In a message dated 03/10/2010 16:10:42 GMT Daylight Time, patriciamfuller@btinternet.com writes: Thanks to past help and the 2 Wantage PR disks I have found that Robert DEW(E) of Blewbury married Hannah POWELL on 20/08/1816 at Chilton. Their children were Sophia, Jane, Henry and Ann Arnold all born in Blewbury. I have tried to look thoroughly(!) at the Chilton transcripts for Hannah's baptism but have not been successful. There are other POWELL baptisms but I have no idea if they are from the same family. Hannah was buried at Blewbury on 24/12/1846 with her age recorded as 53. Other than her marriage, is Hannah in the Chilton registers and I have missed the entry, or is she somewhere else? Is there another set of registers that I should check? Patricia You give details of Hannah POWELL's burial, which suggests that she might have been born in 1793. Meanwhile, a quick check of the society's transcription of the 1841 census suggests that Hannah POWELL was aged fifty. Although that age might well have been rounded, it puts her birth at roughly around 1791. Hence, we are looking at roughly the early 1790s. In addition, the 1841 census indicates that she was born in the county - which was Berkshire. A quick look at the incomplete Oxfordshire Baptism Index 1538-1851 gives us one possible baptism. That is :- Hannah POWELL, daughter of Benjn & Sarah, baptised at Cholsey in 1789. Have you considered that as a possibility ? Three points about your Hannah POWELL :- 1. she might not have been baptised, or the recording of the baptism might be flawed or lost. 2. she might have been baptised in a parish that is in modern-day Berkshire, and hence isn't in the Oxfordshire Baptism Index. 3. she might have been baptised in a Berkshire parish that is in modern-day Oxfordshire, but has not yet been added to our incomplete index. Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)