Isabella McGregor missing birth

[JenB]

The is a vast amount of Parish record information on microfilm available through the LDS Family History centres which is not on the IGI. The films do not cost much to hire, and my own centre usually keeps them for me for up to three months.

You can search for places you are interested in at this site http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp . A search for Hexham revealed an enormous amount of information available on microfilm click here is a sample for you Hexham Church Records at LDS

Jennifer

[roby]

Thanks everyone for the suggestions for my missing Isabella

I have checked LDS library but there does not seem to be records for presbyterians???  Would most of the scots be baptised is this church ??  or am I missing the obvious?? 

Yes, death certs can be very wrong,  I think when I check the baptisms I need to check from 1790 to 1794. Just to be sure

Once again thank you all.

Cheers
Roby

[peter brownlee]

I found no baptism for Isabella in the printed transcript for the parish church of St Andrew [Hexham Abbey] and no marriage for McGregor around that time.  The Presbyterians generally used the Anglian facilities in early years. There are funerary memorials to rhe pastors of the Scotch church on the walls of the abbey. The present Scotch church now United Reform was built about 1820.
The names in the Catholic registers are confined to the easily identifiable members of local gentry families with hardly any strangers.
Of course baptism doesn't really require a church, or Isabella may have been taken over the border on a family visit and baptised there.

[Michael Dixon]

I am adding my tuppence worth to the topic of folk's ages.

After more than 15 years research on mainly Irish immigrants in Northumberland and Durham, I would award them all a medal for getting their ages correct so often.

How often did they need to trot out their age or birthday/year ?

Once every 10 years !. And maybe once when marrying, if they were young and might or might not need parental permission.

I agree that ages on death are less accurate, but it was not the deceased who was doing the informing.

Census 1841 enumerators were instructed for those aged over 15 years to round down to the nearest multiple of 5 years. For those up to 15 years,  to record the specific age as reported.

 Thank Goodness some enumerators ignored this or got it wrong and recorded a specific age as notified by the individual .

Michael Dixon

[roby]

Thank you one and all for the comments and suggestions for Isabella McGregor.  Your help is very much appreciated.

 Peter thank you for taking the time and effort to check the registers.  Would you be able to tell me which years you looked at?

Once again thank you all.
Roby

[peter brownlee]

I looked at Baptisms 1788 to 1794 and Marriages 1788 to 1791 ar St Andrews [Hexham Abbey] and the two Roman Catholic registers covering about 10 years either side of 1791.

[roby]

Thanks Peter,

You certainly covered the time frame.   Many thanks for your efforts.
Roby