----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 7:08 PM Subject: [B&S] Edmund STRATFORD, baptism, Siston, GLS, 1760 ( was Elizabeth Sarah STRATFORD ...) > On Tue, 07 Jan 2014 17:31:42 -0000, Sandy Gianni <slgianni@newkenmore.com> > wrote: > >> Parents of Jane Sully Stratford and Elizabeth Sarah Stratford seem to be >> Edmund Stratford, butcher, and Elizabeth Sully, married 7 July 1803 in >> St. James, Bristol. > > Hi Sandy, > > This may be a long shot, but there is a baptism for an Edmund STRATFORD at > Siston, GLS. > > Edmund STRATFORD, son of Samuel and Ann, was baptized on 5th. October 1760 > at Siston. > > This baptism is included in the Bristol Diocese Baptismal Registers Vols. > 11 to 14 Index & Transcripts 1754-1812 produced by the Bristol & Avon > Family History Society. www.bafhs.org.uk > > I mention this baptism because your Edmund STRATFORD had a son called > Samuel, who may have been named for Edmund's father. > > However, if this was the same Edmund STRATFORD who married in 1803, the > groom would have been in his 40s at the time of the marriage. > > Josephine > I believe that Edmund Stratford died in the January-February-March quarter of 1850 in Bristol according to the BMD. Is this record in the transcriptions? (If he had been born in 1860, he would have been 90 by then) Sandy Sheldon Gianni

On Wed, 15 Jan 2014 01:16:41 -0000, Sandy Gianni <slgianni@newkenmore.com> wrote: > I believe that Edmund Stratford died in the January-February-March > quarter of 1850 in Bristol according to the BMD. Is this record in the > transcriptions? (If he had been born in 1860, he would have been 90 by > then) Hi Sandy, No, the B & A FHS burial transcriptions for Bristol stop at 1837 the year when civil registration commenced. Josephine