Henley Union workhouse

[lodger-nz]

Wow! Thanks for your fast responses KN and Jackie.

Jackie: It seems that the full parish records are not available for any of the Henley churches, or at least they haven't been filmed by GSU. The transcriptions appear to be the only resource, and I wonder how complete they are. Anyway, I now need to look elsewhere.

KN: Your data is interesting, as it looks as if my Caroline Jones might have married a man from Tilehurst.  The marriage was in Devon, but they obviously could have known each other in Tilehurst if she stayed there after 1851.  The possible connection with Reading is also interesting as her brother Samuel later settled there and thereafter always claimed his father was a Reading man.

Thank you both again for the new leads and clues I now have to work with.

What a great hobby this is!
Cheers, Roger

[jmp]

From having done searches for other people Roger I would say they are probably more complete than most. The St Marys transcriptions run for 7 books for baptisms alone
How accurate they are obviously depends upon how good the transcriber was and that obviously I cant comment upon.

A lot of transcriptions for the area seem to stop at 1837 when Civil Registration comes in, I suppose transcribers feel that you can then get the information elsewhere.

There are an awful lot of little parish churches around here where they could have been baptised and I assume they probably were baptised somewhere if they were "claiming" poor relief at some stage.

It might be worth seeing if you can get both Caroline and Samuels marriage certificates to see if the same father is named ( assuming both married)

As I live in Henley and our local library has a good selection of the local transcriptions please feel free to get in touch again if you need any help in this area

Jackie

[lodger-nz]

Sorry Jackie, I didn't mean to impugn the quality of the Henley transcriptions.

Caroline and Samuel both married. Samuel gave his father's name as George Jones, and Caroline gave John Jones. Both seem dodgy given their birth registrations with no father named and a mother named Jones.
Having said that, I know I have the right marriage for Sam, but I may not have for Caroline.

Thanks very much for your offer of further research, it's much appreciated.

Cheers, Roger

[jmp]

No Roger, I didnt think you did mean that, but sometimes as you say transcripts are not complete and I just wanted to reassure you that the St Marys ones do seem to be fairly conclusive so that you know they were probably baptised somewhere else

Please as I say feel free to contact me again by pm if you need any more help

Good luck in your researches
Jackie