Ancestry also has some parish records and Bishops Transcripts images
all the ones I have found have been Glos. and I haven't looked for
other parishes beside Malmesbury
Eliz
Not Today and Not without a Fight
(Anon)
For all that has been, thanks.
For all that will be, yes.
(Dag Hammarskjold)
On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Chris Hill
<chris.hill.11he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the problems with dealing with British parish records is that there
> is no single collection on line, other than those being loaded by
> FamilySearch, who copied the original paper records.
>
>
>
> In addition, the paper records for the church were, and may still be, stored
> within the church, and a summary copy was created each year, from the
> 1700s?, for the appropriate bishop.
>
>
>
> Looking at the online sources :
>
>
>
> 1. Ancestry has a copy of the London parishes, which would probably
> cover Staines/Shepperton/Lambeth (my family came from Hayes which is about 5
> miles North of Shepperton), and is gradually including other parish records,
> including Surrey and Kent. These generally are indexed and may link to
> copies of the original paper. I think that, if you access the database the
> correct way you can get to images of the older records.
>
> 2. FindMyPast has a collection of parish records. These are extracted
> from the originals (I looked for great-great-grandfather) but it does have
> images for some of them.
>
> 3. TheGenealogist again has a collection of parish records, which seem
> to be extracted from the original paper at some point in the past. I think
> that they also sell the data on CD.
>
>
>
> Otherwise, you are generally looking at either websites being created
> personally, like the Norfolk parishes, or through family history or county
> record sites, or the parish clerks site.
>
>
>
> That covers England and Wales in general. Scotland has its own website and a
> lot of Ireland is now appearing in Ancestry.
>
>
>
> I tend to have access to all of them, and more, since my family spread
> across Canada, USA and Australia, and my wife’s family originated in Holland
> and passed through Germany and France.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
> Behalf Of Linda Greethurst
> Sent: 14 April 2016 00:54
> To: Legacy User Group
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] English locations
>
>
>
> Eliz
>
> Thank you so much for the links - already having fun exploring the parish
> clerks website. I do have (just got it) the book "The Parish Clerk" - very
> interesting seeing it all fitting together.
>
> I didn't say exactly anyone or place. But they were in Middlesex (Staines
> and Shepperton), northern Surry (Lambeth and that whole area just south of
> the Thames) and Debtford/Lewisham. At least that I have identified so far.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Eliz Hanebury <elizhg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Linda where were they from? If you said I didn't remember <blush> Do
> check out http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/online_parish_clerk
>
> They aren't all "manned" but most have some good transcriptions and
> there is the Forest of Dean site which is mostly Glos but gets some
> Wilts included you have to register but it is free and has so many
> transcriptions!
> http://www.forest-of-dean.net/
> Eliz
> Not Today and Not without a Fight
> (Anon)
>
> For all that has been, thanks.
> For all that will be, yes.
> (Dag Hammarskjold)
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Linda Greethurst <llg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sorry, typo. The father was born in 1770.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Anne Lo Forte Willson
>> <limitless.etern...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Was your immigrant's father really only 14 when the immigrant was born?
>>>
>>> Anne
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Apr 12, 2016, at 6:23 PM, Linda Greethurst <llg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Phil and Eliz,
>>> thank you for the links. I'm just getting started with the English
>>> research and really feel overwhelmed - even when it is in English!!!. My
>>> immigrant was born in 1804, his father in 1790 and the grandfather I
>>> think
>>> mid 1700. And that's when I realized I dont' know what I'm doing. These
>>> websies will be studied closely.
>>> Linda
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Eliz Hanebury <elizhg...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Speaking of which GENUKI is a font of information for the County you
>>>> are working in and can be very helpful in sorting out Parishes.
>>>> www.genuki.org.uk/
>>>> Eliz
>>>> Not Today and Not without a Fight
>>>> (Anon)
>>>>
>>>> For all that has been, thanks.
>>>> For all that will be, yes.
>>>> (Dag Hammarskjold)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Phil Lamb <pjl...@btinternet.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > An excellent resource to help in locating/explaining English parishes,
>>>> > villages, Reg Districts etc. albeit only for 1851.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://londonfamilyhistory.org/jurisdiction-maps/
>>>> >
>>>> > Phil
>>>> >
>>>> > ps - nice to see some comments appearing from the UK, I thought there
>>>> > were
>>>> > only 4 Legacy users here.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
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