In a message dated 2/28/06 10:15:05 AM GMT Standard Time, clarke@nex.net.au writes: > A George HEAD married a Susan GILBERT in Farnham (Hants) in 1869. This may > be my George and Susan. Perhaps not. > Sorry about that my computer is on the blink. Susan GILBERT seems to be your girl - she was christened in Sutton, Beds on 6th April 1851 to John & Martha GILBERT. There was a George HEAD [birth: 29th Dec 1834]. Christened 13th 1835 in Potton to John & Sarah HEAD. So if that is your one, he was born too early for a birth certificate. He may have been born somewhere else and not realised because he only remembered Potton [if that makes sense!] Check out the IGI http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#S cathy

Dear Cathy, Thank you for the followup on George and Susan. It does look like a promising lead. I will also get the marriage certificate to check the ages on that. If that jells then we might be on a winner. I do understand about George not knowing where he was born. We can only go by what we have, and check as many ways as possible. Thank you also for the link to the IGI by village/town. I had not seen that before. My other branches have yielded very little from the IGI so I don't always check it out as soon as I might... it has been valuable here. Cheers Charlie ----- Original Message ----- From: <AudreyJoyceMcC@aol.com> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 7:07 AM Subject: [BDF] HEAD and GILBERT in Potton > In a message dated 2/28/06 10:15:05 AM GMT Standard Time, > clarke@nex.net.au > writes: > >> A George HEAD married a Susan GILBERT in Farnham (Hants) in 1869. This >> may >> be my George and Susan. Perhaps not. >> > > Sorry about that my computer is on the blink. > > Susan GILBERT seems to be your girl - she was christened in Sutton, Beds > on > 6th April 1851 to John & Martha GILBERT. > > There was a George HEAD [birth: 29th Dec 1834]. Christened 13th 1835 in > Potton to John & Sarah HEAD. So if that is your one, he was born too > early for a > birth certificate. He may have been born somewhere else and not realised > because he only remembered Potton [if that makes sense!] > > Check out the IGI > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers/CountyBedford.htm#S > > cathy > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: > Bedford-L-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving > the messages > individually or want them individually) > > or > > Bedford-D-request@rootsweb.com (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a > digest of multiple > messages or want this mode) > > In the BODY of the message (not the subject line) type the word subscribe > or unsubscribe. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.1.1/270 - Release Date: 27/02/2006 >