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Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 23 December 25 11:22 GMT (UK) »
At the TNA now.  The missing line is for John, born May 12th 1815, son of John and Mary Swan. Father a glassman (I think - it has the long S for the first S),

Edit: and the year of birth makes no sense since sibling William is shown as born in Aug 1815.  Obviously just copied the same year?
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Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« Reply #19 on: Tuesday 23 December 25 12:02 GMT (UK) »
This is strange, there is a record for John on the first line of page 5, same date of birth, baptized two years earlier. John is my 3GGF.
I read William's dob as Augt. 27th 1818, other 5's on the page have a horizontal bar at the top whereas the 8's finish with an upward slanting flourish.
Ah well I was hoping to find Elizabeth but it was always a long shot. I'm very thankful that you looked this up for me, I would have had an itch about it that I couldn't scratch otherwise.
There is enough other circumstantial evidence that Elizabeth is their daughter but it's always nice to have a definitive document.

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Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 23 December 25 12:08 GMT (UK) »
I have sent you a DM so I can send the doc. and you can scrutinise the handwriting.
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Re: Missing lines on Non-Conformist Baptism records ?
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 23 December 25 19:49 GMT (UK) »
This is strange, there is a record for John on the first line of page 5, same date of birth, baptized two years earlier. John is my 3GGF.
I read William's dob as Augt. 27th 1818, other 5's on the page have a horizontal bar at the top whereas the 8's finish with an upward slanting flourish.
Ah well I was hoping to find Elizabeth but it was always a long shot. I'm very thankful that you looked this up for me, I would have had an itch about it that I couldn't scratch otherwise.
There is enough other circumstantial evidence that Elizabeth is their daughter but it's always nice to have a definitive document.

I wonder if the parents left that church and Elizabeth was baptised at a CofE church or a non-conformist one in another town eg where the grandparents or other relatives lived, or where they moved to, if they did move?

One of the people I was tracing was born in London but baptised in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where grandparents lived.
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