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

[Lady Di]

Hi Keith,

Many thanks for confirming the Mary Cole baptism in Bassingbourn. I am so pleased (for you) that there weren't load of them as this family is like researching the Smith name.

I have just found the BEST document at the Nat Archives called Death Duty Register. They didn't have the will for my Adams Moule but they had the death duties payable.

For anyone who has an opportunity to obtain this info - it actually listed all the children, brothers, sisters, in-law names and who received what from the estate (and it is easy to read!! ). It would rather depend on the contents of the original Will but this has been a major breakthrough for me - so keep searching - you just never know what is available.

Thanks again Keith
Di

[moscan]

Through your efforts and a  "cousin's" tree.. the James Green is married to one of mine.. Rebecca was the sister to my G G G Grandfather so again thanks you filled in a whole line... such a shame I cannot get that dinner for you immediately
 

Thanks again Keith

Mo

[Dale]

Kia Ora Keith
I hope you're fast asleep right now, but just wanted to say a huge thank you for looking for my Faireys,  even if once again (through no fault of their own this time!) they have uprooted themselves!
It's always useful to know just where the Records are held and I guess the sharing of Hunts/Cambs stuff has something to do with the changes of boundaries!
I doubt I'll find anyone as wonderfu as you have been and thank you most sincerely for all the help you have given me over past months. It has been most appreciated.
Regards
Marlene

[Keith Sherwood]

Di (Lady Di),
I nearly had a look through those Death Duty Registers when I was at Kew a few years ago, but was put off by having to wade through miles of microfilm - they weren't very well indexed then.  But does this mean that they are on-line and downloadable...?
And who is that wonderful picture of a lady (grandmother?) and child on your profile?
Keith

[Keith Sherwood]

Mo,
The index is a wonderful invention, and fortunately in most transcriptions they include the names of witnesses and any maiden names if mentioned.  Otherwise I doubt I would have come across that GREEN/FREEAR connection for you.
Will they be laying a place for Tigger at the celebratory table...!
Keith

[loo]

You can now search the death duty registers INDEX at 1837online, but it costs.  I think they go up to 1903 but I can't remember when they start - mid19thC somewhere.  This is quite a recent offering.  It would make it much faster, presumably, to find the relevant death duty register entry.

[janan]

The Death Duty Registers are available to search as part of the National Archives Documents online - like wills they cost £3.50 to download. This link shows what is covered so far
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/death-duty.asp
Jan

[Keith Sherwood]

Loo and Janan,
Thanks very much for that - think I'll have a little browse around on there now...
Keith
p.s. They had my 4-times-great-grandfather's 1806 Death Duty Register in the 1796-1811 era, which was fun!

[hlbradd]

Hi Keith

Have I missed the boat - or will it be sailing forth again?

I need a look up in parish registers - St Sepulchre, Cambridge in 1816.

I have a John and Sarah Brad(d) being served with a removal order from St Sepulchre to Bishop's Stortford in 1816.
 
This order is suspended on 28.6.1816 as Sarah is heavily pregnant.
   
On 30.7.1816 the suspension is superceded - presumably she has had/lost the child and is now fit to travel.
 
If you would look up Brad(d) baptisms and/or burials for me in July any information would be very much appreciated - and might help me find out what attraction Cambridge held for them (they were removed from All Saints, Cambridge only the year before......).   Was wondering whether this is Sarah's home town. 

Sorry I seem to have rambled - this couple seem to have wanderlust - they're in the Isle of Wight by 1822    and then in Hertfordshire by 1841 

Thanks

Helen