Believe resolved: they were brothers

Alison Smith proposed that my GGGrandfather George VOSS (d) was the George VOSS baptised in West Knighton 4th August 1811.  If this were correct, it would make him and Capt. Edward VOSS (c) fourth cousins through Edward’s maternal line.  I know that Capt. Edward’s daughter Rosa was in touch with my Grandfather Edward George VOSS, for she signed his visitor’s book on 22 August 1910.   They would have been fifth cousins, once removed (5C1R).  Edward’s grand daughter Margaret Rosa Summers VOSS bequeathed relics of Capt. Voss to my father, who would have been 6C1R.  It strains credibility that the family bonds stretched that far and that Rosa had no closer Voss relative to bestow.  See my earlier post on this relationship. Continue reading Origins of George VOSS (d) and relationship to Capt. Edward VOSS (c) revisited →

The parents of Capt. Edward VOSS (c) were John VOSS (m) & Susannah “Sarah” VOSS (d).  I have a Voss connection back to the Vosses of Winterbourne Came through his mother, but his paternal Voss line only to his grandfather John VOSS (d).  I need to trace this back further, and so am looking for the baptism on John VOSS (d). Continue reading Who was John VOSS (d) who married Elizabeth MAUNDERS 1765 in Wyke Regis? →

Thomas VOSS (z) and his wife Jane baptised 8-9 children in Winterbourne Came, the first recorded as John in March 1748.  Both Thomas and Jane were later buried there.  Thomas’ father is also buried there.

About Thomas’ wife Jane we know nothing.  I have no marriage record, so do not know here maiden name, nor where she came from.  I imagine the marriage took place in her home parish. Continue reading Where was marriage of Thomas VOSS (z) & Jane ca. 1720 and baptism of George VOSS (j) ca. 1720 →