On 26 Aug 2005 at 20:10, Juraj Tkac wrote: > A question from the US. This "WorcHistCent" you speak of visiting for the > purpose of checking various registers, would there be a register for > births occurring on "Stafford Street, Dudley" in 1862 ? The local history centre at Worcester contains loads of very useful local archives including microfilm photos of the census, wills, newspapers and local books, photographs and trade directories. With regard to your request they have microfilm of the areas parish registers (this being photographs of each page of the parish registers for baptisms, marriages and burials as written at the time by the priest). In 1862 the chances are, that a baptism record will state: date of baptism; forename(s) of child; parents (both) forenames and surname; where they live (usually an area or road at most), and father's occupation. In addition, occasionally, the priest just might write something useful in the margin, such as an age if not an infant, or then perhaps he might no bother. The order of this record being: the date of baptism. So to find a person, one has to know the church that the parents went to (not necessarily the one nearest to where they lived, and not necessarily a church of England church) and roughly when they were baptised (which might not be anywhere near their date of birth). To find where parents are born, the best source will be the national census which will give a rough idea and the parents marriage record. Best Regards, Ian Murray ex: City of Worcester now: Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire ---------------------------------------------- Researching: (Worcestershire): ATKINS; BELL; COPE; DARKE; EATON-MULLINS; WARMAN. with small links to ALLARD, BATEMAN, EVANS, JEFF (Cumberland): BELL. (Hampshire): ADAMS, Martha. (Manchester/Southport): CHAPMAN; HUGHES; KAY. (Eastbourne): KAY. (Western Scotland - including Isles of Arran and Bute): BOYLE; CAMPBELL; CUMMINGS; DOLLAR; JOHNSTONE; KAY; KING; LYNDSAY; McLEAN; McMILLAN; MURRAY; WILSON. (Australia): MURRAY (South Africa): VAN AARDT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This e-mail has been virus checked using Symantec Norton AntiVirus -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ian Saw your reply and noticed that you are researching ATKINS of Worcestershire. I have a Richard ATKINS born sometime about 1811. I do not know his parents or where he was really born (1851 census says Broom but not baptised in Broom). I do know that he was married in 1833 Bidford on Avon Warwickshire to a Deborah HOWELL. He was a papermaker. Do you have a Richard who may fill this criteria? Clutching at straws here. Rosalie Australia -----Original Message----- From: Ian Murray [mailto:ian.murray@tesco.net] Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:33 AM To: ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WOR] WorcHistCent Best Regards, Ian Murray ex: City of Worcester now: Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire - -------------------------------------------- Researching: (Worcestershire): ATKINS; BELL; COPE; DARKE;