I've got an Elizabeth Bar(e)field baptised in Titchmarsh Northants on 8 Feb 1792. Her parents are listed as Thomas & Mary Barfield. I've found quite a few Barfields, but not T&M. All help welcome. Thanks
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Oh, thank you both. I did find a very good website run by a fellow Barfield descendant. I emailed her & it transpired I knew a couple of T&M's children she'd missed. I passed my information on & intended to check out the stuff I hadn't got a couple of days later. When I did, I found she'd removed it & she didn't reply to my emails.
Folks are funny.....
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Originally posted by greyingrey View PostHelp, Julie ! The link doesn''t work for me. Could you tell me how to access this myself, please ?
sure.. goto: https://familysearch.org/
type in Elizabeth Barfield,
country: England
county: Northampton
dates: 1790-1800
roberts your uncle and away you go..Last edited by Darksecretz; 14-03-13, 15:24.Julie
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hmmn, just going to throw a HUGE spanner in the works........
looking back at this I have found something interesting...
according to the baptism of her son, George Thomas BAYFIELD Asher, I wondered If there was a spelling error.. [or if someone has transcribed it wrong!]
going back to familysearch I found..
Name: Elizabeth Bayfield
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 1795
Christening Place: BAPTIST,THRAPSTON,NORTHAMPTON,ENGLAND
this baptism is in the Non-Conformist records, so there may be other information actually ON the record itself.
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now, Thrapston is the next village to Titchmarsh... maybe they moved there when she was little and thought that she came from Titchmarsh?
what doesn't help though is that there IS an Elizabeth BAREFIELD bapt @ Titchmarsh in 1792 with a father named as Thomas.Julie
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Oh, thanks Julie.....aaaaaarrrrrrrgggh !!! Got a heavy cold at the moment, so I'll have to have a think when I'm clear. I think the correct surname in both cases is Barfield (I'm reliably informed it sounds like Bayfield when spoken with a Northants accent). Well, whatever....did one marry William in Leicester & one shack up with Lyon ? But, if that's the case we've lost both the Wm & the Eliz in Leicester. Will have to see if we can find a marriage for the EB you've found (tho I think I & several people have done a thorough search when trying to find her marrying Lyon). Not sure if I've got a vague memory of finding a death for your EB at a young age....I'll check that when I feel better
My head hurtsLast edited by greyingrey; 21-03-13, 19:53.
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Originally posted by greyingrey View PostOh, thanks Julie.....aaaaaarrrrrrrgggh !!! Got a heavy cold at the moment, so I'll have to have a think when I'm clear. I think the correct surname in both cases is Barfield (I'm reliably informed it sounds like Bayfield when spoken with a Northants accent). Well, whatever....did one marry William in Leicester & one shack up with Lyon ? But, if that's the case we've lost both the Wm & the Eliz in Leicester. Will have to see if we can find a marriage for the EB you've found (tho I think I & several people have done a thorough search when trying to find her marrying Lyon). Not sure if I've got a vague memory of finding a death for your EB at a young age....I'll check that when I feel better
My head hurtsJulie
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I'll get it, Julie. Either of the EBs may have had their names changed between Barfield & Bayfield & back again on official documents several times over their lifetimes. We'll have to check out where we are when I get the Baptism.....if the names really were recorded consistently, & Eliz Bayfield can't be accounted for elsewhere, then we'd have Eliz Barfield marrying Wm Asher in Leicester & living with Lyon in Nottm & Eliz Bayfield with another Wm Asher in Nottm & giving birth to George Thomas Bayfield & Samuel Lyon....assuning Lyon wasn't one of the Williams, that would leave us with 2 William Ashers who disappear (& an Eliz Bayfield/Asher)....if Lyon had been calling himself Wm, we'd still be looking for one Wm Asher who disappears. Interestingly, the Eliz Barfield who's on the census record with Lyon gives her age as a few years younger than her baptism says....but it's nothing that you'd think way off beam, bearing in mind the level of literacy of the time.
Thanks for your guidance (which I need, as you'll have noticed)
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it might be though she did give her year of birth on the census grey, afterall a baptism isn't necessarily the same year that they were born, they could have been 2 or 3 years of age before they were bapt, and as you know you can also have adult baptisms too.
I just feel that we need to evaluate what we have and confirm/disprove as much as we can to see if we can glean any snippit of info to help you unravel it.Julie
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Last edited by Darksecretz; 24-03-13, 19:50.Julie
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Thanks, Julie....I'll check out the entry. I've done a quick search on the site & there are no more Bayfield baptisms in Northants, but there are a cllutch of Barfields who could be Elizabeth Bayfield's siblings (no other Elizabeth)....parents John & Eleanor. If Eliz Bayfield does prove to be their daughter, I'd guess that the mother of George Thomas Bayfield is the Eliz Barfield from Titchmarsh (father Thomas), but, of course, that doesn't mean that Eliz Bayfield wasn't Lyon's partner. So we've got 2 EBs as well as a disappearing William Asher
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it could be also that the baptism is on the same 'circuit' as Titchmarsh, so there would be many different baptisms in different places but in the same register, as it was part of that particular 'circuit'.Julie
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Oh, I see....but would that account for it being a CofE baptism & a non conformist? Maybe there were 2 baptisms for some reasons (different branches of the family). Sorry, I'm just wittering (as you'll have noticed) at the moment, because I'm just grabbing a few seconds & will "get down to things" when I've got a bit of UNINTERRUPTED time (you think it's bad having the children off school....I lose any semblance of peace & quiet when OH is at home)
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Originally posted by greyingrey View PostOh, I see....but would that account for it being a CofE baptism & a non conformist? Maybe there were 2 baptisms for some reasons (different branches of the family). Sorry, I'm just wittering (as you'll have noticed) at the moment, because I'm just grabbing a few seconds & will "get down to things" when I've got a bit of UNINTERRUPTED time (you think it's bad having the children off school....I lose any semblance of peace & quiet when OH is at home)Julie
They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........
.......I find dead people
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Originally posted by greyingrey View PostOh, I see....but would that account for it being a CofE baptism & a non conformist? Maybe there were 2 baptisms for some reasons (different branches of the family). Sorry, I'm just wittering (as you'll have noticed) at the moment, because I'm just grabbing a few seconds & will "get down to things" when I've got a bit of UNINTERRUPTED time (you think it's bad having the children off school....I lose any semblance of peace & quiet when OH is at home)
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