Dedicated to Phoebe Tidmarsh Dame of the order of the Knights who died 1852 age 72 and Buried at Temple Balsall! in the Dames of the Knight Templars Headstones Honour of The Lady Katherine Leaverson Foundation to the Knight Templars.
A few Tips to break down the Pre 1837 Brickwalls
Put in simplest terms for all to understand please.
A Run down of sibling in Gro index after September 1837 biths after marriages
around 1830 plus years giving bros and sisters again looking at strange middle names.
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.plOldest ancestor death certiicates nearest to 1837 deaths.
This helps give an approx year of birth also sometimes have a name
that can be linked and an address at death.
A sibling Birth Certificate Nearest 1837 gives the mothers maiden
name and fathers full mame usfull in Bastardy cases.
When trying to find a marriage? When there are a few with the
Same fathers names and your female ancestor maiden name is unknown?
Try finding the the parish of Marriage (Say 1795 to 1799) in the Hugh Wallis Website
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htmhttp://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ IGI and looking at baptisms from the date of marriage to 25 years past
this marriage date for their siblings. Now look to see if there is a sibling
of the name you are looking for as below:-
JoSeph Bloggs Bapt 1808 (this is Your known date for your Joseph)
If there is a Joseph Bloggs say bapt 1812 for this Marriage say 1799
then that Marriage can be eliminated also check out infant deaths aswell
as there maybe two or more before final elimination of.
As well as this! one can also trace this marriage in the census years and
other Sibling names also look around a few streets near for the oldest
names of likley parents.
http://www.freecen.org.uk/cgi/search.plMiddle Names of sibling being their mothers or a grand parents surname (both parents)
or Maiden! one and work down from. Also unusual first names like Phoebe-Gertrude and others
that may repeat down the line
Buriels somtimes give an indication to age, year of birth and a lot of
local studies libraries hold dedicationa- Memorials of gravestones long gone
with names of the family, sometimes parents names also marriage surname/maiden names
of the family location of graves gives family groupings aswell.
WillS if lucky to have are a good source.
As Marriage by Banns only give the parish of residence
(Not to be taken as birth parish) wittnesses some times helps if the male
is of the same surname as the my hold the same graddpapents.
Marriage By Bonds Licence gives age and a Parent siginture if under age marriage
say 19
Apprenticeship Intentures of the master Graftsmans records also including Home Weavers (not too be mixed up with later industrial mill weavers.)
Bastardy Bonds sometime give good info
Overseer of the poor of that area location records controled these events above and Payments and Birth/Bapts Buriels-Contorl of Movement records of residents?inhabitants = to early form of census details in most Archives offices. They covered the workhouse aswell
Well all invited to add their ideas and links to this post on this subject.
Occupation and abode in Baptisms-Buriel and limited marriage by Banns gives adobe parish of residence in 3 week lead up to the envent. This info inconjuntion with 'overseers of the poor 'records = to census 1837 with movemet recods are in someways better. Linked to Tithe and Allottment records is better with cacompanying maps of tithes. The National archives at kew has all this info links the county archives office to the main national online archives index or indvidual county web archives index online. The 1801/I811/1821/1831 census have some inhabitants on them while others are head counts.
Court Rolls/ hearthax/ Land tax/Early census, electrol registers /overseers of poor records/Tithe/Allotment/Landowers voting lists/Trade directories/Quarter sessions that covered criminal as well as over legal land doc's licences and such.
Churchwarden accounts and Inhabitants (sometimes)
These are Just a few
