Does anyone fancy seeing if they can find a birth for me please?

[Charney Jo]

I've decided to see if I can break through one of my brick walls (no doubt more of which later), but can anyone help me find a baptism record for Charles Bessell?

His father was George Bessell (1797-1829 Shoreditch, London) and his mother was Martha nee Jacobs (1799-1849). He is first listed on Poor Law Removal and Settlement Papers (Ancestry) in 1829, where he is listed as "about 10 years old".

His siblings were all easy to trace (again Ancestry) and I am hoping that I am just not looking correctly.

Virginia Betsy	baptised:	26 May 1822	St Luke Finsbury, Islington
Edwenia / Edwina Hance	baptised:	22 June 1824	St Andrew, Holborn, City of London
William Henry	baptised:	19 June 1825	St Andrew, Holborn, City of London
Edward John	baptised:	30 December 1827	West Twyford, Ealing
Richard Salmon	baptised:	17 April 1829	St Andrew, Holborn, City of London

On his marriage record, 1848, he calls himself "Charles Mowbray George Bessell".

There are a few trees on Ancestry for the family but I am finding anomalies in them, partly because a lot are just copies of each other, and want to start from scratch for my tree.

Any help anyone can offer is very gratefully received!

[ozgirl]

How about this:

Charles Moobery George Beffell in Shepton Mallet in Somerset (however abode is London) Born Sep 19 1819, bap 31 May 1820

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...rue&pId=222860

[Charney Jo]

Oh my goodness, thank you! I've been looking for that for days.

[Charney Jo]

I guess the occupation means George worked in a cheese factory?

[Darksecretz]

How about this:

Charles Moobery George Beffell in Shepton Mallet in Somerset (however abode is London) Born Sep 19 1819, bap 31 May 1820

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageview...rue&pId=222860

bloody hell ozgirl! that is some mangled transcription! I can understand the double FF's though as that is what they do look like but we know they are dble SS's

[ozgirl]

I kind of like then name Moobery - sounds very friendly !

[ozgirl]

I guess the occupation means George worked in a cheese factory?

On the Old Occupations website a Cheese Factor is a Cheese Dealer/ Seller. Maybe George was finding all about local cheeses? Decided it was a good time to get his son baptised too.

[Charney Jo]

Interesting that he was baptised a "Mowbray". It means his grandparents are who I think and some people have muddled a few different earlier Charles Bessell's (partly because one was a Captain and someone has posted a portrait of him and others have assumed that their Charles Bessell is that Charles Bessell). Might be asking lots more questions later!

[Charney Jo]

On the Old Occupations website a Cheese Factor is a Cheese Dealer/ Seller. Maybe George was finding all about local cheeses? Decided it was a good time to get his son baptised too.

I completely forgot that Martha (the mother) was born in Somerset. Sorry! But George becomes a school master and then a clerk.

[Darksecretz]

I guess the occupation means George worked in a cheese factory?

Is it in our Big Book in the reference library?

https://reference.familytreeforum.com/index.php?title=The_Big_Book_of_Genealogy