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Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 14:32 GMT (UK) »
I'm new on this site, but have been researching my family tee for several years off and on.  Ive come up against a brick wall for an ancestor Jonathan Coleston/Colstone who married in 1769 in Shepton Mallet, cant find any trace of his birth except for a person with same name born in Lancashire.  Can anyone tell me if the above websites hold all parish records for Somerset or should I visit Somerset RO??      Any help/advice much appreciated

Colestone/Colston, Hodges, Freestone, Somerset.
Carston, Parry, Hughes Glamorgan

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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 29 October 15 14:51 GMT (UK) »
Would be worth taking up the offer with FindMyPast at £1 for 1 month (currently on offer) until 31st Oct but will run for a whole month after subscribing.

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help needed Shepton Mallet
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 29 October 15 14:52 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone tell me if they can look up parish records for a Jonathan Coleston/Colstone birth would be around 1748, cant find any trace on other geneology websites apart for a person born in Lancashire.

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Colestone/Colston, Hodges, Freestone, Somerset.
Carston, Parry, Hughes Glamorgan

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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 29 October 15 14:55 GMT (UK) »
Welcome to Rootschat  ;D

The list of parish registers provided by FindMyPast can be found here

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/world-records/full-list-of-united-kingdom-records/life-events-bmds

If you scroll down to the Somerset Records and click on Baptisms Marriages and burials, you can see the parishes and the dates covered.
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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 29 October 15 15:22 GMT (UK) »
What FreeReg holds for Shepton Mallet can be seen here:
http://www.freereg.org.uk/freereg_contents/53cd4981eca9ebee4f008f9a/show_place
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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 29 October 15 15:44 GMT (UK) »
I'm afraid no site has complete coverage of Somerset parish registers. I believe FreeREG has the best overall, and is particularly good in the Frome/Shepton Mallet area. FindMyPast has good coverage of marriages but very few baptisms. For pre-1754 marriages it may have a wider spread than FreeREG. Ancestry and Familysearch have long been relatively poor, but they are always adding material.

Also, there is always a chance your Jonathan's baptism was not recorded or the record has not survived. Many earlier registers are completely lost. Surviving ones may have gaps where a particular parson neglected his duty or damaged parts which are illegible.

There appear to have been several Colston families baptising children in Shepton around the 1740s, so I think it more likely that Jonathan was local rather than came from Lancashire. Maybe he was baptised in a nearby village whose registers are not online yet, or maybe he just wasn't baptised or it was not recorded or the record hasn't survived... or only partially survived: FreeREG has a Jonathan son of Jonathan with an illegible surname baptised 1 Sep 1750. If you can get to the Somerset RO that would be worth checking. The microfilm there will probably be clearer than the microfiche the FreeREG transcriber worked from. If it's still not clear they may let you look at the original.

One further small possibility: there was a Jonathan baptised at Shepton in 1740, the illegitimate son of Amy Dyer. Perhaps his father was a Colston? (There was also another illegitimate Jonathan in 1755, son of Sarah Coles, but that's a bit young to marry in 1769).

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Re: help needed Shepton Mallet
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 29 October 15 15:55 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 29 October 15 17:30 GMT (UK) »
thanks all for replies/advice, I will keep digging.
Colestone/Colston, Hodges, Freestone, Somerset.
Carston, Parry, Hughes Glamorgan

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Re: Can anyone help re Ancestry/freereg
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 29 October 15 18:20 GMT (UK) »
You could post a link to this thread via the Somerset "Look-ups" thread....

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/somerset-lookup-requests/

Someone may do a look-up for you.

Annie
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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

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Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

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