Thanks for looking. Census returns give Potton Beds as the birthplace but I guees she may not have been baptised there. Looks like this brick wall is not coming down yet! Gail >From: "Jill Blain" <jill.blain1@btopenworld.com> >Reply-To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [BDF] Louisa Pleasance CARTER b Potton 1808 >Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 14:19:12 +0100 > >Hi Gail, > >Have looked on the Bedfordshire Prime (list of names on parish registers) >and there are no Pleasances in Bedfordshire records. There are Pleasantines >and similar names in Potton, but not Pleasance. > >Jill >----- Original Message ----- >From: <Dianne.Sutton@Tesco.Net> >To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 9:10 AM >Subject: Re: [BDF] Louisa Pleasance CARTER b Potton 1808 > > > > Gail, > > > > what does it say as her birthplace on the 1841, 1851, 1861, etc >censuses? > > > > Her Pleasance given name may be a clue to an ancestors name too. > > > > D. > > Gail Law wrote: > > > > > I am hoping to find out more about the above lady who is one of my > > > ancestors. I know that she married in 1825 at St Botolph Cambridge to > > > John Richardson who was a butcher. The marriage record shows that her > > > father was John Carter, a tailor. That is all I know of her history. I > > > think I have found everything I can re her life after the marriage. > > > Whether she spent her early life in Potton or not I do not know so I'm > > > hoping that the name and place may ring a bell with someone on the >list. > > > Thanks in advance if anyone can help. Best wishes from Gail. > > > > > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > > When REPLYING to a message sent to the list decide if this is >information >that all the list members would like to know about or whether it would only >be of interest to the individual you are replying to. > > > > > > > >==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >Bedfordshire at Rootsweb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/ >