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Just to round this enquiry off, I have now received the marriage cert for Thomas Henry Dransfield and Ann Elizabeth Powell. The outstanding point was to confirm that Thomas Henry was a widower when he married Ann. The certificate confirms that he was indeed. It is therefore reasonable to assume that Rebecca Dransfield (ne Rhodes) died somewhere between March 1871 (when she was back living with her parents) and October 1874 when Thomas Henry married Ann. We still have no reliable record of her death though.

This post covers locations both in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire.
Jacob and Martha Thompson (nee Boothman) had five children, William (1875); Louisa (1877); John (1879) Annie (1881) and another Annie (1884). According to FHL they were all baptised in Epworth (apart from Louisa who can't be found in baptism records). All have civil birth registrations in Crowle. I have trawled through the parish registers for Epworth; Crowle and Thorne for the years of the various births but haven't found any of them! Is there any shortcut or do I just need to open up every parish register in the region to find the baptism record for these children?
Thanks for any suggestions!

Thanks Graham. So the "f" is the old fasioned "S", but why is the second "s" an "s" I can recognise? Was this a convention of the time if there is a double "S"?

Bilham

Thanks JR
I hope he's ok.
I was taking the illegible reference from his spreadsheet where he refers to "illegible entries here" and "pages illegible here". I've looked back at the spreadhseet (the references are down at row 26047 and onwards) but I don't know what year they refer to as the date of burial order is strange. At those rows I have a mixture of 1865 to 1883 and then late 1600s so I can't tell what dates are covered by the illegible entries. However, more to the point, if you've seen the original entries for the period we are looking at 1871 - 1874 and they are illegible with no Rebecca Dransfield (or Rebecca Rhodes) I'm back to (unfortunately) making assumptions that she died at some location during that period. Maybe she moved away due to the stigma of 1) an illegitimate child and 2) the death by scalding?