Thank you Rod for such a good explanation. I suppose the family Bible was an alternative source of recording baptisms, marriages and deaths in those days. I appreciate your insight. Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rowarmin@aol.com> To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Non-Conformist Registers > Elixabeth, > > Under the Non Parochial Register Act of 1840 all non-conformist registers > were required to be sent to the Registrar General but in actual fact very > few were sent; Lawson-Edwards published an Index of the registers > surrendered and this would probably be available at Record Offices or > Libraries. In > my experience many non-conformist churches did not keep registers as such, > use being made of ordinary exercise books and the like and when they were > full they were frequently destroyed or just placed in a drawer and forgotten > or taken home by one of the stewards. The Bible Christians were formed in > 1815 by William Bryant or O'Bryan so it is unlikely there would be any > registers before this date most Bible Christians prior to this were likely to > be some other branch of Methodism probably Wesleyan. The Cornwall Record > Office holds the Wesleyan Baptism Registers for Camelford dating from 1801 > and for Liskeard from 1834 and Penzance from 1805; apart from St. Austell > Primative Methodist Circuit from 1829 all the other registers are from the > the 1830s. > > Rod Warmington, Fellow C.F.H.S. > > > In a message dated 12/03/2010 08:13:32 GMT Standard Time, > cornish-gen-request@rootsweb.com writes: > > > > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:35:56 -0800 > From: "Elizabeth Abbott" <eabbott@shaw.ca> > Subject: Re: [CORNISH-GEN] Peter Avery born 1815 > To: <cornish-gen@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <3DA1613AD0C147EAAC7B2BC7E02A8C8E@elizabet5d00dd> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; > reply-type=original > > Hi Kay, > > I understand your comment about the Parish registers. I was hoping if > his > brother and sister were listed on the website Peter's baptism would be > there > too. However, it's good to know that this is a work in progress and I > will > check back from time to time to see if his name appears. > > Where would the Non-Conformist registers be kept? Are they available to > the > public if I have the chance to visit? > > Thank you, > > Elizabeth > BC > > > > > > ------------------------------- > Listmom: ybowers@gmail.com or CORNISH-GEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > Visit the OPC (Online Parish Clerk) web page for transcription information > http://www.cornwall-opc.org/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CORNISH-GEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >