Ancestor info turning up unexpectedly.

[benny1982]

I have had a few occasions where I am trawling through a parish register and find the baptism, marriage or burial of an ancestor I had been looking for previously, not at the time I was looking for him when I was looking for another ancestor.

I was trawling through some Burnham On Crouch records for a Mary Webb baptism and I stumbled across the baptism of Jeremiah Hurrell in 1772, my ancestor who wed in nearby Canewdon in 1800.

 

[ptjw7]

But are you sure! youve got the right one!!
Further you go back the less information is displayed.
Just found one in Quendon - Simon son of John and Mary then blank!
Perhaps they were keeping it secret!
Good luck if its correct!

Peter

 

[benny1982]

I think backed up with other evidence I already have found I can say the ones are the right ones. I am a thorough researcher and never add info unless I know it is correct. In some cases 100% is difficult to achieve and you have to go with your instinct unless you find something that proves or disproves it once and for all.

I suspected a lady with a different surname to her sons was the mother. I later found she was through her remarriage which tied everything in.