John, A simple thank you for the generous service you've given to the Washburn's doesn't seem enough, but nevertheless, a kind thank you is in order. Marilyn Washsburn Powell On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, John Maltby <[email protected]> wrote: >Corrections to my abstracts of the Bishop's Transcripts of St. Peter's >Parish, Bengeworth, Worcestershire, England. > >This week I have been rereading and checking my abstracts from last >week with a stronger magnifying microfilm reader, particularly those >years that were difficult to read. I have a couple of corrections to >post. > >First, the baptism of Samuel, the son of Giles Washburn, was in 1615, >not 1619. > >Secondly, I studied the burial date of the "weddow Wasbon" in 1625 >carefully, and I am still unsure of the month, but I believe it is >most likely September. The first letter is the difficult one. The >handwriting for each year is different, and unfortunately there were >no other capital S's in the entire 1625 record. The first letter >actually looks more like a backwards "B" or a Greek theta than >anything else. I compared it with capital S's made in 1622, 1624, and >1626, and it was very different. The second letter definately looks >like an "e", and the third letter is right at the edge of the paper; >it could be any number of letters that rise up, like an l, b, f, k, or >maybe a fancy p, except that very little of the letter drops below. > >Thirdly, under magnification, the baptism of Sara, daughter of William >Washburn, was on March 26, 1626. > >Fourthly, I double checked the marriage of John Shortazel and Jone >Washeburne in 1626. The date is still uncertain. It doesn't look like >a roman numeral, instead probably a single digit. I noticed that >immediately after the wedding of John Shortazel and Jone Washeburne, >was that of Thomas Shorthazel and Elizabeth Pilway? on the first of >August 1626. > >I carefully studied the early baptisms of 1631, hoping to find another >child of William Washburn, but did not find any. > >I also carefully studied the 1637 baptism of Martha, daughter of >William Washburn, and determined the date to be the 18th of December. >The date was crammed together very tightly on the page, but both the >preceeding and following entries were in December, and the "18" is >barely readable under magnification. > >I also noticed in 1637 that one of the churchwardens signing for that >year was Thomas Sharthasell. (This was the spelling he used.) > >I also picked out some entries in the year 1639: >Babtisings >Mary the Dater of Edward Taylor 6 March >Mae the Datter of John Shartasell 16 March > >Marriages >John Shartasell and Mary Phallps 29 of Aperoll > >Remember, the year started on March 25th, so the marriage of John >Shartasell and Mary Phallps/Phelps? occured before the baptism of >their daughter Mae the following March. Apparently Jone (Washburn) >Shartasell had died, and John Shartasell remarried. I did not find any >other baptisms to John Shartasell that occured in the years between >1626 and 1637, but many of these years are missing from the records, >so Jone Washburn may have had children. > >There was also one more year after 1637 on the microfilm that was >extremely difficult to read. The handwriting was so bad that even >under the larger magnification I could not make out the year, and was >only able to guess at maybe half of the names on it. I found one name >that looked most likely like Wattson, but I found no Washburns. > >I again looked carefully to see if I could have missed 1629, but there >was no page for 1629 when Mary, daughter of William Washburn, was >supposedly baptised. > >One last thing. The line with the 1624 burial record of John Washburn >has an extra word beginning it that I don't know the significance of, >that looks like "Oto" or "Otu", so that the line actually reads: > >Oto Jhn Washeburne buried ye fift of August > >That's about all I can get out of the Bishop's Transcripts for Bengeworth. > >John A. Maltby >Redwood City, CA >[email protected] >.