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Thank you all for you efforts it is great that you can spend the time to follow questions like this so thoroughly

Kind Regards Eddie

Repeating the link to BFHS online order page for CD of Buckland Parish Registers:

http://tinyurl.com/gmkw4q5

As someone has said previously, your best bet is to look in the parish registers for Buckland and / or Aston Clinton. Printed transcripts are available to purchase from the Bucks family history society. They may also have CD ROMs, they do for some of them.

Also the marriage certificate for William and Eliza which again, as someone has already said, you can purchase from the GRO, will tell you his father's name which will help to narrow it down.

The Bucks FHS have a help desk at the Local Studies Centre in Aylesbury, I know you are in Australia so can't visit in person, but they may be able to help you, or you may be able to find someone who is going to the centre who could look up for you. I think the Bucks FHS have an index to all the parish registers which can make searching easy, but they are only there on certain days of the week.

Not unless his marriage record is wrong, or Stephen was also known as William.

The following Dwight families are in Buckland in 1841.

Mathew Dwight 27, Sarah 27, Elizabeth 5 months.

George Dwight 25, Ann 25, James 1.

Humphrey Dwight 30, Meria 30, Ann 13, James 10, Colley (daughter) 7, Watkin 3, William 3 months.

Stephen Dwight 55, Colley 26, Daniel 24, Jonathan 18, Ann 16.

So no William Dwight of the right age, but I guess it's possible he could be the son of Stephen Dwight.

Just been having a look through the 1841 census for Buckland and it appears that the enumerator has helpfully put the head of the household down as surname then first name, e.g. Dwight George. With the rest of the family underneath e.g. Ann do. This means that George Dwight's wife Ann is transcribed as Ann George.

I noticed this as I was browsing through to look for your family and noticed a lot of women/children seemed to have surnames that would usually be first names.

I'll keep looking.

No, sorry, Eddie, there seems to be no online birth record for him, and we can't find him in 1841,(though of course he might not have been living with his parents at the time, in any case) so there's no way of knowing who his parents were - apart from the fact that his father seems to have been William, from his marriage cert.

You said,
"William Senior that you mentioned m. Elizabet Jordan 1809 but still does not show a son very puzzling "
You have to bear in mind that church records were patchy even at the time, and many haven't survived.

You might feel it's worth buying the CD of the Buckland Parish Registers via the following link ??

http://tinyurl.com/gmkw4q5

Maddie
Just found this info on his marriage states him as William Chandleer Dwight m.1842 Eliza Barns
Registration District Wycombe Volume 6 Page 561 do you think you might track his parents from this???

Eddie :-)

Looks like a misprint to me as he was down as Charles Dwight on 1881 census in Derbyshire.

Maryb.

Maybe a misprint maybe it was william charles???

Eddie

cant tell who his parents are from 1861, can't find a baptism anywhere. I wonder where the name Chandler came from

maddie

Maddie your 1861 census corresponds with the one I have can you or your team determine from that record some way who his parents were please???
William Senior that you mentioned m. Elizabet Jordan 1809 but still does not show a son very puzzling :-)

according to a tree on ancestry Wiilam senior was married to Mary Pearce in 1803
Name Mary Pearce
Gender Female
Marriage Date 11 Apr 1803
Marriage Place Chesham,Buckingham,England
FHL Film Number 496699
Household Members
Name Age
Wm. Dwite
Mary Pearce
and she died 00/04/1804 • Chesham Buckinghamshire England

Possibly died when giving birth to twin girls Ann and Mary Ann

???????
Name: Elizabeth Jordan
Gender: Female
Baptism Date: 1 Nov 1789
Baptism Place: Amersham, Buckingham, England
Father: James Jordan
Mother: Ann
FHL Film Number: 1999025

Aston Clinton is right beside Buckland - practically the same place.

It still doesn't bring up any other feasible 1841 results.

in 1861 different place of birth from above 1851 census


1861 England, Wales & Scotland Census Transcription
Charteridge Road, Chesham, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England

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Household Members
First name(s) Last name Relationship Marital status Gender Age Birth year Occupation Birth place
William Dwight Head Married Male 39 1822 Agricultural Labourer Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England
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Eliza Dwight Wife Married Female 36 1825 - Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire, England
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Jane Dwight Daughter Unmarried Female 14 1847 - Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
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Jasse Dwight Son - Male 11 1850 - Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
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Ann Dwight Daughter - Female 8 1853 - Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
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Thersa Dwight Daughter - Female 5 1856 - Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England
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Walter Dwight Son - Male 0 1861 - Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England


Occupation Agricultural Labourer
Birth town Aston Clinton
Birth town as transcribed ASTON CLINTON
Birth county Buckinghamshire
Birth county as transcribed BUCKINGHAMSHIRE
Birth place (other) England
Birth place other as transcribed -
Street Charteridge Road

Maybe try contacting the church at Buckland ??

https://www.achurchnearyou.com/buckland-all-saints/

http://allsaintsbuckland.org.uk/

Just for the record, here's another marriage of a William Dwight (or alternative spelling), in the right area and time-frame:

Wm Dwite
in the England, Pallot's Marriage Index, 1780 - 1837
Name: Wm Dwite
Spouse: Mary Pearce
Marriage Date: 1803
Parish: Chesham


No record of either of those Williams having a son William - which doesn't mean they didn't.

This is the only one showing on Ancestry who would have been of a suitable age, and in the right area - BUT there is no way of knowing if he's your William's father or not.
And the family are not in Buckland, where William C was apparently born.

William Dwight
in the 1841 England Census
Name: William Dwight
Age: 60
Estimated birth year: abt 1781
Gender: Male
Where born: Buckinghamshire, England
Civil Parish: Chesham Bois
Hundred: Burnham
County/Island: Buckinghamshire
Country: England
Registration district: Amersham
Sub-registration district: Chesham
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 47
Book: 18
Folio: 7
Page Number: 8
Household Members:
Name Age
William Dwight 60
Elizabeth Dwight 50
Maria Dwight 25
Sarah Dwight 20
Caroline Dwight 15
Joseph Dwight 10
Edwin Dwight 5


Possibly his marriage:

William Dwight
in the England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
Name: William Dwight
Gender: Male
Marriage Date: 29 Mar 1808
Marriage Place: Amersham, Buckingham, England
Spouse: Elizabeth Jordan
FHL Film Number: 1966849
Reference ID: it6

Thanks for all the info It would be appreciated what would I do without your reliable assistance. If you could give me his father William's d.o.b and his wife name if possible as I may have them on my tree somewhere :-S