Hi Maggsie
I don't have easy access to all collated data tonight but wanted to acknowledge your prompt response.
I am searching for the COI baptisms of the children of James Smith Shaw and his wife, Mary nee Hunter. Children all born between 1826 and 1835. I believe Daughter Elizabeth Smith Shaw was the eldest, baptised in 1826 - found her baptism at St Anne's Shankill.
Am looking for baptisms of :
Jane Shaw
Mary Anne/ Marianne Shaw
William Henry Shaw (documents collated specify his actual birth date as 11 July (from memory) 1835
Fanny Louise/Louisa Shaw
Emily Shaw, b. Abt 1835. She marries Robert Holden in 1854 at St Anne's Shankill
The mother, Mary dies in 1858 (found newspaper death notice)
James and Mary appear to have lived in the Donegall Pass area - Charlotte street.
James' occupation is variously documented as carpenter, builder, joiner.
The children and James smith Shaw all end up in OZ, immigrating in dribs and drabs.
All children indicate (in their respective DCs and other later documents in OZ) that they were born in Belfast and that their mother's name was Mary, nee Hunter.
Have not been able to find marriage of James smith Shaw and Mary Hunter as yet.
Thought I would track down each child's baptism first but have hit a brick wall....
Would make sense if they were all baptised at St Anne's, hence my query as to what year/time gaps there are in the registers held at PRONI.
Cocksie