finding a name

[Wulfsige]

Is there a way of asking Ancestry or MyHeritage to find a reference to a name? The thing is, I am 100% sure I found a reference to Custer Young (= Christopher Young), one of my family, back in the 1600s or just possibly in the early 1700s, but despite prolonged searching in the parish records or bishop's transcripts I can't find it again. It was probably "X was [buried/baptised/married], son/daughter/widow of Custer [and Mary/Agatha/Joan?] Young". Apart from the fact that I am a fool for not jotting down the reference, can you guide me as to how to find the reference again? Will a site do a search for it? It was probably in Wiltshire, and probably Custer was separated from Young, but as Custer is an unusual name or abbreviation, there probably aren't too many instances of it.

[Ashtone]

Could this be it?  Record on FindMyPast.

Wiltshire Baptisms Index 1530-1917
Baptism Date: August 1669
Name: Nicholes Young
Father's first name: Custer
Place: Horningsham
Notes: "out of order in 1666"

As for the Note: apparently it means that the entry in the church register was not in the correct date order.

[PaulineJ]

You can specify the site that you wish to search (for future reference)

eg Custer site:www.ancestry.com will search ONLY ancestry.com

[Ashtone]

It was probably in Wiltshire, and probably Custer was separated from Young, but as Custer is an unusual name or abbreviation

In case you want to know how the record was located on FindMyPast:

Go to "Britain Records" main Search page
Enter Young in Last Name field
Enter Custer in Optional Keywords field
Click the Search button
Out of the 88 results, there is 1 Baptism record. That's your record.

[Wulfsige]

It was probably in Wiltshire, and probably Custer was separated from Young, but as Custer is an unusual name or abbreviation

In case you want to know how the record was located on FindMyPast:

Enter Custer in Optional Keywords field

Thank you. I didn't realise about 'optional keyword'. Great!  :-)>

[Ashtone]

Its one of the things I love about FindMyPast. 

[Wulfsige]

Its one of the things I love about FindMyPast. 

But can you explain a mystery? Here is the entry from the Horningsham parish records on Ancestry, but it doesn't seem right:

- Years ago I drove down from N Wales (where I live) to Wiltshire, studied the archives, and wrote 'Custer'
- The transcriber on FindMyPast clearly did the same
- A few weeks ago I studied the digitised archive on-line and again clearly read and wrote 'Custer'.
- But if you look at the attachment taken from the parish records, neither of the entries about Nicholas says 'Custer'. So obviously, I happened upon on-line, and was shown (in Wiltshire) a document which the transcriber also used, but I cannot find it again online. Presumably it was Bishop's Transcripts. It may hold many other gems of information for I think 'Custer' was my great***grandfather. What was the elusive document, and how can I find it again on-line (for Wiltshire is very far away)?

[Bookbox]

- But if you look at the attachment taken from the parish records, neither of the entries about Nicholas says 'Custer'.

Your second extract shows the name Custer, or Crister - see my clip of it, below.

Probably this should have been written Christopher (or variant spelling), as in the other record.