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Title: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: jlewis6537 on Monday 21 March 11 20:44 GMT (UK)
Is there any evidence of a Rebecca WATSON baptized about 1780 in Whitley?
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: scamp1234 on Tuesday 22 March 11 15:08 GMT (UK)
Hi,
In the archives we have Whitley Lower but the records don't start untill 1846.

JOHN
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: jlewis6537 on Tuesday 22 March 11 16:09 GMT (UK)
John,

Thanks, that helps. On the 1851 census, her bp looks like Whitby Yorks, but as I couldn't find her there, I though it might be Whitley Yorks. Now I can eliminate that!

Judy
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: trefriw on Thursday 24 March 11 13:51 GMT (UK)
Hi Judy

If she lived in Whitley she could have been baptised at Thornhill as until the church in Whitley was built people were baptised, married and buried in Thornhill.

Regards

Francine
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: jlewis6537 on Thursday 24 March 11 14:20 GMT (UK)
Thanks. Great clue.
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: Holmemoss on Thursday 24 March 11 16:36 GMT (UK)
Whitby is in the North Riding; the Whitleys are in the West Riding so you should be able to differentiate between the two from your 1851 census information.

However, there are two Whitleys in the West Riding; one in the parish of Ecclesfield and one in the parish of Snaith and Kellington.

Whitley Lower is in the parish of Thornhill so, again, your 1851 census information should narrow it down.

From your the new familysearch site there are only two baptisms (unless she was born in Bingley) in the West Riding which may, or may not, mean anything:

Rebecca Watson on 7 Sep 1780 at Doncaster; d/o Vallentine Watson

Rebecca Wattson on 2 Apr 1780 at Birstall; d/o Samuel Wattson
Title: Re: Whitley about 1780 Rebecca WATSON
Post by: jlewis6537 on Thursday 24 March 11 17:32 GMT (UK)
Thanks so much. That may help, at least a couple of leads. The 1851 census is in London, so all I have is a birthplace.