Greensleeves Scavenger Hunt...Everyone Welcome To Join In

[osprey]

parish clerks weren't meant to be making the entries in the parish registers at this time, although some of them probably did.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/parish-admin-records.htm

 

[Greensleeves]

Thanks for that Osprey.  I suppose it fell to whoever was the most literate..... or organised!

[Greensleeves]

I have found two baptisms at about the right time, if Alice was indeed Alice Burrel(l):

19 Sep 1748 Alice Burrell, daughter of Robert Burrell, baptised at St Hilda's, Hartlepool
5 July 1747  Alice Burrell of Panns, born 5 Apr 1747 daughter of John Burrell, at St Michael's, Bishopwearmouth

There is also the baptism at St Hilda's of Alice Burrel, daughter of William and Margaret Burrel on 30 Jul 1738, but I think this would make Alice too old as she would have been nearly 50 in 1785.

[Greensleeves]

Does anyone know how I can access the bastardy records for Hartlepool to see if baby William was entered thereon?

[Ruskie]

Does anyone know how I can access the bastardy records for Hartlepool to see if baby William was entered thereon?

If no one here knows it would be well worth asking on the Durham board where all the experts hang out. 

[Lesanne]

https://www.familysearch.org/s/search/library_catalog#searchType=catalog&filtered=true&fed=false&collectionId=&catSearchType=place&searchCriteria=&placeName=England%2C+Durham%2C+Hartlepool&author_givenName=&author_surname=

Someone may shorten this link.. 

[Tephra]

Here you go, Les     

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0b3i/

[toni*]

If they knew that the child was illegitimate they wouldn’t have wanted to pay for his upkeep and every effort would have been made to find the putative father.

[jaywit]

If the baby died at 6 weeks of age I honestly don't think there would have been time for any bastardy proceeding to take place.

I think sight of the PRs would help, you  can see if the same person was making entries all the time, you get a feeling for their style and what exactly they did record, something transcriptions don't let you do.