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Title: Crikey, where could Matthew Du Bourg (Dubourg) have been baptised in the 1780s?
Post by: Bonza on Sunday 22 December 13 06:29 GMT (UK)
Hi all

So, where is the 1780s London or Surrey area baptism for Matthew Dubourg (Du Bourg)?

I wonder if anyone could please help me find Matthew's baptism. He was probably born in the early to mid 1780s, maybe 1782-1786, possibly in the Greater London and Surrey area somewhere.

In 1800 he is an apprentice to Chas. Rosenberg of East St, Lambeth, where he seems to remain until his death and burial there in 1828. His St Mary's Lambeth burial states that he died in his 44th year.

I'm trying to find his baptism to identify his parents, which will help me to fit him in to or out of the other Dubourg (Du Bourg) families of the London area.

I've already tried Ancestry, FindMyPast, FreeReg & FamilySearch without any success.

Maybe his baptism is amongst the Boyd's baptisms or other sources of baptisms for the region?

Thank you to all in advance.

Kind regards from Bonza in Australia  ;)
Title: Re: Crikey, where could Matthew Du Bourg (Dubourg) have been baptised in the 1780s?
Post by: supermoussi on Sunday 22 December 13 07:45 GMT (UK)
There are a few Non-Conformist bmds for Du Bourgs and Dubourgs here:-

http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/ (http://www.bmdregisters.co.uk/)

but no Mathew that I can see although I guess the spelling may vary widely...
Title: Re: Crikey, where could Matthew Du Bourg (Dubourg) have been baptised in the 1780s?
Post by: Bonza on Sunday 22 December 13 11:03 GMT (UK)
Thanks for that link Supermoussi

I hadn't checked them yet. Nothing coming up under Dubourg or Du Bourg though. I'll have more of a play under some variations, but perhaps it's somewhere else. I wonder if it's a catholic baptism?

Cheers, Bonza
Title: Re: Crikey, where could Matthew Du Bourg (Dubourg) have been baptised in the 1780s?
Post by: chasbaz on Tuesday 24 December 13 17:41 GMT (UK)
From skimming the web for Mathieu Dubourg I'd say that Catholic is the best bet
Title: Re: Crikey, where could Matthew Du Bourg (Dubourg) have been baptised in the 1780s?
Post by: chinakay on Tuesday 24 December 13 17:46 GMT (UK)
Don't forget the Huguenot exodus...a lot of them settled in the Spitalfields and Shoreditch areas. There were some very large groups of them.