Thank you Geoff for the information you sent me. Jan ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 8:03 AM Subject: ENG-DURHAM Digest, Vol 2, Issue 145 > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: HELP WANTED ([email protected]) > 2. James Johns(t)on (Tim Callaghan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:10:19 EDT > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ENG-DURHAM] HELP WANTED > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > In a message dated 27/07/2007 19:55:54 GMT Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > Now my problem is the only JOHN that I can find born in 1657 appears to > have > died on the 02 oct 1660 so how can he have married MARY.Could anyone help > me > with this problem.Thank you if you can. > > > > > It might be productive for you to check on the earliest dates from which > parish registers run. Once you are back in the 17th century there are > many gaps > in what is available - the registers have not all survived. Since the > BTs > also do not survive from that far back, it could be that you are at a > real > briack wall. Possibly useful non-parish register sources for earlier > periods > include: > > Wills, > Hearth Tax Returns, > Protestation Returns > Records of the County Committee for Compounding with Delinquent Royalists > Deeds > Halmote Court Records > > None of these are "easy" or necessarily straightforward. Some are in > Durham County Record Office, some in The National Archives, some in > Durham > University Library and some have been published many years ago by the > Surtees > Society. You have reached the point where the research, if not the > results of > that research, gets interesting. Good hunting! > > Geoff Nicholson > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 23:49:08 +0100 > From: "Tim Callaghan" <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENG-DURHAM] James Johns(t)on > To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, > <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Looking for a James Johns(t)on with parents John & Elizabeth born around > 1824 in either Chester-le-Street, Tynemouth, North Shields or Hebburn. > > Tim > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-DURHAM list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ENG-DURHAM mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > 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 > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-DURHAM Digest, Vol 2, Issue 145 > ****************************************** >