Re: English origin of Phila. Quaker Peter Osborne
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Re: English origin of Phila. Quaker Peter Osborne
earl osborn 9/14/09
I don't have anything new to add to the earlier messages which came from the websites listed. The dates given there are consistent with my family records giving the immigrant Peter's parents as Charles and Elizabeth, which seem to be names Peter and Judith gave their children. There were no doubt many Osborne families in the area. Cousins did marry each other.
It is my understanding that people in England generally did not start using middle names until the early 1800s. It is more likely, in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, that there were many Osbornes rather one man with two names that he used interchangeably.
St. Leonard's and St. Peter's in the 17th century were Anglican Episcopal churches, I think. See http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/interesting/StLeonards/StLeonards.htmhttp://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/interesting/StLeonards/StLeonards.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_Collegiate_Church,_Wolverhamptonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter's_Collegiate_Church,_Wolverhampton) The records I listed are NOT Quaker records (except the ones from Philadelphia). Quaker meetings did not keep good records until late in the 17th century, and few of them have survived.
The current Wolverhampton Quaker Meeting does not have old records, and they only have a very brief history of their meeting. The only mention of our family is Charles Osborne the box maker whose daughter Mary married John Fowler in the meeting on the 12th of the 11th month, 1730. The meetinghouse was on Canal Street from 1859 to 1903, on Horsman Street from then to 1969 when they moved into their current building on Summerfield Road.
You could try tracking Edward and Joseph Osborne who were two spots from Judith Duce in the 1695 Bilston census (as I mentioned in #4595). That might be how Peter came to marry Judith six years later, if Ed and Joe were his brothers or cousins.
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Re: English origin of Phila. Quaker Peter Osborne
earl osborn 9/21/09
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Os Cresson 9/21/09
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Re: English origin of Phila. Quaker Peter Osborne