Joseph Martin in the Somersham Area

[magslote]

Hello, I have had a request for help,
looking for bapt of  Joseph Martin approx1785-1788 in
the Somersham area, thankyou.Margaret.

[bedfordshire boy]

It's worth mentioning that the lady who posted this request on another board said that she had checked Somersham parish register at Huntingdon Archives and had drawn a blank

[magslote]

Hello David, thanks, yes, that is correct, and I
have sent her burials for Somersham
from The Burial Index.Margaret.

[bedfordshire boy]

In the good old days before the internet you would have got a map and a compass and stuck the sharp point in the place you expected the person to have been baptised and drew a circle with, say, a 5 mile radius. Then you checked all the parish registers in that circle. If that failed, you increased the radius of the circle and repeated the process.

The principle still holds good

The post on the other board mentioned that Joseph subsequently lived in Chatteris in Cambs, which is 5 miles from Somersham but with no parishes in between. He wasn't baptised in Chatteris.

David