Dear Barbara
Joseph Wright was my 2xg-grandfather, one of a long line of miners/pitmen. He is complicated by the fact that he married twice. I have him with Elizabeth (?Turnbull) in 1841&51, and with Mary (nee Ferguson) in the 1861. The Ferguson marriage I'm sure about (Ferguson is a family name used later), and is my line of descent. So his first marriage is a bit academic, but I'd like to sort it out. Margaret is the link between the 1851&61 censuses. I need to show Margaret was a daughter by Joseph's first marriage, and get her birth registration to confirm the parents, but the name is quite commmon, and I want to be sure to get the right certificate.
One thing that has mislead me for a long time is that there are 2 possible Josephs in the same place, of about the same age, both with a daughter named Margaret (similar ages), and, incredibly, Joseph(2) (not mine), lived in the same house in 1851 that Jospeh (1) lived in in 1841. My Joseph was entered in the census for 1851 as Joseph WRITE, and indexed by Ancestry as WISTE - so he took a long time to find.
This is all probably too confusing, but I'm very near certain I've got it sorted.
As for the BTs on the Familysearch website - are they a new venture?- it's called a "pilot site". I haven't yet found the 2 baptisms in Longbenton (the Baptisms/marriages/burials are all mixed up - and there may be gaps), but I have found other things, including Joseph's parents marriage and baptism of Joseph's eldest brother in Horton. They're in the Shute Barrington period, so there is much more detail in the baptisms record, including parent's place of origin, and sequence number of the child baptised (e.g. 1st son)
One final question - have you found a way of saving the images in a format that can be read by one of the common programs on a PC? I can only manage to print out the image.
best wishes
Bob
