Yvonne
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Missing Wright baptism?I have a marriage cert for a Robert Rimmer & Elizabeth Wright in 1840.
Both full age and from Marshside.
On their daughter's birth cert Elizabeth is down as Betty.
However I cannot find a baptism for Elizabeth. Her parents were Robert Wright (clock dresser?) & Ann (nee Rymer?) on 1841 census.
It looks like Betty's brother was baptised - Paul Wright in 1815. and his marriage details have same father and occupation.
I am surprised that she appears not to have been baptised at St Cuthbert's, could she have been baptised at another Church?. I only have the One Name Parish Register for North Meols?
Yvonne
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Germaine
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I have found one of my Wrights had a child Christened at
Paul Street Primitive Methodist, Preston, Lancashire,
But that was in 1836.
Also I don't know when it opened but Bez told me about a church in Marshside. The Primitive Methodist Chapel Marshside Road So that is a couple that they could have perhaps used.
I think there may be a couple they could have used in the area though St. Cuthberts seemed to be the most popular.
Sorry couldn't help more.
Germaine
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Bez
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Re: Missing Wright baptism? | Yvonne wrote: |
I am surprised that she appears not to have been baptised at St Cuthbert's, could she have been baptised at another Church?. I only have the One Name Parish Register for North Meols?
Yvonne |
Some of mine had the first child baptised at St Cuthbert's and then the others baptised elsewhere - a favourite one was the Independent Chapel on Botanic Road (now the URC). The NMFHS has transcribed the first 2 baptism registers for that church, commencing in 1806. The Rev George Greatbatch transferred to Eastbank Lane Independent in 1823 and the society has also done the first baptism register for that one. Personally I favour Botanic Road.
Sugar Hillock Methodist dates from 1816 (corner of Sunny Road and Cambridge Road approximately) and the first Marshside Methodist Church appears to have been built in the 1830's. There were also 2 Methodist churches in Crossens, but they may be later in date. Methodism was preached there from the late 18th century, but the preachers came from Preston (Preston circuit) and a lack of a building may have precluded baptisms.
My own feeling is that folk generally went to the nearest church - in bad weather they wouldn't have wanted to go further than they needed to. There was no tarmac on the roads or nice flat flagstones on the pavements. There were lots and lots of cobbles - just look at the front of the Bold especially - and there would be plenty of mud at a time when an open ditch ran down the centre of Peets Lane (children drowned in it) and there was a rough bridge made of railway sleepers to get across it.
Have you tried the Family Search website? I don't think the methodist records are on it (somebody please correct me if I'm wrong) but the Independent Chapel records certainly are and you may find other children from the same family as well.
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Yvonne
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I am unable to find anything on IGI regarding a baptism for Elizabeth/Betty at the Independant Church.
Has anyone got a Register? of the baptisms there please.
Elizabeth/Betty Wright was of Full age on marriage in 1840 when she married Robert Rimmer also Full age.
Brother Paul baptism on IGI for 1815, but cannot get any other siblings either, though on 'Park' there seem to be other siblings baptised at the Independant Church.
Parents Richard Wright c1793 Fisherman and Ann Rymer c1795..
She could therefore have been born 1816-1819.
Yvonne
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