>From: Lesley Silvester <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 13:24:57 +0800 > >I have found George Atkinson age 26 in the 1851 Berwick census. He is a >farmer, in the house are wife Isabella b. Scotland , son george b. Berwick >and a 17yr old servant. Do you mean Berwick on Tweed (England) or Berwickshire (Scotland)? Different record archives. >George gives his birthplace as Norham, Nanthorn (thus my query a week or so >ago). Norham appears to be on the IGI (that is the batch numbers of >extractions correspond with all dates relevant) but no sign of George and >no >sign of him in Nenthorn either. >His marriage cert 1848 gave his father as George Atkinson, a miller but I >found no sign of this George on the census film. >Any ideas where I could go from here? Do you know what records the IGI for Norham is based on? North of the Border, the extracted data is only based on the registers of the Church of Scotland, and folk from other denominations do not appear. Especially in the Borders, this can be a significant slice of the community. What does his marriage cert say about who carried out the marriage? What sort of Minister? When you know the type of church he married in, you have an idea of where to start looking for baptismal records. Lesley Robertson _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail