Thursday, November 11, 2010

HOOKINS/HOOKINGS dilemma

I've found reference on the FreeReg website of Parish records to some HOOKINS/HOOKINGS baptisms in Somerset during the period 1822 and 1840 which seemed to fall into nice bunches in different areas in Taunton, Wellington, Brompton Ralph, Brockley and Crocombe all of which are familiar places in my research. Assumptions however are dangerous as I found out when checking each of the records as a couple of those places obviously had more than one HOOKINS/HOOKINGS family. Have just looked at the Taunton baptisms which were all children of the John & Lucy HOOKINS I already had in my records. Two of these had the same name William and were born just over a year apart but a little more digging has located that the first one died after just a few months. Each one was recorded as HOOKINGS and the baptisms took place between 1822 and 1826. Lucy unfortunately seems to have died in 1829 but one of her sons has been found in the 1841 Census aged 15 as a Labourer living with the family of Mary Townsend who was a Coal Dealer in East Reach Taunton. Took a little while but 3 more people added to the database which now totals 1518 people.

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