In message <000601c4deaf$07b2fbf0$0100a8c0@mums>, Kirsten Friis Holm Hawkes <kirstenh@iprimus.com.au> writes >hi all, I am wanting to get the birth certificate for >George EVANS born about 1842 prob in Horton Bucks. His father is Richard >Evans. >George married Tabitha Dorcas SNOXELL 5 sept 1872 in Billington Beds. > >I found two entries on FreeeBDMs that might match. > Can anyone suggest the more likely of the two, considering his marriage >cert says he was from Horton Bucks? There are two Hortons - neither of them in the Wycombe or Aylesbury districts. One is just over the border from Billington, Beds, and might be the more likely to have come from Horton, the other is in the south east of the county, and a fair distance from Wycombe. George Evans is noit an uncommon name and the other strong possibility is that he was never registered. A lot of parents didn;t see the point in those days. > >Birth June 1842 - >Evans George Aylesbury 6 320 > >Births Dec 1842 >Evans George Wycombe 6 409 > >also > >Births June 1842 >Evans George Woburn 6 119 If he was born slightly north of Horton-in-Ivinghoe parish, in Beds, this could be a possible one. And I would associate the name Snoxsell with Horton (there in 1798) rather than Wycombe You could send for the certificate 'only if father's name is Richard; > Tabithas family was from Wycombe... ? -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society