Searching for a birth circa 1803

I am trying to trace the birth of Caleb Farnaby. He is visible in the

mlou1173...

Hi Pat......I took a quick look at the LDS site for his birth...to no avail.
His marriage was listed however, in case you don't have it:

Caleb Farnaby & Jane Suggitt
December 12, 1826
Sheriff Hutton, Yorkshire

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p_farnaby...

Many thanks for the responses. I will take the advice and try to dig a
bit deeper and a bit wider

census of 1851 aged 48 years and 1861 aged 58 years. Both give his birth
place as Claxton. A small village between Sheriff Hutton and Scrayingham
in N. Yorks

Geoff...

Most likely a coincidence but 1803 + 27 = 1830 and in 1830 a Caleb was
baptised (IGI extracted date). Just to make sure! Perhaps if he was
thinking of marrying somebody!

It appears that Claxton was part of the parish of Bossall until 1861
when it became part of the parish of Sand Hutton

I have been to the Borthwick Institute at York and checked births in
Parish Registers and Bishop's Transcripts from 1790 - 1810 for
Bossall/Claxton and for Sheriff Hutton, with no sign of this birth
(Bishops Transcripts appeared to be missing from 1779 to 1803). I also
checked Parish Register for Sand Hutton around 1800 - 1804.

Short of going back to the Borthwick and looking at the same again,
please can anyone suggest anywhere else that I can look to try to find
this birth

Thanks in anticipation

Ken Gibb...

Maybe "old hat" but have you yourself checked Parish Record = FILMS
for the area ???

Ken

Ken & Jill Gibb, gibb@westnet.com.au
Mordialloc,
Vic. Australia.

Anne Chambers...

The IGI has four extractions for Caleb Farnaby baptised in Sheriff
Hutton, but none for 1803. The closest is 1830 - I suppose he might
have been 17 when he was christened...(parents Caleb Farnaby & Jane)

Anne Chambers...

Oops, cannot subtract. No, he's not likely to be baptised at 27. Maybe
this is his son ?

C Rihan...

Not so likely to be baptised at 27, but there can be reasons,
.e.g. if he was getting married or having a baby christened and someone
mentioned he hadn't been christened, or there was a new persuasive
vicar.

Best wishes
C.Rihan

roy.stockdill...

I think not! The IGI has the marriage of Caleb Farnaby and Jane Suggitt
on 12 December 1826 at Sheriff Hutton and the Caleb baptised in 1830
must surely have been their son.

Looking at the IGI entries, it seems fairly clear there was a lengthy
tradition in that family of naming a son Caleb. However, there is a very
long gap between a Caleb baptised in 1750 and the one in 1830.
Presumably the father Caleb who married Jane Suggitt is the one the OP
is referring to whose baptism hasn't been found. If he was aged 48 in
1851, this implies he was born about 1803 and, therefore, a marriage in
1826 seems just about right.

My only suggestions are that a) he wasn't baptised for some reason or b)
his parents moved away from the Claxton/Sherriff Hutton area for a time
and he was baptised somewhere else in a parish that hasn't been
extracted to the IGI. I would try looking in contiguous parishes. People
weren't always necessarily christened in the place where they were born.

A final thought is that possibly he was baptised in a Nonconformist
chapel. Sometimes a member of a family did break with the family
tradition and join a different church.

p_farnaby...

I think that this is a birth of a son (Caleb) of the father (Caleb) that
I want to trace the birth of. There is a marriage of Caleb Farnaby to
Jane Suggitt visible on the IGI and at the Borthwick Institute on Dec
12th 1826

CWatters...

The IGI has quite a lot of Farnaby in the area. Looks like some local
research might get you back to the mid 1700's