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Thanks for that, though I've noticed that not all programs let me use that notation. My tree on Ancestry seemed to particularly dislike writing it as 1732/3...

Alexander

Hi,

I have just found a couple of my ancestors in the IGI before 1752 and the dates are making me get very confused. The couple, Richard & Sarah Redford, had the following children, all baptised very close:

Richard, bap. 15 Feb 1732
John, bap. 25 Mar 1732
Mary, bap. 19 Feb 1733

I'm having trouble with trying to get the dates to fit together with the old and new style calendars. It doesn't help that John seems to have been baptised on "new year's day". Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alexander

Thank you for what you found, Jane. This one is a bit tricky because Richard Redford died in 1733, and I think they had two children - at least one of whom died in infancy. Richard Redford was the son of another Richard Redford, so it's been a bit difficult to distinguish between the two. It seems there's been a long line of Richard Redfords.

Regarding Sarah Butcher's baptism, I did see the IGI entry for the one in 1708 at Shere. There is also one in 1707 in Cranley. The thing is that after her first husband died, she remarried in Cranley in 1734. That makes me wonder if she originally came from Cranley, and after her husband died she went back there. The one in Shere is also a good possibility too though since it's so near by. That why I was hoping I might find a marriage license for them as I have found them for some of my other ancestors in the period...they often help a lot with places and ages. Sarah was 25 at her second marriage in 1734, and 38 when she died in 1746.

Thanks,
Alexander

I think you guys have got it. Thanks a lot! 

Alexander

  Thank you all very much for your work!

Alexander