Baptised on the Isle of Wight?

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The name I'm looking for is Cynthiney (or a variation) ORTON, born c. 1800.   Her parents were Susannah/Sukey and Edward ORTON.   The family came from Nuneaton and I can see five children baptised there before Cynthiney and four baptised afterwards.   The gap is from 9th December 1795  to 26th June 1803.

In the 1841 census Cynthiney's birth pace was Warwickshire but I'm guessing that information was given by her husband.   By 1851 she was a widow.   In that census and also 1861, 1871 and 1881 she said she was born on the Isle of Wight.

I've looked on Ancestry, Find My Past and the IGI with no success.   If anyone can do better I'd be really grateful!

Diana

[josey]

I haven't looked for you yet, but just to say I have been doing some transcribing for familysearch recently, and Isle of Wight parish records are one of the record sets being worked on and are nearly complete. Not sure if this is the only time they have been transcribed or when they will be released.

This shows the state of play as at today

[KGarrad]

Have you tried looking at the Isle of Wight Family History Society?
https://www.isle-of-wight-fhs.co.uk/

Click on Databases, then BMD Indexes

[josey]

Ancestry has this transcription
Cynthia Orton bpt 26 Jul 1801, St Nicholas, Bristol,
Parents: Edward & Susanna Orton

ADDED:#1 AH I see that there is the following Leicestershire baptism which conflicts so probably the above is the wrong family, though Cynthia IS a fairly unusual name for the time and she may not have been a young baby at baptism.
Mary Orton bpt 28 Oct 1801 Earl Shilton,Leicester
Parents: Edward & Susanna Orton

The original record is only viewable for Cynthia on ancestry.

ADDED#2 What was Edward's occupation?

[BumbleB]

FindMyPast have the image for the Earl Shilton baptism - surname written as Orten

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Thank you all so much for your help.   Earl Shilton is certainly a lot closer to Nuneaton that the Isle of Wight!   I will take a look in just a mo.   Cynthia was certainly how her name was transcribed on some of the census returns.   I've no idea where the name originated but it's not an easy one if you don't already know it so I imagine the enumerators wrote what sounded plausible to them.   She was Symphony on one census.   Unfortunately I don't know what her father did for a living.   A lot of people in Nuneaton were weavers of one sort or another.   There were also brick makers but then the list of possibilities is endless.

Thank you all once again.

Diana

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Having looked at the Bristol & Earl Shilton baptism entries I think the Bristol baptism is the most likely.   The name is a close-ish match and I can't see that she appears in Bristol ever again.   I know that doesn't make it right but it's a working hypothesis.

I can see a marriage for Mary ORTON in Earl Shilton and her age on the 1861 census is about right so I think she can be ruled out.

Thank you all once again for your kind help.

Diana

[josey]

I wasn't thinking that Mary & Cynthia were the same person but that the couple could not have had two babies so close together unless as is possible, Cynthia was perhaps a year old when she was baptised.

From familysearch, if the Earl Shilton family are the correct one, it seems Ann was born May 1808 baptised Feb 1809 at 8-9 months old, so the couple did not always have their babies baptised soon after birth. Of the other children on familysearch only Isabel has birth/baptism dates & she was 3 months old at baptism.

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Hi Josey

Thank you for that extra information.   The Nuneaton family had four more children after Cynthiney, all baptised in Nuneaton.   I think that rules out Earl Shilton since the couple there were having different children at more or less the same time.   At the moment I am going with the Bristol baptism although with a big health warning that it is only supposition and not proven.

Kind regards,

Diana