hello
I'm trying to find ancestors in the Byker, Wallsend, Newcastle area in the late 19th and early 20th century. I have never done any research in this area before and am finding it difficult to find any baptisms or marriages of the families that are in the tree. I have access to Ancestry but one particular family the Stapletons/ Stabletons/ Stabletons/ Stapyltons are proving really hard to find. Is there a shortage of records that have been released to online platforms? or am I just failing to locate these people.
I have an Alice Stapleton that married a William Henry Wright in 1907 at St Lukes Wallsend. she gives her father as John Stapleton a labourer. Alice was 22 (so she says) at the time of her marriage. I can find her after this in the 1911,1921 census and 1939 register. However, I cannot find her in birth registrations, baptisms or positively identify her in census returns prior to 1907. In 1921 and 1939 she records her name as Jane Alice and Jane A.
Any help or guidance would be very much appreciated.