Broady Baptism Appleton Cheshire

[HawkesFH]

Hi, after 20 years of failing to stumble across henry broady's baptism i am going to ask for help here to locate it.  i assume he was baptised at Great Budworth and I know the BTs are at Chester.  Yet in all the records i have used nothing has ever come close to even a clue as to who his parents/siblings might have been.  I've throughly gone through all the Stockton Heath/Appleton broadys.  He is on every census 1841 - 1881 and gives his birth place as Appleton, yet there are no other Broady families of his generation that are recorded as being in Appleton or having been born in Appleton around the same time.  Naming patterns suggest he is one of the Rostherne Broadys, but their baptisms are all accounted for.  Land tax assessments seem to show he had tenancies with 2 other Broadys, but they don't seem to exist in any other record!
It's obviously puzzled alot of other Broady researchers as none of the several with the same ancestor on ancestry.co.uk have ever come up with a baptism entry for him or suggested parents.
i really cannot get past this after all these years, his children were all baptised at Hill Cliffe Baptist chapel Appleton, but they could not marry there and so they were all re-baptised at Stretton as adults.  he married his wife ann wilkinson at daresbury in 1822. 
Does anyone have an idea where his baptism might be?  I have the booklet for Children dedicated to God at Hillcliffe and it is not in there.
I have ordered several wills to see if anything helps but nothing does!

Thanks in advance for any help with this.

Hawkes nee Broady

[LizzieW]

I have the same problem with my 2 x g.grandfather.  All his siblings were baptised  but no trace of his baptism.  It has been suggested that he might have been born outside the family and adopted (even if informally), so might have had a different name, or just not baptised.  As his birth was about 1834, I can't even access any birth records and like you I have looked at the Parish records.

Lizzie

[HawkesFH]

Hi Lizzie,
Thanks for the reply,
It's really annoying isn't it?  Especially when you know you are looking in what for all intents and purposes should be the right place!  Maybe I should be more forensical about it and doubt the truth of his precise repetitivness on each census return, some investigators these days would question the use of the exact same info every 10 years as being too rehearsed!

Good luck with your efforts!

[marshsparrow]

There is a Henry Broady christened 22 Mar 1800, Lower Whitley, Cheshire on the FamilySearch Pilot Site, Parents Thomas Broady & Ann. It also contains siblings Thomas, Joseph and Mary.

http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start

Kate

[HawkesFH]

hey thanks for that, i have not come across that one at all!  My grandma and grandad broady are buried at Lower Whitley and so i knwo the church well.  That is the very first henry i have come across ever baptised at the right time and i have always taken his father to be a Thomas Broady!!!
Brilliant thanks so much for that, I have used that pilot search on familysearh.org or other things but never the broady name!  Dozy me lol

I'll have a look now, cos it is sounding right!!
thanks!!!

hawkes FH