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Thank you all so very much. I've just found the baptism image on Ancestry and downloaded it. I am fairly certain that this is my family... just a little niggling doubt because the names are so common. Great to be getting it sorted at last!  

You say you found the baptisms on Ancestry and where can you see the original baptism entry.   You can view the actual image on Ancestry too.

Annette

Wow, Annette, thanks so much! I'll try again but so far I haven't found the image.

Select birth/baptism

Emma SMITH b.12.4.1850, bapt 23.6.1861 St Johns, Notting Hill, MDX. Her younger brother was baptised on the same day. It provides FHL details but I am a bit too far away from their nearest library. Where else would the original baptism record be? LMA?

1871 census has Wiiliam (Emma's Father), Emma & two younger brothers at Denbigh Mews, Kensington, Municipal Ward St John & St James. But on google earth it's showing up as Denbigh Close not Mews (near Portobello Road, Denbigh Terrace and Denbigh Road, but the Close is just around the corner from that church where the baptisms occurred.

Emma was married at St Peter's Church, in the Parish of Bayswater. It's only recently that I've found the baptism at Notting Hill and looked again at the marriage entry on the A website and saw the text reference to Notting Hill above the digital image ... even though we'd had the marriage certificate since 2000 it doesn't state Notting Hill on the certificate... it only states Bayswater (which seems to be nearby too - you can tell I'm not a Londoner!).  :/

With both the baptism & marriage held at Notting Hill so close to where they lived on the 1871 census, and the groom's address on the 1874 marriage certificate is Denbigh Mews but by then Emma's address was Walmer Rd (I believe that's nearby too)... it's starting to fit together like a good jigsaw puzzle.

However, I need to be sure I am on the right track as Emma's birth place according to the 1871 census was Poplar New Town, no birth place provided on the Select index record.

Emma's mother was deceased before the 1871 census and Emma was also deceased before the 1881 census. I can't find them on the 1861 census but possibly have them on the 1851 census..... It's a bit tricky.... there were a lot of SMITH folk so I need to narrow it down as much as possible before purchasing her birth certificate. I can't afford to buy several certificates to get it sorted and even then there could be more than one family with the same names.

Cheers, 
Em

Hi,

I'd really appreciate some help to get this baptism sorted, please. I'm fairly certain that I've found the needle in the haystack of one of my SMITH ancestors, via a 'Select Births and Christening' index only record on the A website. The record gives both the birth & baptism date, but only the baptism place.

Where can I obtain a copy of the original baptism?

Would anyone have first-hand knowledge of the area, please? I am trying to place the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together, but as an Aussie I have limited knowledge of London/Middlesex roads etc.

On the 1871 census the address of the family (which I believe are my ancestors) was then a 'Mews' now it appears to be a 'Close' which is a point I really need clarified as there's a few addresses with the same/similar name popping up on Google Earth search results.

Due to the copyright issue I'm not sure what info I can post here from the select index record. So please let me know via PM or reply here whichever is appropriate. I've been chipping away at this brick wall for at least a decade and am astonished that I am so close to smashing it down!

Thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Em