« Reply #7 on: Saturday 12 June 21 13:53 BST (UK) »
Many of us have exactly the same issue apart from researching each and every real record( not just a transcription) so you find every single clue like age, occupation, address etc and looking at naming patterns of children so adding to what has already been said
I had a grandchild living with gran and two of her unmarried daughters one Eliza, one Elizabeth however they seemed to use either or name in different records, I knew one was the mother but not which one.....so I followed them both, both worked as servants in the same nearby town only two years difference in their ages, both married had children, lived in the same area and granchild contiued to live with gran apart from searching the poor law records and finding more information I still couldn't really distingush which daughter was the mother..until I searched the parish chest and found the parish diary in the back pages the vicar had taken a 'village census' inbetween the normal census years and gran had given information about all her children, who they married, where they lived, all her grandchildren and who they belonged to, so not just who was in the house at that time and so I was able to know which daughter was the mother but without that parish diary I would not have ever really known....... as the parish diary is written in as the first 'booking' for day to day appointments/visits and often gives lots of additional information that never is written in the parish record book or BT copies of the PR...it is worth trying to see if the parish still has it tucked away... if you don't live near the parish then you will need to contact the vicar and/or a local hstory group and see if they will search for it and look if it is not still in the parish chest then maybe it was sent to the local records office I have found a couple of parish diaries in records offices normally documented as 'parish chest package'
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Northamps:Sykes, Harris, Rice,Knowles.
Rutland:Clements, Dalby, Osbourne, Durance, Smith,Christian, Royce, Richardson,Oakham, Dewey,Newbold,Cox,Chamberlaine,Brow, Cooper, Bloodworth,Clarke
Durham/Yorks:Woodend, Watson,Parker, Dowser
Suffolk/Norfolk:Groom, Coleman, Kemp, Barnard, Alden,Blomfield,Smith,Howes,Knight,Kett,Fryston
Lincolnshire:Clements, Woodend