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1856 St Catherine's marriage entries
Can you contribute ?
After capturing to file some 85000 entries from the St Catherine's
marriage index (notably 58000 for 1849/Q1), I decided to begin a set of
files for the four quarters of 1856. At this stage I have just over
6650 entries, as indicated below, and I am hoping that other folk will
be prepared to capture some material to be added to the files. As they
grow larger, they will become an increasingly valuable resource. The
1849 files, and some smaller files for earlier years, have been placed
on GenBoard and are being circulated via the Data Highway & elsewhere.
I encourage anyone to send me 1856 material for inclusion. It may be
hand-copied from fiche or film, or photocopied (don't spend too much !)
or may be as ASCII text files in almost any columnar format, or as a
comma/quote delimited file that can readily be imported to a spreadsheet
or database system. There have already been some great contributions,
supplying over 1000 new entries. The material should be as shown in the
St Cath's index, ie surname, given name(s), district, vol/page reference.
and an indication of which quarter it belongs to. If you are copying or
entering the material in any way, don't put surnames all in capitals.
The 1856 fiche in the Wellington National Library is poor to invisible
in many places. I will later add to this file a note of segments of
very bad fiche in the hope that those with access to film that may be
better quality can perhaps concentrate on those areas. There are many
pages where the top 20-30 names are unreadable but something can be read
from nearer the bottom of the page.
With nearly 300000 names in 1856, there is little risk of significant
duplication of effort for a very long time. This file lists the names
that have been captured to date and I will re-issue the files from time
to time with updates. Big contributions have been made by Annette
Easton (Wgtn) and Tom Miller (Ontario), with other smaller but
valuable offerings. I also have data from Ted Wildy on 1856 names in
the UK Marriage Witness.
Why not make a contribution by extracting all the occurrences of some
surname(s) of interest in your own research, not just YOUR people but
all occurrences of the name ? Or if you have unusual names in your
research, extract the whole pages on which they lie ? The more entries
the better for us all.
The files making up the project are :
This file 1856PLEA.ZIP
Marriage entries CATH56.ZIP (5 files currently)
BDM districts/pages CDIST56.ZIP
My address for any contributions is :
19 Khouri Avenue, Karori, Wellington 6005, New Zealand
14 July 1995
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985 names entered for 1856/Q1 (* incl variants) comprise :
Enoch Aaram to Sarah Aldworth
Barnard / Bolton / Brownhill / Castle
Jane Caudy to Geo Chalk / Cox / Dick / Fordham
Jane Fosket to Martha Foulkes / Julia Hagerty to Anne Hague
Kirby / Kirtland / Munford / Olley / *Roscoe
Tebbs / *Vial / Watkinson / *Welstead / Virgin / Winn
677 names entered for 1856/Q2 (* incl variants) comprise :
Ann Aaron to Geo Abrahams
Barnard / Bolton / *Brownhill / Castle / Dick / Evans / Fordham
Geo Hallard to Wm Hallett / Kirby / Kirtland / Munford / Olley /
Roscoe / Staff / Tebb / *Vial / Watkinson / *Welstead / Winn
1078 names entered for 1856/Q3 (* = incl variants) comprise :
Edith Aaron to Mary Ann Abbott / James Biggen to Abel Bishop
*Brownhill / Castle / Cox to Hannah Cox / Dick / Fordham
Ann Grove to Eliz Jane Gynn / Kirby / *Kirtland / Olley / *Roscoe
All of Q / John Rabbitt to Fred Ragless
Eliz Ryan to John Ryther / Cath Sabatini to Wm Salisbury
Staff / Tebbs / William Upton to Thos Uwins / Jas Vagg to Ann Varney
Virgin / Watkinson / *Welstead / Winn
3979 entries for 1856/Q4 (* = incl variants), comprising :
Hannah Aaron to Hugh Anderson / Barnard / Barrott / *Barron /
Barrow / Barry / Barsby / Bolton / *Brownhill / Dick /
Evans to Ellen Evans / Sarah Fereday to John Ferrin / Flinders
Foster to Mary Foster / *Froud / Kirby / Kirtland / Maddison
*Maddocks / Sam Midgley to Ann Miles / Morrell / Morton to
Caroline Moss / Munford / Olley / Pavey / *Roscoe / Staff / *Tebb
Turner / Vials / Virgin / Jn Walford to Nathaniel Wall / Harriet Walsh
to Hannah Watts / Western / Winn / Patience Woodman to Ephraim Woodruffe
Yea
Total entries to date 6719
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