Oops - the reference to genes reunited should be findmypast. I have GenesReunited on my brain - yesterday I contacted three people with Levi FIRTH (my g grandfather) of Allerton / Bradford / W Yorks region in their trees - two have replied within less than a day and yes - a sixth cousin I think and a third cousin. Yippee! -----Original Message----- From: eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dawn Webb Sent: Friday, 12 March 2010 10:19 AM To: eng-cambridgeshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMS] James Willson b Gamlingay 1830 Cambridgeshire seems to have had a lot of what is in England I think called chapels - here in Oz they are all churches.. anyway I was brought up in the Baptist church and yes, was baptized as a teenager - but I suspect you could get maybe, w th luck, the baptismal records from the church if they and it survive. It MAY if you are even luckier state the age.. I would start looking at least ten years after his suspected birth. And it could be he ws never baptized at all, or was about 70, so.. happy hunting! Personally I would do bits occasionally, try to find anything for his siblings, and extrapolate from what you can have., His marriage and children and death were all in the registration period past mid 1837 one presumes. What a pity the English death certs do not give his parents names, age, details of marriage(s) and children as do our local ones. Would make this much easier! And, keep searching those censuses. His age should be pretty right on the 1841 census - they did not round ages of anyone under 15 from memory. Have someone look on both genesreunited and ancestry -= they use different transcribers and I have found my family of FIRTH on all on all censuses on findmypast except one - they were however on ancestry for that missing census. I checked the address - they had been badly transcribed as Frost. Now fixed but GRRR at the time. Some given names were wrong too - eg my grandfather James Fisher FIRTH was Jos T on findmypast that census. Double GRRR. And Tamar (female) was transcribed as James (female) - go figure! All the best Dawn (Melbourne Australia) -----Original Message----- From: eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-cambridgeshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of micknosliwww@hotmail.co.uk Sent: Friday, 12 March 2010 1:35 AM To: cambs f hist cams f hist Subject: [ENG-CAMS] James Willson b Gamlingay 1830 James has been my bete noir for many many years .I have seen a statement on I think the Bedfordshire County archives where it states that he was born in 1830 in Gamlingay Cambs - I would like to identify who his parents were - I know my lot were in Gamlingay at this time but cannot find any trace of his birth or baptism - they seem to have been strict baptists who did not believe in infant baptism - tho the use of the forename James suggests he does belong tho the family used a lot of biblical names but then most families seemed to . Can anyone enlighten me as to where to look as cannot find him on any of the censuses until either the 1881 or 1891 ones . T I A . Mick Wilson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4937 (20100311) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4937 (20100311) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-CAMBRIDGESHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4937 (20100311) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4937 (20100311) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com