Yup, there'sa Holywell in north Wales, don't live far from it actually!! Woodhurst's Huntingdon isn't it? that'll be the next district, right? Tracey ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <david11000carca@yahoo.fr> To: <ENG-HUNTINGDON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 4:58 PM Subject: RE: St Ives & Needingworth > Hi Ray > > Holywell cum Needingworth, along with St Ives itself, was in St Ives > registration district. Holywell registration district was in Wales so the > Mary you found won't be the right one. > > Details of registration districts can be found at > http://www.fhsc.org.uk/genuki/reg/index.htm > > Your searching is not necessarily at fault! She may not have registered > their births; simple as that. Failure to register was not required by law > until 1874, failure to do so within 6 weeks being punishable by a fine, > so prior to 1874 many births went unregistered. I can't see them either. > > If their births weren't registered perhaps they were baptised - but St > Ives parish registers haven't been filmed by the LDS nor transcribed for > sale by Hunts FHS, so they can only be viewed at Huntingdon Records > office. > > Not good news, but at least you know your grey matter is functioning > properly! > > Regards > > David > > RayBoy <zenxan@aol.com> a écrit : I am new to this list and thoroughly > confused about registration districts. > It is almost certainly my own grey cells that are failing me over this. > > > > I am researching the BARNETT family. According to the 1861 Census Ann > BARNETT was born about 1832 in Needingworth. She was unmarried but had at > that time 3 children - George b. 1853, Emma b 1856, and Betty b 1858 all > in > St Ives. She also had Mary Ann, my target, in 1868. I just cannot find a > birth on the BMD for any of these children and wonder if I am looking for > a > non-existent Registration District. I did find a Mary b 1869 in Holywell - > is this the correct Holywell as I see 3 others in my gazetteer. > > > > I have searched EVERY quarter from 1851 to 1870 for BARNETT births and > found > none in St Ives. Clearly, something is wrong with my search. > > > > Thanks for your help > > > > Raymond G Green > > > > > > --------------------------------- > Faites de Yahoo! votre page d'accueil sur le web pour retrouver > directement vos services préférés : vérifiez vos nouveaux mails, lancez > vos recherches et suivez l'actualité en temps réel. Cliquez ici. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.3.5/303 - Release Date: 06/04/2006 > > This e-mail has been sent through the Cybase Limited 'home-user' mail-server, any abuse of this mail service should be reported to abuse@cybase.co.uk Cybase Limited use all reasonable measures to ensure that virus infected e-mails do not pass through our mailservers, but make no guarantees to the effectiveness of these measures. We strongly recommend that any workstation connected to the Internet should have an anti-virus program installed and be kept up-to-date. * Cybase WebMail with SPAM filtering - is available as a subscription service to help combat spam/unwanted e-mail * Please contact sales@cybase.co.uk or 0845 140 2000 for full details ----------------------------------------------------------