confusion reigns supreme!

[Westy11]

Ok.  I suppose it is what it is and there could be a number of reasons why such a journey was made.  In Australia that distance would be normal.  I had wondered if I had the wrong shire.

Anyway thanks so much one and all.

Westy

[JenB]

Here is Leverington Road on a side by side map, you can see that there is a railway line close by.
http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17&lat=52.6725&lon=0.1500&layers=6&right=BingHyb

[Westy11]

Thats really cool JenB.

Thanks heaps.

Westy

[JenB]

In Australia that distance would be normal. 

People were much more mobile than we give them credit for.

I'm no railway expert, but looking at the old maps I think a possible journey by rail from Wisbech to Wellingborough, as suggested by Boo, would have been pretty easy. They would probably have changed trains at Peterborough, which was a major junction. And living at Leverington Road places them pretty close to Wisbech Station.

[JJen]

Can't be that Sarah (nee Bishop) went home to her mother as the Bishop family on the 1881 and 1891 are living at 1 Alma Street, Wellingborough.

Perhaps it was another relative that lived in Wisbech, pity the address on the baptism does not have a number.

JJ

[JenB]

Can't be that Sarah (nee Bishop) went home to her mother as the Bishop family on the 1881 and 1891 are living at 1 Alma Street, Wellingborough.

Perhaps it was another relative that lived in Wisbech, pity the address on the baptism does not have a number.

I don't understand - it is clear from the snip that the baptism took place in Wellingborough but that the family concerned lived in Wisbech 

[JJen]

If you have access to newspapers there is an article in Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal 11 February 1887, where a Clement Drew, Chief Goods Clerk was before the Wisbech Divisional Petty sessions.

It would appear that he'd been with the company for 14 years and moved to Wisbech.

JJ

[Westy11]

Thanks you so much Jen.

Westy

[philipsearching]

In the 1911 census Arthur Frederick DEW's location of birth was given as Wisbech, Cambridgeshire.  However he was baptised  at All Saints Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. Is this correct?

FreeBMD has the birth of DEW, Arthur Frederick Mar qtr 1886 Wisbech vol3b p622.
The baptism on 23 July 1886 indicates that he was between 4 and 7 months old when baptised in Wellingborough.

The likeliest scenario is that Arthur's mother wanted him to be baptised in her childhood church with her family present.

Philip