Chris & George Jamieson wrote: > Just want to thank Charani, Tony, Adrian and Edna for your help. It seems I > may not have the right family here, as it's a bit of a stretch to think a > Musician would become a Coppersmith???? It would depend if he was a full time musician or did it as a side line or whoever completed the register may have made a mistake: but I agree, on the face of it, it is a bit of a stretch. > What puzzles me is that my ancestor William Henry born c1825 maintains on > the 1851 and 1861 censuses that he was born in Bristol. He could have been born somewhere just outside Bristol and that was the nearest big place. Or he may have moved there as a small child and not known it wasn't where he was born. Or he may have been born in Bristol but christened elsewhere for some reason. > Does the "Bristol Diocese" cover all parishes in Bristol? I notice that on > GENUKI there are a fewer number of parishes listed under Bristol, than there > are on the B&A FHS CD covering baptisms for the Bristol Diocese. A diocese is usually very much larger than the actual place whose name it bears. Bristol Diocese would cover all the parishes in Bristol. > The > William Henry HARRIS x'd 1825 at Temple Bristol is apparently the only > William Henry with a father Henry on the CD, per Tony's reply. So if the CD > covers the whole of Bristol, where do I go from here........ The CD does cover the whole of Bristol. Have you tried www.freereg.org.uk in case he was baptised elsewhere? It's unfortunate that HARRIS is quite a common name which is going to make it that much harder. -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk