Birth: 1641 Thursley, Surrey, UK
Father: John Bedford b1614-a1676
Mother: Sarah b1614-1676
Christening: 14 May 1641 St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, UK
Marriage: Unknown
Wife: Unknown
Marriage: 10 September 1676 Farnham, Surrey, UK
Wife: Mary Michiner (Michenor, Mitchener) 1651-a1690
Death: September 1712 St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, UK
Burial: 7 September 1712 St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, UK (see notes)
Jane Bedford 1676
Sarah Bedford 1676-1677
Richard Bedford 1679
Sarah Bedford 1684-1759
Thomas Bedford 1687-1714
Ann Bedford 1690
Christening of John Bedford in the IGI on 14 May 1640 in Thursley, Surrey, father John Bedford. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975.
Entry in West Surrey Family History Society Thursley Baptisms No. 283 for John Bedford, son of John on 14 May 1641. Note there is one year's difference.
Entry in FreeReg for the baptism of John Bedford on 14 May 1641 at St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey, father John Bedford.
Entry in Ancestry London and Surrey, England, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1597-1921 for Mary Michenor aged 30 and John Bedford, a widower of of Southwark, St Saviour, aged 50 in Farnham on 2 September 1676. "2d September 1676 Which day appeared fformally Richard Martin ? Dr of Divinity Chaplain of the High Church of St. Saviours in Southwark in the County of Surrey and alleges that there was a marriage intending to be had and solemnized between John Bedford of the parish of St Saviours afores aged about 50 years & a widdower & Mary Michenor aged about 30 years and a single woman and he does not know or believe there is any lawfull ? or impedimentment to hinder that marriage in any ? ? ?or affinity or other wife ? [...] ? he maketh oath & Prayeth ? for them to be marryed in her parish Church of Ffarnham in the County of Surrey".Entry in FreeReg for the marriage of John Bedford and Mary Mitchener on 10 September 1676 by licence at St Andrew, Farnham, Surrey.
There is an entry for the marriage of John Bedford and Mary Mitchener in the IGI on 10 September 1676 in Farnham, Surrey. The same information is in Ancestry England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973.
Entry in the West Surrey Family History Society West Surrey Marriages adding it was by license, and is immediately preceeded by a Marriage License Allegation for John Bedford of St Saviours, Southwark and Mary Michenor dated 2 September 1676. (Marriage License Allegations were sworn by one of the parties, usually the groom, to the to the effect that there was no impediment to the marriage and where the marriage would take place. The Archbishop of Canterbury, through his Vicar-General, issued common licences for couples to marry in any parish church or chapelry in the province of Canterbury which dispensed with the calling of banns on three successive Sundays.)
His children were baptised on 24 December 1676, 7 September 1679, 21 August 1684, 17 January 1687 and 10 June 1690 at St Michael's and All Angels, Thursley, but only the father's name is given.
Entry in FreeReg for the burial of John (senior) Redford on 7 September 1712 at St Michael and All Angels, Thursley, Surrey. There are no other Redfords in Thursley during this period and I believe this is a trancription error.
There are six entries in Ancestry Family Trees for John Bedford.
John Bedford was my sixth great grandfather.
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