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Title: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: Helen Bedford on Wednesday 07 August 13 13:02 BST (UK)

Hi
If anyone has access to original baptisms in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834, could they look up the baptism of Mary Minney 15 Jun 1834 please? need to know if any birthdate is shown.
Helen

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: magslote on Thursday 08 August 13 08:46 BST (UK)

Hello, no birth date shown, daughter of Thomas and Sarah.Margaret.

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: Helen Bedford on Thursday 08 August 13 09:30 BST (UK)

ok, thanks very much. It was just a long shot as mine said she was born in 1821 in Wyton.

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: PeterC66 on Sunday 03 January 16 07:59 GMT (UK)

There is a useful website for the history of Holywell-cum-Needingworth at www.hcnhistory.org.uk (disclaimer - it is my retirement project!) which includes PR images. I do not see any Minney there. By the way the IGI has a mistake and many entries under Holywell-cum-Needingworth in the IGI were actually for Houghton and Wyton, so this sort of confusion is possible. I worked from the original documents for my transcriptions.

Any HcN questions can be sent to me via that website, as I only occasionally look at RootsChat.

Cheers

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: Helen Bedford on Sunday 03 January 16 11:48 GMT (UK)

Yes, thanks for that.
I later discovered when looking closer at the description of the HCN films that they had put the two parishes on the same film and just titled it as HCN - very naughty!
Helen

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: Helen Bedford on Sunday 03 January 16 12:35 GMT (UK)

Hi Magslote
I've just looked at the scans of HCN registers on the website that PeterC66 is working on and see that there isn't an entry for June 1834, so can I ask which registers you looked at please?
Helen

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: bedfordshire boy on Sunday 03 January 16 13:34 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Helen Bedford on Sunday 03 January 16 11:48 GMT (UK)

I later discovered when looking closer at the description of the HCN films that they had put the two parishes on the same film and just titled it as HCN - very naughty!

They weren't two separate parishes, so why naughty? Needingworth was just a hamlet  of the parish of Holywell cum Needingworth

Title: Re: Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834
Post by: Helen Bedford on Sunday 03 January 16 14:10 GMT (UK)

Sorry Bedfordshire boy, I should have made myself clear, I was referring to the practice by Family Search of putting the parishes of Houghton and Witton on the same film as Holywell cum Needingworth and only indexing it as Holywell cum Needingworth!
That is definitely naughty as Houghton and Witton (or Wyton) are very separate parishes from Holywell cum Needingworth and should be indexed as such. It creates the wrong impression that there are two baptisms etc., when there is only one (albeit probably different filming sessions).
This just shows that local knowledge is vital to understanding a register :)
Helen