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Re: WARD - of Lanchester, Durham
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 05 October 13 13:24 BST (UK) »
Is this the family in 1871 RG 10/4956/137/21
Living at Raisin Side

Margaret Ward Widow 66
Joseph Ward Widow 39
John Ward unmarried 56 (mistranscribed should be 36)
George Ward grandson 1 (maybe wrong age as well)
Staffordshire: Lawton Probyn Horrobin
Durham: Bamlett Hardman Winship Robinson
Suffolk: Leggett

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Re: WARD - of Lanchester, Durham
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 06 October 13 00:55 BST (UK) »
It must have been a long walk from George's birth place, Craghead, to Lanchester for the baptism. I hope the family got a ride on a cart. Raisin Side (or variants) is at the back of St. Thomas Collierley, (Harelaw) looking westwards. 

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Re: WARD - of Lanchester, Durham
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 06 October 13 08:11 BST (UK) »
Quote from: barryd on Sunday 06 October 13 00:55 BST (UK)
It must have been a long walk from George's birth place, Craghead, to Lanchester for the baptism. I hope the family got a ride on a cart. Raisin Side (or variants) is at the back of St. Thomas Collierley, (Harelaw) looking westwards.

Haha  ;D. It just shows how good it is to have local knowledge
Staffordshire: Lawton Probyn Horrobin
Durham: Bamlett Hardman Winship Robinson
Suffolk: Leggett

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Re: WARD - of Lanchester, Durham
« Reply #12 on: Sunday 06 October 13 11:55 BST (UK) »
Quote from: barryd on Sunday 06 October 13 00:55 BST (UK)
It must have been a long walk from George's birth place, Craghead, to Lanchester for the baptism. I hope the family got a ride on a cart. Raisin Side (or variants) is at the back of St. Thomas Collierley, (Harelaw) looking westwards.

I often wonder about that in large rural parishes. Looking at that page in the baptism register the entries seem to be out of sequence, date wise. I looked forward and back and it seemed to happen a fair bit.
I wonder if there was an outlying chapelry where the children were baptised and the entry added into the register when the curate got back to the main parish - or sent a list every now and then. Maybe, even if there wasn't a chapelry, a curate could have been sent out now and then to visit smaller communities and make sure, as far as he could, that as many children as possible were baptised?
(NB this theory isn't based on any knowledge, I am just kind of wondering out loud)

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