I hope that someone can assist - we're trying to find the parents (and further back of Edward Boucher. I've hit the brick wall with this one. This is what we know:
Birth: Before 1641/1656, Milverton, England, UK - unsure of the year
Death:1709, Wiveliscombe, England, UK.
We know that he was a yeoman farmer in the parish of Wiverliscombe, Somerset.
Family Members:Children:Ann Boucher, Edward Boucher, Grace Boucher, John Boucher, Thomas Boucher, Robert Boucher, William (Butcher) Boucher
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Here are my notes:
Our first known ancestor (in Wiveliscombe) is EDWARD BOUCHER "The Elder" of Milverton, alt spelt BUTCHER.
He took a land grant by copy of Court Roll of Simmon's Holt (Langley) in the Parish of Wiveliscombe, on 7 May (17 Chas. I) 1641…(description of titles, deeds) on May 7 1641.
On March 24 1656, Lady Hawley made a lease to Thomas Hedford of Ester Broadfields for 99 years determinable - based on lives of John Hedford, Thomas Boucher and John Boucher, sons of Edward Boucher of Wiveliscombe. On April 22 1669, Edward Boucher took a grant of Atkin's Tenement at Ford, Wiveliscombe, for the lives of himself and John and Edward, his sons.(This cottage still exists and is known as Atkin's Cottage). He is described as Edward Boucher The Elder of Wiveliscombe.
His will is dated June 17 1705, proved 23 May 1710
Buried at Wiveliscombe 18 Nov 1709 .
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I have one partial record for an ancesor of Edward's (I think) from the Church of LDS:
Church of LDS - http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=700034985351&lds=1®ion=2®ionfriendly=British+Isles&frompage=99
Edward Boucher Birth:
North Curry, Somerset, England
Marriage: 07 MAY 1614
<North Curry, Somerset, England>
Death:
Johan. Weech Birth:
North Curry, Somerset, England
Death:
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It might be the above Edward - Milverton, North Curry and Wiveliscombe are close together - but he'd have been well over 110 years old (if it was him and he got married in 1614!) Was that possible in the 17th century?
And that's all the information thre generations of Bouchers have been able to find.