Chepping Wycombe baptisms

[allisont]

Can anyone tell me a likely place for someone born 1911 to have been baptised please?

[behindthefrogs]

Wasn't Che(i)pping Wycombe called High Wycombe by 1911?

Anyway I would start with High Wycombe Parish but if they were not anglicans it could have been any one of a number of churches in the town.

David

[allisont]

This particular birth is registered in Jan 1912 and the address given is Sniggs Lane, Chepping Wycombe. Looking on the streetmap site Sniggs Lane runs alongside Wycombe Heights golf club. The nearest church seems to be in Penn but knowing my luck it wouldn't be the one.

[behindthefrogs]

I can see yor problem. Sniggs lane would appear to be on the boundary of three parishes.  High Wycombe, Penn and Wooburn.  (Even though I know the area I didn't realise there was a parish of Wooburn until now)  You would need an accurate location in Sniggs Lane and a better map than I am looking at to determine which.

David

[allisont]

I've just ordered another certificate for a birth in 1909 so I'm going to wait and see what appears on that. Thanks for replying.

[JLo]

Probably won't help much but -

'High Wycombe, Wyckham, or Chipping Wycombe, situated, as the name implies, on a rivulet in a valley, is bounded, on the North, by Hughenden, or Hitchendon; on the East, by Penn and Woburn; on the South, by Great Marlow and Little Marlow; and on the West, by West Wycombe.' (Genuki)

Most of my paternal family come from Chipping Wycombe in the part now called Wycombe Marsh.  Sadly although I have some born in 1911, I don't know where they were christened (if indeed they were), although I do know some were married in the Parish Church in High Wycombe.

Any joy with the certificate?

[allisont]

Hi
Thanks for the reply.
That particular certificate wasn't the right one. I've since got the right one and he was born in Wraysbury! I've also found the marriage I was after in 1916 at Staines so the part that said 'X formerly Y' was rather misleading.