Anyone have access to Reading, Berks parish records?

[Anne in Carlisle]

I have a Timothy East born in Reading on 26 August 1783 (according to a newspaper report later in his life and the 1861 census).
On his second marriage certificate he says his father is William East. Timothy was quite a famous Congregational Minister and died on 21 February 1871 (according to Probate and a number of newspaper reports.)

Does anyone have access to any baptism records for that period, please?

Anne

[Uncle John]

If he was a Congregationalist minister, it's odds-on that his parents were Congregationalists too, so you'd need to be looking in the non-conformist records. But I expect you'd worked that out already!

[kylejustin]

findmypast has some burials for reading, but there isn't a william east. i couldnt find any christenings for berkshire on fmp either.

[scuda]

No sign of him at St Laurence, Reading.

scuda

[Anne in Carlisle]

Thanks folks! I thought it would be difficult with the Congregationalist connections. Funny thing is Timothy's son became a C of E vicar in Newcastle on Tyne, so I was hoping Timothy's parents might not be non-con.

Anne

[Uncle John]

In 1851 he was aged 64 at the N P manse in East Kilpatrick, Milngavie, Stirlingshire, a visitor to the McNaughton family and described as Clergyman, U P Church, unattached. The head of family Janet McNaughton could well be a minister's widow.

[Anne in Carlisle]

Thanks, UJ. I do have a large amount about him ..... just nothing about his parents!!!

Anne

[Marmaduke 123]

No Timothy East baptism in any of the 3 Reading parishes St Laurence, St Mary or St Giles. No marriage for a William East either at any of those places. I'm sure you will have seen his portrait in the National Portrait Gallery:

http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw62264/Timothy-East?LinkID=mp61765&role=sit&rNo=0

The Eureka Partnership have several little booklets of Congregational records in Reading and further afield in Berkshire:

http://www.genfair.co.uk/product_list.php?sid=40&page=16

Anne

[Anne in Carlisle]

Thank you very much for looking for me!
Yes I have seen his portrait. He looks very kind
I'll look into those Congregational records, thank you for spotting them for me.

Anne

[PhotoFamily]

I looked at the EurekA Partnership transcription of
Broad Street, Reading, Congregational Church
and
Reading and district Congregationalists
and didn't find anything. The latter has several churches' transcribed records, but only one of those churches had records in the 1783 time frame.

[Anne in Carlisle]

Thank you very much for looking! I do have a friend who can get to the SoG and was hoping she could look at those transcriptions but she is not well just at the moment so I'm having to be patient. However it looks a though it might remain a mystery!

Anne