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Ann,

Maybe he does work for them. I don't know why I thought he was a photographer. I might have got that wrong. Anyway I've just found a couple of email addresses for him so I might contact him. Although, like I said, I didn't find a reference to John Baxter in Great Bircham.

I think I'll have to go for the settlement records or some other parish records that record the arrival of newcomers to the parish.

I thought hgodfey worked for the Mormon Church

Joy,

I think I'll have to get hold of the settlement records if I can.

I have tried freeREG and there are several John Baxters born about the right time all over Norfolk but I've no way of knowing which is the right one.

Just to avoid confusion my reply above is not to Joy but the post before from Ann.

Yes that's what I found a while ago but I'd forgotten. The submitter for the ancestral file is hgodfrey3390062. I think his name is Howard Godfrey and he lives in California. I can't remember how I worked that out. I'd meant to email him about this but felt a little bit uncomfortable. The only way I've found to contact him is through his work website.

Anyway this is the page for 1779 (which hgodfey has as John's birth) for the Great Bircham parish register and there's no John Baxter.

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12588-5176-9?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-3B5:1037686905

Settlement records are in records offices. I have received interesting ones from Suffolk.

Have you tried http://freereg.rootsweb.com/ ?

I just put "John Baxter, Norfolk" in the search box and this is the bottom of the page

John Baxter
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening: 30 Oct 1715 Norwich,? Norfolk,? England
residence: Norfolk,? England
parents: John Baxter,? Mary



John Baxter
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening: 23 Feb 1794 Norwich,? Norfolk,? England
residence: Norfolk,? England
parents: Thomas Baxter,? Mary Wilkinson


Search results from user submitted trees


John BAXTER

John BAXTER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>clicked on this one but they are proably all the same

John BAXTER John BAXTER
Mildred RAINER


so I clicked on John Baxter above and you get another page which gives you the info

I got that info off www.familysearch.org - the free Mormon LDS site

Does anyone know of a way that I can link a John Baxter born wherever to Bircham Newton?

I know that someone moving to a parish back then had to report to the parish authorities. Are these records stored anywhere?

familysearch (LDS or whatever) has scanned images of many parish registers in Norfolk. Here's the link:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A//api.familysearch.org/records/collection/1416598/waypoints

I guess you'll have to cut and paste.

I looked through Great Bircham and didn't find him. Maybe I missed him - it's quite a laborious job going through it page by page. Anyway even if I did find him there it wouldn't mean he's THE John Baxter. I need to link him to Bircham Newton.

Thanks for that Joy. I know about the genuki site and also the Norfolk baptism project. Unfortunately it starts at 1813 which is a bit late for me in this case. I think I'll have another look through the genuki site just in case I might have missed something.

Ann, could you tell me where you got that from? I found a reference ages ago saying he was born in Great Bircham. I think it was somebody's tree in familysearch. However I went through the Great Bircham parish register and didn't find him there.

GREAT BIRCHAM
NRO Parish Registers & Transcriptions, SoG Parish Registers, FHL Records, Map, GENUKI Parish Page, Record Transcriptions

Contiguous Parishes:
Docking, Bircham Newton, Bircham Tofts, Houghton, Harpley, Flitcham Cum Appleton, Anmer, Dersingham, Shernborne, Snettisham, Fring

Norfolk Family History Society - Norfolk Parishes beginning 'D'
NRO Parish Registers & Transcriptions = link to Norfolk Record Office holdings for that parish ... Bircham Tofts, Bircham Newton, Great Bircham, Fring, Sedgford, ...
www.norfolkfhs.org.uk/norfolk/parishes/?contig/d.htm - Cached

You may find this useful:

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1047710?jump=10477 Norfolk Baptisms and MUCH More


Happy hunting.

this says he was born in Great Bircham

name: John BAXTER
gender: Male
birth:

AFN: 125H-0V4

Marriages (1)
spouse: Mildred RAINER (AFN: 125H-0WB )
marriage: 1803
Great Bircham, Norfolk, England

name: Mildred RAINER
gender: Female
birth:

AFN: 125H-0WB

Marriages (1)
spouse: John BAXTER (AFN: 125H-0V4 )
marriage: 1803
Great Bircham, Norfolk, England
Hide children (4)

child 1: William BAXTER (AFN: 125H-0XJ )
gender: Male
BIRTH 14 Apr 1805
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England

child 2: John BAXTER (AFN: 125J-4NP )
gender: Male
BIRTH 10 Jul 1807
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England
CHRISTENING 27 Jul 1807
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England

child 3: Robert BAXTER (AFN: 125H-8VH )
gender: Male
BIRTH 9 Jun 1812
Bircham Newton, Norfolk
CHRISTENING 3 Jul 1812
Bircham Newton, Norfolk

child 4: Francis BAXTER (AFN: 125H-Q1Q )
gender: Male
BIRTH 3 Jan 1810
Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England

I did forget he died in 1843 - doh :-S

Thanks Chris.

I can see a bit of lateral thinking on the surname was required. It does look like Baxter, and not Bayler, on the census image.

He could be my guy but I don't know why he would be in Norwich. Perhaps this is where the settlement issue comes in. The Docking workhouse covers Bircham Newton but maybe his legal settlement was Norwich. I don't know.

Does anyone know what happened to his wife Mildred Baxter?

Name: John Bayler (Ancestry)
Age: 70
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1771
Gender: Male
Where born: Norfolk, England
Civil parish: St Andrew
Hundred: Norwich
County/Island: Norfolk
Country: England
Street Address:
Occupation: View image
Registration district: Norwich
Sub-registration district: West Wymer
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 788
Book: 1
Folio: 29
Page Number: 1
Household Members: Name Age
William Charles Lonas 50
Mary Powar 50
Emma Mary Towne 15
George Kir Towne 15
Robert Able 40
Frederick Attey 12
Henry Arnold 25
Samuel Barker 40
Martha Barker 35
Samuel Barker 12
Henry Barker 5
Eliza Jane Barker 1 6 Mo
John Bayler 70
Ann Burrage


BAXTER, John M 70 1771 Norfolk (Find My Past)
Piece: 788
Book/Folio: 29
Page: 1
Registration District: Norwich
Civil Parish: St Andrew
Municipal Borough: Norwich
Address: The Workhouse, St Andrew, Norwich
County: Norfolk

Chris :)

Thanks again. I just popped out for a bit so that's why my reply has been delayed.

Don't forget John Baxter died in 1843 so the Wymondham one is wrong.

The children are right.

The one from the 1841 census in Norwich, do you have the rest of the household? I can't find this one on ancestry.

John Baxter
England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
christening: 27 Jul 1807 Bircham Newton,? Norfolk,? England
residence: Bircham Newton,? Norfolk,? England
parents: John Baxter,? Milli Rayner


name: John Baxter
gender: Male
baptism/christening date: 27 Jul 1807
baptism/christening place: Bircham Newton, Norfolk, England
father's name: John Baxter
mother's name: Milli Rayner
indexing project (batch) number: I07437-0
system origin: England-EASy
source film number: 1951566