Completed My Visit to Cambridgeshire County Record Office - will do simple Look-ups

[Keith Sherwood]

Marlene,
I promise to get up the usual head of steam, but hopefully without bursting anything...
Keith

[Dale]

Well if there is no fear of an eruption.. do they have Downham Cambridge records available?
I'm seeking the baptism of TINGEY BURGESS C. 1832 .
His father was Aunger Burgess and I suspect his mother to be Sarah Tingey/Tingay.
He was aged 9 in 1841 in Connington Hunts. I cannot find him in 1851 and in 1861 I suspect he was in Toronto Canada. He turns up again aged 38 in 1871 and is living in London with a Fairy wife whom he married in London in 1859. He died in London aged 45 in 1878.
A baptism just might help me pinpoint his age more accurately!
Fingers crossed.
Ka kite
Marlene

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Keith

Many thanks for unlocking those Gates. As always you go the extra mile and pull out extra useful information as well as what's requested.

Much appreciated.

Glad Marlene is back, the only fairy stories I've come across recently have been at bedtime with my nipper.

You'd like it down here in France - I'm surrounded by vineyards in the Corbieres and Minervois, where there are plenty of small producers making some excellent red wines (whites are nothing to write home about). It used to be a plonk area but methods and grape varieties have improved the wines out of all recognition.

Chin chin

David

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Marlene

Welcome back. I was wondering only last week where you'd gone.

Cambs FHS has a baptism index on its website
http://www.cfhs.org.uk/Search.html

But there are no Burgess baptisms in Downham and I can't see a Tinge/ay anywhere in Cambs. Plenty of Tinge/ays in Downham though

I'll look for your Hunts info later this afternoon. It's Wednesday and most French kids have Wednesdays off school, so my computer time is rationed!

All the best

David

[Keith Sherwood]

Marlene,
David may already have got the BURGESS/TINGEY request covered there with reference to the CFHS, but I'll have a little look around anyway next time I'm at Shire Hall...
...and David, glad a few GATES were open (even some double-barred ones, i.e. GATTES!), and I'll rectify those 2 omissions next time I'm at S.H. too.
Those wines sound tempting, lucky you to live in such a region.  Do they still have tasting of samples beside the road as when I was last en France in 1977? ("Hotel California" blasting out everywhere...ooh, the nostalgia...)
Keith

[Ian Chambers]

Hi Keith

I have the birth certificate for the james in question no mention of WILLIAM. However somebody suggested the opposite to you; that sometimes names are included at christenings  that are not on the birth certificate. Heigh ho.
He is a James William on his marriage day but i wondered whether he adopted his new father in laws first name. 

THANKS ANY WAY MUCH APPRECIATED

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Marlene

Been looking at your Tingly Burgess:
BVRI Marriage Downham 31 Jan 1831 Aunger Burgess and Sarah Tingay
Burials Conington 7 Mar 1840 Sarah Burgess age 27
                            7 Sept 1847 Aunger Burgess age 48
Downham christenings up to 1876 have been extracted onto the IGI, and they've been transcribed (independently) 1801-37 by Cambs FHS. Neither has any children of Aunger and Sarah. So I think it's a fair assumption that Keith is unlikely to find anything in Downham parish register.

But..

there's a controlled extract on the IGI for Aunger's second marriage to Mary Scot - 21 Feb 1842 at Conington, and the children by this marriage were christened in the established church.  But there's also a member submission for the same marriage, same date, but in a Methodist chapel in Huddersfield. You'd have to motor today to be married in both of those places on the same day, but in 1842 it would be nigh on impossible. So is it a fairly typical member submission; a bit like the curate's egg, good in parts? Or does it perhaps provide a clue that Aunger may have been a methodist, which is possibly why Tingey wasn't christened in the established church? The other option is that the entry is a load of rubbish like so many other member submissions (have you seen that the LDS is cleaning up the IGI by removing some duplicated entries? But they're removing the controlled extract and leaving the member submission!!!)

But with the marriage, the burial of Sarah, the 1841 and 1871 censuses, which all fit in pretty neatly, I think you're on safe ground even without a christening entry for Tingey.



I'll do a separate posting for the Hunts fairies.

Regards

David

[bedfordshire boy]

Hi Marlene

I've had a look at the Hunts Marriage Index and the following references to Catworth appear

1798 William of Catworth m Mary Bassett at Spaldwick
1808 James of March m Ann Peacock at Catworth
1833 Thomas Mitchell Fairy m Mary Baker at Catworth
1834 Mary Ann m Richard Baker at Catworth
1836 William m Ann Pashler widow at Catworth

I thought of you just before Christmas - I'd left all my Christmas tree decorations in a box in my mother's garage in Bedford, so had to buy a new lot. But look as hard as I could - I'm in France remember - I couldn't find the traditional fairy to go to top of the tree! Had to make do with a star instead. So unlike you I had a fairyless Christmas.

Regards

David

[Dale]

OH DIDUMS! I cannot bear the thought of you stuck in a wine growing area of la belle France at Christmas time without a Fairy for your tree.
You'd better send me a  PM with your snail mail address and I'll check if there are any Fairies in NZ I can send to you!

Many many thanks for the Fairy entries below. The Fairey /Bassett  marriage belongs to Gill as you know.
Fairey /Peacock is an interesting link. That appears elsewhere in my tree.
Thomas Mitchell, Mary Ann & William will be mine.

Is there any indication of  a William marrying an Ann Dickens? OR an Ann (Dickens?) marrying a Mr Pashler? I am intrigued as Wlilliam Fairey has a son named Thomas Dickens Fairey and from the discrepancies in ages on the Census for Ann I suspect there might have been 2 wives for this fella! I haven't got Ann in 1841 for some reason!

Very grateful indeed for your help. That will save the old fella huffin' & puffin' up the hill with weighty Fairey tomes on his shoulders!

I might sort out some baptisms now to keep him on his toes and to make sure his sweat glands are pouring pure red wine!
Thanks & regards
Marlene