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I have found and confirmed all but one of the baptisms belowfrom filmed
entries on the iGI ( as opposed to those entries submitted by church members
which are always highly suspect and occasionally deliberately false)
 
There are a number of non-verifiable entries relating to a marriage in 1777
between John Worton and Ann Smith. An LDS membr has also put up all those baptisms at Old Swinford 
 as being children to this couple rather than John and Ann Badnage but
since the marriage itself isnt proven i discount those entries.

Here is a list of definite  baptisms to John and Ann (whoever that Ann may be)
 
at Old Swinford
 
25/12/1778 Samuel                       
19/9/1784  John
12/8/1787  Sarah
25/12/1788 Nancy   (d 12/2/1792)
26/12/1790 William
31/1/1792  John 
15/2/1795  Thomas
22/2/1796  William
5/6/1796   William  (d 1/2/1799)
 
then at Halesowen
 
3/4/1796   John
3/6/1798   Ann
10/10/1802 Israel
22/4/1804  Frederick (but b Dec 1803)
 
then at Cradley
 
24/6/1804 Jemima (but b 14/12/1800)
24/6/1804 Samuel
13/6/1806 Ann
13/8/1809 Samuel 
 
I doubt these 3 sets are all for the same couple so I must consider only the 3
others at Halesowen to be definite siblings of Israel until further evidence is
forthcoming.

You said that Jemima shows as witness to Israel's wedding so must be a sister. The above entries suggest that as a possibility BUT

Why was Jemima baptised out of sequence? Later children get baptised before her.

Frederick's baptism shows a birthdate in december then Jemima is baptised same day as Samuel but that is less than 9 months after Frederick's birth date (assuming Samuel was an infant)

Why baptise in 1 church in April then a different one in June?

It looks like this is as far back as I can get for Israel Worton.

Terribly sorry - I was never notified about your response. I must have also forgotten about this forum some time back until recently googling for anyone interested in another surname in an obscure Worcestershire parish and found my old postings and found this unanswered query.

My surname is Stuttard and I have been researching the histiory of the name since 2000/2001. Francis was not part of my own direct line I am sorry to say.

Geoff Stuttard

Many thanks

I fully appreciate that once you get back before 1800 the records are thin on the ground from my own direct lines mostly in Pendle area of Lancashire or in North yorkshire. Bizarrely the only line I have really good is a Smith line from a tiny parish in Huntingdonshire which is almost complete to before 1700.

I got Quarry bank from census birthplace entries.

In 1841 census Israel is 35 and 2 entries earlier is Joseph Worton 35 with son Israel 18 amongst others.

Previous 2 entries on facing page are of William Worton aged 23 with wife Sarah and another William Worton 40 with wife Mary so i expected these all to be related - William Israel and Joseph all brothers for example. I hoped your registers might have been able to confirm that.

Was Israel baptised at the main parish church in Halesowen?

I wondered about his religion  as he named his children with a mix of biblical names like Benjamin, Solomon and Samuel but also some
odd ones like Comfort and Ono. Ono had a daughter Uno (which both census and registrars insisted on calling Una!) and a son Ino leading to a family joke about Uno and Ino! Is it possible the Wortons were Quakers or of Jewish ancestry?

Incidentally on Teesside another Worton family beat them too it. Jonah's son John from Pensnett settled there with wife Hannah. i wondered if they were connected too or is that a little further away?

Best wishes
Geoff.

I think you may find her name was father's name was Charles WORDON. Her birth was registered in 1885 as Emma WORDON. Not sure when her father died but mother Louisa remarried to Francis Stuttard in 1899.  I believed she subsequently married William Lott who was in the RAF.

Lookup request please in 1851 Census for Rotherham for Emily Heatchote expected age 11/12 Parents Thomas and Ann.

Thanks