Genealogy Chat

For anyone researching this area, Brett Payne's South Derbyshire Genealogy Pages are an essential site to have in your favourites.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/sdindex.htm

Go to the LDS site: http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
Find an FHC in the centre col
Then from the blue bar, select Library - Library Catalog and do a place search for stretton-en-le-field


Title Bishop's transcripts for Stretton-en-le-Field, 1662-1871
Authors Church of England. Parish Church of Stretton-en-le-Field (Derbyshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm of original records in the Lichfield Joint Record Office, Stafford.
Subjects England, Derbyshire, Stretton-en-le-Field - Church records
Format Manuscript (On Film)

"view film notes" shows:
Note Location Film
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1662-1665, baptisms, 1666-1692, burials, 1666-1692, marriages, 1668-1670, 1686, 1690, 1692, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1673-1675, 1679-1685, 1693-1697, 1701-1741, 1747-1751, 1744-1747, 1741-1744, 1768-1770, 1786-1791, 1795-1812. FHL BRITISH Film 428943 Item 1
Baptisms, marriages, burials, 1813-1828, baptisms, 1829-1831, marriages, 1831, 1830, burials, 1829-1831, baptisms, marriages, burials, 1832-1837, baptisms, burials, 1838-1842, baptisms, 1843-1849, burials, 1843, 1845, 1847, baptisms, 1858, 1865-1867, 1859, 1861-1865, burials, 1862-1863, 1865-1868, baptisms, 1869-1871, burials, 1870-1871. FHL BRITISH Film 498132 Item 1


There's also a later hit

Title Bishop's transcripts for Donisthorpe, 1838-1864
Authors Church of England. Chapelry of Donisthorpe (Derbyshire) (Main Author)
Notes Microfilm of original records at the Lichfield Record Office.
Name of the church is St. Johns.
Donisthorpe is a chapelry constituted in 1838 in the parishes of Measham, Church Gresley, Stretton-in-le-Field, in Derbyshire and Seal, and Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in Leicestershire.

You can rent the film to view at your local FHC, which is probably easier than going to Lichfield.

You should also check Lewis's gazetteer entries at:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/source.aspx?pubid=445

If the Samuel Wildman came from Measham, the records will be be under Derbyshire. Have 3 in my tree (1713, 1714 and 1723), so you may care to send me a PM.

One other thing to note, Wildman was also spelled Wileman. My g g g grandmother Mary appears under both surname spellings.

David

Hi,
i have just had a look for Samuel and frustratingly there is a Samuel Wildman christened
05 SEP 1802 Stretton-En-Le-Field, Leicester, England


father Samuel mother Elizabeth
and then the marriage of
Samuel Wildman and Elizabeth Waterson

13 FEB 1786 Stretton-En-Le-Field, Leicester, England

may not be anything to do with yours though!

I found this really good link a while ago on a thread on Genes so will paste in for you
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumbers.htm

unfortunately though as with Anne i can't find the 1766 one

good luck

I've had a dig around but can find no Samuel Wildman in Leics - plenty elsewhere!!!

Just realised James that you haven't put details on here, - so for others -

Samuel Wildman, Stretton le Field, Leics, 1766

The IGI doesn't have the deaths, but some counties are covered on the National burial Index discs. If you put the name,county and if you know it the town or village,I will look for you

Linda

Hi Ann,
you've helped me out quite a lot,
i hoped that someone who knew whats what would come on and help James,it's hard when you don't now where to search,as was my case some months ago.
good luck James

Hi James -

The only information you will be able to find for relatives prior to July 1837 [in England] will be from Parish records.

You can check on the IGI [the website of the Church of the latter day Saints/Mormons - www.familysearch.org] where some parish registers have been transcribed. If they are "extracted records" they are likely to be accurate [although still best to look for yourself] but if they are records that have been "submitted" by a member of the Church, the information is suspect and often fanciful.

Victoria

would you care to give us the name, relevant dates and location?

Hi James,
try the LDS link below,if you can find an extracted record as opposed to a submitted one,they are as good really as an old parish record,if you wanted to buy the OPR you would have found where look so saving you time.

http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/default.asp

Idont know if I`m oin the right place but if anyone can help can they tell me how I get birth or death records for the year 1766.