Dr Wms' Library

[sandymae]

Browsing through name search on CFHS website, Baptism index 1801 -37. Results brought up
27 matches for the name Nutter.

It looks as though 4 families (probably brothers) with the surname Nutter had their all their children baptised at regular intervals together, and the venue for the baptisms was Dr Wms' Library...................could anyone please shed light on what or who Dr Wms' Library was?

I am researching Smith's - Sawston, Duxford, and Cambridge, in particular Elliot Smith(s).

Sandra

[sandymae]

I should have added that Harriet Smith b1803, Cambs married Octavius Nutter b1798, in 1823 at All Saints, Cambridge.

That's the Smith link.

[Jan1954]

See this other CFHS page (http://www.cfhs.org.uk/DrWilliams/index.html) as well as the Dr Daniel Williams (http://www.dwlib.co.uk/dwlib/) website.

[sandymae]

Thank You!

Not what I imagined...............I thought perhaps they had been baptised in the front room of the local Doctor's!!!

It is therefore likely that the children were baptised in the Little Shelford (or nearest), Independant Chapel.

Another branch of the Smith's came from Duxford, and their children were baptised at Independant Chapel there. I wonder why their records don't show Dr Wms' library?

[Jan1954]

Not all of the Non-Conformist records for Cambridgeshire were kept there. My lot were baptised in the chapel in Castle Camps (Cambridgeshire) and the records are at the Cambridge RO.

Others of mine were baptised at the Chapel in Ashdon (Essex, but just 4 miles down the road) but the records have not yet been deposited at the Essex RO.