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Names Places Photos Links Ager Barguss Bennett Colton Goodman Henson Illing Loveridge Meakins Miller Rainbow Reynolds Richardson Ridgway Smith	My maternal grandfathers surname is Meakins and surprisingly (to me) it has been quite a difficult line to trace with respect to finding records or proof of names and dates. I have traced the family back as far as John Meakins who married Caroline Green in around 1840 to 1850, probably in Stony Stratford, Bucks. They had one son that I know of who was named John after his father and he was born in 1853. This John Meakins married Elizabeth King in 1875 in Stony Stratford. John and Elizabeths children were all born in Stony Stratford and they were James (1876), Kate (1879), Thomas (1881), Ellen (1886-86), Lucy (1887), Richard (1890), Bertha/Buttrum (1891) and Elizabeth Maud (1896-97). The curious thing about the births and baptisms of the children is they took place a number of years after the births and in 'batches'. It's as though the Meakins were away from home for long periods and then did the baptisms when they returned. I've still not figured this out! Thomas Meakins was my great-grandfather and he married Ada Barguss, a shepherds daughter from Oxfordshire in Stony Stratford in 1906. The photo below is of Thomas Meakins and Ada Barguss on their wedding day in 1906. Click on the photo to see a larger version.		Stony Stratford is a small town on the Roman Watling Street. Its name however is Saxon meaning the 'ford on the stone street', after the crossing over the Great River Ouse. It is thought there could have been a Roman settlement at Stony Stratford but not mentioned in the Doomesday Survey, Stony Stratford came into its own as a coaching village providing inns, stables, blacksmiths, food and all the facilities a traveller could need during a night's stop-off travelling between London and the North.