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23-09-09, 07:51
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Birth in Jersey 1874
I'm trying to find the birth of Alfred Joseph Mitchell who died in Sunderland in May 1880 aged 6. I have his death certificate so I know it's the right death.
Sunderland Register Office told me that there's a corresponding birth on FMP in St. Saviour, Jersey on 26 April 1874. Could some kind soul please let me know the parents' names and any other details. This is not the Alfred Joseph born in Sunderland in December 1880, who is his brother. 
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23-09-09, 10:21
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Hi UJ
What a shame you didn't ask earlier in the year I went to Jersey in June & could have had a look for you! You can order certificates from St Helier but they have just put their costs up to £20 a certificate  Their bmds are kept in beautifully bound books in the Registrar's Office, he is a very nice young man of about 70 lol! They are written in Jersiaise which is a form of Norman French I think. I would suggest you ask the Channel Islands Family History Society which will charge £10 an hour for a search : http://www.jerseyfamilyhistory.org/research or try http://www.societe-jersiaise.org/lib...resources.html Or you could wait until I go again in a couple of years time lol 
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23-09-09, 10:24
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I just read your post again & realised that you mean there is a birth noted on FMP? I didn't know they had Jersey births on there?
Ignore what I just said then lol! I don't have a sub for FMP but will watch this space as I would be interested what info there will be on him, as I didn't think any of their bmds were available outside the Channel Islands  
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23-09-09, 10:30
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It was a surprise to me.
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23-09-09, 10:44
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Well I just tested it using my one UJ & he doesn't come up
 Are you sure they just don't mean that he appears on a census as being born in Jersey? I am sure that FMP don't hold Jersey baptisms
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23-09-09, 14:25
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This is what the registrar wrote in March:
I have checked the website findmypast and the birth was registered in St Saviour which is in Jersey. You could try the website www.cab.org.je I have emailed the registrar again to ask for confirmation of the database where they found the information. The baptism took place in St. Mary's RC chapel in Sunderland which was the family's church (IGI Batch C012344). I'm not minded to shell out for a Jersey record for a child who died.
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23-09-09, 15:01
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Alfred Joseph Mitchell
1874 Jun St Saviour Southwark London, Surrey Volume: 1d Page: 96 sure its not St Saviour Southwark ???????????????????? did you mean the other one was born in 1874 not died
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 Vallee Last edited by vallee; 23-09-09 at 15:07.
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23-09-09, 15:13
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Reckon Val is right and the registrar needs a geography lesson.
I think there is a St Saviour in Jersey but you would have thought that they knew the GRO indexes were England and Wales only. Oh, just googled it and it isn't in Jersey anyway it's Guernsey.
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23-09-09, 15:14
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Oh Val that looks promising! I bet that's what they meant, that he was born St Saviours according to the registration, there's no baptism in that area according to Ancestry but I do think you are on the right track there! Don't forget Catholic baptisms won't be on Ancestry anyway
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