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Hello Rob Do you have any other details about Alexander and Emma please? trade of Alexander maybe? anything? I am trying to trace any info on my ancestor John Fraser who married Martha Hunt in Edgbaston in August 1829. Maybe there is a relationship there. Thanks, Rick

Has anybody seen ANY information in Parish Records that NEVER appear in the 'normal' transcribed documents I may have already seen? I can then decide if I can afford the trip and expenses of a manual search.:)

Thanks for the links Helen. Bo, Thanks for the info (and the I.M. - noted). Since I have all the usual details I can expect to get from BMD and available census data etc, I am trying to establish whether there is SOME OTHER documented information that just might have a clue to my John's...

Thanks Alberta. Ok then. So where do I go? Who do I make appointment with? how much will it cost me? The details I already have are (all baptisms at St Martins, Birmingham):- 1802 abt (born in Scotland) 1829 (marriage to Martha Hunt in Edgbaston Parish Church); 1831 (baptism of daughter...

Hello Di. It's just what information is held in the paper records that I don't know. If it's just what I already know and that's it, then I am no better off. I know how to use a computer to do the research, but because I have never done so, I don't know how to go about searching the parish...

Thanks Wendy. I have been pretty lucky with a lot of the research I have carried out but this is a real poser (and the essential one to trace my lineage wouldn't you know). BordesleyExile, the other Fraser in 1841 not in my family group was Hugh - a tailor according to Ancestry. Don't know if...

Thanks for that BordesleyExile, interesting links. I do have a copy of the Marriage Record already but unfortunately it is just the bottom entry of three in a book, showing that John Fraser married Martha Hunt by Bannes, and both were "of this parish". The witness was a Joseph Harrison, so no...

Thank you Suzanne, I will indeed keep that in mind. In itself it doesn't help my immediate quest, but once I have solved that it might help in the next link back.

Thanks Mike I have trawled through "ScotlandsPeople" (where I must say there is quite a bit of useful information over and above the basics), but it has already cost me a fortune. Their charges are by credits that you have to purchase and use up. Cost 1 credit to view the resulting search, and...

Hi Lynda. No more info available through the normal online channels. Only the 1841 census has him in a place I can definitely say is him (in Birmingham trading as a bookbinder) as he died before the 1851 census. The 1841 just says Scotland. His marriage by Bannes just says "of this parish" and...

Having performed all my research so far online, I don't know the answer to the following question - can somebody let me know please? Do parish records contain other individual or family information other than the normal BMD/Census info I can get online? In trying to trace my bookbinder...

Thanks Bojalu/Shera for your replies - and time! I already had these children but you have confirmed them for me and provided some extra information on each of them - again thankyou. Where did you get that info without sending off for the certificates? Can I get copies for my Family History...

Looking for new ideas... I am stuck on trying to trace one ancestor - John Fraser. He appears is 1841 census in Essex St, Birmingham along with wife and children, showing only that he came from Scotland. He died of dysentary in 1847 in Inge Street so no additional birth information from the...