Afternoon, I wonder if anyone will be within a record office this week [or next] and be able to take a look at this for me please. All I have is the following Francis Edmonds bapt 20 Dec 1818 Morice Square Devonport [Non-Conformist] No parents given. But I am wondering if I missed something somewhere. I do not seem to be able to find this on Familysearch, which is where I usually pick up this sort of thing. I am wondering if I made a mistake somewhere along the line. Thanks to anyone game enough to check this out. Regards Bev Edmonds

Hello Bev - Not sure where you found that Francis Edmonds - he doesn't seem to be on FS/IGI, Ancestry or FMP. GENUKI Stoke Damerel (Devonport) lists church records of Congregational, Baptist and Wesleyan (Methodist) chapels using the same or nearby premises in Morice Square and Morice Street, whereas your citation merely states Non-Conformist. Brian Randell replied to a similar previous enquiry in 2001: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DEVON/2001-02/0981150865 The DHC has a listing of microfilmed nonconformist registers that are "in reserve" so probably not immediately available to anyone who just walks in: http://www.devon.gov.uk/index/councildemocracy/record_office/our_records/devonandcornwallrecordsociety-2/devonandcornwallrecordsociety-11.htm There is a good comprehensive reply by John Pritchard to another enquiry on GENBRIT-L back in 1998, including: "... there were several non-conformist chapels in the town. Morice Square chapel was founded as an Independent (Congregationalist) chapel in 1784, but sold to the Baptists in 1799. The register, which is in the Public Record Office, contains entries for Independent baptisms between 1785 and 1794, and Baptist births between 1781 and 1806. Obviously the IGI has shown these separately. A Wesleyan Methodist chapel had been established in Morice Street as early as 1766; baptism records from 1787 to 1837 are in the PRO, and from 1839 onwards in Devon County Record Office. ... You won't, of course, find any non-conformist marriage records for this period since between 1754 and 1837 the only legal marriages (except for Quakers and Jews) were those performed by an Anglican clergyman in the Parish Church. Stoke Damerel parish registers contain an enormous number of marriages; I rather suspect that the curate was not too particular about checking details (so long as the couple paid the fee)." http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENBRIT/1998-02/0886954967 A collateral search reveals that John appears to be an expert on copyright http://searches2.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENMTD/1997-08/0870635092 so I had better acknowledge his copyright to that extract! I am, of course, (blind) copying this to his last retrievable e-mail address. Attn: Brian Randell: Regarding the PS to your 2001 post, perhaps you could link to John Pritchard's 1998 post or, if he is still contactable, discuss incorporating his text into GENUKI, though the present availability of registers might need to be updated. Regards - Martin Beavis -----Original Message----- From: Beverley Edmonds via Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2016 4:35 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DEV] Francis EDMONDS c 1818 Afternoon, I wonder if anyone will be within a record office this week [or next] and be able to take a look at this for me please. All I have is the following Francis Edmonds bapt 20 Dec 1818 Morice Square Devonport [Non-Conformist] No parents given. But I am wondering if I missed something somewhere. I do not seem to be able to find this on Familysearch, which is where I usually pick up this sort of thing. I am wondering if I made a mistake somewhere along the line. Thanks to anyone game enough to check this out. Regards Bev Edmonds ------------------------------------------

Sorry Bev, Can't place this person in my EDMONDS tree, at this time anyway. cheers, Diane Foster (nee CULLING) On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Beverley Edmonds via <[email protected]> wrote: > Afternoon, > > I wonder if anyone will be within a record office this week [or next] > and be able to take a look at this for me please. > > All I have is the following > > Francis Edmonds bapt 20 Dec 1818 Morice Square Devonport [Non-Conformist] > > No parents given. But I am wondering if I missed something somewhere. I > do not seem to be able to find this on Familysearch, which is where I > usually pick up this sort of thing. > > I am wondering if I made a mistake somewhere along the line. > > Thanks to anyone game enough to check this out. > Regards > Bev Edmonds > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Bev I have a Francis Edmonds Skeates b. 1863 Bristol son of Joseph Baylis Skeates and his 2nd wife Jane Hamilton. As far as I can understand, the Edmonds comes from a connection to Jane Hamilton. She received an income via the Edmonds family and was left 5000 pounds in 1888 or so, when George Edmonds rector of Little Badderley in Shropshire, or his brother died. In 1851 Jane was living with Edward Edmonds as housekeeper but he was the 3rd husband of the woman I think was her grandmother, whose 2nd husband was Edward Edwards and then she had married Edward Edmonds. VERY confusing. All of the 3 husbands were military, and she was something like 40 years older than the last husband! The Edmonds were from Ireland and there were some on the Island of Man from that family. Cannot get enough on them to put it all together. Not sure this is much help to you! Susan chilly on the Sunshine Coast this morning On 01/05/2016 13:35, Beverley Edmonds via wrote: > Afternoon, > > I wonder if anyone will be within a record office this week [or next] > and be able to take a look at this for me please. > > All I have is the following > > Francis Edmonds bapt 20 Dec 1818 Morice Square Devonport [Non-Conformist] > > No parents given. But I am wondering if I missed something somewhere. I > do not seem to be able to find this on Familysearch, which is where I > usually pick up this sort of thing. > > I am wondering if I made a mistake somewhere along the line. > > Thanks to anyone game enough to check this out. > Regards > Bev Edmonds > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus