Biography

Name
Preston, William
Date of birth
1846
Location
Grafton
Notes
Birth / baptism
Swinbrook, Oxfordshire, 19 April, 1846 [AB]; Astell, North Birford, Oxfordshire, 1846, Census, 1901. Swinbrook and Asthall are less than a mile apart. [CDW]

Marriage
No trace

Death / burial
Oxfordshire, Witney, 1927, Vol. 3a, p 1742, age, 78;

Williams / others notes
Alfred Williams: Obtained of William Preston, Grafton, Oxfordshire. He is an old earth stopper, and remembers to have heard the song near Cricklade, many years ago, In Rockley Firs, Ox.268.