The earliest Oxbrow we have been able to trace is a Henry Oxbrow who was born before 1682 and died on 11 September 1730 in Bocking, Essex. He married Prudence Godwin on 25 May 1702 in Bocking. She was also born in Bocking. In 1704 Edward gave his occupation as Weaver.

We have traced four children, although something is a bit suspect as we have Henry born 1704 died February 9 1747. There was also Henry Oxbrow born 1711. It is more usual to find a child with the same name when the first child has died! The following were found in the Bocking records.

..	Born	Christened
Elizabeth	7 March 1702/03	21 March 1702/03
Henry	1704	11 March 1704/05
John	19 March 1709/09	5 April 1709
Henry	1711	6 January 1711/12

Henry was born in 1704 in Bocking and died on 9 February 1747/48. Aged 22 he married Sarah Inous (at least this is what the name looks like!) on 16 June 1726. We know that this information is for the first of the two Henry Oxbrow brothers as his age at date of death was 43 and also the other Henry would have got married at 15. Sarah didn't waste time and married James Tanner in 1748, the year her husband died.

We have traced three children of the Henry born in 1704::

..	Born	Christened	Died
Henry	1727	...	11 June 1727
Henry	31 Dec 1732	8 April 1733	29 Septr 1742
Mary	9 Sep t1741	28 Sept 1741	2 Oct 1741

So unless we find more children, this branch died out.

The Parish Records of Bocking show that John Oxbrow born 1709 was married on 21 November 1734 to Mary Earl. From this it is deduced that he was born before 1714.

John and Mary had eight children. All were christened in the Parish Church of Bocking. 

..	Born	Christened
Mary	15 December 1734	4 January 1734/35
Esther?	16 January 1736/37	10 November 1742
John	6 February 1738/39	22 March 1738/39
Mary	2 March 1740/41	10 November 1742
Ann	2 December 1745	31 March 1746
Henry	23 July1749	10 September 1749
Joseph	13 April 1752	24 April 1753
Prudence	28 April 1757	3 July 1757

John Oxbrow (my ancestor) was born on 6 February 1738/39 in Bocking, the son of John Oxbrow and Mary Earl, and died on 3 August 1818 in Braintree. He married Sarah Sittison on 17 June 1762 in Braintree. Although John was buried in Braintree it was noted on his burial details that he was from the parish of Bocking. At his marriage both he and his wife did not sign but marked with an X.

The Joseph Oxbrow who married Ruth Brown and created the "other" Oxbrows was born in 1763. This would mean that he could hardly be the son of Henry as Henry would have been 14 at the time of his birth. Unless we haven't found one of John and Mary's sons he must have been born to a cousin of John.

4 children of John and Sarah have been traced in Braintree records.

..	Born	Christened
Sarah	14 August 1764	24 October 1764
John	24 April 1768	4 October 1768
Judith	1 November 1772	1 January 1773
Joseph	3 November 1777	6 December 1777

Sarah's surname was spelt Oxborough. John may have married someone by the name of Alice

The line I am tracing is descended from Joseph.