Susannah Harris born 1844 (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 19:20 (4890 days ago) @ juliette

Hi Juliette and welcome to this fantastic website, we're lucky to have such a great resource !

This sites has a huge database of fully searchable Parish Records which you can access free of charge 24/7. There are more free websites if you need them but none as good as this one, and none have the Forum etc etc. They can give additional info or just verify what you find, none are 100% perfect or complete.
On this site just click on blue "Parish Records" button at top of page.

From this you can find the following;

Baptism (aka Birth) Record for Susannah Harris born abt (ie about)1844 gives:

Record_ID: 63334
Entry_Number: 462
Year: 1844
Month: May
Day: 19
Parents_Surname: HARRIS
Child_Forenames: Susannah
Fathers_Forenames: William
Mothers_Forenames: Susannah
Mothers_Surname:
Residence: East Dean
Occupation: Labourer
Officiating_Minister: T M Wetherell
Event: Baptism
Memoranda:
Notes: ditto
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/14
Page_Number: 58
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex: H620

Is this your Susannah ?. I guess yes as its a fairly unusual name on the database, there being "only" 30 sets of PRs (Parish Records) listed under that name, thats across Baptisms, Marriages and Burials.

So also from this site aka FoD PRs:

Marriage Record:
Record_ID: 19371
Entry_Number: 485
Year: 1878
Month: May
Day: 18
Grooms_Surname: HAYWARD
Grooms_Forenames: Thomas
Grooms_Age: Of Full Age
Groom_Condition: Batchelor
Grooms_Occupation: Tailor
Grooms_Residence: Abinghall
Grooms_Fathers_Surname: Hayward
Grooms_Fathers_Forenames: John
Grooms_Fathers_Occupation: Tailor
Brides_Surname: HARRIS
Brides_Forenames: Susannah
Brides_Age: Of Full Age
Brides_Condition: Spinster
Brides_Occupation: [not stated]
Brides_Residence: Westbury
Brides_Fathers_Surname: Harris
Brides_Fathers_Forenames: William
Brides_Fathers_Occupation: Labourer
Licence_or_Banns: Banns
Date_of_Banns: [not stated]
Signature_or_Mark: Both Sign
Witness_1: William Harris
Witness_2: Anna Beard
Other_Witnesses:
Officiating_Minister: Christopher Jay Jones Vicar
Event: Marriage
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: P354 IN 1/7
Page_Number: 243
Parish_Chapel: Westbury on Severn
Soundex_Groom: H630
Soundex_Bride: H620

You can tell this is correct PR by checking Father's name, Parish Chapel etc. Such info helps ensure we have the right Susannah, eg in this instance a Mary Susannah Harris also from Westbury on Severn was married just the previous year, but cannot be confused as different parents names etc.
Also names of witnesses, usually family members or close friends, are often given, helping with further branches of the tree.
The Marriage Record is often the most helpfull of the three BMD records because of this.

When searching her Burial Record don't forget(its easy) her surname has changed, now its Hayward. Luckily again there are only 19 PRs for this name on the site (for "common" people like my family of Jones there are often pages and pages to read).

HOWEVER I cannot find her at this visit; even by just searching all the S Haywards/Heywords/etc (by ticking Soundex box) for all the Parishes, giving 141 possible Burial Records to check, I cannot see "your"s...yet!
Maybe she remarried and changed surname, or maybe she's moved away so not on the database, etc.

Anyway hope this helps for a starter, I'm sure you can find some more information now.

Burial Record: ?