On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Eliz Hanebury <elizhgene@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this the database? > https://www.familysearch.org/s/collection/show#uri=http://search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1666142&hash=Mrd8SMocDIIen2Q83tu%252B82PRagg%253D > > England and Wales Nonconformist Index for RG 4-8 (Record Groups 4-8) > (FamilySearch Historical Records) > > Record Description > > The following is a brief description of each record group: RG 4 > contains birth, marriage, and death records from Presbyterian, > Baptist, and Independent churches (known collectively as the > Congregational Church); the Royal Hospital in Chelsea; the Royal > Hospital in Greenwich; the Dr. Williams’s Library; the Wesleyan > Methodist Metropolitan Registry; the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground in > Hackney, London; the South London Burial Ground in Walworth, London; > and the Necropolis Burial Ground in Everton, Liverpool. > > RG 5 contains birth records from the General Register Office; Dr. > Williams’s Library; the Presbyterian, Independent, and Baptist > Registry; and the Wesleyan Methodist Metropolitan Registry. > > RG 6 contains birth, marriage and burial records from the Society of > Friends’ (Quakers’) registers, notes and certificates, 1578-1841. > > RG 7 contains records of clandestine marriages and baptisms in the > Fleet Prison, the King’s Bench Prison, the Mint, and the May Fair > Chapel, 1667-c1777. > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 4:58 AM,  <JANETHESKI@aol.com> wrote: >> Hi  Janet, >> one more thought...You may be able to access Dr Williams' records, which do >> give  details of non-conformist births. I was able to look at them on >> microfilm at the  Family Record Centre in London before it closed. They may be >> available on  line. >> >> The original purpose of this collection was to keep a record of  birth >> details of children who had not been baptised as infants within the London >> area. However peope in more far flung areas such as Gloucestershire also took >> advantage of the service and details of some of the Horsley people are >> recorded.  Not only are the parents named but the mother's parents are also named >> as are  witnesses to the birth. If a person made a mark rather than signing >> the document  yet another person is recorded as having witnessed the >> signature. >> >> There  is one record that involves my family directly, although there are >> others that  are of interest: >> >> Record 1522; >> Elizabeth HERBERT, born 6th October  1776, to John HERBERT and Ann, >> daughter of Joseph and Margaret HESKINS,  registered 1st April 1808.  Witnesses; >> Elizabeth COLE and Ann HAINES, both  of whom made marks. John HESKINS junior >> and Jonathan COLE were witnesses to  these marks. >