Joseph Dobson, aka Samuel HELP PLEASE

[jsm]

Thanks again. 

You could be right about the scribe making mistakes - however, as I said in one of the previous postings on this thread, my gt grandmother had 2 kids in 2 years - birht cert of one says father is Joseph, of the other, father is Samuel.  So I'm wondering what's going on.  Hence my obsession with understanding the baptism records correctly.

And if you look at the handwritten version - especially if you blow it up a bit - it certainly isn't Priestley.  But try as I might I can't read the word!!

[Moonraker55]

I was intrigued by the comment about miners and small trains!
In 1840 the North Midland Rialway was built through Cudworth, as well as through parts of neighbouring Monk Bretton. The railway was built partly to service the increasing number of collieries being sunk in the vicinity. 'Barnsley' station was the first name given to the station in Cudworth, since it had the railway before Barnsley. There were a large number of other new or subsidiary railways built here during the next fifty years.

The miners' 'trains' in 1840 were pit-pony drawn 'jags' that brought the coal up to the surface; usually 'driven' by boys in those days.
Regards
John