Oving Lookup Request (exact date known)

[eldad]

I'm looking for someone who has access to a fiche of the Oving parish records for 1769 (not a transcript).

John Clark was baptised on 10 December 1769, and I need to know his parents names. The transcript from PRTS and SFHG transcripts say his father was John Clark, but that doesn't seem to fit. I'm hoping it's a transcription error and his father was actually Thomas Clark.

I'd be very grateful if someone could confirm that one way or the other.

Thanks in advance.

[Roy G]

It is quite common for parish clerks to also put an incorrect first name into the registers, so even a copy of the original entry may not help.  Try the sibling check on the IGI and insert just the surname and the mother against the IGI batch number, to see if it is a lone entry.  Only rule it out if there is clearly another set of parents with a similar family.  Roy G

[eldad]

Thanks, Roy. There are no other baptisms in the parish with John Clark(e) as a father, and no marriages in Sussex between a John Clark and Mary (the parents of John Clarke are John Clarke and Mary according to the transcript). There is, however, a marriage between Thomas Clarke and Mary, and four baptisms of children of Thomas Clarke and Mary between 1763, 1764, 1766, and 1772, leaving (as you can see) a nice gap for John in 1769. All of this is what made me ask in the first place.

Interestingly, there's also a William Clark that's apparently a son of William Clark and Mary in 1767, which also doesn't fit (again there's no marriage), so I wonder whether either the transcriber or the priest (or even the parents) made the same error on both occasions, putting the son's name into the father's column. It would be nice to know what the original said, though.

[janan]

Hi

I will check this for you next time I go to the West Sussex RO

Jan

[eldad]

Thank you, Jan.