HEBBORN FAMILY HISTORY & NEWS -  February 2003

WILLIAM HEBORN [F007] 1784-1858

For a long time I have been trying to prove that the marriage on the 6th June 1808 at St. Giles, Oxford between William Ebron and Elizabeth Boncher related to William Heborn [F007]. Perhaps, I could discover something about Elizabeth that might help. The LDS index in the library produced so many Elizabeth Bonchers and Bonsers I was about to give up in despair. Then something stopped me in my tracks. It was the marriage of a Loviden Boncher and Elizabeth Spindge on 12 November 1799 at Stanford in the Vale, Berkshire. I recalled that William and Elizabeth had a son Lovedon Charles Heborn [G009]. This seemed more than just a coincidence. The trail went cold, when I could find no more on Loviden Boncher.

I decided to re-check my previous work using the new CD’s from The Oxfordshire Family History Society. Just as well, as my original notes were not too clearly written and I had misread my own handwriting. Elizabeth’s name as not Boncher but Boucher. I haven’t found her baptism yet, but I have found two more Lovedon Bouchers. both baptised in Berkshire, one way back in 1673. It seems that this unusual name has a long history in the Boucher family.
 
Our Lovedon Charles Heborn [G009] was baptised on 7th January 1827 at St Peter le Bailey, Oxford. He married Frances Elizabeth Bull on 23 Jan 1853. Their first child Charles Heborn [H046] was baptised on 12th February 1854 at Oxford, St Ebbe. The couple were living in New Street, Oxford when little Charles died in 1857. He was buried at Holy Trinity on 16th Decemeber 1857. Less than three years later, Lovedon Charles aged 33 was buried in the same graveyard as his son.

As far as I am aware, Lovedon Charles and Frances Elizabeth had no other children. Was this the end of the male descent of William Heborn/Ebron and Elizabeth Boucher? Possibly not, as the information about the burial of Lovedon’s brother Joseph Heborne [G007] is not confirmed by the transcript of the parish register of St Peter le Bailey. I will need to see the actual register before I would commit myself.

John Hebborn

The numbers in square brackets after names can be used to identify persons on Family Tree Charts and Databases. See Family Tree Chart F007.