Ruardean Parish Records - B.M.D.of a Thomas Baldwin. (General)

by jimashton , Friday, January 28, 2011, 13:01 (5124 days ago) @ geomitchell

George

I am glad to see you did manage to get registered eventually.

You now have access to a wonderful range of Parish Records, which you can use to add to the information I sent you in a report which already contains baptism etc. for the descendants of Moses Baldwin. I didn't know how far you wanted to go back.

Slowhands has already got it right that the parents of Thomas Baldwin are indeed James Baldwin & Betty Brain married 22 May 1743, his father being Warren Baldwin. I have never traced this Baldwin line further back as neither Thomas Baldwin & Sarah Waldin 1746 are related to, although I am to their descendants.

A family as prolific as the Baldwins does sometimes lead to confusion over which is which, but the clue to Thomas Baldwin's ancestry is on the parish record for his marriage to Sarah; the witness James Brain no doubt related to his mother. When you get used to the parish records you will learn to ignore Joseph Harper as he was a church official and appears as a witness on hundreds of parish records. You will note that you also need to tick the soundex box, to capture the variants of the way names were spelt when a lot of people could neither read or write :

Year: 1767
Month: Aug
Day: 17
Grooms_Surname: BALDWYN
Grooms_Forenames: Thomas
Grooms_Age:
Groom_Condition:
Grooms_Occupation: Coalminer
Grooms_Residence: Ruardean
Grooms_Fathers_Surname:
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames:
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation:
Brides_Surname: WALDING
Brides_Forenames: Sarah
Brides_Age:
Brides_Condition: spinster
Brides_Occupation:
Brides_Residence: Ruardean
Brides_Fathers_Surname:
Brides_Fathers_Forenames:
Brides_Fathers_Occupation:
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns: 12 19 26 Jul
Signature_or_Mark: both marked
Witness_1: James BRAIN
Witness_2: Joseph HARPER
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: John HARRIS - curate
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P275 IN 1/3
Page_Number: 59
Parish_Chapel: Ruardean

Finally - I believe - the correct baptism of the two shown by Slowhands for Sarah Waldin is the 1746 one with parents James Waldin & Sarah Tingle, in turn married 3 May 1741, Sarah being the daughter of Richard Tingle & Mary Yemm. Sarah's sister Elizabeth Tingle married a William Dovey and their daughter Elizabeth Dovey married Charles Baldwin - their daughter Winifred married a Yemmn whose son married a Marfell...........
Time to stop rambling, but it indicates a very tangled weave.

Jim Ashton