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Has anyone attended one of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints family history open days? The church in my local area is advertising one in a couple of weeks, what are they like, what facilities will they have for research, and are they worth attending? Thanks for any information.

Can anyone help, I am trying to locate a birth certificate for Caroline Smith born c1850 either in Deenethorpe or upper/lower Benefield. I have found a couple of likely GRO ref numbers, would the  Registration District be Peterborough or Thrapston in 1850?

Many thanks for any help.

I've been looking for the marriage of William Hitchcox, (Hitchcocks, Hitchcock.) To Patience Jane Baylis, about 1860 onward. Both were born in Finmere according to the 1881 census for Finmere.

I'm sure that Patience Jane's maiden name was Baylis, (Bayliss) because I have her daughter's birth certificate, where it states, name of mother Patience Jane Hitchcox formerly Bayliss.

After trawling through the marriage's on ancestry I drew a blank, but on free BMD I found, third quarter 1862 William Hitcox Brackley 3b 9. Though he appears to have married Patience Jane Davis.

Could someone kindly look up the 1861 census for Finmere to confirm whether Patience Jane was a Davis or a Baylis?

Many thank's, Baz.

I have been searching for a birth certificate for my gg Grandmother, the information that I am certain of is, her name, year of birth, marriage date and place, name of husband and his age and place of birth, name of father, cause and date of death. What I have yet to discover is her place of birth.

What makes the task even harder is that her maiden name was Smith. But using what I already knew I searched free BMD and finding a birth around the correct year, in a location near to where she was married I pined my hopes on it being the right person. Alas the fathers name didn't tally with the one I already knew to be correct.

Thinking laterally I thought it worth a try looking at free BMD in the county of her husbands birth. I found a birth that matched her name and year of birth but before sending off for a certificate I requested a look up for the 1851 census to see if the names of both child and father matched what I already knew to be correct. Again a negative result, but I was fortunate to be given a possible lead which led to an 1881 census return which matched my gg Grandmother exactly and actually gave Northampton as her county of birth.

Again I requested help through the county look up requests of this board. And was fortunate enough to receive a reply which gave an 1851 and a 1861 census return that in both instances tallied with a child of the correct age and fathers name to the one that I was searching for. Also the latter 1861 census gave a link to Buckingham which was the town in which my gg Grandmother was married and ultimately died.

So my question is this, given that I am looking for a person with a very common name i.e. Caroline Smith. Would you consider that by the sheer coincidence of the person that I have found being born in the correct year, her fathers’ name being the same, and a census return for 1861 when she was eleven years old that puts her family in the very place where my gg Grandmother was married seven years later. Would you consider it to be safe to regard the two Caroline Smiths to be one and the same person?

I look forward to your comments on how sure we should expect our information to be before we consider it to be correct.


 

Hi I'm interested in a place known in the 1851 census as Sidges/t Lane Encampment Tankersley Yorkshire.

Has anyone heard of this place? And if so where is Tankersley in Yorkshire?

I'm gratefull for any help you can give me on this one.

Thanks Baz.