David Thanks. I wonder if HAITES on the IGI is a transcription error The census originals in 41 and 51 certainly look like YATES Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Sent: 12 April 2008 08:18 To: [email protected] Subject: [BDF] RE : Ampthill and Flitton/Silsoe records 1812-1840 A bit of a mystery this lot, with so many missing marriages and baptisms, particularly in parishes which have been extracted onto the IGI, which implies i) that a search of the parish register might be fruitless, and ii) that they might be under a spelling variation Lydia gave her birthplace as Stevington in 1851, and Elizabeth might be a bit older than you state as she gave her age as 44 in 1851, which would push back her parents' marriage as well But.... looking at the IGI for an Elizabeth born Ampthill c1807-10 there's an Elizabeth Haites daughter of William and Lydia Haites baptised 26 Dec 1807 (born 30 Oct 1807) and a marriage of William Haites and Lydia Dickens in Ampthill on 1 Dec 1806 which would be worth investigating I can't see a Lydia Dickens baptised in Stevington that fits, but there were Dickens in the parish and one named a daughter Lydia in 1812, which may just be coincidence. David

As the baptism on the IGI is taken from the transcript done by Bedfordshire Records Office which was an amalgamation of the parish register and the bishop's transcript, I think it more likely that any variation in spelling is likely to be that of whoever wrote the entries in the registers. The vicar wrote down what he thought he'd heard! But I would check the film of the parish register myself. Elizabeth's second marriage also gives her father as Yates on the IGI, and I don't think there's any doubt that the 1841/51 images are Yates. David Bill and Jenny Deverell <[email protected]> a écrit : David Thanks. I wonder if HAITES on the IGI is a transcription error The census originals in 41 and 51 certainly look like YATES Bill -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Sent: 12 April 2008 08:18 To: [email protected] Subject: [BDF] RE : Ampthill and Flitton/Silsoe records 1812-1840 A bit of a mystery this lot, with so many missing marriages and baptisms, particularly in parishes which have been extracted onto the IGI, which implies i) that a search of the parish register might be fruitless, and ii) that they might be under a spelling variation Lydia gave her birthplace as Stevington in 1851, and Elizabeth might be a bit older than you state as she gave her age as 44 in 1851, which would push back her parents' marriage as well But.... looking at the IGI for an Elizabeth born Ampthill c1807-10 there's an Elizabeth Haites daughter of William and Lydia Haites baptised 26 Dec 1807 (born 30 Oct 1807) and a marriage of William Haites and Lydia Dickens in Ampthill on 1 Dec 1806 which would be worth investigating I can't see a Lydia Dickens baptised in Stevington that fits, but there were Dickens in the parish and one named a daughter Lydia in 1812, which may just be coincidence. David The List Guidelines http://bedfordrootsweb.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Envoyé avec Yahoo! Mail. Une boite mail plus intelligente.