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Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« on: Thursday 11 June 09 13:38 BST (UK) »
I have a marriage of Laurnce William Stevens, to Maria Fisher, 16th January 1797 at Hatfield near Doncaster.
I wonder if the original records would tell me where these people were born/from?

Also I have a death of Samuel Fisher in Dec 1800 and his wife 20th May 1809. And wonder if they were buried at Hatfield.

Thank you in advance for any assistance.

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 11 June 09 13:41 BST (UK) »
Marriage records of that era will not contain parental info (unless you hit upon a Dade register.)
Nor any birthplace info, only residence at time of marriage.
You can visit the WYorks archives or order into an LDS centre.

Burial records would be referenced either by the church or local cemetery.
presumably if you have a date, you also have a source? (Which was)?

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 11 June 09 13:51 BST (UK) »
Hi Pauline,
The source was a biography written by one of their daughters.

Samuel was living at Pontefract and his wife at Knaresborough when they died. She asked to be buried with him.

However searches at Wakefield have shown no record of a burial for either at Pontefract.

One of the daughters was married at Hatfield in 1797.
And other Parish records refer to Samuel as '....of Hatfield'
so I wondered if they may have been buried there.

Re the marriage...I wondered if there may have been an  entry reading Maria Fisher of......which may indicate where she was born.

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 11 June 09 14:25 BST (UK) »
The address given is only that at the time of marriage, as Pauline said.  Birth places are not given.  Getting the films of the appropriate registers to search at your local LDS centre would be a good way forward.  They are listed on www.familysearch.org
Andrea


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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 11 June 09 16:20 BST (UK) »
Thank you  :)

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 03 June 20 13:35 BST (UK) »
Hi Samuel came from York, he was a sculptor and his children were born in York. His son was a curate in Green Hammerton Knaresborough.

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 03 June 20 13:43 BST (UK) »
That should be Samuel was born in York and his children Henry, Maria and Elizabeth possibly an Ann were born there - Henry born 1774ish married Mary Abbey and was an Anglican vicar Green Hammerton  and then off to India as an army or colonial chaplain. Samuel apparently left York and the family sculpture or masons firm.

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 18 June 20 17:06 BST (UK) »
Hi Clarence, thats really interesting.
Can I ask where you found the information about him being a sculptor?

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Re: Doncaster Parish Records Look up?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 18 June 20 17:20 BST (UK) »
It is on his marriage record - he married Ann Sanderson in 1771 in York. The Fishers were well known at one time in York for funeral monuments, building  I think, things like that with John Fisher being most noted on the internet. Henry Fisher the son of Samuel Fisher, married Mary Abbey and they called their first child Henry Sanderson Abbey, born I think in Green Hammerton in 1799. The Abbey family tree is on Wikitree and this is free to look at. Samuel Fisher on the birth records for his grandson is listed as of "Dunscroft Hall" Hatfield - but looking at the records for this area, I find that it was a Thomas Sanderson that lived there. I have forgotten the details of this - and there are some Fisher marriages as someone else has mentioned. My research if for the Abbey family and I only looked at the Fisher's out of curiousity, noticing that the Reverend Henry Fisher and Mary ABbey married in London and what the story was behind that!