Samuel MEADE from Devizes or nearby

[davierj]

Hi, you can contact the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre at.......
Cocklebury Road,
Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 3QN
Tel:   00441249705500
E-mail:   heritageadmin@wilshire.gov.uk.    Or visit their website  www.wshc.eu/

Dave

[minotauros]

Though I wished for the contrary, I was expecting such replies to my queries. Given that I am new to both Rootschat and research in England, I really did not expect to find such difficulties at obtaining vital information from records... I realize even more now how privileged I am of being born in Quebec (Canada), where registers access is unrestricted for the last hundred years, and where very complete abstracts are available in major public labraries up to the 1980s.

That being said, I have been going thru the Wiltshire BMD indexes and found nothing more than what I knew. Luckily, as mentioned earlier in this topic, baptisms of eight children of Isaac Mead & Ann ... were found at Tilshead, from Family Search, between 1822 and 1837: that is, not included in the Wiltshire BMD! So, how do I proceed from there? how do I find Ann's family name if not mentioned in the registers?

Is this the kind of query that I should rather put on a "one name studies" board?

[minotauros]

I have a similar situation concerning Ann Chapman (by the way, I found her full name as wife of Walter Mead when he died at Devises in 1868 aged 41, all that on... Rootschat! in a topic about "Mead family" dated 31 March 2011): from censuses and West Lavington baptisms, she appears to be Ann, baptized  06 Apr 1828, daughter of William Chapman & Mary ... Ten children of that couple are baptized at the same place from 1818 to 1839. But not family name for Mary! And the Wiltshire BMD doesn't help either.

M

[rosie99]

Hi

No, don't put your query on the one name studies, post it on the Wiltshire boards and ask for a look up.  There may be members who have these registers on fiche/CD and are able to look them up for you. 

It is not difficult to obtain information on English records, admittedly after 1837 it is sometimes necessary to purchase certificates and often births were not registered between 1837 & the mid 1870's when registration was tightened up.

Most of our libraries have free access to Ancestry or Findmypast and the National Archives /County records offices and Latter Days saints libraries are also extremely useful.  One thing you have to bear in mind is that a lot of our sites such as freereg/freebmd and the varies County Online Parish sites are all reliant on volunteers to transcribe the information so it is generally ongoing and therefore incomplete. 

As far as familysearch is concerned it was not set up for family history purposes and in a lot of cases the parish register transcripts are incomplete.  I did most of my research by visiting my local family history centre regularly and wading through films so know from experience how incomplete the transcriptions sometimes are.

Don't forget that Wiltshire BMD will only have records after registration in mid 1837 so you will need to see Parish registers for earlier records.   Just keep asking on here. 

Rosie

[rosie99]

I have a similar situation concerning Ann Chapman (by the way, I found her full name as wife of Walter Mead when he died at Devises in 1868 aged 41, all that on... Rootschat! in a topic about "Mead family" dated 31 March 2011): from censuses and West Lavington baptisms, she appears to be Ann, baptized  06 Apr 1828, daughter of William Chapman & Mary ... Ten children of that couple are baptized at the same place from 1818 to 1839. But not family name for Mary! And the Wiltshire BMD doesn't help either.

M

Baptisms do not normally give mothers maiden name.