Edwin ("Ned") Shepherd, Baptist minister, Huntingdon c. 1860

[lizdb]

And -

1861
RG 9 3871 124 5

Morpeth, Northumberland
James Shepherd 38 Coal Merchant and Methodist Local Preacher bn Yorkshire Whitby
Jemima 46 wife bn Durham South shields
Edwin B 11 bn Edinburgh
Christopher J 9 bn Durham Sunderland
Sarah Burfield 39 unm sister in law bn Durham South Shields
Ann Oliver niece-in-law 15 bn Durham south s


There seems to be plenty of links to the Burfields etc - hopefully enough info for you to fit him in to your family!

[bedfordshire boy]

James Shepherd married Jemima Burfield in the Sep quarter 1848 in South Shields reg district vol 24 page 184. Purchase the marriage cert to get Jemima's father's name (probably not necessary - see next post)

Tracing a Jemima Burfield should be easier than  looking for John Burfield. Were they siblings? Might have been if the term cousin on the photo (I've no idea what a CDV is either*) is accurate.

* carte de visite. ie visiting card in English. " This style of antique photography took over in popularity from the daguerreotype or ambrotype of the 1840s and 1850s". English acronyms are bad enough but French ones are even worse!

[bedfordshire boy]

In 1851
Jarrow
Christopher Burfield head widower 72 Shipwright
Elizabeth Stokes (or Stoker) dau widow 43 Master mariner's widow
Jamima Shepherd dau marr 38 Retired dressmaker
Mary A Burfield dau unmarr 36 Bonnet maker
Sarah Burfield dau unm 24 Domestic duties
All born South Shields
James Shepherd son in law marr 28 Home missionary b Whitby Yorks
Christopher Stoker grandson 1 b South Shields
Edwin B Shepherd grandson 1 b Edinburgh

Christopher and Elizabeth (née Fenwick) Burfield or Barfield baptised a number of children in South Shields including John in 1810 and Jemima in 1813 per the IGI, which also shows a baptism of Christopher in 1777. This is the only baptism of a John Burfield in Durham on the IGI, which I know is far from complete. You have all details of his marriage, children etc. Who were the witnesses at his marriage - any possible siblings?

[lizdb]

(I've no idea what a CDV is either*)

* carte de visite. ie visiting card in English. " This style of antique photography took over in popularity from the daguerreotype or ambrotype of the 1840s and 1850s". English acronyms are bad enough but French ones are even worse!

Thanks BedfordshireBoy!

[lizdb]

Seems the majority of Ned's ministry was actually  in Newark, Nottinghamshire
So most probably here -
http://www.newarkbaptist.org.uk/

Might be worth contacting the Church and asking if they would check record of past Ministers (church secretrary will have this) to confirm if indeed Ned was one of them.

[Westoe]

Wow! Thank you all. I was going to look at Ancestry next visit to the library, but whew, this has given me a lot to start working with. And now I'll be making my first foray into Scotland. Thank you all.

Cheers,
Westoe

P.S. I measured. The image portion of a CDV is 2.5 inches X 3.75 inches - quite tiny.

[Westoe]

Sorry. In that last message I meant to apologize if I offended anyone using the acronym CDV. I've seen it so much in such common usage that I assumed it was generally known. Ooops - first rule of genealogy "Assume nothing!". Plus I thank you for the clues to establishing the identity of the so-far-unknown "Aunt Oliver", also in the album but way down the list of people to investigate.

Cheers,
Westoe

[bedfordshire boy]

Using www.freebmd.org  you can learn a lot from the GRO index simply by inserting -all types; surname - Burfield; district - South Shields

Aunt Oliver was Mary Ann Burfield in 1851, daughter of Christopher

More of a straw wall than a brick one! One good huff and puff and it blew down

[bedfordshire boy]

Sorry, the url should have been www.freebmd.org.uk       The "uk" makes all the difference!