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Hi Barbara and Z
I was just perusing and reflecting on the two Baptisms that you sent me, those of Alfred and John Bailey and thinking that while I have the Birth Certificate of Alfred Bailey, my direct ancestor, I don't have that of John Bailey who was Christened on 8 September 1844.
I have searched FreeBMD and found that there are three of them in Newport in 1844; in the March Quarter, in the June Quarter and lastly in the September Quarter.
As Alfred was born 23 February 1842 and was Baptised on 11th of March it would seem that Ann did not want to wait too long before Baptising her offspring?
John was baptised 8 September so when would be a likely birth date out of those presented above? I think that the September one would be out of the question it would be almost impossible to do? That leaves either March or June and I think March is too big a gap between birth and baptism for our Ann leaving June as best fit?
I think I will send for that one as well as the one mentioned previously, (marriage of Joseph and Mary Ann Asprey) and hope it is our Ann? Just to unbalance my new found confidence in these results, are we still of the opinion that John Bailey is Joseph Bailey and Joseph is John? I feel very much inclined to send for one of these birth registrations and see what it throws up, thanks too Barbara for the 1851 and 61 census extracts on John and family, if you have time and could be so kind, perhaps you can let me have those for my records, gee i'm missing my Ancestry sources! I had them until just this year, I never would have got this sorted out without the help of you kind people. Maybe with the birth certificate Amos might get a mention or who knows??
I will wait for your reply before I send for this one to confirm my sometimes doubtful logic?
Kind regards to all,
Bram