Saturday, February 22, 2014

Surname Saturday - AXE (Somerset, England)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  


I am in the 7th great-grandmothers and I'm up to Ancestor #867, but I don't know who she is. So onward to #869, who is Joan AXE (1682-1748
).   [Note: the earlier great-grandmothers and 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through just one generation in this AXE family line is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver (1943-living)

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)


6.  Lyle Lawrence Carringer (1891-1976)
7.  Emily Kemp Auble (1899-1977)

12.  Henry Austin Carringer (1853-1946)
13.  Abbey Ardell Smith (1862-1944)

26.  Devier James Lamphier Smith (1839-1884)
27.  Abigail A. Vaux (1844-1931)


54.  Samuekl Vaux (1814-1880)
55.  Mary Ann Underhill (1816-1883)

108.  James Vaux (1787-1839)
109.  Mary Palmer (1788-1844)

216.  John Vaux (1747-1806)
217.  Joanna Laver (1763-1836)


434.  John Laver (1722-1786)
435.  Elizabth Wills (1725-1795)

868.  John Laver, born before 19 May 1686 in South Petherton, Somerset, England; died before 26 September 1755 in South Petherton, Somerset, England.  He married 1709 in South Petherton, Somerset, England.
869.  Joan Axe, born 1682 in South Petherton, Somerset, England; died before 01 April 1748 in South Petherton, Somerset, England.

Child of John Laver and Joan Axe is:

*  John Laver, born before 30 October 1722 in South Petherton, Somerset, England; died before 01 January 1796 in South Petherton, Somerset, England; married Elizabeth Wills 16 April 1750 in Crewkerne, Somerset, England.  She was born about 1725 in Somerset, England, and died about 1795 in South Petherton, Somerset, England.

That's all I know about this Laver and Axe couple - just one child is in my database, but I suspect they had more and some investigating the South Petherton parish registers, and perhaps the online English databases on FamilySearch, would reveal more children.  Another item for the To-Do list.

The vital record information came from the parish church records of South Petherton and surrounding parishes in Somerset.  The information has been collected in an unpublished manuscript provided by the author:

Sara Anson Vaux, The Vaux Family of England, the United States, and Australia (unpublished).

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Copyright (c) 2014, Randall J. Seaver

1 comment:

Radar said...

Hi Randy,
I have no "useable" link to the Axe surname. My wife's FTDNA matches when I filter for that surname, results in two hits listed as distant cousins.

23rd cousins 8x removed? :-)

Chris Kramer
@kgtreesearch
Kgtreesearch@gmail.com