Michael
19-11-20, 13:09
Samuel Carter married Tamar Williamson at Hugglescote, Leicestershire, 3rd November 1799. There is a Samuel Carter baptised at Carlton (7 miles away) on 13th November 1774, which in the absence of any other likely baptisms, I'm reasonable sure is him.
Ancestry, FMP and FamilySearch between them only yield one baptism of a Tamar Williamson of about the right age, and that's in Yorkshire - so it seems unlikely that she's the one who married in Leicestershire. However, there is another possibility: a Williamson, apparently with no forename, baptised at Ratcliffe Culey (another 7 miles from Carlton, in the opposite direction to Hugglescote), on 3rd December 1775.
The reason the forename is not included in the transcription becomes obvious when one views the original image: the corner of the page has been torn off, removing all the children's forenames and some of the parents' names from baptism records in 1774 and 1775. FMP transcribes the mother's forename as "Hanne", but it could plausibly be the last few letters of "Catharine", and since there are baptisms of other children of John and Catharine Williamson in Ratcliffe Culey around the same time (Ann 1778, Elizabeth 1785) and no sign of any other children of Hanne Williamson, it seems reasonable to assume that the one with the name missing is another child of John and Catharine.
It's clearly a bit more of a stretch to assume that this "must" be Tamar solely because the record is for a Williamson of about the right age in the right area - since the remaining part of the page does not include either the word "son" or "daughter", I can't even be sure that the child was a girl. Might there be a Bishop's Transcript or some other copy of the same record which would have the page intact?
Ancestry, FMP and FamilySearch between them only yield one baptism of a Tamar Williamson of about the right age, and that's in Yorkshire - so it seems unlikely that she's the one who married in Leicestershire. However, there is another possibility: a Williamson, apparently with no forename, baptised at Ratcliffe Culey (another 7 miles from Carlton, in the opposite direction to Hugglescote), on 3rd December 1775.
The reason the forename is not included in the transcription becomes obvious when one views the original image: the corner of the page has been torn off, removing all the children's forenames and some of the parents' names from baptism records in 1774 and 1775. FMP transcribes the mother's forename as "Hanne", but it could plausibly be the last few letters of "Catharine", and since there are baptisms of other children of John and Catharine Williamson in Ratcliffe Culey around the same time (Ann 1778, Elizabeth 1785) and no sign of any other children of Hanne Williamson, it seems reasonable to assume that the one with the name missing is another child of John and Catharine.
It's clearly a bit more of a stretch to assume that this "must" be Tamar solely because the record is for a Williamson of about the right age in the right area - since the remaining part of the page does not include either the word "son" or "daughter", I can't even be sure that the child was a girl. Might there be a Bishop's Transcript or some other copy of the same record which would have the page intact?