Just to say that I have been in touch with the Staffordshire Record Office and they confirmed that they have this record, so will be ordering it along with baptisms of three male siblings, all born Dudley Worcester but baptized/christened at Wombourne Staffs. If all four of these fellows, particularly Joseph Aston Perkes (presumably given his mother's maiden name Aston) and Charles (who turns up in some notes of another family member) have the same father, then it looks as though am on the right track. So again, thank you so much for this good advice! Carolyn On 11-Dec-10, at 6:13 PM, Paul Prescott wrote: > Carolyn: > > You probably know that Thomas PERKES' baptism is on the IGI for 28 > March 1824 at Wombourne. Wombourne was in Staffordshire, not > Worcestershire (although Dudley was in Worcestershire, a detached > island of that county entirely surrounded by Staffordshire). > > Thomas's parents are shown on the IGI as Henry PERKES and Elizabeth > CARTWRT. It's highly unusual for parish registers in this part of the > world to give mother's maiden names at this period, so either Henry > and Elizabeth weren't married, or CARTWRT wasn't Elizabeth's surname > but her middle name. You'd want to see a copy of the register to > check. > > There are various ways to get a copy - the registers are available at > Dudley Record Office, Staffordshire County Record Office, or Lichfield > Joint Record Office. You can google any of these and then email or > even telephone the Record office, and they'll provide one for a fee. > > Alternatively you can post your request on the Rootsweb Staffordshire > list, and you'll probably find someone to look up trhe information for > you. If you're lucky, you may even come across someone who has a > microfiche copy of the registers who would send you a copy. > > Good luck > > Paul Prescott > Scotland > > > > > On 11 December 2010 22:55, Carolyn Perkes <cperkes@videotron.ca> > wrote: >> Dear listers, >> >> I am trying to determine how I can obtain a copy of the C of E parish >> record for the birth/baptism of Thomas Perkes, born 4 Feb 1824, >> Dudley, Worcester d. Sep 1898, Liverpool, buried in Toxteth Park >> Cemetery, 14 Sep, 1898. Finding his christening record is the key to >> confirming all sorts of information available through the beta family >> search site which contains a tree for the Perkes/Perks line back to >> Old Swinford, 1689. >> >> This Thomas Perkes was apparently christened 28 March 1824 Wombourne, >> Staff. >> >> A number of helpful people on the Staffordshire list directed to me >> to >> the parish records available at the Wolverhampton site. I could not >> find my Thomas there. >> >> http://www.wolverhamptonhistory.org.uk/resources/indexes >> >> I have looked at maps and it seems that Dudley and Wombourne are not >> far from each other. >> >> So, I have two questions: >> 1. Is it plausible that someone born in Dudley would have been >> christened in Wombourne? >> 2. Since I can't devote myself to this full time or get out in a car >> to an LDS centre here in Quebec Canada, could any of you refer me to >> researchers in Worcester who I would be happy to pay to find the >> actual parish birth/christening record for my Thomas Perkes? I have >> checked the list of researchers offered by the National Archives >> but I >> don't see anyone with an interest in the West Midlands. >> >> Many thanks, and best wishes for the holiday season. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Carolyn >> (Canada) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-WORCESTER-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and >> the body of the message >>