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Thanks clair, replied 🙂

I'm on the verge of unravelling a great mystery!! Does anyone know if the lists of church baptisms that you get on Ancestry are the full record or just a register?

I'll put one here s you can see what I mean...

I've found discrepancies in the records and I'm not sure where to find an original, or are they suposed to be it?

punch, I don't know?

These are the discrepancies

Thomas born to James & Elizabeth only a variation on spelling the surname

Robert born to either Sarah & Elizabeth (lol) or Robert & Sarah, I believed they've managed to mess this one up twice and it should also be James and Elizabeth. Has a difference in surname spelling between records too.

There is a record for each child from a baptisms book and one for each from a christenings book. Not sure why they'd have both or why the records differ, I'm hoping they were both transcribed from an original and the original is still available somewhere.

I would say they are the orignals........especially being 1805.

Civil registration was not law until 1836/7.

Sometimes there can be bishops transcripts.

I have a similar problem with a Henry Marshall born 1786 in Hemingby..................his christening record says his parents are Mark and Mary...........and the bishops transcript says his parents are Mark and Sarah.

So is that why there's 2 records for each? A baptism and a bishops transcript?

I guess that would mean there's nothing further available. I'm sure I'm right about the parents being James & Elizabeth though.

Hope this doesnt end up too long winded.....

Eveyone else who's researched this family is descendant or Robert. When Robert died his son, also Robert, was the informant on the death certificate. He stated Robert seniors parents were Robert & Ann, coincidentally they are his own parents names. When the record was found with Robert & Sarah as parents, it was assumed that Robert junior misunderstood the question and put his own mothers name there by mistake. Never made sense to me, why would you make a mistake about the mums name, but not the dads?

Anyway.....I am a descendant of Robert & Thomas's brother, George. When George came to Australia, he stated on the immigration record that his parents were James & Mary. George is a few years younger than the brothers, so he possibly has a different mother. Other researchers seem to have discounted this information from Georges own mouth and still believe Roberts death certificate even though we all know that a death certificate can be the least reliable of documents.

So thats why I'm excited to find these 4 records, when you put them all together, it clearly shows a trancription error for Robert, I think anyway.

What do you guys think?

One more mystery solved! Found a death notice for my great grandfathers second wife, she died last year at 97.