Access to original Halesowen parish registers

[Eastbury]

Hi Tom
Ancestry has the Bishop's Transcripts of Worcestershire parish registers, as mentioned above.
I was in Worcester this morning so checked the microfilm of the actual Halesowen Parish Register Volume 10. Prudence's baptism states that she was the "Daughter of Gabriel & Sarah Little". Not Littley as on the Bishop's Transcript)
The only Gabriel Little in the Worcestershire Marriage Index, which doesn't seem to include Halesowen marriages, was Gabriel Little to Sarah Print on December 20 1784 at Beckford which is about 40 miles from Halesowen. . .
Regards
Jack

[ColC]

Beckford was in Gloucestershire until 1931. There is the baptism below, 7 miles from Beckford, his parents also Gabriel & Sarah, I do not see another Gabriel in the County and of course he may have be born elsewhere before 1750.

Gabriel Little Baptism 21 Jan 1759
Prestbury, Gloucestershire, his parents married there in 1747.

If this is the correct Gabriel for the 1784 marriage in Beckford, he could not have married Mary in 1769 or had Susanna in 1771.

Colin

[locksmith]

Ancestry has the Bishop's Transcripts of Worcestershire parish registers, as mentioned above.
I was in Worcester this morning so checked the microfilm of the actual Halesowen Parish Register Volume 10. Prudence's baptism states that she was the "Daughter of Gabriel & Sarah Little". Not Littley as on the Bishop's Transcript)

The Bishop's Transcript actually shows Little as well but has been mistranscribed by Ancestry. The "Y" shown on the image is the old fashioned th with an e above it ie Little the 7th (looks like Little Ye 7th)

Simon

[Tom Langley]

DNA matches prove that it is the Littley/Parsons family I connect to.

[AdamsHodgetts]

Hello, I am wondering if anyone has access to the original records for a baptism please. Prudence Little who was baptised on 7th June 1778 in Halesowen and Oldbury, Worcestershire according to the England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975 on FindMyPast. I dont have the specific church sadly. Th parents are listed as Gabriso (Gabriel) and Sarah but I am hoping that Sarah has been mistranscribed, so to prove my theory the mother was called Mary.

If anyone also has access to the Staffordshire originals too I want to check her burial date - 24 Sep 1832 • St Michael's, Brierley Hill. Info taken from the National Burial Index For England & Wales. Wondering if the year may be wrong based off some other records I have seen.

Can anyone help?

I have looked up Halesowen Parish Registers under 1778 and on page 195, it actually says "Edge of page damaged."  ? daughter of Gabriel and Sarah Little, baptised ye 7th June. 

[Tom Langley]

Thats interesting, wonder if maybe a transcript was done which is where Prudences name has been found

[AdamsHodgetts]

Is this the same Prudence?

County   Worcestershire
Place (Links to more information)   Dudley
Church name (Links to more information)   St Thomas
Register type (Links to more information)   Parish Register
Marriage date   24 Dec 1798
Groom forename   Benjamin
Groom surname   HADDLETON
Groom parish   Dudley, Worcestershire
Groom condition   bachelor
Bride forename   Prudence
Bride surname   LITTLEY
Bride parish   Dudley, Worcestershire
Bride condition   spinster
Witness1   John HINNASS
Witness2   J BOND
Notes   Married by banns. The bride and witness 1 signed the register with an X.
Transcribed by   Gareth Pritchard
File line number   974

Source: https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/6230f632f493fd30c02495d1/prudence-littley-benjamin-haddleton-marriage-worcestershire-dudley-1798-12-24?locale=en

[Tom Langley]

Yes, one in the same!

[ColC]

DNA matches prove that it is the Littley/Parsons family I connect to.

Have you seen this tree on Ancestry?

Gabriel Littley Parsons Spouse Mary Muchall
Father Benjamin Littley Parsons
Mother Martha Harvey
Children
Samson Littley

Birth 1744 Rowley Regis, Staffordshire
Death 1827 Dudley, Staffordshire (Dudley is in Worcestershire)

I presume this is the death mentioned above on freereg?
Gabriel PARSONS Burial age 84 11 May 1827
Dudley : St Thomas : Unspecified Worcestershire

Also on Ancestry in Worcestershire Bishops Transcripts.
Gabriel Parsons about 1743
Burial 11 May 1827 Dudley

So I guess this is the baptism for the above but where did the name come from?
Gabriel Parsons

Baptism 25 Dec 1744 Rowley Regis, Worcestershire
Benjamin, Martha

These are the transcripts on Ancestry Gabriel, Mary Halesowen, Shropshire

Susanna Little Baptism 6 Feb 1771
Thomas Little Baptism 9 May 1773
Prudence Littley Baptism 7 Jun 1778 mother Sarah

Samson Littley Baptism 16 Apr 1786
Dudley, Worcestershire Gabriel, Mary


Attached to Sampson’s record above is this death on Ancestry, no age recorded but it is the one below.

PARSONS, SAMPSON    age 3  
GRO Reference: 1849  M Quarter in STOURBRIDGE UNION  Volume 18  Page 367

However this is his death. Son of Gabriel & Mary (Freereg)
Samson LITTLEY Burial 19 Oct 1787
Dudley : St Thomas : Parish Register Worcestershire

Colin