A baptism for 'Henery Webb' Gerrans register for 26 Dec 1773

[majm]

Some thoughts re looking back before civil registrations for bdm ...

   Back in the decades and decades before family history became armchairable via the internet, there were groups of people who transcribed the parish registers and put their findings into books, and these books were available to other groups, and via public libraries, .... so people in Australia who had migrant ancestors from say Cornwall, could look through those books, either at their local family history rooms, or at the main Public Libraries...  And, in turn those looker uppers were able to transcribe local records (baptisms, burials, marriages, probates, newspaper cuttings, etc) and print off books and send those books to groups 'overseas'...

Alternatives to parish registers

 * Newspapers - many are being digitised by various organisations around the globe.  Some are freely available ... for example, the Trove resource from the National Library of Australia includes newspapers and various Government Gazettes .... births, engagements, marriages, deaths, funerals, probates, sequestrations, publicans licences, grants of land, selling of property, passenger lists on shipping, legal notices, etc   https://trove.nla.gov.au/  ... New Zealand also has similar resource: https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/   and of course, the newspapers in the colonies carried news from the UK  including bdm type announcements.  Both those resources are already listed on the respective RChat Resources Boards.

* RChat's resources boards are great,  here's Cornwall's https://www.rootschat.com/forum/cornwall-resources-offers/

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=490272.0    - This live link is one you have provided, back in 2010.   And, thanks to you, I was able to sort out one of my 'brickwalls' back then ...   

JM

[Vasquez109]

I do remember seeing a guide a few years ago online, or it could even possibly been a Youtube video. It showed a step by step guide of using the information found within the registers, and what other resources will work with them to make any possible links.

It also showed how to be a detective and calculate possible family links where the registers on their own prove too difficult. For example 3 Joe Bloggs baptised within the same year.

Has anyone else read or watched the video? I thought it was good at the time and forgot to bookmark it...   

[majm]

Perhaps you were looking at Family Search options

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for example : http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/FamilySearch/England/L4_Church%20Records/player.html

JM

[jonw65]

You could read this by Anthony Camp
Dead end or new beginning?
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Dead_end_or_new_beginning%3F

You could also go over what I have already written regarding H, which includes
noting people of the same name in the parish register (could John Webb buried in Veryan, and the widowed Sarah Webb who remarried there have been H's parents?)

marriage witnesses - in H's case one was a regular, but John Pasco is interesting (but Pasco/Pascoe seems to be a common name in those parts)

wills - you should look for any Webb wills in the area of course and those of other names that may come up in researches. In that will of Richard Curgenven, second husband of Sarah, could the Ann Webb mentioned have been H's widow?

Do look for parish chest/poor law records - I don't know what survives for the parishes we have been looking at, unfortunately there is nothing available on FamilySearch for Veryan

Check the archives catalogue, this is where I found the wills/administrations indexed.
http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/DServe/searchpage.htm

You could also go to library and borrow some books on genealogy/family history.
One great one for these kind of problems is The Family Tree Detective by Colin D Rogers.
Preview here
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I1OVhi9aoFQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

[pb_devon]

I am adding nothing to the debate, but I am amused that this Cornwall subject is currently in the Europe section. I am on the border, but on the civilised side (Devon), and know the Cornish see themselves another place from England. Maybe RC mods know something we don’t!,😀

[sarah]

The post was posted in the beginneers section which was the wrong place and a quick read did not make it obvious where it should be - if it is not obvious I have to guess.

[pb_devon]

The post was posted in the beginneers section which was the wrong place and a quick read did not make it obvious where it should be - if it is not obvious I have to guess.

Thanks Sarah