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Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« on: Wednesday 01 April 20 07:51 BST (UK) »
I am enquiring on how extensive are baptisal records on the IGI? Perhaps there are other records to supplement the IGI repository?

I have been attempting to find the baptismal entry for my ancestor Jane GARDNER, who married Henry Richardson at Eaton Socon in 1825. According to the various Census entries from St. Neot's, Hunts (where they moved), Jane was apparently born at Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire around 1803-1805.

However I have searched exhaustingly and cannot find her baptismal record. I have searched in the nearby counties without satisfaction.

Are there other strategies I should use? Looking for inspiration please.

Thanking anyone out there for some pointers.

Cheers, Rob/Australia

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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 02 April 20 01:50 BST (UK) »
Have you checked relevant county records offices?
familysearch.org?
http://www.archersoftware.co.uk/igi/
Butcher Westmorland and Lancashire
Barton Westmorland and Yorkshire
Trethowan,Reeves Middlesex
Halsall,Green,Charters,Chatterton Lancashire
Smith, Moger, Maxfield Wiltshire
Woods,Speechley and Coles Huntingdonshire
Gibson,Blanks,Monk,Fokes Essex

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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 02 April 20 02:32 BST (UK) »
I usually look on the GENUKI website for background information of towns, villages, parishes, including churches and church records, that I know nothing about.  Surfing with the search terms of "Genuki" and the town will bring up the webpage.

Here's the webpage for your parish:
https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BDF/EatonSocon

There's a notation concerning births which explains why you haven't been able to find anything - (notice that a different county of Cambridgeshire has the Bedfordshire county information)    :-

Baptisms from 1813 - 1885 are being prepared.

Details can be obtained from ESCA, 3 Collingwood Road, Eaton Socon, St. Neots, Cambridgeshire

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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 02 April 20 11:19 BST (UK) »
This is a useful reference soure for what's available where on line:
http://www.ogindex.org/
Simons Barrett Jaffray Waugh Langdale Heugh Meade Garnsey Evans Vazie Mountcure Glascodine Parish Peard Smart Dobbie Sinclair....
in Stirlingshire, Roxburghshire; Bucks; Devon; Somerset; Northumberland; Carmarthenshire; Glamorgan


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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 02 April 20 12:24 BST (UK) »
Thanks warncoort and Rena I follow these suggestions. Hopefully I can use online searching as I live in Australia! Cheers Rob

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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 01 July 20 11:10 BST (UK) »
Cannot see a baptism of Jane Gardner (or Gardener or other variants) around 1803 - 1805 at Eaton Socon or anywhere else in Bedfordshire, as per the Surnames Index CD produced by the Beds FHS. The marriage entry is there in 1829, Jane is spinster & Henry is bachelor.

The Eaton Socon Escan site archives have transcribed the marriage, however baptisms only start at 1813...   https://www.escan.org.uk/Home/Search

regards John
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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 09 February 22 07:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi all, I still have not located Bedfordshire baptisms anywhere. Familysearch also does not record these entries. Nevertheless I am fairly certain Jane GARDNER was born at Eaton Socon around 1804. Does anyone know of a GARDNER family in this locality? Perhaps those with family connections may assist here? Thanks, cheers, Rob

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Re: Completeness of Parish Registers (Hunts & Bedfordshire & nearby counties)
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 09 February 22 09:04 GMT (UK) »
Bedforshire had quite a few non-conformist churches including the Bunyan Church at Kempston less than 15 miles from Eaton Socon. They di not believe in infant baptism.  Many trades people belonged to the Bunyan Church.

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