Windsor Baptisms

[jillruss]

I'm trying to locate baptisms in Windsor around the early 1800s.

Nothing on Family Search; nothing on Ancestry, and nothing even on FindMyPast even though they do have lots of other Berkshire parishes.

Can anyone help?

Jill

[BumbleB]

Don't have much knowledge of Berkshire records, but have you considered "Old Windsor" records, as opposed to "Windsor"? 

Added:  or even "New Windsor"

[familydar]

How about Clewer?

[jillruss]

I've got a CD of Clewer PRs, so that's covered.

It doesn't seem to matter whether its Old or New Windsor - the baptisms just aint covered online. I wonder why.

Jill

[jonw65]

Some Old Windsor baptisms to 1812 here
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A88483

BTs
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bfilm_number%3A1279476

Refresh page if necessary! Or put in a surname.

[jillruss]

Thanks.

Mine must be New Windsor - looking for children born to William & Mary Horwood who married in 1807. I have the approx years of birth from censuses but would like dates of baptisms and to try and discover what happened to some of them who just seem to have disappeared into thin air!

Jill

[ribbo39]

Hi Jill,

There is a marriage recorded in New Windsor St.John the Baptist,  but the name has been
transcribed as William Horrard to Mary Dawson on 29-3-1807. (Ex BerksFHS marriage CD)

Is this the same couple? 

It might help you in looking for children going under a different spellings.

Alan

[jillruss]

Thanks, Alan. Yes, that's the marriage but I can't find any baptisms for their several children who appear on the early censuses with their parents.

The father - William Horwood - is my biggest brickwall. I've been trying to find his baptism for years now c. 1779 (from age at death). In my early days of doing this (10 years+) I thought I'd found him baptised in Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire in 1779 but he turned out to be a completely separate Wiliam Horwood! Since then, zilch! maybe he was never baptised or perhaps it was in an obscure church or chapel.

I've repeatedly tried to tackle the problem from the 'other end' and tried to find out what happened to his children, with some luck (but none led to anything more on their father, alas!). On the 1841 census, William and his wife Mary (who came from Clewer) have several surviving children living with them, including Sarah (19) and Mary (12) but, without access to the PRs, I have no idea what happened to them by way of death, marriage, later census, transportation (desperation crept in there!).

And, yes, unfortunately this is one of those surnames that lends itself to all sorts of crazy spelling variations - I've even had Whorwood!!

Jill

[CarolA3]

And, yes, unfortunately this is one of those surnames that lends itself to all sorts of crazy spelling variations - I've even had Whorwood!!

Nothing crazy about it!  A Mr WHORWOOD was one of the managers where I worked in the 1980s in Gloucester (lovely man, quiet sense of humour).

There was also a family of clergymen by that name in/around Oxford.  One of them was supposed to marry my 3xgt-grandparents in 1835, but tempted fate by filling in the register the evening before.  He died of apoplexy that night and a substitute did the job instead.