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Re: KING- Melbourn
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 19 August 10 11:18 BST (UK) »
I spoke to one of the sisters at the Family History Centre. She said that they have the film that I need, so I am hoping to visit there sometime next week to clear this up once and for all re Robert Kings baptism.

Thank you everyone for all your help and suggestions, I really do appreciate it. If you are not sick of reading about this, I will report back my findings.

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« Reply #19 on: Friday 20 August 10 15:21 BST (UK) »
Because the LDS Family history Centre did not close till 9pm yesterday, I went down there as I live in London. The upshot is that my heart sank when I realised the film they produced was just a copy of the Layng transcript ( that I have consulted many times at Cambs record office) they also could not understand why the film number reference 990296, does not have any of the entries that I was querying.

I have now emailed the contact on the LDS site and asked them where they aquired the information. All the ones that I think are suspect all have the same Indexing project number C01736-7.

I really don't understand how something that does not exist on a film can be indexed and attributed to such. My money is still on that these entries have been member submitted. Maybe someone somewhere has an old family bible.......mind you, I would still want to see the old copper plate writing with my own eyes!

The moral of this story is, just because an entry in the pilot search has a film and index number, it still may not even exist.



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Re: KING- Melbourn
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 23 September 10 11:55 BST (UK) »
I have finally got to the bottom of this and hope that this may be of help to others.

The baptism entries do exist in the original parish register but not in the date order. The LDS in Utah sent me an attachment of the page from the Lyang transcript that states that the third register finishes in 1780 but contains the following entries which appear not to be a proper part of the register. It then goes on to list my Kings as well as other names. The archivist at the Cambs record office confirms that they are there and of the period ie 18th century......not a later addition written in biro on a piece of basildon bond and stuck in the register.

The entries do not appear on the Melbourn/Meldreth CD produced by Cambs Family History Society, so I assumed that they did not exist. I will know in future to look at EVERY page in a transcript as well as the original register just incase something has been added willy nilly and not in any sort date order.

Now that part is cleared up, is it ok to paste my original post on the main part of the board ?


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Re: KING- Melbourn
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 23 September 10 13:11 BST (UK) »
Delighted that you've cracked it, and delighted also that my confidence in Mr Layng wasn't misplaced!

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Beds:   Cople: Luke/Spencer
            Everton: Hale
            Henlow: Cooper/Watts/Sabey/Rook
            Potton:  Merrill
            Southill: Faulkner/Litchfield/Sabey/Rook
            Woburn/Husborne Crawley: Surkitt
Hunts:   Gt Gransden: Merrill/Chandler/Medlock
            Toseland: Surkitt/Hedge/Corn         
Cambs: Bourn: Bowd
            Eltisley: Medlock
            Graveley: Ford/Revell


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Re: KING- Melbourn
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 26 September 10 13:41 BST (UK) »
Hi folks

If it's any help I've just received a copy of the Robert King baptism from the same nice lady at the record office. It's very poor quality and as someone else has mentioned, it all seems to be random rather than in neat chronological order.
There seem to be some very strange entries regarding the children of Robert King and Mary. There are baptisms of Mary and John on 11th August 1792, with birthdates 15th Jan 1789 and 23rd June 1790 respectively. Then there is a note of Lydia, born 30th October 1793, but no baptism. These records seem to be on a separate piece of paper insterted into the parish register. I also have a copy of the other baptisms mentioned earlier which took place on 6th Jan 1805, including John and Lydia, but with different birth dates! No mention of Mary, so maybe she died. All a bit wierd.

No luck with finding Mary's burial either or Robert's marriage to Elizabeth.