My problem concerns a father and son with the surname of
Cheslin, both called Thomas. The father matriculated on November 27
1652 at St. John's College, Oxford and was Rector of Foxcote or
Foscott, Berkshire. His son graduated from New Inn Hall, Oxford in 1687
and was vicar at Thornborough, and Padbury, Buckinghamshire in 1691 and
1715 respectively. I believe that Thomas Cheslin, senior, married
Dorothie Whitchall, daughter of Robert Whitchall of Addington,
Buckinghamshire. My problem is that I have been unable to find Foxcote
or Foscott, the reference given in Alumnii Oxoniensis. Can anybody shed
any light on either place or the Cheslins? A friend of mine believes
that the village may have been absorbed into a larger town like
Wokingham.
There is a Foxcott in Buckinghamshire and given the
family's association with that county I would suspect that they did
come from Buckinghamshire, rather than Berkshire. Ed.
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