Hello to list. I am looking for the birth of a Benjamin Chapman born between 1760 and 1780 at Market Harborough. Benjamin married a Sarah Berry in 1800 at Ashley Northants. At the time of his marriage it states he was living at Carlton at the time if his marriage but nor birth for him there. I would be most grateful for any info I could fins as I have been searching for a number of years. TIA Elna Chapman Australia

Hi Elna The only CHAPMAN baptism that I can find in Market Harborough between 1760 and 1780 is that of a boy with an unusual name 1771 August 9 Sheehberry, son of William & Ann Chapman so unusual, in fact, that the IGI appears to omit it altogether. Could this be your Benjamin by another name? Was Sarah BERRY, whom he married, perhaps a cousin? There seem to be no other children of any CHAPMAN baptised in MH. Could he have been born/baptised across the county boundary in Northants, say in Little Bowden, which is now part of MH (the county boundary was later moved). Very few Northants PRs are indexed by the LDS on the IGI. Otherwise, could Benjamin have been baptised in the Independent Chapel in MH rather than in the parish church? Some Independent records are on the IGI but not all, but there are copies in the Leicester & Rutland Record Office. >From where do you have the information that Benjamin was born in Market Harborough? Does this help at all? Best wishes Peter Peter B Freshwater MA MCLIP FSAScot Edinburgh, Scotland peter@hillfoot.demon.co.uk Researching BRUCE, FOLWELL, FOX, FRESHWATER, PERKINS, SWINGLER (Beds, Leics, Northants) HAUGHAN, JOHNSTONE, RICHARDSON (Annandale, Cumberland, Durham) DOW, FINDLAY, GRAY, JACK(SON), KENNEDY (Angus, Glasgow, Perth) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elna & John Chapman" <ejchapman@optusnet.com.au> To: <LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 4:38 AM Subject: [LEI] Benjamin Chapman > Hello to list. I am looking for the birth of a Benjamin Chapman born between 1760 and 1780 at Market Harborough. Benjamin married a Sarah Berry in 1800 at Ashley Northants. At the time of his marriage it states he was living at Carlton at the time if his marriage but nor birth for him there. I would be most grateful for any info I could fins as I have been searching for a number of years. TIA Elna Chapman Australia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message