Now this one isn't FMP's fault and it's not even the fault of the digitisation process. If you're looking in the St. Helen's, Witton, Auxiliary Baptisms Register (CRO ref. P53/3/1) for baptisms between 28 July 1822 and 15 September 1822 - you may be out of luck. I thought I'd found a hole in the sequence on the film at Chester and now I've just double checked on FMP, it's the only explanation. What appears to have happened is that the guy filming for the LDS has turned over two pages and the film at Chester RO goes from 28 July 1822 at the foot of one page (frames 144 & 145 on FMP) to 15 September 1822 at the top of the next page (frames 146 & 147 on FMP). The consecutive frame numbers, which are on the microfilm, confirm this isn't a loss during digitisation, but at filming. FMP does have the ordinary baptismal register and the Bishop's Transcript for the entries in question - or at least, for the one I wanted. Of course, these omit the grandparents, etc. But the main reason for me mentioning this is that there appears to be a way out if you need the grandparents, etc, for those months. I actually have the auxiliary details for one baptism in that period (Job Pickstock bap 28 July 1822 to Samuel and Ann Pickstock) and the only explanation I have for it, is that I found those details at Manchester Central Library, implying that their film was a separate filming that didn't lose those pages. So - if you want those details, it looks like Manchester CL will be the place to go when it returns. (Assuming the other film isn't also at Chester...) Adrian

Adrian, I note your interest in PICKSTOCK of Witton cum Twambrooks. I have a possible connection with the name there too. I have John MOORE(S), a flatman, married to a Mary who may well be PICKSTOCK. If so they married at Witton on 4 May 1785. John's daughter was Mary MOORES who was my wife's 3x g grandmother and married George LEA at Sandbach in 1815. Any of this familiar? Regards Eric Millward ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4259 / Virus Database: 3681/7009 - Release Date: 01/16/14

Hi, I have a bit of information re Pickstocks. George P. X Alice Ann Plumb at Witton 1866. He was b. 1845 to Samuel P. X Mary Boden. George and Alice had a large family and I have some details for their children. June On 1/16/14, Adrian Bruce <abruce@madasafish.com> wrote: > > Now this one isn't FMP's fault and it's not even the fault of the > digitisation process. > > If you're looking in the St. Helen's, Witton, Auxiliary Baptisms Register > (CRO ref. P53/3/1) for baptisms between 28 July 1822 and 15 September 1822 > - > you may be out of luck. I thought I'd found a hole in the sequence on the > film at Chester and now I've just double checked on FMP, it's the only > explanation. > > What appears to have happened is that the guy filming for the LDS has > turned > over two pages and the film at Chester RO goes from 28 July 1822 at the > foot > of one page (frames 144 & 145 on FMP) to 15 September 1822 at the top of > the > next page (frames 146 & 147 on FMP). The consecutive frame numbers, which > are on the microfilm, confirm this isn't a loss during digitisation, but at > filming. > > FMP does have the ordinary baptismal register and the Bishop's Transcript > for the entries in question - or at least, for the one I wanted. Of course, > these omit the grandparents, etc. But the main reason for me mentioning > this > is that there appears to be a way out if you need the grandparents, etc, > for > those months. > > I actually have the auxiliary details for one baptism in that period (Job > Pickstock bap 28 July 1822 to Samuel and Ann Pickstock) and the only > explanation I have for it, is that I found those details at Manchester > Central Library, implying that their film was a separate filming that > didn't > lose those pages. So - if you want those details, it looks like Manchester > CL will be the place to go when it returns. (Assuming the other film isn't > also at Chester...) > > Adrian > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CHESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

<<snipped>> I have a bit of information re Pickstocks. George P. X Alice Ann Plumb at Witton 1866. He was b. 1845 to Samuel P. X Mary Boden. <<snipped>> Thanks for that. George's father, Samuel Pickstock, was the cause of some years of grief for one of our fellow listers, as his 1845 marriage to Mary Boden records that his father was John Pickstock. This left the lister looking in vain for Samuel's baptism. Turns out that the marriage register is wrong - the father of the 1845 groom is actually George Pickstock, not John, which was demonstrated when someone found a report of the death of Samuel's mother, Ann Pickstock nee Kettle. She came to a sticky end in Northwich and the newspaper report describes her as the widow of George Pickstock, not John. Pickstock is a nice name to follow but it has its share of "interesting" cases... Adrian B