Hello Everyone, Quaker Roots & Hadley are the only lists to which I subscribe that touch with any regularity on English records -- primarily because with most of my current queries we can't cross the ocean or even get out of Tennessee. The following post ran across my radar screen because I get all posts with Bentley/Bently. I found it extremely interesting in terms of: (a) the comparison made with the IGI record and the actual register (go to the originals, etc., etc., etc.); (b) the kinds of information in that register (which it appears is in part due to the exceptional competence and energy of the parish recorder); and (c) the fact that I do not believe that any Virginia parish registers ever recorded any information approaching 1/30th of that detail. Of course, we didn't exactly get the best and the brightest here... I have no background on this or any English research, but I thought I'd share it. I would imagine that a search of the archives for that list (which probably has a longer name) reveal prior emails of interest. searches2.rootsweb.com (using search terms) archiver.rootsweb.com (browse by month) Holiday Wishes, Janet Hunter (and Ed I'll get back to you after Christmas) Subj: PML Search Result matching bentley or bently Date: 12/17/2002 8:29:44 PM Eastern Standard Time From: eve@varneys.demon.co.uk (Eve McLaughlin) To: janethunter703@aol.com Source: GENBRIT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Dade Registers >. In 1770 he wrote in the parish register >of St. Helen's, York: "This scheme if properly put in execution will >afford much clearer intelligence to the researches of posterity than >the imperfect method hitherto generally pursued." Amen to that and >here's to a man of far-seeing vision! Dade's influence spread > >Here is how my gt-grandfather appears on the IGI - "Robt. Stockdill, >Robt Stockdill/Mary Yellow [parents], male, chr. 24 July 1806, >Easingwold" > >Here is the same entry in the registers of All Saints' Church, >Easingwold, which were Dade registers: "Robt. (s. of) Robt >Stockdill of E. taylor, s. of Geo. S. of Husthwaite, labr. (& of) >Mary, d. of Launcelot Yellow of Sutton under Whitsuncliffe, labr, b. >22, bp 24 July." > >See the amazing amount of extra information, as opposed to the bald >entry on the IGI..... I have seen one Dade register where they went further (think it was Bentley, by Doncatser, or very close) and the blessed clergyman put in things like 'Sarah the 1st daughter and third child of (then the two other generations) and later John, 2nd of that bname and fourth child of ... A good case could be made for Dade as the greatest (genealogical) Briton > >(1) The occupation of the father; a tailor; (2) the name of the >paternal grandfather, George Stockdill; (3) the place of residence of >the grandfather (taking you back to another place and another set of >registers); (4) the grandfather's occupation, labourer; (5) the name >of the maternal grandfather, Launcelot Yellow; (6) the maternal >grandfather's village of residence (again, taking you to another >parish and another set of registers); (7) the maternal grandfather's >occupation, labourer; (8) not only the baptismal date of the child but >the actual date of birth (2 days earlier) as well. Lovely, lovely stuff -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society