Eliza Potter 1835 Norton, Bromyard, Herefordshire (General)

by Jefff , West London, Middlesex, Tuesday, May 06, 2014, 15:20 (3855 days ago) @ lizlochh62

Hi Liz,
as I'm sure you have done, I've searched this website's database very thoroughly - using the great Advanced Search feature to find name spelling variations such as Porter etc - but to no avail. This didnt surprise me as I knew Bromyard was just outside of our coverage area. However I had checked to see if Norton Parish was covered by the site's PRs, and thought it was
see http://www.forest-of-dean.net/cgi-bin/transcripts/transcripts_2.cgi

HOWEVER I forgot to check this parish Map, which clearly shows "our" Norton is a different one to yours !. http://www.forest-of-dean.net/index.php/forest-of-dean-parish-map

I had wondered if the Potters' apparent absence from our PRs meant they were non- Conformists, but the only relevant website I can access is the Glos Archives one which doesn't cover Herefordshire.

What I should have done is lookup my old favourite site for learning about a "new" area wrt Victorian times, Genuki. This clearly shows there are quite a few "Norton"s around the country (I just wish I had one here, a 50's motorbike that is !!, sorry...)
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HEF/Bromyard/Gaz1868.html

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So..., sadly, your POTTERS aren't covered by this FoD site and, as we've discussed in the past, Herefordshire is poorly served by online FH sites. I think you need to use the likes of Ancestry, or LDS (aka Latterday Saints or now called "FamilySearch") will give excellent results and without costs, if you've not used that site I strongly recommend you try it, can be time consuming but invariably worthtrying. This prior thread may help you wrt these sites.
http://forum.forest-of-dean.net/index.php?id=35296

Also the Herefordshire FHSociety may be worth contacting; http://www.herefordshirefhs.org.uk/