Have you purchased the birth certificate? This is more reliable than a baptism entry and should sort your problem out. Sandra [email protected] wrote: >Hi > >I have rejoined the list as I am back researching my Hampshire family, >having spent some time on family members in surrounding counties. > >I have a problem concerning an entry on the IGI ....... > >Name: Sarah Ann FRANKLIN >Christening: 22 December 1871 Sherfield Upon Loddon, Hampshire, England >Father: David Franklin >Mother: Maria >Batch number C022104 > >I have found an entry in the BMD indexes for the December quarter of 1871 >which probably relates to the birth of Sarah Ann.. > >My problem is as follows - > >Maria FRANKLIN was born in 1849 - she was oldest known child of David >FRANKLIN and Patience WIX who were married on 21 January 1849 in Sherfield on >Loddon. > >I have followed Maria through the cansus - in 1851 & 1861 she was at home >with her parents in Sherfield on Loddon on census night. In 1871, she was a >servant in Greywell, Hampshire. By 1881 she is married to James Woods and is >living in Basingstoke, the marriage having taken place in 1877. She is still >in Basingstoke in 1896, when she is shown as the informant on her father's >death certificate, and in the 1901 census. > >Lets go back to Sarah Ann - who was baptised in 1871 ... she was obviously >baseborn, but the IGI entry shows the father to be David Franklin. As far as >I can tell, there are only two David Franklins in the area - Maria's father >and Maria's younger brother (my great grandfather) who was born in 1863. > >There is a possible solution (I don't want to go there !!), but my gut >reaction is that the vicar asked for 'father's name' and she, in ignorance, gave >her own father's name. > >Have listers heard of this situation before? > >Also, if anyone happens to be going to the Hampshire record office, or has >access to the parish records of Sherfield on Loddon in some other way - what >exactly does the entry say? - has there been some form of mistranscription on >the IGI site? > >Thanks >Rosemary >Carryduff, Northern Ireland > > >............................................. >Want to contact the local community? >Please visit Hampshire Parish Jottings >http://hants.parishjottings.org.uk >............................................. > >------------------------------- >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 > > > >