Minney in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834

[Helen Bedford]

Hi
If anyone has access to original baptisms in Holywell cum Needingworth in 1834, could they look up the baptism of Mary Minney 15 Jun 1834 please? need to know if any birthdate is shown.
Helen

[magslote]

Hello, no birth date shown, daughter of Thomas and Sarah.Margaret.

[Helen Bedford]

ok, thanks very much. It was just a long shot as mine said she was born in 1821 in Wyton.

[PeterC66]

There is a useful website for the history of Holywell-cum-Needingworth at www.hcnhistory.org.uk (disclaimer - it is my retirement project!) which includes PR images. I do not see any Minney there. By the way the IGI has a mistake and many entries under Holywell-cum-Needingworth in the IGI were actually for Houghton and Wyton, so this sort of confusion is possible. I worked from the original documents for my transcriptions.

Any HcN questions can be sent to me via that website, as I only occasionally look at RootsChat.

Cheers

[Helen Bedford]

Yes, thanks for that.
I later discovered when looking closer at the description of the HCN films that they had put the two parishes on the same film and just titled it as HCN - very naughty!
Helen

[Helen Bedford]

Hi Magslote
I've just looked at the scans of HCN registers on the website that PeterC66 is working on and see that there isn't an entry for June 1834, so can I ask which registers you looked at please?
Helen

[bedfordshire boy]

I later discovered when looking closer at the description of the HCN films that they had put the two parishes on the same film and just titled it as HCN - very naughty!

They weren't two separate parishes, so why naughty? Needingworth was just a hamlet  of the parish of Holywell cum Needingworth

[Helen Bedford]

Sorry Bedfordshire boy, I should have made myself clear, I was referring to the practice by Family Search of putting the parishes of Houghton and Witton on the same film as Holywell cum Needingworth and only indexing it as Holywell cum Needingworth!
That is definitely naughty as Houghton and Witton (or Wyton) are very separate parishes from Holywell cum Needingworth and should be indexed as such. It creates the wrong impression that there are two baptisms etc., when there is only one (albeit probably different filming sessions).
This just shows that local knowledge is vital to understanding a register
Helen