Category: Baptism

Baptism, family history, Somerset and DorsetLeave a comment

A love is paid The humble origins of the Vickery line

Cutlock & Co

The parish registers from two hundred years or more ago can be rather basic in terms of the useful genealogical information we can glean. However, some of the quirks and comments of the old free form entries are fascinating, perhaps for baptisms in particular.

Previously the Somerset parish records made available online on various sites have only been transcriptions, of varying quality, so the foibles are missing (and probably some parishes and periods too). » Continue reading “A love is paid The humble origins of the Vickery line”

Baptism, Census, family history, London, Norfolk, ResearchingLeave a comment

Hanging by a thread Discovering the Smith family

Cutlock & Co

Discovering more about the Smith part of the family tree has proved remarkably easy, after having put off looking for ages due to the very common surname.

See Entirely to the Water from Birth for first stages.

Now it was time to find great great grandmother Harriet Smith’s siblings and their immediate offspring. The practice of using the mother’s (or grandmother’s) surname as a middle name was very helpful –jane bacchus smith baptism1818_crop Bacchus for two of the girls, Harper (the grandmother’s name) for one of the boys. » Continue reading “Hanging by a thread Discovering the Smith family”

Baptism, BMD, Cutlock/Cullum, family history, Norwich1 Comment

Stacking the Deck with more Cutlocks

Cutlock & Co

I have finally resolved, to my own satisfaction at least, the question posed back in March last year in ‘A matching pair of Elizabeth Cutlocks, or the same person?‘.

At the time, a key baptism record which had been spotted on familysearch.org by someone else, for Harriet Cutlock born 1837/38 to Elizabeth and Thomas, could not be located on that site. But I was prompted to re-check the other day – after all the site had updated Norfolk and other parish records this year. » Continue reading “Stacking the Deck with more Cutlocks”

Baptism, Cutlock/Cullum, family history, Mid Wales, Norwich, Wales, South, WatkinsLeave a comment

Taking the tree further in Brecon and Norwich

Cutlock & Co

This was going to be a very short item about discovering, or re-discovering, useful sources of family history data. But today I took a look at two such, which threw up some immediately relevant material and highlighted an issue on Welsh records.

Welsh wills and Welsh names

Firstly, I try to adopt the practice of reading just about every scrap in the ‘Who Do You think You Are’ magazine, even if it doesn’t look relevant or promising at the outset. » Continue reading “Taking the tree further in Brecon and Norwich”

Baptism, Watts1 Comment

Thomas Cook it

Cutlock & Co

Newly discovered as a great great uncle: Thomas Cook Watts. Born in 1857 Worstead (Norfolk), discovered in the freshly Googled baptism records for St Mary’s. Unfortunately he died in about a year, hence not appearing on the census records.

I guess he was named after Captain Cook, rather than a desire for a package holiday.