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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: Davedrave on Sunday 02 December 18 09:36 GMT (UK)
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I’m 99 per cent sure that I’ve found a burial I was looking for in a parish register. It is available online, though obviously I can’t say here where I saw it. 3rd May 1812, Tamworth, Staffs., William Lea. He is a very good match to the “late William Lea of Tamworth” of his uncle Richard Lea’s 1820 (Shenton, Leics.) will.
The image of the original is unfortunately missing the right hand edge of the page (folded under, it seems), so I can see no age given, though there is a transcript which says he was 35. If this is correct, he’d be the William son of Christopher (Richard’s brother), who was baptised in Packwood, Warks. in 1777. I’m surprised how much these people moved about.
I’d be happier if I could see the age myself or knew where the website transcription came from. The age clearly couldn’t have been transcribed from this image.
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of course you can say where you saw it!
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When I've come across something like that Dave, I have emailed the appropriate Record Office where the actual register is held, and asked if they would be so good as to have a look and see if there is anything written there. They have always been very obliging.
I guess Tamworth registers are at Staffordshire Record Office in Stafford.
Can't hurt to contact them.
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The Burial is on FreeREG 1812 age 35.
That is how the transcriber saw the age but I cant help with the actual image.
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Just keep scrolling on through the images ( see the arrow at the right of the page) and you will see a clear image showing the age.
You often find such repeats with parish records before standardised forms were introduced.
William
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Just keep scrolling on through the images ( see the arrow at the right of the page) and you will see a clear image showing the age.
You often find such repeats with parish records before standardised forms were introduced.
William
Unfortunately on the website I’m using it doesn’t seem to appear when doing that, in fact the next right hand page suffers the same issue.
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of course you can say where you saw it!
I got a mildly slapped wrist the other day for mentioning a commercial site by name, and the moderator deleted my post, so I thought I’d be banned if I transgressed again. ;D
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When I've come across something like that Dave, I have emailed the appropriate Record Office where the actual register is held, and asked if they would be so good as to have a look and see if there is anything written there. They have always been very obliging.
I guess Tamworth registers are at Staffordshire Record Office in Stafford.
Can't hurt to contact them.
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll do that.
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The Burial is on FreeREG 1812 age 35.
That is how the transcriber saw the age but I cant help with the actual image.
Thank you. I’d be surprised if this wasn’t right and everything fits, but there just remains that last 0.1 per cent of doubt.
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Just keep scrolling on through the images ( see the arrow at the right of the page) and you will see a clear image showing the age...
Unfortunately on the website I’m using it doesn’t seem to appear when doing that, in fact the next right hand page suffers the same issue.
What about the one after that? Sometimes there are more than two images of a page... ;)
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I did say keep on scrolling! You have to click the right arrow again - it is on the third image.
William
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I did say keep on scrolling! You have to click the right arrow again - it is on the third image.
And the fourth.
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I did say keep on scrolling! You have to click the right arrow again - it is on the third image.
And the fourth.
Thank you, and my apologies to Millmoor. I am new to the website and hadn’t expected to find the image so far to the right! and also wasn’t sure whether Millmoor was using the same website because I can’t mention it by name ;D. I clearly need to learn more about the way the site works, but am finding it a fantastic resource and well worth the money. (My best find on the website so far is a will from 1729, which neither I nor my dad’s cousins knew the existence of, despite many visits to the record office it is in: the index card there has obviously been missing for many years!)
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of course you can say where you saw it!
I got a mildly slapped wrist the other day for mentioning a commercial site by name, and the moderator deleted my post, so I thought I’d be banned if I transgressed again. ;D
I did not see your post but I doubt it was removed by a moderator for naming a commercial website, naming commercial sites is done every day as can be seen just by scrolling through the forum indexes, it can also be shown that those threads are not removed by looking through the indexes of 2017 and before.
Perhaps the moderator concerned would like to PM me so that I could understand otherwise it seems as if certainly the three big website are favoured at the expense of the smaller websites, but I do not believe that to be the case
Cheers
Guy
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There is certainly no ban on naming commercial websites. In fact if you try to abbreviate Find My Past to F.M.P. but using no spaces or punctuation, Rootschat automatically fills it in, like so
FindMyPast
Some posters seem to dislike naming Ancestry in full, and put things like A*, but there's no need.
There was another genealogy site that wouldn't allow posters to name commercial sites, which was ridiculously unhelpful. One of the reasons I gave up visiting it.