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Greetings all,
The chap above is giving me conniptions......
In the PRs for Cotleigh in Devon, there is a list of baptisms of the children of William Downing. He seems to have had 9 daughters.
In the PRs it says that they were dissenters.
I can't find them in any of the non-conformist/parochial registers.
I've attached the relevant part of the PRs for Cotleigh

Does anyone have any idea where they may have been baptized?

Best wishes for Xmas and thank you kindly, Keith Jeffery

I think the rest of the story may take place in Somerset, as the youngest daughter Sarah, may have married a Joshua Cuff in Ilminster, Somerset in 1785. That's all for another forum.......

Greetings...

I may have posted about this, but I can't find it so....

According to several trees on Ancestry, a James Patmore married an Elizabeth Chipperfield in Harlow in 1746. However, there's a problem.... no supporting register printouts.

According to the ERO, the parish chest was stolen in 1814 and the PRs were never recovered. A partial rebuild was done from parish records and other information taking them partially back from 1814 to 1770. These records are on seax.

Does anyone know if there are existent records that may cover the year 1746 and if there was, in fact a marriage between James Patmore and Elizabeth Chipperfield? It is likely that there was a marriage between James Patmore and an Elizabeth as the children's baptism entries have James and Elizabeth. Just to compound the issue, the same trees say that Elizabeth was baptized in Birchanger in 1725. I can't find an entry for Elizabeth in the Birchanger PRs.

Thank you all kindly, Keith Jeffery

Greetings,
We're trying to track down the ancestry of one Ann Walker in Tasmania born about 1830, died 1859. We have no idea at this point where she came from. As far as we can tell, she was not a convict.

In about 1850 odd, she started cohabiting with one Joseph Lawless, a convict (there is no marriage and, in her inquest, she is still Ann Walker). They had 3 children Mary Ann, Thomas and Annie, all born Lawless. She died in 1859 from complications in the childbirth of Mary Ann. From Thomas, most of the Lawlesses in Tasmania are descended, while from Annie most of the Seabournes (lots of spelling variants) in Tassie and NZ are descended.

Also as far as we can tell, she was not a child of James Walker and Esther Tucker who came to Tassie in 1826 on the John Barry as a member of the Veterans Company with two children, James and John. There is a child Ann from this pairing, however she married Joseph Beamer, had 3 children and later cohabited with George Harwood (both Joseph and George were convicts) and had about 12 children according to LINC and the Colebrook church records.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers, Keith

Greetings,
Just north of Cadeleigh in Devon is the small hamlet of Little Silver. In that hamlet was a Congregational Chapel which was built about 1840 by the local landholder Hugh Roberts. It is now a private house.

It has a small graveyard attached which still exists.

I'm trying to find the baptisms/marriages/burials for that chapel. I have sent emails to the South West Heritage Trust and to the National Archives.

Thanks to all, Keith Jeffery

Greetings,

I have a sort of relation who, in the PRs for Ilton, says that he was the Vicar of Ikon. Later on, it also says that he was buried at Ikon.

So my question... Where, what or who is Ikon?

Thanks most kindly, Keith Jeffery, Brisbane