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Possibly a servant in Newcastle?

RG9/3812/87 p 8
33 Westmorland Street, St. John's, Newcastle
Joseph Inow Head Married   34 Butcher b Tanfield, Durham
Mary Jane   Inow   Wife   28 Butcher b Ancroft, Durham
Jane T Hudspith   Servant 17 House servant b Haltwhistle Cumberland

Nell

Generally speaking, there are only transcriptions and indexes of Berkshire records to be found online, so it can be tricky.  FindMyPast have the transcriptions and indexes.

I have found a burial record for an infant George Hale in Easthampsted on 5 Dec 1809.  Unfortunately no clue if this is the son of James and Mary.

I also found a burial record for a James Hale (resident of Warfield) in Easthampsted on 12 May 1810.  Again no further clue.

The marriage record of James & Mary has the following witnesses: Mary Brinn, Joseph Brinn and John Welch.

The witnesses for Stephen & Emma's marriage were Robert Hatt and Mary Hatt.

Stephen's age in 1841 could be anything from 25 to 29 - ages were rounded down.  The 1838 marriage record states that he is 'above 21.'

There don't seem to be any other Hale baptisms with those parents in Berkshire in that area, but the location puts it within relatively easy distance from both Surrey and Hampshire. 

Equally, I'm not having much luck with finding a possible baptism for James in Berkshire. 

Nell

There do seem to be some oddities in the records that you have cited.  Boyd's contains huge amounts of information, but it is a secondary source.  Looking at the list of children and the baptisms dates, it is obvious that whoever wrote out that list did not question the dates. 

Assuming the children were baptised within a few weeks of their birth, it is not possible for there to be two children born in late 1658 to the same parents.

While Boyd specifically notes that there are some children not mentioned in Richard's will, it is still possible that they did not survive: the burial has simply been lost in the records.  (Don't forget, the Great Fire of London wreaked havoc on 87 churches in 1666.)  That said, I suspect that Boyd got some of his information from a secondary source: the transcription of the parish register published by the Harleian Society (published 1877), which has the following entry on 10 December 1658:

Paul late sonn of Richard Blackburne, draper, borne same day

Looking at the original register entry, it has clearly been mistranscribed in that printed transcription.  The rather elaborate 'L' has been read as a P and the last four letters have been read as a separate word - 'late'  So this is why transcriptions are not necessarily the best source and the original should be checked where possible.

One a general note: the 1650s was the time of the Commonwealth and many parish registers are deficient or messy.  While it may be true that the complete extant register has been digitised, it does not necessarily follow that every event was faithfully recorded in the register.  I was looking at a parish register earlier where it is obvious that various slips of parchment/paper have been stuck on new(er) backing sheets, presumably because they had fallen out or were not bound in properly.  Some may well have been missed.

Nell

An ancestor of mine lived at 9A Holyrood Square in 1876, but prior to that, he lived at 9A Washing-house Green Court. Can anyone confirm that these are both the same place?

If you look on this map from 1864:

https://maps.nls.uk/view/117745467

there are baths and washing houses marked in the same place that Holyrood Square is marked on the map linked to in reply no 1 above.  So, yes it probably was the same place.

Nell

Since the marriage took place in 1834, there is no father named.  The witnesses are of no assistance either.  Catherine signed her name and it is clearly Yarranton.

Experiment with saying it out loud in a variety of accents, it is not far from Herrington to Yarranton, if you drop the 'h' as might happen in Sussex.  Perhaps the registrar decided that Yarranton really ought to have the H 

Nell