Norton registration district

[DS]

Hello again

Just a bit more circumstantial evidence.....

IGI Batch M044791

Marriage - Harworth 26/08/1822

Ann Hayes
George Lambert

Possible Marriage Registration

1839 Worksop JFM quarter 15 773

Edward Dunkin
Elizabeth Hayes

DS

[greggus]

DS,

I'm not one prone to hyperbole, but that's some absolutely fantastic work you've done there. I can't thank you enough.  I had searched for birth entries for Sarah Duncan (+ Wright, marriage certificate) and Sarah Donkin (+ Wright, death certificate), plus Sarah Wright and Sarah Ann Wright (1851 + 1861 censuses) but I clearly missed Dunkin.  It seems at long last my painful search has come to an end!  Thank God.  It was driving me crackers!  It's all been extremely confusing (There even seems to have been another Edward Wright of the same age living in Norton at the same time (next door to one of my family members in 1871!), but he was married to a Rebecca). I tried Worksop for George Wright and got a negative.  The same with Retford, Basford etc.  Clearly I was looking for the wrong name!  I think I'll send off for my great  grandmother's birth certificate one last time!  Cheers.

[DS]

Hi greggus

Thank you for the very kind words. I only hope now that it turns out to be the one that you wanted.

I am reasonably sure that the last part of the reference is 81 but it is not very clear on the original index. The FreeBMD transcriber has only put “1” and it is flagged as a suspect entry (by the italic district name).

If you can, please have a look at the original index yourself to see if you agree, before you order the certificate. That is, of course, only if you intend to order it from the GRO. If you intend to go directly to the Doncaster office it should not matter.

Either way, we would all be interested to know the outcome, in due course, if you wish to let us know.

All the best

DS

[Carol22]

Hi

I have skip read all the postings, and think you are there, I used to live in Beauchief which is next to Norton, and in the 1800's it was in Derbyshire not Yorkshire.

Hope this helps

Caz

[greggus]

Thanks again so much to everybody for their help.  Yesterday I received in the post exactly what I had been looking for for so long - the birth certificate of my great grandmother, Sarah Ann DUNKIN, born in Norton in the parish of Campsall in 1843. What a relief!  Now on to the next family history problem!