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- 4 photos on Marcham appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Marcham
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Fortescue and Church families
I don't have a memory as such, but I have been researching my family history and have traced my mother's family back to this place. My mother was born in 1916 and lived in Oxford. However, her grandfather came from Marcham and I've now traced the family back (so far) to the 1600's. They were Fortescues and Churches, all from Marcham. In the main the males were farm labourers and my mother's grandfather moved to Oxford to become head gardener at one of the colleges.
There is a record of the family being joined by marriage 200 years ago and, also, my mother's parents were a Fortescue and a Church.
If anybody has any memories of these families, or descend from ...read more here
Contributed by anne woodford
Oxfordshire memories
Fortescue and Church families
I don't have a memory as such, but I have been researching my family history and have traced my mother's family back to this place. My mother was born in 1916 and lived in Oxford. However, her grandfather came from Marcham and I've now traced the family back (so far) to the 1600's. They were Fortescues and Churches, all from Marcham. In the main the males were farm labourers and my mother's grandfather moved to Oxford to become head gardener at one of the colleges.
There is a record of the family being joined by marriage 200 years ago and, also, my mother's parents were a Fortescue and a Church.
If anybody has any memories of these families, or descend from ...read more here
A memory of Marcham contributed by anne woodford
cheers steanes langfords simons and more
My mother's ancestors all seemed to live in Abingdon and the surrounding villages of Launton, Kiddlington, Bicester, Charlbury etc. and I am collecting photographic records of these families and their activities for a family tree. Photos are a good way of recording events. There are many text genealogical websites, but few, if any where one can get photos of one's ancestors activities. Where people can give and recieve photos for research. Villages I've visted when in England seemed to have changed little over time.
A memory of Abingdon contributed by Yoga-Prakash Saraswati
The Prior family of Steventon
My grandmother lived in Steventon with her own grandmother around 1880. She was Florence Prior and her own gran was Eliza Prior who by then was a widow and a laundress living in Timsbury Cottage. I have tried to find the cottage but the only place I have seen with a similar name is Timsbury Villa. I sometimes wonder if it is the same place. My own visit to Steventon was around 1986. I remember visiting St Michael's Church and having a picnic in the next field among all the cowslips and other wild flowers. It was beautiful. I walked around the churchyard and found many tombstones for the Prior family including one who was in the Grenadier Guards and was ...read more here
A memory of Steventon contributed by John Howard Norfolk
Extracts From Marcham & Oxfordshire books
West of the crossroads,
Church Street runs north
from Frilford Road,
behind the camera, to the
church, glimpsed to the
left of the big tree at the
far end. The big painted
stone house in the left
distance, No 15, is mainly
17th- and 18th-century,
and has some stone
mullioned windows. The
barn on the right has had
the almost flat roofed
shed replaced by a wing
with a pitched roof.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
From the Hanneys
the route heads along
the A338 road towards
Oxford, turning right
onto the A415 at
Frilford; heading back
towards Abingdon,
our last stop is in
Marcham village.
This view is at the
village crossroads,
looking across the
main A415 Frilford
Road from Mill Road
into North Street. The
white building on the
right is the Crown
pub, its 17th-century
stonework painted.
The garage business
remains, although the
canopy has gone.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
The last view in Marcham was
taken from the parish church
tower looking south-east towards
Parkside, a large estate of 1950s
former council houses. To the
right behind the line of lime trees
is the east arm of Church Street,
which runs along the south side
of the churchyard. To the left and
out of view is Denman College,
formerly Marcham Park, a late
Georgian mansion. Now owned
by the National Federation of
Women’s Institutes and renamed
after their founder, Lady
Denman, it is a residential adult
education college.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
All Saints’ Parish Church was rebuilt in 1837 by William Fisher from Oxford, who kept the plain
13th-century west tower and reused several windows, doorways and arches. He was mainly a
builder, but designed a few churches, including St Ebbe’s in Oxford (1814-17). Above the porch door
is a niche with a modern statue of Jesus with two lambs.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".
The Crown and Thistle
Hotel, first mentioned
in 1605, was a coaching
inn, and one of the town’s
best known ones. It is
still popular, and has the
truncated remains of its
inn courtyard within – we
see it here from the yard
end of the carriageway
through the building.
The further part of the
yard in this view now has
a roof supported on posts
to give shelter to tables
and chairs.
An extract from from"Abingdon Photographic Memories".