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- 31 Mar 2007 09:08
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Help finding Parish Records
- Replies: 14
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Help finding Parish Records
I'd be grateful for a clarification on using the LDS Family History Centres. As you can only order the FHS microfiches, not other PR microfiches, does it generalise to mean that if you can find the person/parish in the IGI online index you would be able to request the relevant records to view there,...
- 25 Mar 2007 23:00
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
- Replies: 4
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Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
I now have looked up the parish register of the baptism on Dec 4th 1853 (after James & Elizabeth were married). It states 'James son of Elizabeth Nurse now Harbour ...' no father is mentioned. So I suspect James H. senior was not the father, despite his name being adopted by the child.
- 12 Feb 2007 20:57
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
- Replies: 4
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Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
Thanks for this. I will check the baptism register when I visit the Records Office at the end of next month. Unfortunately I haven't (yet) been able to trace James 'junior' as far as a marriage. The family moved to Whittington, Derbyshire to work in the collieries in the mid-1850s and I can find hi...
- 11 Feb 2007 21:49
- Forum: Research
- Topic: Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
- Replies: 4
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Illegitimate birth certifcate 1 day before wedding
I've a puzzle on which I'd be grateful for guidance. My ggg grandfather, James Harbour,and ggg grandmother, Elizabeth Nurse, were married in 1853 in Wortham in Suffolk. A child had been born to Elizabeth a month earlier and from the censuses I had presumed he was their firstborn. However, I find he ...