Hazelbury Bryan with Stoke Wake
St Mary & St James Parish Church - church door

• 1415 Battle of Agincourt - were your ancestors there with Henry V in the thick of the battle or were they, like mine,  "a-bed in England" as Shakespeare wrote? Check the names from the Muster Roll
• 1588 Spanish Armada threatens the south coast.
• 1601 Poor Law Act comes into force.
• 1620 The Mayflower and the Speedwell set sail from Southampton. No ancestors of mine were on board. You can view the passenger  list here
  
• 1642 - 51 English Civil War
• 1649 The Protectorate governs the county until 1660
• 1660 Charles ll is restored to the Stuart throne of England
  
• 1665 The Great Plague
• 1662 The Settlement Act is designed to prevent poor 'economic migrants' moving from one parish to another and becoming a burden on the local residents. Sounds familiar!
  
• 1666 Great Fire of London
• 1688 William & Mary are King And Queen
  
• 1672 the Declaration of Indulgence allowed public worship by nonconformists

• 1714 George  l is king of England and Scotland
  
• After 1720 the face of England was transformed. Vast areas of farmland were 'enclosed', combining strips historically worked by individual tenants into fields to be cultivated by hired labour. Some tenant farmers gravitated to the growing industrial towns, but most had to remain on the land as labourers. Wealthier farmers were now free to experiment with new crops, new growing techniques and new breeds of sheep and cattle; agricultural productivity soared: BBC History
• 1727 George ll is king
  
• 1737 A marriage between Robert Stoddard and Mary KINGE on 28th May at SN - Bishop's Transcripts - will these be ancestors? West Country Genealogy
• Abt. 1752 Birth of John Stoddard ? ancestry to be confirmed.
• 1760 George lll is king
• 1764 - 9 Dec 1764 Birth of William Stoddard born Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset (to be confirmed Dorset
  
• 1764 - 9 Dec 1764 Birth of William Stoddard born Melcombe Regis, Weymouth, Dorset (to be confirmed Dorset Record Office)  Wife Mary, nee? Children: 1. Robert ++ b. 14.08.1836. 2. John b. 26.11.1797 3. Mary Richards b. 05.07.1797 4. Elizabeth Valentina b. 11.11.1799. 5...family continues...
• 1765 HMS Victory is launched at Chatham in Kent.
• Sturninster Newton Marriages: John STODDARD & Martha COURAGE married 06 Feb 1769
  
  John STODDARD & Betty STAGGS married 03 Oct 1785
  
  Robert ROWLAND wid. & Sarah STODDARD married 09 Feb 1789
  
  Robert STODDARD & Charity FINDER married 22 Sep 1789
  
  Thomas CLUITT & Eli STODDARD married 18 June 1791
• 1775 American War of Independence
  
• 1793 Napoleonic Wars until 1815, bread becomes expensive due to lack of imported corn but home production of wheat flourishes.
  

USEFUL LINKS THAT HAVE HELPED ME IN MY RESEARCH

Genes Reunited - from those nice people at Friends Reunited
Global White Directory names search - Bigfoot
Gosport Museum (useful directory search)
Somerset & Dorset Family History Society
Hampshire Family History Research
CD Storing and Handling Advice
Cyndi's List - England - Dorset
Hampsire On Line Parish Clerk
GENUKI Large UK collection
Maternal side - The Dores
Hampshire Record Office
Pratley One-Name Study
Access to Archives a2a
The Victorian Web
UK Streetmaps
UK Phone Book
It's FREE BMD
Google UK
Gosport

The two projects below will become very useful as the work of the volunteers supporting them progresses