If it was my family I would extract all of the surname from the parish registers and then do a full family reconstruction from the earliest record down to and past the events you have. This way it will become clearer where everyone fits in. You can then see what happened to both Ann Evans you have found. It is only by doing a FULL reconstruction that you can hope to sort out the information. Large sheets of paper are a must! Marie Australia -----Original Message----- From: Liz Loveland Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 8:54 AM To: devon@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DEV] Tracing mother of an 'illegitimate' child Hi Sher, Thank you for answering. I guess I am still not being clear enough so let me repeat that I have copies of the vital records from the original register pages, not transcriptions. Since I am in Massachusetts, unfortunately going to the North Devon Record Office in person is not feasible for me. In this situation the register page copies have not provided me with additional information. The person recording entries in Hartland at the time seems to have been rather bare-bones about it as there is not always even an occupation listed. With regards to Ann Evans and John Kinsman (the subject of my original post), I have gotten much more information from the bastardy bonds and the mother examinations than I have from the parish register entries. (Yes, I also have copies of the original bonds and examinations.) Liz Loveland Massachusetts, USA ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/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/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message