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Dear Emma,
Thank you so much for your quick response!
Going back to our common ancestor - the 1751 Cheeseman; it would seem his wife Ann Hussey comes from another big local family with some research dedicated to it - if I come by any more about her and it's of interest to you I'll pass it on.
It may be a complete coincidence but in 1865, Mary Adelaide of Hanover gave birth to Adolphus Teck, Duke of Cambridge in Kensington Palace... as for Christiana, I'm not sure.... King Christian IX came to the throne of Denmark in 1863, but you'd have to be a fairly radical royalist to commemorate it with the name of your daughter!
At the outbreak of the Great War Charles Cheesman (1829) was living with his daughter Alice and son-in-law Nicholas Botzet in Kensington, where Nicholas worked as a baker according to the census, or a confectioner/pastry maker according to my dad. Interestly another of his daughters also married a German baker called Schmeider (one of their sons is later adopted by Nicholas and Alice)- so there would seem to be a story there.
My father always maintained the change to Cheeseman was to protect business - at the time Kensington was a very poor part of London, and I would imagine with the royal family adopting Windsor in favour of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha opinion was very much turning against the sizeable population of immigrant Germans.
I must call in at West Ilsley - part of the week I only work up the road in Abingdon, and for a few years I lived in Ardington, which can only be five miles away as the crow flies... you wouldn't know if there are any gravestones left in situ there would you?
Anything you could send through would be fantastic - my email address is karlharrison17@hotmail.com.
Thanks again,
Karl
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