Hi Jan I have just dropped in on the end of this thread, you wrote <quote> ....but the IGI baptism gives his father as Benjamin. Instead of William Benjamin son of Sarah Jane <quote> Not sure from your message, If you had checked the original baptism record rather that the IGI? If only the later could it by a translation error and William's second name having been mistook for his father, just a thought Maria Best Wishes Maria ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam

Hi Maria, No, I didn't check the original record, but the assistant in the Doncaster archives assured me that their index in book form was copied exactly from the baptism record and this agreed with the IGI version. Unfortunately they don't have a photocopying facility, otherwise I would certainly have asked for a copy from microfiche. I do have William Benjamin's birth certificate, which gives his name as William Benjamin son of Sarah Jane, and no father mentioned. Sarah was unmarried at the time and didn't marry until a few years later. Incidentally I had hoped that the Doncaster archives might have poor relief records, which occasionally (so I'm told) lists a father in the case of unmarried mothers applying for relief, but it seems that someone in the 1900s decided to throw away the records for a good 50 years in the 19th century thinking they were of no use to anyone!! Great, thanks a lot for that!!! A story passed down to me from an aunt was that Sarah, a servant around the time of William's birth, became pregnant by the master of the house. I am assured that if this was the case the facts will have been well and truly hushed up, but in fact the father was probably another servant....possibly called Benjamin.....!!! I am determined to find out the father of at least one of the many illegitimate children scattered around both my past and my husband's, but sadly not this one. Regards, Jan > From: maria.borrill@ntlworld.com> To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:28:40 +0100> Subject: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Re PLAXTON Cottingham> > Hi Jan> I have just dropped in on the end of this thread, you wrote <quote> ....but the IGI baptism gives his father as Benjamin. Instead of William Benjamin son of Sarah Jane <quote>> Not sure from your message, If you had checked the original baptism record rather that the IGI? If only the later could it by a translation error and William's second name having been mistook for his father, just a thought> > Maria> > > Best Wishes> Maria> > -----------------------------------------> Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email> Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam> > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ The next generation of Windows Live is here http://www.windowslive.co.uk/get-live