william dexter

[rover]

william dexter married a edith baker his dob1657 hers 1660? 7th generation struggling for more info thanks in anticipation regards

[Fiona67]

Hi Rover
I'm in Australia so English geography is not real good but is Northamptonshire near Rutland because I found this on the IGI

William Dexter m Edith Baker 30 JAN 1680 Kings Cliffe, Northampton, England

also this birth record

William Dexter Christening 18 DEC 1657 Cottingham, Northampton, England Father Robert Dexter

Regards
Fiona

[Geoffers]

william dexter married a edith baker his dob1657 hers 1660? 7th generation struggling for more info thanks in anticipation regards

You presumably have this family living in a certain locality and believe one/both came from Rutland. The problem now is tying down a parish/group of parishes so that you can see if the registers exist for this period and if they record a baptism.

The first problem is that many registers are mostly empty for the period of the inter-regnum and this event is towards the end of that period.

One possible course of action is to se if the Hearth Tax Returns for the area have been transcribed and indexed - they form what is in effect a directory, or census of families. If you find a cluster of DEXTERs in a few local parishes in Rutland then they may be worth checking first.

Having worked your way through parish registers back to this period, you may have to work at the handwriting as the transitional foms of Secretary hand can take a while to get used to and there are often local variations.

Do you know what William DEXTER did for a living, is his dad likely to have left a will which can give you some clues. There may be a published index to probate records for the ecclesiastical court covering Rutland and this may again help to identify which part of the county is worth further viewing of parish records/ manor records, etc.