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**Olde Crone Holden** · 17-03-09, 11:08

Did she have a middle name by any chance? I have found a Fanny M Broughton registered 1891, Cheshire, although that does seem a trifle on the late side!

OC

**ColinBroughton** · 17-03-09, 14:33

I don't know of a middle name but she was on the 1891 census aged 1 and from Northampton so it cannot be her.

**Christine in Herts** · 17-03-09, 17:19

Originally posted by ColinBroughton View Post

I don't know of a middle name but she was on the 1891 census aged 1 and from Northampton so it cannot be her.

Unless they forgot to register her and she was registered late, via the nearest office?... but I'd have thought there's be somewhere nearer than Widnes?

Christine

**Carolyn P** · 17-03-09, 17:42

I'd like to confirm what Richard said earlier about the records for St Peter & St Paul, Kettering (the main C of E church) not being deposited at the Northampton Record Office. Last summer my sister and I had to make an appointment to go and view them in the church under the guidance of a couple of church wardens, who were very knowledgeable about the local area and families who had lived there. From memory I think the only time we could visit was wednesday mornings between 10.00 - 12.00. I do know that there is also at least one non-conformist church in Kettering which we haven't yet checked, as we still haven't found everything we were looking for.

**Jessbowbag** · 17-03-09, 18:57

Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post

Colin

A law was passed in the 1980s regarding the preservation of church registers. It requires that the "keeper" of old registers stores them in a controlled humidity and a place safe from predators such as mice and damp etc.

It may be that this Vicar stores them in a safe, which he feels is adequate. There is no law stating that any completed register must be handed to County Archives or Diocesan Archives, it's just that many churches prefer to do this if they do not have adequate storage facilities, and/or recognise the historical value of an old register

It also has to be said that a few Vicars/churches etc feel proprietorial towards their registers and wouldn't let them go anywhere. There have been cases where a departing Vicar has taken the register with him (grrr!).

I have never heard of any court case regarding the unsuitable storage of registers, so I suspect it is a law without teeth, or a law with no one interested in enforcing it!

OC

I belive, it was in the case of Northamptonshire, That The Bishop of Brixworth had something to do with it. Very little on the IGI either- same bloke in a strop.

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