Hi Everyone I'm trying to find the descendants of the marriage of one Franics WITTEN (vars) and Sarah SARGEANT (vars). I have quite a few children from the Old Swinford registers but a gap inbetween (1679ish to 1684) Sarah appeared to have children at close and regular intervals so I'm pretty certain that there are some missing. I can't trace the marriage either tho' I expect that it might have been at Hagley where Sarah's, father was a Non-Conformist minister and about 1674ish. Would the missing births be on Non-Conformist registers tho' I've checked the NArchives online service and haven't found them? I might have expected them also to be at Hagley if they had been the first one or two but there are three 1676-1678 and then the rest between 1686 - 1697. Is there anyone out there that can help or advise? Thanks Lennie XX

On 12 Mar, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone > I'm trying to find the descendants of the marriage of one Franics WITTEN > (vars) and Sarah SARGEANT (vars). I have quite a few children from the > Old Swinford registers but a gap inbetween (1679ish to 1684) Sarah > appeared to have children at close and regular intervals so I'm pretty > certain that there are some missing. I can't trace the marriage either > tho' I expect that it might have been at Hagley where Sarah's, father > was a Non-Conformist minister and about 1674ish. Would the missing > births be on Non-Conformist registers tho' I've checked the NArchives > online service and haven't found them? I might have expected them also > to be at Hagley if they had been the first one or two but there are > three 1676-1678 and then the rest between 1686 - 1697. Is there anyone > out there that can help or advise? > Thanks > Lennie XX Hi Lennie I'm researching DANCERs from the same time frame, and have found that some of them married in Pedmore and Kinver. Perhaps it's worth searching these registers too - I don't know what was going on at Old Swinford at the time but something was. There wasn't really many non-conformist churches about at this time as it had been illegal to be anything that wasn't C of E up until the Commonwealth, and even then Cromwell wasn't keen on allowing reform. Hope this helps. > -- Chris Pampling researching: BARRATT, DANCER, FELLOWS, GOODES, HOLDING, ROBINSON, TUCKLEY, WHEWAY, MAHER all in and around Birmingham/Smethwick, 1850 to present day PAMPLING Cambridgeshire - Sheffield, 1800 to present VARNDELL Wokingham - Birmingham, 1800 to present