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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Amelia E/Emily Elisabeth WILLIAMS
« on: Monday 28 February 11 20:08 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: DOB7 on Monday 28 February 11 16:00 GMT (UK)
Given that Susan's father was a French pilot, have you considered tha Susan may have had her daughter christened in the Catholic Church?

Thanks DOB7
I won't rule this possibility out, however  Susan and her siblings were baptized at St Andrew's church in Plymouth and her father Martin was married at this church in 1810 and buried at the same church in 1832 ( I have pension records that show this)!

Interestingly I have never found my 2x Great Grandfather Joseph Martin Williams baptism record either( he is Amelia's brother). He was born in 1843. His children were baptized at Charles Church.

It just seems to be one generation in my family tree that I am having problems locating! ???

 The generations before and after I have found :)

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Amelia E/Emily Elisabeth WILLIAMS
« on: Monday 28 February 11 10:22 GMT (UK)  »
I have just been sent an email saying that the record office can send me a copy of the records at the charge £5! :'(

I just can't keep on shelling out money just to keep on finding the wrong information so I will have to leave it. I can't believe with all the information I have given them that someone  at the Records Office could not just have looked on the database and check the details! It takes two seconds. Luckily the record office where I live is a bit more helpful.

I only wanted clarification of parents names!
 :-[

When I visited the Office last year a helpful chap showed me how to do searches on their data base and records came up in seconds!

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Devon Lookup Requests / Re: Amelia E/Emily Elisabeth WILLIAMS
« on: Monday 28 February 11 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks DOB7. I have just emailed them. So fingers crossed they can help.

I have looked for Amelia under her mothers maiden name several times but with out any luck.

I have been searching for her and her siblings baptisms for many years with out any luck.

The problem I have is that we have no definite date of birth other than 25th Dec sometime around 1836. On various documents and census's I have had very different information. So it's hard to pin point what her middle name was. On different census's she has had the middle intial E. Information I have been given from the USA says she's a Frances,Francoise or Ambrosina. Her death certificate says her mother's maiden name was Susan Delarue although her siblings birth certificates says their mother was Susan Rowe.

I am starting to wonder if the family were atheists and did not have their children baptized. Although Amelia's mother Susan Williams( formerly Rowe) was baptized in St Andrew's Church Plymouth in 1816 (her father was a French Pilot, Martin Rowe).

Amelia married and then joined the Mormons and moved to the channel islands in the late 1850's. In the 1860's she moved to Salt Lake City Utah. So far nobody has found a baptism record for her..... very puzzling

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Devon Lookup Requests / Amelia E/Emily Elisabeth WILLIAMS
« on: Thursday 24 February 11 20:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hi,
I wondered if someone could do a look up for me please . I have the Plymouth Baptism index vol 1 on CD and have found a baptism I am rather intrigued by. I have been trying to find a Baptism for a Amelia  E Williams born approx 1836 in Plymouth. I have had no luck finding a record but found a Baptism record for a Emily Elisabeth Williams. I know it's a long shot but on the 1841 census Amelia was recorded as Emily so I am now looking at records for Emily's too.

I have a Emily Elisabeth Williams baptised at Charles Church Plymouth 05/8/1840(pge 11) but I do not have the parents name to prove or disprove if this is the record I am looking for.
Amelia's parents names were Joseph and Susan they are recorded on the 1941 census as Williams but did not get married until to 1843 after the birth of several children!
Can anybody help?

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Devon / Re: Charles Church graveyard Plymouth
« on: Friday 24 December 10 10:29 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks for your help everyone.

Have a very Merry Christmas :)

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Devon / Re: Exeter St Flats
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks mo.

Yes I roughly know where Salem Street was by a old map I have from 1891. It's just a bit bewildering trying to place exactly where it was with so many houses knocked down to make the dual carriage on Exeter Street. It looks so different from how it did before WW2.

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Devon / Re: Charles Church graveyard Plymouth
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 16:42 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks Mo

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Devon / Charles Church graveyard Plymouth
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 10:11 GMT (UK)  »
I know that after WW2 bodies were exhumed from the grave yard at Charles church to make way for a roundabout. Were any records of the graves and headstones recorded or photographed  before the removal of the bodies? Also where were the bodies moved too?

Thanks for any help.

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Devon / Exeter St Flats
« on: Saturday 13 November 10 10:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hi, I am not sure if anyone can help me. I visited Plymouth a while ago and noticed some flats on Exeter St called 'Exeter Street Flats'. Could anyone tell me if these flats were known as the 'Salem Street Flats' at a earlier point in their history?
I know they are roughly in the area that Salem St once stood

Many Thanks for any help.

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