Skipping a quite years and coming to the accessible of the internet and searchable records online. I discovered that the national census was the easiest form of information available to me on family history. So Istarted to trace the people I had discovered in Thame and Twyford, of course there were a lot of years missing in between and I could only start to trace the surname of Wenman not knowing if they were related.
This uncovered more people but not a direct link to any people in my family history, so I decided to start from my grand partners and work backwards from them. I started with my grand mother’s family history, she was born in Drayton Praslow in Buckinghamshire in 1915, so her parents would have been on the 1901 census. The first place I looked was logically Drayton Parslow but found nothing so I started looking at the surrounding villages and found my great grandfather as a child living in nearby Stewkley.
So now I am back to the person who the family history myth centred on. According to the myth his father died after returning from the Boar War of an injury and my great grandfather was offered the opportunity of returning to the family seat to be raised as the next heir. Problem one how do I discover his father and what he died from, I chased various avenues on the Boar War memorials finding nothing
However I did discover he died at 43 years of age in Drayton Praslow so I sent for a copy of his birth certificate, he died of tuberculoses, his name was Joseph Wenman and he was married to Julia Turney. He had several brothers and sisters and his father was a carpenter by the name of John. So here I am with more information that before but no closer to the family history myth but bitten by the family history bug.
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