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I've searched the LDS site, bdm and also the databases on ancestry but have found too many possibilities, I live in regional nsw aust. so access to the film for hackney is difficult

Jean

Hi Valerie
There is no record of a baptism for a Samuel Harris at the Anglican Church at Thorpe le Soken that I could find for the year you give, I searched 5 years either side of this date and lots of Harris's but no Samuel.
The only Harris baptism that is around that year is for a Mary Harris, daughter of Robert & Elizabeth Harris, Robert's occupation is a Labourer, the baptism took place in 1819.

I checked for marriages of a Samuel Harris as well but no luck there either. There is a Baptist Church at Thorpe le Soken so it is possible your Samuel was baptised there.

I will keep a look out for Samuel and if I find anything I will let you know as I'm also researching the Harris family from Thorpe le Soken

Jean

Hi Jean,

The Mary Emma Amelia Hutchinson shown on the IGI as b. 24 Feb 1824 and chr 18 Apr 1824 at St Leonards has parents William and Ann Hutchinson.  Does that match with your findings?  The gap between birth and christening is not too great considering the time of year and perhaps mum and or babe were not too strong.


Nanny Jan

Hi Nanny Jan
Yes this does match with my finding from the film for the Parish register for the Mary Emma Amelia chr at St Leonards which is where I got the abode for the family from. There seemed to be quite a few baptisms (for other families) on the film that happened weeks after the babies were born and families travelled from other parishes to have their babies baptised. I am wondering if this is the case with Mary's baptism. I checked on the LDS site as to what films are available for St Johns at Hackney and it seems that no baptisms were performed there in 1824 or there is no films of them if there was. As the parish of Homerton was spawned in 1846 it is possible that they lived in the area that became Homerton and that would make the place of birth on the 51 census correct add to that the Christian names certainly match, the year of birth matches just not the fathers name.
As Holywell Lane is on the edge of the Shoreditch parish I'm wondering if some people may have classified it as part of Homerton and other saw it as Shoreditch which according the links for maps posted it is clearly on the edge of Shoreditch.
I'm feeling like I'm going round in circles with this one  oh well it could be worse I may not have found what I have and have no information to work with.

Jean

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,254797.msg1417427.html#msg1417427

This is what I have re my gggrandmother who I'm trying to sort out birth and parent details for.

This one has left me scratching my head wondering where to go next.

Thanks for your help

Jean