Thanks for that, Charani. She is with her father in KD in 1891, while her sister and 6yr old niece are in the poorhouse in Mere. I was wondering if Jane had lost any children. In the 1901 census, for Yorkshire, I only have one child for her, my gmother b. 1896 Yorkshire, whom she re-registered as Carpenter (no fathers name) one month after the child had been registered by the father. The family are still to-gether in 1901. Thanks again Janette -----Original Message----- From: eng-wiltshire-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-wiltshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Charani Sent: 11 October 2006 14:19 To: eng-wiltshire@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-WILTSHIRE] Church registers Janette Smith wrote: > Is it possible to check church registers for Kingston Deverill, 1880-1896, > for births or deaths ? They won't be births and deaths but baptisms and burials and they'll be at the County Record Office unless someone has them on fiche or CD. > I'm trying to find out if my ggmother Jane Carpenter, born 1867, KD. had had > any children before moving to Yorkshire. Have you had a look on the 1891 and/or 1901 censuses? Either may give children. > Also, I can't find a death for her. Are there any burial registers available > from 1901 and later for KD. Burial registers have never stopped although the registers may still be with the incumbent if they are still in use. -- Charani (UK) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WILTSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Janette Smith wrote: > Thanks for that, Charani. > > She is with her father in KD in 1891, while her sister and 6yr old niece are > in the poorhouse in Mere. I was wondering if Jane had lost any children. If they were still births there's unlikely to be any record of them at all. If they lived at all, then there should be a record for them either in the GRO indices or as a baptism, assuming they were baptised. > In the 1901 census, for Yorkshire, I only have one child for her, my gmother > b. 1896 Yorkshire, whom she re-registered as Carpenter (no fathers name) one > month after the child had been registered by the father. The family are > still to-gether in 1901. That's unusual for the father alone to register the birth if the child was illegitimate. Normally both parents would need to register such children. If the mother wasn't married, then it's unlikely she would have had other children, but not impossible of course. -- Charani (UK)