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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Estate workers, a few queries.
« on: Saturday 21 December 24 13:51 GMT (UK)  »
Very interesting photo.

Nearly six years ago (where did those years go?) I posted a photo which shows a similarly mixed group. https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=786359.0

Perhaps there are other examples out there.

Where was your photo taken?

(I've still had no luck discovering where my photo was taken)


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Sussex / Re: "Missing" Baptist births at Wivelsfield
« on: Wednesday 28 February 24 12:42 GMT (UK)  »
Just in case someone follows down this path in the future.

I would think that Abraham Knight born 4 March 1773 is likely to be the one buried at Bethel Chapel, Wivelesfiled in Sep 1792, aged 19 - and unmarried.

Jesse Knight born 8 May 1792 was not the one who married Maria Lempriere; the one who did was my 4xgreat uncle Jesse, the only one (!) of 7 siblings to have a birth record (Ote Hill Chapel, Wivelsfield Jan 1790).



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Sussex / Re: "Missing" Baptist births at Wivelsfield
« on: Wednesday 28 February 24 12:39 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for the comments

I have not been looking at baptisms whether adult, Baptist or CofE.

This is the Register of Births I have mentioned (on Ancestry; Findmypast have the same).
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/2972/images/40612_B0150269-00005?ssrc=&backlabel=Return

FS film number 0825422 covers 9 chapels from the RG4 series, including this Wivelsfield register of births.

Amondg – do you have a link to that transcription on Ancestry? Or is it just the individual entries in “England, Select Births & Christenings, 1538-1975”?

I had a look at Sussex FHG’s data archive for the Chapel. Their transcription has the missing Knights, plus 3 Normans – 12 entries or 3 pages all “baptised” (should be “registered”) on 14 April 1790. These would fit in before the first image, page 5. Confusingly,  they appear to have nothing transcribed after page 20 of the Ancestry/FindMyPast images.

Either there a duplicate register (with more entries) or the scans on Ancestry/FindMyPast are missing pages. 

I would prefer to see the actual images but the transcriptions seem to be sound.  I don’t think it warrants a trip to Kew to see the original!

An interesting diversion.

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Sussex / "Missing" Baptist births at Wivelsfield
« on: Tuesday 27 February 24 19:09 GMT (UK)  »
I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, but I can't see what! Please can anyone help?

FamilySearch batch C093041 covers the Baptist Chapel at Wivelsfield including three chrildren of William & Mary Knight - John 1771, Abraham 1773 and Hannah 1775

Here is the entry for John Knight https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JQ14-D52

I've gone through the images for this register on Ancestry and Findmypast (twice) but I cannot see these entries (although there are quite a few Knights)

The stamped page number for the entries starts at page 5.

Do the two companies both have missing pages? (presumably they got the images from the LDS/FamilySearch)

Or are the missing Knights indexed wrongly and are at another Sussex chapel?

many thanks in advance





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Berkshire / Re: Looking for c1770 baptism of Ann Blake at Didcot(?)
« on: Thursday 08 February 24 12:24 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Alan,
Thank you so much for that confirmation - I sort of hoped you would come up trumps!!!

I was happy Ann was correct (she witnessed her sisters' marriages and all three were in her mother's 1815 PCC will) but I wanted the icing on the cake with the baptism.

I'll wait for Oxon or Berks FHS to make Didcot a seperate download before I tackle the Blakes.

best wishes
Steve



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Berkshire / Looking for c1770 baptism of Ann Blake at Didcot(?)
« on: Wednesday 07 February 24 20:52 GMT (UK)  »
William Blake of Didcot married Elizabeth Harmsworth in February 1770 at Streatley.

They had the following baptised at Didcot (bishop transcripts only on Findmypast)
7 Jun 1772   Mary
31 Oct 1773 Elizabeth
13 Jul 1775  William

I’m looking for the baptism of their other daughter Ann (born c 1772 per her 1848 burial aged 76).

There is one tree on Ancestry which has Ann’s baptism at Didcot on 25 Dec 1770, but no sources.

I wonder if there is a kind soul who could confirm if Ann was baptised at Didcot, otherwise I will have to look at Streatley.

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
« on: Tuesday 12 December 23 09:21 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks to everyone, especially BushInn1746 for the very clear copy.

It's interesting that evidence of this vital resource of the 1980s and 1990s has all but disappeared.

I well remember the 1881 census indexes first appeared in this format.

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The Common Room / Re: Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 17:10 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you mckha489.

Happy memories!

I would like to find a clearer image if it is out there to be found.

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The Common Room / Looking for an image of an old IGI microfiche page (not specific, any will do)
« on: Saturday 09 December 23 16:32 GMT (UK)  »
Lots (?) of people will remember the old IGI (International Genealogical Index) microfiche. The baptisms and marriages for a county were arranged in name order.

I remember sitting in Bromley Library, in the early 1990s, tracing my direct Barlow line back through Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

I wanted to show a newly-discovered cousin what the fiche looked like, but I can't find an image on the internety thingy.

Can someone come to the rescue and share a link for me?


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