Tickettyboo wrote: > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vhulyfnsgg3z2v5/2jG0Q-Xuj8 > > or for those with access, the original is on ancestry: http://tinyurl.com/pqfd8ej > Its a note in a register of births, Tuthill Baptist Chapel, Newcastle upon Tyne. Robert Hebron was attested to > have been born on 21 Dec 1790. > > I can make out the following: > A copy of this register was sent to [*] , when R.H. applied for the situation of Surveyor of [*} taxes; it > was sent down to me to prove whether correct, and answer being given in the affirmative it was returned to the > Board, admitted, and the young man obtained the situation. > > The two words I am unsure about are the place the register was sent to (I am wavering between Durham and > London, though it could be somewhere totally different !) and the sort of taxes he wished to be a Surveyor for. > > Any help appreciated. > Thanks > assessed taxes -- Anne Chambers South Australia anne dot chambers at bigpond dot com