I’m wondering if anyone can solve a problem for me please. My great great grandparents married in the Parish of Bingley in 1815. A digistised copy of the event plus banns is online. The bride was from the parish. The 1851 and 1861 census returns are consistent with her age and expected year of birth. I thought I found her in the birth indexes along with a heap of siblings and left her for other ancestors. Later, after coming to a brick wall with her husband, his first appearance is in the banns and the 1841 census reports birth in Yorkshire, along with numerous other males of the same name. He was dead before the next census. I returned to the wife in the hope that she might help. I then noticed that the woman I’d chosen as the ancestor, was born out of wedlock, according to dates, and I didn’t think it made sense when the parents were constantly trooping to the church to baptize babies. I then looked again and found another woman with the correct name, also born in the parish, with the exact year instead of almost, and with some siblings. Later when I looked more closely at the digitized copy of the baptismal register I discovered all of the children in the family were recorded sequentially and in a register 20-30 years after their baptisms. The next couple of baptisms also look to be out of place, but only by a year or so.
Does anyone know why this would have occurred and if I can trust the record?
In addition, I now have 2 women by the same name born in the same village within 2 years of each other to different fathers. How can I really trust which is the correct one given I know nothing else about my ancestor as the marriage record doesn’t name the fathers ? Maybe my thought about wedlock was incorrect or a record was transcribed incorrectly. In addition, I found another woman by the same name, same village, right date and correct apart from missing an “s” on the end of the surname. Her father’s baptismal record is also missing the “s” so can probably discount her, I hope.
My great great grandparents had a couple of children baptized in other parishes in Staffordshire and then moved to Yorkshire where they remained. He was a butler.
Any suggestions and help would be appreciated.
Does anyone know why this would have occurred and if I can trust the record?
In addition, I now have 2 women by the same name born in the same village within 2 years of each other to different fathers. How can I really trust which is the correct one given I know nothing else about my ancestor as the marriage record doesn’t name the fathers ? Maybe my thought about wedlock was incorrect or a record was transcribed incorrectly. In addition, I found another woman by the same name, same village, right date and correct apart from missing an “s” on the end of the surname. Her father’s baptismal record is also missing the “s” so can probably discount her, I hope.
My great great grandparents had a couple of children baptized in other parishes in Staffordshire and then moved to Yorkshire where they remained. He was a butler.
Any suggestions and help would be appreciated.
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