Dear list   Given all the problems with baptism duplications and the parish registers being in a bit of a muddle on Ancestry, I wonder if anyone can help me with the following.   I am trying to find the father of these 2 brothers, and this information is from the Ancestry Easingwold register:   1.  John SCAIFE son of Jonathan SCAIFE bapt. 22 Jan 1711 in Easingwold 2.  Jonathan son of Jonathan SCAIFE bapt. 8 Feb 1713 in Easingwold, this entry says posthume son of Jonathan SCAIFE.   Therefore, I have been searching for their father's birth, ie. Jonathan, but I can't find a Jonathan that's a suitable candidate bapt. in Easingwold.   There is however this:   John SCAIFE son of William bapt. 4 Mar 1689.   Could it be that he should have been (or perhaps was) christened Jonathan, but for whatever reason, it was entered in the register as John by mistake?   The other possible Jonathans are:   Jonathan SCAFE son of Jnº and Ann, birth 02 11 1681 in Knaresborough.  I don't think it's this one, I think the Knaresborough SCAIFES are a different branch. There's also a Jonathan SCAIFE born in Fewston, but I have now ruled that one out.   Any thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.   Thanks Lynne

On 8 Jul 2011 at 7:17, Lynne Scaife wrote: > Dear list >   > Given all the problems with baptism duplications and the parish > registers being in a bit of a muddle on Ancestry, I wonder if anyone > can help me with the following.   I am trying to find the father of > these 2 brothers, and this information is from the Ancestry Easingwold > register:   1.  John SCAIFE son of Jonathan SCAIFE bapt. 22 Jan 1711 > in Easingwold 2.  Jonathan son of Jonathan SCAIFE bapt. 8 Feb 1713 in > Easingwold, this entry says posthume son of Jonathan SCAIFE.   > Therefore, I have been searching for their father's birth, ie. > Jonathan, but I can't find a Jonathan that's a suitable candidate > bapt. in Easingwold.   There is however this:   John SCAIFE son of > William bapt. 4 Mar 1689.   Could it be that he should have been (or > perhaps was) christened Jonathan, but for whatever reason, it was > entered in the register as John by mistake?   The other possible > Jonathans are:   Jonathan SCAFE son of Jnº and Ann, birth 02 11 1681 > in Knaresborough.  I don't think it's this one, I think the > Knaresborough SCAIFES are a different branch. There's also a Jonathan > SCAIFE born in Fewston, but I have now ruled that one out.   Any > thoughts or advice would be very much appreciated.   Thanks Lynne > Why dismiss the Knaresborough Jonathan, who would appear from the IGI to have married Mary Coward at Knaresborough on 26 December 1709? His name is spelt there as SKAIFE but, as we know, this means very little at a time when surnames were spelt in any number of variants. This seems to me to be a very likely marriage for the parents, given the baptismal dates of the two boys - and Knaresborough is no great distance from Easingwold. Couples very often did bring up children in a different parish to the one where they were born and perhaps Jonathan moved to Easingwold for work. I cannot find any other marriage on the IGI for any Jonathan Scaife/Skaife anywhere in Yorkshire in the appropriate time-frame, so I certainly wouldn't dismiss it without more evidence! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE