Record Office - profiteering or discouraging business?

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi MarieC

For more info. on Dade Parish Registers see

Topic: Dade Parish Registers
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,82760.0.html

Bob

[Lesanne]

  If the exchange rate is 2.5 Aus$ to £1, then $105 is the charge
    to find my Louis Crays and Mary Miller marriage. 

     1830 St Anne's Church in Limehouse, London. The elation of finding this after years of trawling was only believable to other like minded brickwall bashers. 

     Hence the plea for anyone visiting the LMA, as I believe that's the only place to get the information from..
                                                  Lesanne.

[MarieC]

Thanks, Paul and Bob!

That's an excellent article on Dade registers - very informative!

One of Little Nell's posts said that Northumberland had Dade registers, or something similar, and the article does not mention Northumberland.  Does anyone know about this?  Because I have a real interest in cracking a brick wall there. 

I've told the Durham Records Office, very politely, that I will not be pursuing my enquiry with them because of the cost.  So I won't recontact them.  I will wait to see if the other Rootschatter can organise a lookup, and if not, I'll probably order in the film.

MarieC

[Little Nell]

One of Little Nell's posts said that Northumberland had Dade registers, or something similar, and the article does not mention Northumberland. 

That info (not verified I must admit) came from book by two respected writers, Jean Cole and John Titford.  I've looked in other books I have on the shelf, but no-one else seems to mention them so I really don't know for certain.  Sorry Marie. 

Nell

[MarieC]

Never mind, Nell!  Based on what you said originally, I might get at least one film in.  My original informant said that if the IGI, in listing a baptism, lists the mother by maiden name, that often indicates a Dade register.  So I have a couple of indicators there...!

MarieC

[Little Nell]

Hi Marie,

I've checked some old magazines for articles on Dade registers - the best article is in Family Tree Magazine Vol 11 Issue 9 p9 by Pauline Litton.  Unfortunately it doesn't give a list of which parishes are known to have Dade registers.  It does mention that Chris Webb has catalogued those within the modern Archdeaconry of York (there are 100+ of those) and they are listed in a book A Guide to the Parish Records in the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research.  Pauline says in her article (dated July 1995) that there appears to be little information about how common the system was outside the north-east of England. 

I suspect that nobody really knows!

Nell

PS Just read a bit more: Alnwick in Northumberland has a Dade-type register!