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Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« on: Tuesday 09 March 21 18:27 GMT (UK) »
Could someone please check the baptism of Elizabeth (?Jane) Skeet  - 8 Oct 1838, Tattingstone, Suffolk

Very many thanks

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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 09 March 21 18:40 GMT (UK) »
Is this the baptism you are looking for?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N5XJ-D9H

Elizabeth Jane SKEETS

4 Sep 1837

Suffolk, England

Father: John SKEETS

Mother: Caroline SKEETS

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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 09 March 21 18:53 GMT (UK) »
Hi Queenie,

Yes, this is the correct marriage - but I'm puzzled as I can't find a baptism for an Elizabeth / Elizabeth Jane Skeet (s) under FreeBMD or in the GRO index.  There is a Jane Skeet, dau John and Caroline, aged 3 in the 1841 census for Tattingstone, Suffolk.  I'm trying to see what the baptism and marriage registers actually say. Neither Ancestry nor FindMyPast have good Suffolk register transcripts.
Many thanks for your help.

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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 09 March 21 18:57 GMT (UK) »
Was just about to ask if she was Jane on 1841 census

Piece:   1034 Folio:   10 Page Number:   13
Tattingstone
John Skeet   50 ag lab
Carriline Skeet   39
John Skeet   16
James Skeet   14
Susannah Skeet   11
Samuel Skeet   19
Frances Skeet   7
JANE Skeet   3
Henry Skeet   1

Here’s Henry’s birth reg showing mmn

SKEET, HENRY    mmn   GARNHAM 
1840  M Quarter in SAMFORD HUNDRED  Volume 12  Page 425

Did she marry John Gull 1857?


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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 09 March 21 20:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi - yes, I believe she did, but the names are rather a muddle, and I was trying to clarify.  I figure she was born in 1838 - but the Jane’s/Elizabeth’s born Sept 1837 - 1839 did not have a mother’s surname of Garnham!

mystery.

Many thanks,  Joan

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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 10 March 21 10:46 GMT (UK) »
Could someone please check the baptism of Elizabeth (?Jane) Skeet  - 8 Oct 1838, Tattingstone, Suffolk

Where did you find the date 8 Oct 1838?

Queenie posted a possible baptism date 4 Sep 1837 for Elizabeth Jane Skeets parents John & Caroline, EJS on 1841 census as Jane born c1838 & 1851 census as Elizabeth born c 1837 Tattingstone Suffolk

Before 1837 only churches recorded birth, marriage, and death information in England.
England and Wales registration began on 1 July 1837 coverage was not universal, especially in the earlier years before tougher laws in 1874...........
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Civil_Registration

Her marriage registration

Elizabeth Jane Skeet
Jun 1857 Samford Suffolk Volume:   4a Page:   853
names on same page
Hannah Allen
John Goldsmith
John Gull

probably her death reg.

Eliza Gull Jun 1859 Samford Suffolk Volume:   4a Page:   371
GRO indexes shows her death age 23 that would give her a birth year of 1836 so you wouldn't find her birth reg on GRO indexes or FreeBMD

Unfortunately NO date of birth given for Elizabeth on this record from
Conquerors of the West: Stalwart Mormon Pioneers, Vols. 1-2 - on Anc*y no image to view

John Gull Birth 20 Nov 1832 Capel St. Mary, Suffolk
Arrival 5 Dec 1864 Salt Lake City, Utah
Arrival Company or Notes:   William Darling Freight, Alex Sutherland, Captain.
Marriage Age:   24
Death 24 May 1913 Meadow, Millard, Utah
Father:   William Gull Mother:   Sarah Gull
Spouse:   Elizabeth Jane Skeet
Marriage    5 Apr 1857 Capel St. Mary, Suffolk
Death     13 May 1859 Holbrook, Samford Dist., Suffolk


SKEET, HENRY    mmn   GARNHAM 
1840  M Quarter in SAMFORD HUNDRED  Volume 12  Page 425

Elizabeth's brother Henry's birth registration from GRO indexes showing mmn Garnham this looks to be parents marriage entry but no image to view

John Skeet
Marriage 20 May 1823 Bentley,Suffolk
Spouse:   Caroline Garnham

I had a look on FreeREG https://www.freereg.org.uk but unfortunately there's noting for Bentley or Tattingstone
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Re: Baptism Lookup Request - Tattingstone, Suffolk
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 10 March 21 12:05 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ladyhawk,

Very many thanks for this, which is most helpful - and yes, I've come across various instances, mainly in places like rural Suffolk, of post-1837 births not being recorded
(my great grandfather's birth was registered in September 1837!)

The original parish registers tend to give mixed information; sometimes adding the date of birth and sometimes even the mother's maiden surname - in early times just the father.  The Skeets were generally non-conformist, and some of their records can span 3 generations - as an example my G2 grandmother, who married Robert Skeet

"Elizabeth Ablitt, daughter of Robert Ablitt and Lydia Ablitt his wife who was the daughter of Lydia Abel was born in the parish of Sutton in the County of Suffolk on 19th June 1809 at whose birth were present James Lyn, Robert Ablitt, Elizabeth Barker"

I think I need to contact the Suffolk Record Office for copies of the original parish records, as all the others are transcripts. Census ages are notoriously a bit vague.

Thank you once again for such a helpful reply.