Did your search look for chapels which no longer exist Richard? Did the NRO result mean that they were the only three chapels in the area at the time or that they are the only ones with records? The Genuki site http://www.origins.org.uk/genuki/NFK/norfolk/gaz-and-dir/parishes/ misses two chapels that I know of -Dilham and Honing-although they are too late for your purposes. Just wondering if there were earlier buildings that are long gone and records lost so that they only appear in village records as archaeology. Or if the baptism might have fallen at a time when meetings were being held in houses before chapels were built and where the records may have been misplaced . Of course not a lot of use to you if there are no baptism records but might explain the missing baptisms. Rosie On 05/01/2012 17:28, elizabeth howard wrote: > Sherlock Myhill !!! unfortunately I cannot get onto the BMD non > conformist registers to check , but have credits going to waste so will try > again tomorrow. Unless you get there before me . But I admire your > dissection of your problem , if it aint this it must be that !!! > > > > life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "richard"<richardmyhill43@btinternet.com> > To:<norfolk@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 2:36 PM > Subject: [NFK] A "HART" PROBLEM > > >> Hi all, >> I have been trying to find the baptism of ELEANOR HART c.1776 in the North >> Walsham area without success,i have her marriage to JAMES CROWE >> 15.06.1796, (both single of this parish), and also her burial, age 44. in >> North Walsham 24.03.1820, but i cannot find anything else about her in the >> parish register. >> I realise that being 'single of this parish' is only where the individual >> is residing at the time of the marriage and not a guide to their origin,so >> using parish locator i identified all the parishes within a 5 mile radius >> of North Walsham and worked my way through all the parish registers.Other >> than a couple of entries in Smallburgh there were no entries for the name >> Hart at all. I then expanded the search area to a 10 mile radius, in all >> about 100 parishes,but still no Hart families. >> So i changed tactics and recorded all the entries in the North Walsham >> register for the name Hart between 1750-1800,and the results were >> suprising considering our previous lack of success, a total of 30 entries. >> Digging a bit deeper i found that there were 5 families having children >> baptised during this period, 3 of which only had 1 child baptised in North >> Walsham, which is strange for 250 years ago. Also there were 9 marriages >> for members of the Hart family,all shown as 'of this parish' who were not >> baptised in North Walsham,and again 3 burials with no baptism found. >> I then wondered if all these missing Harts belonged to an independent >> church and were just married or buried at North Walsham parish church ,but >> a trip to the Norfolk Record Office showed that there were only three >> independent churches in the area,Worstead, Bradfield and Aylsham,none of >> which had the name Hart in their registers. >> I am now stumped for ideas and have no idea where to look next to find >> these missing people. >> Has any other lister come across a similar problem, >> Many thanks, >> >> Richard Myhill >> >> richardmyhill43@btinternet.com >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message