When is a baptism not a baptism? - Genealogists' Forum

Nell · #1 08-03-10, 19:58

The IGI has this baptism:

SOPHIA DENISON
18 DEC 1781 St Augustine Watling Street, London, London, England
Parents: JOSEPH DENISON & ELIZABTH.

Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

Source Information: Batch No.: C022412

which is Ok, except that when I checked the images on Ancestry for St Augustine Watling Street 1781 it ain't there!!!

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/...id=&gskw=&cr=1

marquette · #2 08-03-10, 20:25

Seems to me that St Augustine had no baptisms from 1780 to 1790 in that image. So, the 1780-1790 baptisms must be out of order, in another part. They must not be missing altogether, or the IGI would not have them. Have you looked at every page of the register ?

Merry · #3 08-03-10, 20:27

That's seriously wierd, isn't it? A ten year gap showing on that double page spread. Even looks a bit like the same handwriting, but older!!

Nell · #4 08-03-10, 20:31

Yes, its very odd. But everything to do with these Denisons is odd. I have a chap who has a disputed Will and on evidence of his Will and other Wills he appears to have 2 sisters who were born 34 years apart. But of course I can't find baptisms for them all to see if they had different mothers.

Merry · #5 08-03-10, 20:58

It's on image 32! (bottom right). As you go back through the pages they are a bit all over the place!!

Nell · #6 08-03-10, 21:10

Thanks Merry, off to check now!

Nell · #7 08-03-10, 21:14

Gosh that is an example of one jumbled up book, isn't it? Makes you wonder if you can rely on any of it.

Thanks again for finding it for me.

I have a head full of cold and am soooo frustrated with these Denisons! There's an Elizabeth who is mentioned in Wills with a name I can't read, that could be Maguire or Maurice. Got all excited when I found reference in Lydia Denison's Will to her executor Rev Michael Maurice and then found by googling there was a Frederick Denison Maurice whose parents were Michael & Elizabeth - only to realise this chap was born too late for it to be the couple I want!

It doesn't help that there's a posh Elizabeth Denison who became Lady Conyngham and George IV's mistress (one of them) and those Denisons are always popping up when I look for mine!

kiterunner · #8 08-03-10, 22:12

You should see the Elkesley (Nottinghamshire) parish registers! Evidently around 1700 they were short of stuff to write on, so they went back to pages that had been used in the 1680's and 1690's, looking for any blank spaces to write in.