Who were the OLIVERS?

A Mystery Solved

Oral history in the Peacock family preserved the information that
the Oliver family came from ‘Stoneing’ in England. Several cursory
attempts to find this place produced no results. The other piece of
information (recorded in her obituary) was that Mary Ellen Oliver
had been born in Ontario. For this reason, the International
Genealogical Index was never checked for her birth. Recently, the
index was checked for her siblings, some of whom were born in
England, and two baptisms, extracted from parish registers,
were found:

Mary Ellen Oliver, daughter of Joseph and Ellen
Born 9 Feb 1858
Baptised - 9 Sept 1860, Inkpen, Berkshire, England

Ada Matilda Oliver, daughter of Joseph and Ellen
Born 14 Jan 1864
Baptised - 1864 Amesbury, Wiltshire, England

While Mary Ellen was born in Ontario, she was indeed baptized
in England. This provides two locations not far from each
other in bordering counties. Click on the title of this article and
the map of England which will appear will show Inkpen,
Berkshire as a red dot. Amesbury, Wiltshire is nine miles north
of Salisbury.

Amesbury is about two miles east of the prehistoric monument,
Stonehenge which would seem to be consistent with the oral
history providing ‘Stoneing’ as the origin of the Oliver family.
The mystery has been solved.

Click on this link for more information about Stonehenge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge