Little Staughton

[grouse]

My ancestor John Gurry is shown on census returns as born in 1813 in Little Staughton. I have bought microfiche records but these end in 1812 - typical!

I would be very grateful if someone could lookup records to find his parents

Thanks

[bedfordshire boy]

Welcome to Rootschat!

Lt Staughton baptisms and marriages up to 1875 have been extracted onto the IGI but there's no John Gurry. Access the IGI via http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountryEngland.htm#PageTitle

There are marriages but no baptisms, although there are a number of earlier Gery names. There's a baptism of a Gurry at Lt Staughton Baptist church in 1788, and I wonder if your family may have been non-conformist.

All Beds PR transcripts end at 1812 - but a commercial organisation that sells the fiche doesn't give details of the coverage ie only up to 1812, although they do state that in the description of the Cdrom version. A bit misleading in my view. I would complain to them.

David

[johnP-bedford]

Beds FHS are creating parish records on CD & have done one for Little Staughton;  take a look.....follow the link ......  it's only a tenner.

http://www.bfhs.org.uk/

Regards
John

[StevenG]

Beds FHS are creating parish records on CD & have done one for Little Staughton;  take a look.....follow the link ......  it's only a tenner.

Don't these also only go up to 1812?

[grouse]

Thanks for the replies and the advice

I suppose this will always remain a mystery. I've bought quite a few fiches of the villages surrounding Little Staughton just in case John was mistaken in his birth place. I also purchased the Prime CD and the derivations of Gurry makes the task near impossible - an expensive when you don't live near the records office!
In the 1841 - 1871 censuses there is another John Gurry born 1897ish who also states he was born in Little Staughton but I can't find him on any fiche either. My thoughts were also non conformist as both baptisms and marriages are 'missing'

I'll have to plan a holiday around a visit to the records office to take a peek at the parish records such as churchwardens accounts. There might be a mention of the name, if only in the context of fines for non attendance at the parish church

Onwards and upwards!

[bedfordshire boy]

How about the marriage of John Gurry and Elizabeth Millar on 10 Nov 1814 at Tilbrook, four miles from Lt Staughton? It would be worth checking the entry to see if John was of Lt Staughton. I can't see a burial of Elizabeth Gurry though. John's age on censuses would only have to be a year out for this marriage to fit

Non conformists pre 1837 had to marry in the established church, other than if they were Jews or Quakers, who were the only other reliogions authorised to conduct marriages

David

[johnP-bedford]

Don't these also only go up to 1812?

Hello StevenG

You've obviously not taken at a proper look at the BFHS website link.

They contain images of the printed transcriptions of the registers up to 1812, a searchable transcription of the Baptismal register: 1813-1851 in alphabetical order, a searchable transcription of the Marriage register: 1538-1837 in date order & a searchable transcription of the Burials register: 1538-1851 in alphabetical order.

cheers John 

[johnP-bedford]

The Tilbook marriage is maybe that of John Gurry born about 1794/95 Little Staughton who appears on 1861 census at Eaton Socon with wife Elizabeth born 1793 Tilbrook. An Elizabeth Millar was baptised there on 2 June 1793 to Richard & Ann.

On 1871 John Gurrey is father to widowed son Mark born 1829. On 1851 John is a farm servant in Eaton Socon, married, but wife Elizabeth is not with hm, & I've yet to find her on 1851.  (I noted in same household is servant Mary Ann Patridge b 1833 - must be one of mine).

So is this John Gurry the son of John & Sarah who baptised Francis in 1788 at LS baptist church.  The LS parish record transcript has the marriage of John Gurney to Sarah Briers on 11 Oct 1787, & the entry is annotated with a question mark & name Gurrey hand written.    

[grouse]

Yep, I also found these enteries and so wish I could make the connection. But the most important one of all is connecting this elder John with my ancestor John. I think it's a leap of faith to say they are father and son. There are so many derivatives of the name Gurry that I've located in Beds - not to mention those in Hunts and Cambs that I suppose I'll have to find them all and cross them off til I make some sort of sense out of it all
And there was me thinking I had a rare name!

Thanks again for all your interest in my query