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Can anyone check the baptism registers for St Bartholomew Longbenton for:
Hannah Wright, born 1845+/- 1
Margaret Wright, born 1847 +/- 1
I think they were both the daughters of Joseph Wright and Elizabeth (?Turnbull)
many thanks
Bob
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Where is Longbenton? Need some clues. :D
Nanny Jan
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Northumberland! Church records holdings listed here: http://www.genuki.bpears.org.uk/NBL/Longbenton/ChurchRecords.html
Hi Bob, Welcome to Rootschat :)
You can also access the BTs free on http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1202655582437#p=0
Click on Europe on the map, then scroll down to England, Diocese of Durham Bishops' Transcripts, then Northumberland, then Longbenton
not indexed though, and it does say coverage is 1762-1872 but you may need to search through as I found it finished at 1830, may be out of order :-\
Barbara :)
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Brilliant - I have never seen these on the Family Search site before = many thanks
(Longbenton is just N of Newcastle for those unfamiliar with it)
Bob
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Hi Bob,
You're welcome. Hope you find them there, but have you found them in the early census living with their parents?
Barbara
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Dear Barbara
Joseph Wright was my 2xg-grandfather, one of a long line of miners/pitmen. He is complicated by the fact that he married twice. I have him with Elizabeth (?Turnbull) in 1841&51, and with Mary (nee Ferguson) in the 1861. The Ferguson marriage I'm sure about (Ferguson is a family name used later), and is my line of descent. So his first marriage is a bit academic, but I'd like to sort it out. Margaret is the link between the 1851&61 censuses. I need to show Margaret was a daughter by Joseph's first marriage, and get her birth registration to confirm the parents, but the name is quite commmon, and I want to be sure to get the right certificate.
One thing that has mislead me for a long time is that there are 2 possible Josephs in the same place, of about the same age, both with a daughter named Margaret (similar ages), and, incredibly, Joseph(2) (not mine), lived in the same house in 1851 that Jospeh (1) lived in in 1841. My Joseph was entered in the census for 1851 as Joseph WRITE, and indexed by Ancestry as WISTE - so he took a long time to find.
This is all probably too confusing, but I'm very near certain I've got it sorted.
As for the BTs on the Familysearch website - are they a new venture?- it's called a "pilot site". I haven't yet found the 2 baptisms in Longbenton (the Baptisms/marriages/burials are all mixed up - and there may be gaps), but I have found other things, including Joseph's parents marriage and baptism of Joseph's eldest brother in Horton. They're in the Shute Barrington period, so there is much more detail in the baptisms record, including parent's place of origin, and sequence number of the child baptised (e.g. 1st son)
One final question - have you found a way of saving the images in a format that can be read by one of the common programs on a PC? I can only manage to print out the image.
best wishes
Bob
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One final question - have you found a way of saving the images in a format that can be read by one of the common programs on a PC? I can only manage to print out the image.
There was some discussion about this on this thread a few days ago http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,327152.0.html
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Hi Bob
On the Bishop's Transcripts page there is a green arrow pointing downwards just to the right of the printer symbol. If you click on this you will be offered a file to save. It has a very long name but leave it as it is and you will end up with a jpeg file of the image. You can then safely change the file name to whatever you want .jpeg. I have just tried and it did work.
An alternative that is useful with most programmes and web pages is to download a free utility called snippy and just use that to capture any part of your screen as a jpeg.
Good luck
Gobbo
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Re: saving images from familysearch
Thanks for suggestion - I was trying to rename it before saving. Your method works fine
Bob
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Hi Bob
I also found that if I tried to change the file name before saving I ended up with something my computer would not open.
All the best
Gobbo
PS Welcome to Rootschat
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Thanks for all the help/advice, but I still haven't found the 2 baptisms I'm after
Hannah Wright, born 1845+/- 1
Margaret Wright, born 1847 +/- 1
I think they were both the daughters of Joseph Wright and Elizabeth (?Turnbull)
anyone out there have access to the PRs for St Bartholomew Longbenton?
many thanks
Bob
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Bob,
Some bapts and burials of Longbenton Parish......
Bapt 28 Aug 1842 Elizabeth dtr of Joseph/Elizabeth Wright
Bapt 30 Mar 1845 Margaret dtr of Edward/Jane Wright ( nee McKenzie)
Bapt 27 Sep 1846 Margaret dtr of Joseph/Elizabeth Wright
Bapt 7 Nov 1847 Margaret dtr of Joseph/Isabella Wright
Bapt 11 May 1851 Joseph son of Joseph/Elizabeth Wright
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Burials
Bur 11 July 1837 Margaret Wright aged 2 yrs William Pit
Bur 12 Dec 1839 William Wright 1y 6m, William Pit
Bur 21 Sep 1841 Joseph Wright 18wks William Pit
Bur 11 May 1851 Elizabeth Wright 35 Killingworth Colliery
Bur 6 Sep 1857 Isabella Wright 32 Boundary Houses
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Source a set of index books in Newcastle City Library ( Luckily Longbenton Parish indexes date later than other parish records indexes , which usually stop at 1837.
Tell me how you you did discovered that the "other" Joseph Wright on Census 1851 is in the same house that was occupied by "your" Joseph on Census 1841.
Michael Dixon
Newcastle
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Hello Michael
Many thanks for those baptisms. I think I can place most of them. My Joseph Wright (=Elizabeth Turnbull) had Elizabeth (x28 Aug 1842) and Margaret (x27 Sep 1846). The other Joseph Wright (= Isabella Swan) had Margaret (x7 Nov 1847). Joseph (x11 May 1851) is a puzzle, because I though Elizabeth (bur 11 May 1851) was Elizabeth Turnbull (from NBI). I need to think about that.
The other burials in William Pit are probably children of Joseph's brother (George).
I concluded that the 2 Josephs occupied the same house from their immediate neighbours in William Pit Cottages, Longbenton. In 1841 Joseph Wright (1) lived next door to the Robson family (including George Robson aged 70), and next but one to the Scott family (including Thomas aged 7). In 1851 Joseph Wright (2) lived next door to the Robson family (including George Robson aged 81), and next but 1 to The Scott family (including Thomas 17).
The 2 Josephs were probably related (? cousins). They also both had daughters called Margaret, of similar ages (see above), and both were pitmen/coal miners. The 2 Josephs were also of similar ages (or as similar as you often get in censuses).
Complicated, and I'm still sorting it all out
many thanks to all who helped
regards
Bob