as I've moved into new areas in discovering this potential link. Old Warden is not, at the time of writing, on FreeREG and, from what I understand, it is very unlikely to be in the near future unless somebody owns the data already and gifts it to them. The Bedfordshire Family History Society have a CD of the parish records, with monumental inscriptions, for £15. So that'll just go onto the Wishlist for now.
Images:
St Leonard's Church, Old Warden CC SA 2.0
Joseph Finding Family Tree = this blog/mine
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