I have in my family tree two children [ twins ] John and Ann born 14 10 1771 I hoping to find information on the parents Father John Anderson and Mother Elizabeth. The children were registered In Doddington Northumberland Wally A
Drewa: When you say "registered" I think you mean "baptised" and what you give as the birth date is actually the date of baptism, as is usual for baptism entries, especially those from before the introduction of civil registration in 1837. I am at a loss to know what you mean by "Wally A" and therefore shall not comment on it. Doddington parish register for that period does not mention occupations and gives only crude addresses, in this case "Doddington", which probably means "somewhere in Doddington village". Indeed, that is probably all that would be required, even today, Doddington village is so tiny. I do not have any note of them being twins, although of course they might well have been. Perhaps you have other evidence of that. They were baptised on the same day but that might have been a new-born baby and an older one whose baptism had "slipped through the net". The List of those liable to be balloted for the Northumberland Militia, drawn up in 1762, nine years before those baptisms, amounts almost to a list of all males in each parish aged 16 to 45. It includes only one John Anderson from Doddington parish and he is recorded as having been (in 1762) a "gardiner", ie a gardener. I would say that chances are that is the same as the father of 1771, though that is by no means certain. Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: drewa via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: Genealogy <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 22:50 Subject: [NMB] Andersons I have in my family tree two children [ twins ] John and Ann born 14 10 1771 I hoping to find information on the parents Father John Anderson and Mother Elizabeth. The children were registered In Doddington Northumberland Wally A .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message