COMPLETE Parish Records Look up for Holme upon Spalding Moor

[Carole Bloomfield]

I am trying to trace all the family of Elizabeth and John Holt. They were married in 1782 in Holme upon Spalding Moor.
I have put every possible name I could think of on the IGI and found the following:
Robert 1784
Ruth 1787
William 1789
Elisabeth 1790
Sophia 1792
Swithin 1794 ( my x4 grandfather)

Could I possibly have missed any?
Any help greatly appreciated
Regards
Carole

[jillruss]

Hi Carole,

Did you know that you can find the siblings baptised in the same parish on Family Search. Once you've found a record e.g. Swithin in 1794, you can then click on the Batch No. at the bottom of the page (in this case C012083). On the resulting screen, just fill in the surname and the parents' names ( or just the father's name as the parish clerk didn't always record the mother's name) and it should come up with the whole family in this particular parish.

This time, it's come up with a few extras (they're all children of John & Elizabeth Holt):

Ruth 1787
Esther 1796
Martin & Ann 1798
Tamar 1800

Sorry if this is telling you something you already know!

Jill

[Carole Bloomfield]

Hi Jill
Thanks for that info, I didn't know you could do that, but of course I didn't know how to use the batch numbers. I had found Elizabeth and John and just kept guessing names of the children and found six, I suppose I was lucky but it was all a bit time consuming.
Thanks very much for replying
Regards
Carole

[Carole Bloomfield]

Hi Sue
I did as you suggested and found 10 children for John and Elizabeth which was fantastic. I then decided to put the father John in with an approx date and up came another John so I clicked on the Batch No and it gave the christening as 1770, which would make John only 12 yrs old when he married Elizabeth! Unless of course he was much older when he was christened.
Any thoughts on the subject?
Am I doing something wrong?
Regards
Carole

[Carole Bloomfield]

Sorry Jill, I called you Sue!! Yeyt another senior moment, I seem to be having them all the time lately!!
Carole

[jillruss]

That's alright, Fred, it happens to us all!

Yes, I noticed that John baptised in 1770 with a brother Richard (1772) both s/o John. He certainly couldn't have married at age 12, so it's either a late baptism or the wrong John!

I'm not sure if a fiche of the Holme on Spalding Moor parish records is available at the East Riding Records Office - some of the parishes nearer York are actually held by the Borthwick Institute in York - but, if they are at ERY, I'll check for you next time I go. I'm afraid it won't be this week though - probably next.

If it was a late baptism, it might just say how old John was in the records.

Jill

[Carole Bloomfield]

Thanks Jill
That would be wonderful if you could look that up for me. I live in Sheffield, so a bit too far for me to travel in my old car!!
You have opened a whole new window for me now and I can do the same thing on the rest of my tree. What it must be like to be brainy!!
Thanks once again, I really appreciate your help.
Regards
Carole

[avm228]

Carole, another thing you can do on IGI is just put the parents' names in (eg "John Holt" and "Elizabeth"), plus region, country and county and any date parameters, and it will come up with all children of couples by that name in the county in that date range.  The advantage of this is that you can get children of the same couple who are in different batches.  The disadvantage is that it's a much broader net so that with more common names you'll get a lot of irrelevant results.

NB you can only specify region, country, county and dates if you're searching under the IGI tab of the advanced search page - on "All Resources" you can specify parents but can't narrow down geographically or chronologically.

Anna

[Carole Bloomfield]

Thanks Anna

Everyone is so helpful on this website - it's the best!!
I have learnt so much today, I am never going to be away from the computer - they say you are never too old to learn- but boy does my brain hurt!!!!
Thanks everyone
Regards
Carole