Robert GIDDING about 1771 Bedfordshire ?

[kpb]

  Hi looking for information on a Robert Giddings born about 1771 in Bedfordshire or Cambridgeshire married  a Mary Wagstaffe 1779 in Sutton Bedfordshire, also unable to locate birth for Mary believe to be born about 1773 any help will be greatfully recieved as I and others have hit a brick wall on these two family members. If no information family Histopry Ends Here.

Bye for now
Ken

[johnP-bedford]

Well Ken,   the IGI has a member's submission of marriage of Robert Geddings to Mary Wagstaff on 8 Apr 1775 at Wrestlingworth

& it also has another member submission of same marriage on 8 Apr 1798 with him being born/christened there in 1773; & other say he's from Sutton.....

..... so until I've had a chance to read the Wrestlingworth & Sutton Parish Records I'd just take these with a pinch of salt, seeing as virtually 95% of Bedfordshoire PRs are extracted to the IGI, & and no actual extracts are appearing on the IGI,  then I'll say no more...

cheers John 

[kpb]

Hi
Looking for a robert Giddings born about 1771 I have hit a brick wall on this person if no information then all ends here.

Bye for now Kenneth

[johnP-bedford]

1851 census has Robert age 76 born Hatley, Cambs & wife Mary age 77 born Biggleswade; being father/mother to John Giddens age 38 born Sutton, living in Sutton

HO107 Piece: 1753 Folio: 279 Page: 16

[kpb]

Hi John
 I have looked through Hatley records and still can not find him. Where he has come from I do not know, could he have moved into Hatley from somewhere else and how do I find out.

I am not able to get out and about much and researchers are very exspensive if you can not give them some imformation, it's no good saying I have hit a brick wall.

Regards Ken

[bedfordshire boy]

Have you checked the parish registers of Hatley St George and East Hatley in Cambs, and Cockayne Hatley in Beds?

David

[bedfordshire boy]

I've just discovered I have a personal interest in them! Their son William b1802 married Sophia Legate of Henlow, part of my Legate tree, at Bedford St Paul on 4 Nov 1822.

I'll have a closer look

David originally from Henlow

[bedfordshire boy]

Odd one! In 1851 he gave his birthplace as Hatley, Beds (not Cambs as you were told previously). So that's Cockayne Hatley as the other two Hatleys are across the county boundary in Cambs. All three parishes have been extracted onto the IGI but there's not a single Giddin(g)(s) baptism in any of them.

Banns for his marriage to Mary Wagstaff were called in Biggleswade on 1 Apr 1798, Robert Gidings of Sutton and Mary Wagstaf of Biggleswade

Sutton has also been extracted onto the IGI but there wasn't a Giddings baptism for over 150 years before the wedding.

So where was he from? Somewhere in the locality I'm sure.

The NBI shows no burials in either Sutton or Cockayne Hatley that could be Robert's parents (no Giddings at all in CH). The only places in that part of Beds where there were Giddings burials were Potton, the last being in 1777, and Eaton Socon. I think he may have been from Potton, but that's just a guess and without a baptism is unprovable.

Like you, I can't see an obvious baptism for Mary Wagstaff either. It might be a case of having to go through all the baptisms on the IGI in that part of Beds, and try to tie them up with burials and marriages

I've checked the Muster lists, A2A and Blars online catalogues and drawn a blank.

I'm stumped!

David

[sarahjc]

Hi Ken,

I can't offer any additional information to that already posted above, but I am also a descendant of Robert Giddings and Mary Wagstaffe. It would be interesting to compare notes.

Best wishes,
Sarah