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Title: Dunnington or Walmgate? Alice Taylor
Post by: standardcrow on Wednesday 27 January 10 16:47 GMT (UK)
My Great Great Grandmother Alice Taylor was most likely christened on 28 Sep 1875 at Stockton on Forest Parish Church. There are two Alice Taylors born in York in 1874-5, one in Dunnington, one in Walmgate.

From what I can see from census districts, Stockton on the Forest was in Walmgate but the 1875 birth is in Dunnington. The 1874 birth is in Walmgate, do you think this is a safer bet? I'll be able to tell whether it is the right one once the certificate comes as I know she was illegitimate and I know both her Mother and Father's names from various family records, but I don't want to buy extra certificates unnecessarily!

Thanks for your help.

standardcrow
Title: Re: Dunnington or Walmgate? Alice Taylor
Post by: avm228 on Wednesday 27 January 10 17:00 GMT (UK)
If she's a granddaughter of Ann (possibly a daughter of Ann's daughter Margaret?*), she's in Stockton-on-Forest in the sub-registration district of Dunnington, aged 5, in 1881: RG11/4729/57/12.

You can request a checking point on a certificate order (e.g. mother's name is Margaret) so that if the certificate is the wrong one you get no certificate but a partial refund.

* I see from the IGI baptism entry that her mother was indeed Margaret.
Title: Re: Dunnington or Walmgate? Alice Taylor
Post by: standardcrow on Wednesday 27 January 10 18:57 GMT (UK)
Yep,
That's the IGI reference I thought was the right one as well. That's a good idea with the checking point. I haven't done that before but it's probably a good idea in this case.

Thanks for the help.

standardcrow