I am the direct descendant (gg grandson) of Henry Launchbury and his wife Hannah. Henry was born the eighth child of Thomas Launchbury (1780 – 1843) and Mary Bason (c 1782 - February 06, 1872) in 1820. He was born in a small village just across the Thames from the city of Oxford called North Hinksey.

Hannah(numbered 25 on my Ahnentafel system) married Henry, the miller at Botley. on November 7, 1842. Hannah was born in 1822, and died July 17, 1873. She was the youngest daughter of John Wickson & Charlotte Hudson (1781 - 1831) of Stanton Hardcourt, five miles West of Hinksey. They were married at St Lawrence Church. The family were a very close-knit cell in 1861, and the census shows that Henry and Hannah, and six of their seven children (Charles is missing somewhere) are at the mill house, including Hannah's mother-in-law, Mary Launchbury (nee Bason).

Henry and Hannah had seven children in total,
THOMAS LAUNCHBURY, b. 1843, North Hinksey, d. Bef. 1881.
ROBERT LAUNCHBURY, b. 1845, North Hinksey,; d. 1877.
CHARLES EDWIN LAUNCHBURY, b. 1847, Botley; d. September 1898, Oxford; m. MARIA.
MARY HANNAH LAUNCHBURY, b. 1850, North Hinksey.
SAMSON LAUNCHBURY, b. 1853, Botley; d. May 17, 1891, Hinksey; m. ELIZABETH, September 1874, Oxford;
FREDERICK LAUNCHBURY, b. 1856, North Hinksey; d. 1914, Caversham, ; m. HANNAH CARTER, (my g grandparents)
DAVID LAUNCHBURY, b. 1860, North Hinksey, Berkshire; d. Aft. 1898.

Hannah died on July 17, 1873, and is buried in South Hinksey Churchyard beside her husband with memorial