Genealogy Chat

Can anyone tell me if I can locate Parish Records through FMP

There are parish records on FMP, but very few and far beween.

Perhaps if you post what you are looking for, someone may be able to help.

There are some Parish records on FMP, look under the heading BMD's.

Did you notice the details I put on your other thread?

Christine

Thank you Christine I have noted the details you put on my other thread, but I do not think there is any use me trying to find the birth of Lucy/Louise/Louisa Bennett 1867 if you experts cannot find her, what chance do I have?

Sandra,

I'm certainly not an expert, can't speak for anyone else but it may be worth trying Rootschat to see if another researcher can help at all.

Christine

Do you have a Latter Day Saints, Mormon Church Research Centre nearby. If so you can order in Parish Register and Census films for viewing -there is a charge, but reasonable. Go to Family Search International>Film search>enter locality and all that has been filmed for the parish will be listed. Not only Parish Registers but Vestry records and other useful things. Some public repositories also have this facility. Here in NZ the NZ Soc of Genealogists Research rooms can order them in for you to view. Hope this helps, regards, daphne

I am off the local records and research library this morning - wish me luck!!!

I am still looking for the birth of Louisa/Lucy/Louise Bennett 1867- can anyone out there help me please?

On one census return she says Lyth Hill (Shrewsbury) and another she says Cressage (Shropshire) she was called Lucy when she registered her illegitimate daughter Annie in 1894 Lucy on her death certificate in 1940 but Louisa on her marriage certificate to William Shotton in 1895 when she signed with a X

hi
is this it
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Mar 1867 (>99%)
Bennett Lucy Shrewsbury 6a 671

Unfortunately no, when I first did this family history over 20 years ago I thought this was her, I did not start again until recently and to my horror I found out that the person I had thought was my g.grandmother was not, this Lucy Bennett & family moved to Birmingham and she died there in the early 1900's.
I have tried everywhere to locate the birth place/family of 'my' Lucy but to no avail, she is in the 1901 & 1911 census married to William Shotton and I have her death certificate; but that is all.

Sandra


Her birth may of course never have been registered


sorry to tell you that!!


Registration of bmds came in on July 1 1837.

Vicars were responsible for sending information on marriages and deaths to the local registrar's office, which then sent them down to London.


However, the onus for registering births was put onto the Registrar ..... who was supposed to find out about all births in his district, then go to the house and register the birth.


Needless to say, many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of babies slipped through the net.


The law was changed in mid-1875 so that the onus was now put onto the mother to go to the Registrar or Registry Office and register her baby's birth within 6 weeks ........ or be fined.

A number of babies still were not registered for various reasons, and some mothers changed the date of birth because they had gone past the 6 week date and didn't want to pay a fine.



Have you thought that she may have been baptised much later than just after her birth??


Some parents had their children baptized in batches ......... it was apparently cheaper!

Other children were not baptized until it was time to begin work (which could be any time after the age of about 8), or even not until shortly before they got married.




sylvia

Sylvia thank you for this information, unfortunately I do not have any idea where she was born, I assume it was in Shropshire as the family never moved far after she was married, on her marriage certificate she states her fathers name as John Bennett labourer. I find it strange that she had her daughter in 1894 (My Gran) and her only other child a boy in 1901 surely there must have been others who did not survive, but where do I start to look for them?

Sandra


she may have had other children that survived, or she may have had lots of miscarriages and stillbirths, or maybe just not had other children.



My own grandmother had 4 children:- 1903 (my mother), 1909, 1915, and 1923

No other children apparently born and died after birth, no family tales of stillbirths/miscarriages.



sylvia

Lucy did not have a lot to do with her daughter (according to my mother) because her daughter had lots of children she actually died giving birth to her 13th live baby in 1936 Lucy did not die until 1940
I can only find the 2 births recorded to Lucy Bennett/Shotton so perhaps she did have miscarriages, but as I cannot find her before her marriage I will never know.
Sandra

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RG10 p277 f 25 page 2
Lucy Bennett aged 4 parents John and Marthe,Simpson's Square shrewsbury.
Eileen

1881
Lucy Bennett John,
Martha abt 1867 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Daughter Shrewsbury St Mary, Shropshire

Lousia Bennett John,
Mary abt 1868 Tasley, Shropshire, England Daughter Bridgnorth St Leonard, Shropshire

Lucy Bennett abt 1868 Cressage, Shropshire, England
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1891
Lucy Bennett John,
Martha abt 1867 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Daughter St Mary, Shropshire

Louisa Bennett abt 1868 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Servant Manningham, Yorkshire

The Lucy Bennett born 1867 to John & Martha Bennett Simpsons Square was the person I thought was my G.Grandmother but I have recently found out she IS NOT MY LUCY. and the Louisa Bennett born Bridgnorth IS NOT MY LUCY the Lucy Bennett born Cressage 1868 & Louisa Bennett 1868 Shrewsbury may be her, but I can find no record of her birth registration/christening, I do know by her marriage certificate her fathers name was John but that is all - any help would be most appreciated.

Another in the area.
1871
Louise Bennet John,
Sarah abt 1867 Cardington, Shropshire, England Daughter Church Preen, Shropshire

I'm sorry I do not understand the above does it mean Louise Bennett daughter of John & Sarah Bennett?

If this is correct it looks as though she could be the one.