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thankyou for your reply. It is a real mix up and I feel that you are right. Perhaps there never was a Paul even!

There is very little information back in these time periods.

Thanks

Hello
I am hoping someone here can help with my problem.  I am researching my mothers paternal line and have got back to 1754.  When I got there, in London, I thought I would try to find all Blackburns in that area and then try to match them up. This worked very well in a village in Suffolk, but is a very different task in London!
I have two questions. One is that there are very few marriages amongst the many names I have gathered.  I have checked and apparently all churches in London are now digitised except for All Hallows Bread Street.  So surely the marriages should be there somewhere? They can't have all married out of London surely?
My second question is a mystery.  A Richard Blackburn has quite a number of children.  Among these are a Paul and a Lancelot.  England select Births and Christenings have Paule baptised at St Peters Cornhill on 10.12.1658.  There is no parish record for me to review.  However, Lancelot is baptised apparently on 10.11.1658 at the same church and this time you can view the entry in the Parish records. (this is on Ancestry).  When I go to the record there is no November entry, but there is a December entry and that is for Lancelot on the 10.12.1658!  No Paule is around there.
I then have found the Boyds inhabitants of London and decided to look for any information on any Blackburns in it. I found Richard and in the list of children there is a Paul baptised 10.12.1658 apparently not included in his father's will!  Lancelot is listed but only with the date he entered Oxford Univeristy in 1676 aged 17, again taking his birth to about the same year.  Lancelot became an Archbishop and his information shows his birth to be 10.12.1658!
So I have googled the England Select Births and Christenings and it is reportedly accurate.  The Boys inhabitants of London is also considered very accurate. The Parish records are of course able to be verified. So I am very puzzled and unsure what to make of it all.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you

I see what you're trying to do but as KGarrad says you can't assume families with the same surname are connected. And you can't gamble on ages. You need to research each family including all siblings, backward and forward in time. If they are connected you might find a record that connects them with an address, a will, a census and so on.

You can also try making a 'what if' assumption and doing some research. Sometimes everything seems to fit then all of a sudden you find a record that blows it out of the water. So that assumption was wrong.

Keep going. There's no easy answer, just methodical research and an open mind.

Martin

Hi
I made a start on that, thinking that might help me, but so many did not seem to marry in the area or even in England it seems, so I don't know if all churches have been digitised or not and some may not yet be on ancestry.

What are the best ways to do this >

Teresa

Hello
I am researching my Blackburn line. I have worked back to 1754 when John blackburn was born in Westminster.  He married in Essex, but had children first in Essex and then in Westminster so I researched and found him in Westminster and seemingly the right age too.  however, there are many Blackburns in this part of London.

I have now compiled a spreadsheet of those born from 1754 back to 1540 when it seems to fizzle out so assume they moved in there around that time.

However, I cannot see how to identify which family came from which family to get an idea of how to connect them.

for example, I found a John and Elizabeth, the parents of my John above and their family, and took a gamble on ages and found a John born to a John and Susannah in the same area in 1728.  But to find this John's father John, I am struggling.

Even his marriage is not found.  I have entered a John Blackburn and Susannah in England and only one came up and that was in Yorkshire, where there seem to be a number of Blackburns also.

I have got a number of churches on the spreadsheet, but obviously not all churches as they didn't come up with a Blackburn in my search.

Any thoughts on what is now a big puzzle would be greatly appreciated. It feels like these Blackburns should somehow all connect, but I don't know how.

I understand that mostly the marriages would be in the womans parish, I found very few marriages in the london area for these families.