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It is interesting to read Wikipedia about Manchester collegiate church, (the cathedral), especially the section about batch marriages, which applies equally to baptisms, and the reasons for it.


Plenty of scope there for mistranscriptions,  or even that your place in the queue was too late, so come back next week.


Mike

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I have a marriage listed under the cathedral, also listed in the parish (levenshulme)
on a different date, I doubt they got married twice, and brides first name is very unusual so unlikely to be two couples.

I keep getting drawn to Dursley, for no better reason than Issac the excavator, to me an excavator then was someone who dug big holes for canals and railways, travelling to do so.

At the time of John’s  marriage in burford was he perhaps building the somewhat never completed canal that was being built through burford at that time, met a girl married and settled down there, and inspired his son to travel and see the wider world.

Pure speculation, not really encouraged on rootschat

Mike

I can't find his baptism on FindMyPast or FreeReg!

I have found, in Burford (Oxon) with father Samuel, the following HEATH baptisms:-

1777   Elizabeth
1781   Letty
1783   Ann
1784   Sarah
1787   Mary
1794   Ann

No baptisms 1790-93 in Burford, with father Samuel, of a John with a surname anything like HEATH. I'm baffled.

George

Suitable gap between Mary and Ann,  he would be the only boy.

Rules out my theory that his mother died in childbirth and he was raised by a family member elsewhere.

The firs Ann must have died.

Mike

For no better reason than that there seems to be a historical family link between burford in Oxfordshire and burford house near tenbury I would offer for elimination

John Heath,baptised 24 aug. 1791 in burford oxfordshire. Father Samuel, no mother named, most unusual.


Mike

Mazi had both in the same arm at the same time in feb, flu and Moderna.

Mike