Family Tree - Births

[Caladon]

I have used the census from 1911 back to 1841 and have found family members.

However, my great great great great grandfather was born in 1791 (as listed in the 1841 census). It merely tells of which town he was born in... so how can I go back further? Finding which parish his birth was registered at?

Thanks,
Cal

[Lil O'lady]

The main reference libraries have for years had all their counties parish records on microfilm. So you need to go to the reference library thats erves the town in querstion and plough through the microfilm or microfiche files. You may nbeed to make an advance appointment to do this, as you have to reserve time at the film reader machine. Also, these are simply photographed pages of parish registers - so you may need to work hard to decipher handwriting and abbreviations used. The further back you go, the harder to understand is the handwriting.

[CheekyChops]

Births weren't registered before 1837, you need to be looking for baptisms in the Parish Records.

You could try the IGI at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp as they have some, you could google the place name and 'parish records' or if all else fails, you will have to visit the Records Office for the area in qurestion.

The 1841 census doesn't give birth place either so I'm assuming that you had that snippet of info from a later census?

[Caladon]

No, you are right... Cheeky, I meant I know he was born in Hampshire but not the city. But I know which city his son was born in.

Here is the thing... though I am atheist, the family has always been CofE however my great great great great grandfather was called Amos and he named 3 of his sons Amos, Isaac and Joseph (the girls had traditional English names) which makes me think Amos's mother was jewish (our surname is Chandler) which would make baptism records irrelevant.

Am stuck lol

[Lil O'lady]

It's not necessarily the case Cal.
Many fundamentalist / dissenter Christian sects were stuck on old testament names for their kids.

[Caladon]

Even back then? Interesting. I just didn't think old testement names were too popular outside of the red sea pedestrians lol

I will try a big library in Hampshire and see what I can find but it is a long shot trying to find baptism records for Amos Chandler born in 1791!