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Sussex / "Missing" Baptist births at Wivelsfield
« on: Tuesday 27 February 24 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I can't see what! Please can anyone help?

FamilySearch batch C093041 covers the Baptist Chapel at Wivelsfield including three chrildren of William & Mary Knight - John 1771, Abraham 1773 and Hannah 1775

Here is the entry for John Knight https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ14-D52

I've gone through the images for this register on Ancestry and Findmypast (twice) but I cannot see these entries (although there are quite a few Knights)

The stamped page number for the entries starts at page 5.

Do the two companies both have missing pages? (presumably they got the images from the LDS/FamilySearch)

Or are the missing Knights indexed wrongly and are at another Sussex chapel?

many thanks in advance





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Berkshire / Looking for c1770 baptism of Ann Blake at Didcot(?)
« on: Wednesday 07 February 24 20:52 GMT (UK)  »
William Blake of Didcot married Elizabeth Harmsworth in February 1770 at Streatley.

They had the following baptised at Didcot (bishop transcripts only on Findmypast)
7 Jun 1772   Mary
31 Oct 1773 Elizabeth
13 Jul 1775  William

I’m looking for the baptism of their other daughter Ann (born c 1772 per her 1848 burial aged 76).

There is one tree on Ancestry which has Ann’s baptism at Didcot on 25 Dec 1770, but no sources.

I wonder if there is a kind soul who could confirm if Ann was baptised at Didcot, otherwise I will have to look at Streatley.

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Lots (?) of people will remember the old IGI (International Genealogical Index) microfiche. The baptisms and marriages for a county were arranged in name order.

I remember sitting in Bromley Library, in the early 1990s, tracing my direct Barlow line back through Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

I wanted to show a newly-discovered cousin what the fiche looked like, but I can't find an image on the internety thingy.

Can someone come to the rescue and share a link for me?


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My mother knew of my obsession with family history, but when she died last year she managed to leave a few unidentified photographs, which I had never seen before!

This one has been cut to fit a heart-shaped frame. The reverse just shows the text :
CAR[TE]
UNION POSTA[L]
COMMUNICATION

Is it possible to date this one before I speculate who it could be?

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My 4 x great grandmother, Jane Bishop, was removed from Downton to Standlynch in February 1822 because she was “with child” and had become chargeable to the parish.

The daughter, Elizabeth (my 3 x great grandmother), was born on 13 May and baptised at Downton on 9 June.

Jane was examined by the petty sessions on 11 June and a bastardy order was made on 18 June.
The father was James Bishop [yes, same surname!] who had been held at Devizes New Prison since January 1822. He was described as a 40 year old labourer of Downton.

I have traced Elizabeth to Portsea, Hampshire from 1851 census until her death in 1881. [Where was she in 1841?] When she married in 1860 she said her father was “James Bishop, labourer”.

I have searched Ancestry, FindMyPast, Wilts & Swindon Archives, etc.  I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, BUT I JUST CANNOT FIND anything about Jane before or after 1822!

Any thoughts from folk with better knowledge of Wiltshire (geography/records/search techniques) would be greatly appreciated. 

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Berkshire / Who did Charles Mouldy marry at Hagbourne in 1738?
« on: Saturday 19 February 22 18:22 GMT (UK)  »
I wonder if there is a kind soul with access to the Oxon FHS transcription of Hagbourne marriages - or indeed any other resource?

I’m working back from Lucy d/o Charles & Sarah Mouldy bapt at Fawley in 1750.

There appear to be two marriages at Hagbourne on 14 Feb 1738 (sorry,  I don’t know if this is Old Style or New Style)

Charles Green & Sarah Bradfield
Charles Mouldy & Martha Bradfield

This info comes from Family Search and Findmypast (bishop transcript in their new “Berkshire Archives” collection)
 
However, there is a corresponding Sarum marriage licence for Charles Mouldy & Sarah Bradfield.

Does the parish register confirm this pair? I suspect (hope!) the BT has mixed the couples up, and Family Search has used that source.

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Norfolk / Some Stone, Mayes, Burrows family queries in the Bungay area
« on: Sunday 27 June 21 10:58 BST (UK)  »
Many years ago, I traced my Stone line back to the Bungay area using certificates, census films and the IGI (now Family Search). I recently realised what resources are now available at Ancestry, Findmypast and Suffolk FHS.

I’ve noticed that the River Waveney is no barrier at all!

I have a couple of queries on the Suffolk page.  I would welcome the comments of Norfolk Rootschatters with interests or expertise spanning the county border.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=850144.0

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=850362.0

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James Stone (1784-1852) was married to Mary. 

The 1812 baptism at Mettingham of their son William gives her maiden name as BURROWS.

There is a marriage at Hadiscoe NFK on 13 April 1812 for James Stone and Mary Burrows both single and “of this parish”.  Witnesses Edward Gilingwater & Edward Shiplea [regular]. It seems a bit out of the way but she would have been 8 months pregnant.

She died and was buried in Bungay in 1868, aged 84 = born 1784.

Mary appears in three censuses in Bungay, in 1841 & 1851 with James, and in 1861 as a widow with her son Robert and his family.

1841   aged 55 born 1782-1786 Suffolk 
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M73Q-HC8
1851   aged 62 born 1789 Beddingham, Norfolk
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGRJ-B6H
1861   aged 77 born 1784 Beddingham, Suffolk
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7DL-M16

The 1861 birthplace has been transcribed as Beddingtonham SFK by Ancestry, FamilySearch and FindMyPast. But, to me, it looks like it has been overwritten from Norfolk, Beddingham to Suffolk, Baddingham. I wonder what others think if you can access the image?

So it’s easy , Mary Burrows born 1782-1789 in Be[a]ddingham NFK or SFK.

But no Mary Burrows baptised in Bedingham NFK and no likely contenders.
There are Burrows in Badingham SFK but I cannot find pre-1813 baptisms online. Does a kind soul have the Hoxne Deanary transcriptions 1754-1813?   

Am I missing something obvious?

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I am trying to find the marriage of Richard ROGERS and Sarah STONE.  I’ve tried various combinations, including in Suffolk/Norfolk.

This is them in 1841
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQV7-K27

Emma Rogers[sic] ROGERS Q1 1838 St Pancras mmn STONE
Richard Charles ROGERS Q4 1839 St Pancras mmn STONES

A Richard Charles ROGERS was buried at Bungay on 28 Jul 1844, aged 4.

In 1851 Emma was with her grandparents James & Mary STONE in Bungay
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGRJ-B64

Richard married widow Susan CARTER nee HARPER on 8 Sept 1846 at St Pancras.

I'm also stumped by a death for Sarah!

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