Strange Baptisms

Agree with you Toni, no child should be abandoned for any reason.
So pleased that you are finally finding the records from India. I know you have been waiting for some time . Cheers. Julie

[Kit]

Julie the wait has been awful. I started confirming what I had seen on familysearch and the British library transcriptions and following through on any extra children/marriages I have found. I prefer seeing the originals.

I'm having trouble taking any of the lines further back as nothing is obvious but one step at a time. I am enjoying being able to search at long last.

[Merry]

I got a bit hopeful when I saw a bap for Charles Sackville Rawstorne in India son of Edward (I think) who was also something high up in the army and I wondered if Edward was Lawrence's brother. CSR died in Kent in 1831 and left his estate to cousins, but they were both female (one was Elizabeth Rawstorne and I've forgotten the other now, she was Elizabeth's sister) and they were the daughters of CSR's uncle William (I think - I really should write things down - I read this a couple of hours ago!). I was desperately hoping more cousins were going to be included and some would be yours, but it was not to be!! lol

[Merry]

A bit more prodding showed me Lawrence did have a brother Edward who was the father of CJR, but that doesn't help with being certain your Thomas is this Lawrence's son (though I would put some money on it!)

EDIT: of course Shona's first post on this thread said that too! lol

[Merry]

Lawrence died 16th Oct 1806 Upper Provinces according to army records on Google Book Search (some records show the same date, but in 1805.)

[Kit]

Thanks for looking Merry. I feel this is my family too, but I want to prove it. Problem is the fact there is only one Thomas born in the country (India) doesn't help as somewhere along the line we need someone to arrive from the UK. It doesn't help that it all fits nicely though.

[Kit]

Originally Posted by Merry

Lawrence died 16th Oct 1806 Upper Provinces according to army records on Google Book Search (some records show the same date, but in 1805.)

I can't get a result for this on google. Can you please post a link?

[Merry]

Here it is. I've been trying to think of a way to tell which year is right, without any success! lol

Page 218 and 219 (brother Edward is also listed same pages):

https://archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00dodwrich

[Kit]

Thanks.

I was going to say I'll go with 1805 as there is a will entry for that year on FMP but there is no actual date on the scan so it could be a typo. I'll have a look and see if anything says he died 1805.

Of course, there is no burial entry that I have found yet.

[Shona]

Oooh - look at this:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A...-ddr&cid=-1#-1

Ooodles of Rawstorne documents in the Lancashire Records Office.