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Margaret

Margaret Report 4 Jan 2008 16:48

Thankyou all for your replies.

Unfortunately, in this particular instance, the Parish Registers are of no help to me.

I've been able to trace one of my 3 x Gt.Grandfathers back to 1775/76.

A small village (populated, it seems, almost entirely by my relatives) and they all shared the same two or three christian names.

I have 2 x William Saywell, baptised within a year of each other (in the same village), I have parents and siblings of each but I don't know which is mine because when they both married (1767 and 1769) the Father's name is not given.

The siblings don't help either, the names are very much the same and sadly many of them died in childhood.

M. Steer

AnninGlos

AnninGlos Report 4 Jan 2008 16:18

In many cases you can go back further than the 18th century by checking Parish registers at Records Offices.

Ann
Glos

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Photo spring Researching Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Devon, Glamorganshire. Ingram, Masters, Tamblyn, Knight, Warner, Bate, Allen, Riggs, Dominey, Duffin

Margaret

Margaret Report 4 Jan 2008 16:16

Trace a family 'line' back to 15th/16th Century or beyond?

I can't, with any certainty get beyond the latter 18th Century.

Is there a 'secret' I've yet to discover?

M. Steer

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