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Placing her here as the daughter of Thomas Attwood "the elder" comes from the marriage deed from January 1739, which can be summarized as follows: Marriage settlement of Nicholas Holtam the Younger and Sarah Attwood. Indenture tripartite between (1) Nicholas Holtam the Elder of Cherington (Warcs.) and Nicholas Holtam the Younger of Cherington, (2) Thomas Attwood the Elder of Cherington and Sarah Attwood of Cherington, spinster daughter of Thomas Attwood, and (3) John Holtam of Cherington and Thomas Attwood the Younger. Indenture, with 6 seals (missing). Acquired 3/10/1959, H. Bowditch, accession no. 926368. The deed details come from the Harvard Law Library deed collection.

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I know she was born before July 1705 as she is mentioned in her grand mother's will of that date.

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I know she was born before July 1705 as she is mentioned in her grand mother's will of that date.

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I know she was born before July 1705 as she is mentioned in her grand mother's will of that date.

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I know she was born before July 1705 as she is mentioned in her grand mother's will of that date.

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The parish register says he was buried March 30, 1704. That must be 1070 as per the MI.

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In the 1900 census, she is shown as being born in New York. Her parents were born in Ireland and Ireland. His (Nevin's) mother-in-law also lives there and her name seems to be Blane or Blair.

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I am making a guess re her last name and their marriage. There is a John Timms who married an Elizabeth Watkins on December 30, 1852, by banns. He was a 22 year old bachelor, son of Edward Timms, farmer, deceased. She was a 23 year old spinster, daughter of William Watkins, farmer. The witnesses were William Timms and Sarah Timms.

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There are entries in the burial records for Whichford and the MI's referring to other Timms from Dorn and Moreton-in-the Marsh. I expect that they are related. The last on was from 1977 Are there still some there?

He and Margaret are in Batsford, Gloucester, in the 1891 census. Only Elizabeth Gertrude is with them.

This William and his wife appear to be in Ditchford (Blockley parish) in the 1901 census. He was 45 years old and born in Whichford. His wife Margaret was 43 and was born in Green Hill Lane, Derbyshire. The children were William E. 8, born in Batsford, Gloucester and John G., born in Ditchford. Where was Elizabeth?

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June Timms Thornton advised me that he was a bachelor.

I believe that I have found him in the 1901 census for England. He is listed as a single person working as a farm bailiff in Alderminster. He has a house servant, Margaret Jones, 29, living with him.

His MI says that he died at age 50, which is accurate because he was just about to turn age 51 when he died.

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He appears in the 1881 census as 21 years old. There is an Edward Timms in the MI's for Whichford who died June 2, 1932 at 72 years of age. He appears right below a William Timms who died December 18, 1927 at 72 years of age and right above them are Francis and Edward and Elizabeth, so I think it is him.

In 1901, he was living with his parents in Dorn, and shown as single. So if he did marry later in life, it was after 1901.

June Timms (Thornton) advises that he married his childhood sweetheart late in life. Who she was I do not yet know. Likewise I do not know if they had any children. Someone on Ancestry has him marrying his cousin Bessie Basson in 1927. That seems very odd indeed. There is however, an administration of his estate on JUne 29, 1932 to a Bessie Timms, widow, and William Evans Timms.