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Irving Family Stories |
Line of descent |
James Irving "of Reading" (c1712-1772) married Elizabeth Page "of Bledlow" in West Wycombe in Buckinghamshire in 1736. His is the earliest confirmed evidence of the Irving family.
Fact CheckThere are many published trees on the internet that purport to show a line of ancestry backwards in time beyond James Irving (c1712-1772). None of these is able to show any documentary evidence of James' parentage and at best can be regarded as speculation. It is hoped that genealogical DNA analysis will eventually provide such evidence. Almost all the family trees on the internet that show generations before James rely upon the last will and testament written in 1732 of another James Irving, of Marlow, and a marriage of yet another James Irving who married a Mary Horsenell in St Sepulchre in Holborn in 1713. None of these documents establish a positively identifiable family connection between any of them. Incredibly many of these trees also wrongly attribute a middle name of "Creswick" to James Irving. This name was given to a completely different and unrelated James Irving who was born in Liverpool a century later. Sadly, such unreasoned copying is all too prevalent in the world of the internet, as can be seen on our "Fact Checking" page. |
The associated Page, also known as Littlepage, family are from Buckinghamshire. The earliest Page family member identified is John Page, Teresa's 11 times great grandfather, who was buried at Great Hampden in Buckinghamshire in 1638. This family requires additional research.
James Irving’s grandson Caleb Irving was born in Bledlow in Buckinghamshire in 1781. Caleb worked as a painter for the Royal Artillery from around 1800 until about 1838. He married in 1806 in Plumstead, Kent and had children in Woolwich before being moved from Woolwich Arsenal Barracks to the barracks at Weedon Bec in Northamptonshire. Some of the family returned to the London area with Caleb around 1838. Caleb died in 1840 and was buried near the site of the present day Barbican Centre. Some of his children had families in the Greenwich area but his son, George Irving (Teresa's direct ancestor), moved via Battersea to Feltham. Subsequent generations were to be found in London’s East End and in North London during the twentieth century.
The line of descent to Ken or Teresa can be seen at the foot of this page.
The family structure and tree can be accessed from the notes icon shown to the right and by the links on the Families page on this website.
Below are stories about people and places taken from the family history. For stories awaiting publication see the table on the Home page.
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